'DOING ME'!

Lesson learnt..."Do You"...connecting one human to another.
"people may forget what you said, but they will never ever forget how you made them feel".
Laura-Creating Fame

I so desire Pollen to be a WHOLE experience. One of wearing unique clothing which brings joy, happiness, comfort & a WOW factor... enjoyable & fun to purchase, also.

SOLOMON

ERIC

ESTHER

ZANE

ESTHER & ME.

This is why I 'DO ME'....Some days it is a challenge to stay on track & to be vulnerable. Other days I am driven....

Pollen Findings @ URBAN SEED, Ipswich

Madonna & Jess of the Urban Seed, 90 Woodend Road, Woodend. (Love the road name, so suits!) In Ipswich. Vintage inspired flower cabochon rings, earrings & mini clippies, hair elastics & Bobby pins with gorgeous Woodland animal flat back buttons.

God opens doors, if I have patience enough for Him to move mountains!

WELCOME BACK!!!

Hello all,
It has been a while...twins are now 10 months old & I am able to focus on Pollen a little better now.

Thanks for patience...
I have launched Pollen Clothing website, now have a facebook page and am putting Pollen out there! Into the big wide world.

Enjoying the roller coaster of a ride...

How do I do it?

With a supportive husband & 4 beautiful children who motivate , challange & drive me to be the best I can be in Christ, & all that I put my hand too.

I haven't gone back to working with flowers, miss it but that is for another time...not very family friendly that passion:)

xoxo

Boo & Bella

I just had to get this for their room!
Too cute to leave at the shop...thanks Rachel, from The Story Tree.

PollenBlooms.etsy.com

**OPENING SOON**

love.life.passion.

Life in my home has chnged forever...
two new little bundles of delight have forever
shifted it.
Zane & Esther (our new twins) are such a delight.
Ohhh....I prayed so hard that no matter what I would enjoy and take delight in them.
My prayers were answered.

I am content...

My eldest boy, Solomon, loves them And is a little in awe
of them. I can tell by the glimmer in his eyes when he looks at them.

Eric, my now middle child, loves to cuggle (cuddle) them. Even nursing them
whilst they have a scream waiting for their bottle to heat up. He knows even to make a shhh...shhh. sound to try and comfort them.

This is how I found Esther lying after Zane woke from a sleep. She is a little bed hog, her feet were kicking her brother in the back!

This is Eric playing his crocodile to one of the twins, he wa ssinging twinkle twinkle little star and old mcdonald had a farm...very sweet! 

Zane relaxing in the hammock!! They both fitted in here when first home from hospital...they now don't quite fit together:)

Solomon watching tv, while Esther digests a much full tummy...such a great big brother.

At the moment my blog seems to be more about family then Pollen... whilst Pollen is being a little neglected, I am having loads of ideas and directions for Pollen. Slowly, but surely, I am and will get back in the swing.

I am actually very excited with the ideas I am thinking up for Pollen.

Esther is already becoming my little muse:)

Blog background

Thanks to Shabby Blogs I have just changed the look of my blog...
Nothing like a change for the new year!

Hopeing to get back into sewing soon, maybe a stitch here, maybe a stitch there....
depending on my 2 littles....

Very hard to have all this gorgeous fabric and not be making gorgeous clothes and little goodies out of it:)

Mum has been having some fun since being here, making herself a top and some aprons...all while bathing, feeding and looking after babies, me and my family. Very talented Mum, very thankful for her.

Babies have even been seen wearing 'Pollen'....glad I got to make a few outfits for them before their arrival.

If only I could remember to take photo's....I think I would like a new, more professional camera as well....

Babies are doing very well, very cute...I have never seen a whole feed of milk be spewed up before though! They don't do this often only when they are trying to increase their feeds.

Esther trying to eat Zane's nose....after a hard night with them, I decided to put them right up close to each other to see what they would do. Esther was screaming and Zane just stayed there, Esther quickly went quiet and they both feel asleep:)

SO in love with them...great double blessing! Thank you Lord!

Arrival

Zane Arthur Richmond & Esther Joy Richmond have arrived....
They are 4 weeks old today....wow....and they are doing well!!!

Esther

Zane & Esther

Zane

Christmas week.

Yay for Christmas.
I so enjoy.
This year as well as last, will be quiet.
I love being around all my family (extended) at Christmas.
I'm being very tested this year and last. We probably won't see any family
around this Christmas. Very sad about this. But, will have my 6 and 3 year old
and husband here.
I love the excitment children have on and around Christmas day.
Hopefully not long after Christmas we will add two more to our precious family:)

I'm so tired of being pregnant, it hurts now!

Baby Bump.

30weeks

Well the two are great sizes, both are now around 4 pound each. This is normal sizes for single babies.
At the moment they are enjoying kicking each other and all organs they can reach. Both are still breach and I really can't see how one could turn and be head down at this very squished time.
I'm now 31 weeks so less then 7 weeks to go if I make that far:)

Have a happy week:) and enjoy the Christmas Season.

Still alive.

Today I have taken more photo's of my belly bump....
I feel a little nervous posting them considering the size
and do people really care to see?!

I've also been finishing sewing projects I have promised to people.
I feel very satisfied when I finish little pieces of sewn goodness.

I thought it best to cover the bump...

To Market, to market...Change!

To put it bluntly....to market I did not go!


Instead, all the lovelies that have been sewn found a rack to hang on
at THE STORY TREE shop, Boonah.

So, into THE STORY TREE shop you must go if anyone would like to browse
POLLEN clothing.

There are new designs, more sizes in the one design and colour way and yet still unique which is so very POLLEN.

Be encouraged, go have a coffee, tea, relax & something yum to eat and take a look at
what is filling THE STORY TREE racks and shelves.

POLLEN love.life.passion.

Ok, Tanya and I have been sewing up a storm....well we think so anyway.

Soon, like hopefully in the next month, we are going to get serious about etsy and

start listing baby, children up to size 10/12 and ladies clothing!

We have nothing for sale yet as we are heading off to our local, once a year big village markets

which are named 'Kalbar Country Day'. I love it... I love a good fete/market. There are hay sculptures

 popping up in peoples front yards and paddocks. This is a competion and a way of promoting the event.

So we are heading there first to support the locals and fingers crossed the locals support us!

After this we will be listing! and promoting and learning heaps on the way I'm sure....

Tanya learnt a valuable leason the other week.....never leave sissors and the finished clothes garment

low enough for little fingers to practise co-ordination using sissors!! He did a fine one inch precise cut on a

 gorgeous ladies top!!!! It rendered Tanya speachless:(   He did this only minutes before Tan's husband

finished putting up a rack, high up, to hang her finished products!

My sister has been staying up for a

few days with my gorgeous three nieces.

Before they went home I thought we could do a little photo shoot. Hmmm, now I know why you don't work with chidren or animals with a camera. (Unless spontaneous).  We went from meltdowns, to cups of tea, too baby chicks.....

Olivia evetually relaxed and stopped moving like a robot!!!

Grace will never let me dress her up again for photo's, I think she has been scared for life! They are so much fun to have around my boys and I will miss them.

Inspiration

Endless inspiration is flooding into my little sewing room...

I am trying to keep up:)

Birds, flowers, checks, spots and castles for the boys.

So much to inspire, better go have an afternoon siesta so I have the energy to create.

Soon there will be enough to start listing on etsy!