Christmas continued...Tartan Butterfly Slippers

Afternoon lovelies! I thought I would share with you today a few more piccies from Christmas Day, Nieve's new gorgeous Tartan Butterfly slippers.

Tartan Butterfly make gorgeous handmade baby shoes designed a produced by the utterly wonderful and super talented Jackie Stanford. They are truly beautiful and make such a wonderful gift for baby.  I've lusted after these shoes for a while and finally got round to asking Jackie to make a pair as a Christmas Present for Nieve.

We live in a rather chilly house and poor Nieve spends most of the time walking around on her tippy toes to avoid the cold on her feet, so I asked Jackie if she would be able to make slippers, no easy task! The difficulty is making shoes that are sturdy enough to withstand a robust toddler tearing around the house, on different floors with enough grip so they don't fall and cozy enough to keep their feet warm without slipping around.

I'm thrilled with the slippers, just perfect and so luxurious! I picked the fabrics & trim for the slippers from Jackie's beautiful collection, the outer is made from heard wearing and stunning Harris Tweed and has leather soles.  So far they have done an outstanding job and despite already getting a lot of abuse scraping along carpets and running up and down the hall there isn't a stitch out of place or a tear of fabric in sight, such amazing good quality and well worth the investment :)

It's really hard to find shoes that stay on babies feet, in particular with little wrigglers like my little monster was and still is.  Tartan Butterfly  shoes are excellent quality, hard wearing and very well designed, I can not recommend them enough.  So if your looking for a unique gift for a new baby or toddler what are you waiting for pop along to the website and take a look at Jackie's beautiful creations.

Zoë x

 

Featuring Tartan Butterfly slippers handmade in Aberfoyle by Jackie Stanford.

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Catchup!

Well I'm afraid I've let the last few weeks run away from me and have neglected my blog, well no more shall you be neglected!

My usual excuse I'm afraid, I have been somewhat preoccupied with this little monster...

Nieve riding her Trike

Here she is in her new trike, an early birthday pressie from her Gran Ann & Auntie Karen.  Yes that's right, my little baby girl is going to be 1 on Friday!! I can't quite believe it, lovely pictures of the little diva at her birthday party will of course follow.

More exciting, Nieve related & other things from my iphone this week to share...

Nieve's first shoes!!

Nieve has gone from learning to crawl to walking within the last month, she's always been obsessed with being on her feet from a very young age and is extremely proud to be toddling around on her pins unaided.  To mark the occasion I took her to get her feet measured for shoes, she has very dinky (& expensive) feet, bless!

Monsieur Nieve if u please

Being a lady of leisure Nieve just loves a good babyccino, just like mummy's (with less caffine!)

Glasgow/Philly

I was in Glasgow this week and had a good stroll around George Square, It's quite incredible! They have gone to great detail to transform this little corner of Glasgow into a mini Philadelphia for Brad Pitt's new film.  Sadly I didn't spot the man himself but there is still time! I was quite surprised at how much I enjoyed having a look around, there is such a nice buzz of excitement and interest, great place to be just now.

And finally, for those of you who know me well, you will know that I love to cook.  Juggling all that I am at the moment I don't often find the time to cook, but I try to as I really enjoy it and find it relaxing.  My husband is very thankful that I took a notion to rustling up these baby's last week, my god they were yummy!

Prepare to drool........The apple crumble cupcake, a labour of love but my goodness it was worth it.

Apple Cupcake with homemade custard cream and crumble - YUM!

Ok, now that I have my excuses out the way I can get on with showing you what I've been up to in the world of photography - woopee!

Hope everyone is good!

Much Love Zoe x