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Swine Flu Vaccination Petition - please help

Yes I know this is something of a departure from the recent subject matter found here on London Mummy but I really do feel this issue needs highlighting and support.

One of the mums in my local neighbourhood has set up a petition which she intends to hand in to Downing Street. 

Basically she has two children, one of whom is five and has a weakened immune system.  When she asked her GP to give him the swine flu vaccine, it was refused on the basis that he has no underlying health problems.  If you believe that the vaccine should be made available to all children, then please take about thirty seconds to sign Karen's online petition - if you would prefer not to have your name published online, you can still sign the petition but your name will not be published.

Please add your name to Karen's swine flu vaccination petition

Thank you and please spread the word!

 

 

Spring Shopping

So the springtime trade fairs have started.  Had a great weekend at Top Drawer, buying lots of lovely new goodies for the London Mummy Shop.  I'm so excited and impatient for everything to arrive over the next few weeks so that I can show and tell properly with pictures! 

I'm particularly pleased to have found some gorgeous new bedlinen for children from Norwegian company Blafre and I really hope that you like the prints as much as we do - cute elephants, robots and deer.

I'm also in love with renowned designer Michelle Mason's cushions, tea towels and melamine cups and beakers, all with a wonderful London theme.  I've loved her Stella rug for ages.

More vintage style goodies, the cutest soft leather shoes for little feet, sweet lunch boxes and water bottles for school lunches, plus so much more - I shall be flexing my camera muscles and keeping my fingers crossed for some sunshine when this little lot arrives.

In the meantime, I shall just have to content myself with more of my new patchwork baby bibs and cushions.

Fully reversible cotton or cotton and linen bibs.

Found some of this adorable Robert Kaufman vintage planes print in my stash, just enough to make a couple of cushions but how gorgeous would this fabric look as curtains in a boy's room.

I mean, come on, just how cute is that!

And for the girl's mealtimes:

Although, I'm still undecided about whether I would prefer a plain pink fabric with the whales and the zoo animals - so may well change those for the next batch, provided, of course, that I can find just the right pink!

 

Patchwork Baby Bibs and Gift Sets

It's amazing what a little bit of natural light can do when it comes to making fabric choices.  After lots of horrible dark and wet weather recently we had a little bit of sunshine yesterday and I found myself drawn to these pretty soft green shades whilst making up a batch of new quilted patchwork baby bibs as part of some new baby gift sets for my shop. Not that there was much light in evidence when it came to taking the photos.

Of course, I couldn't resist an old favourite :)  Not when it teams up so beautifully with the Anne Claire Petit blue crochet elephants.

I do have others which are sitting here waiting to be photographed and I'm currently working on a little sewing tutorial for those of you would like to make some of these quilted patchwork bibs for yourself.

In the meantime, Livvy was busy re-arranging her every growing library of books on the shelves I built in for her:

Couldn't persuade her to arrange them by colour though - all catalogued and arranged by author - future librarian there me thinks :)