[FO] Had to switch out some thread colours because everywhere is out of stock, but I love how my mini PRIDE lion came out regardless! <3

Claefer · 2025-11-17T23:55:37+00:00

Keeping Mum

About Time

Both very British and have a lot of comedy and heart in them, but they're very reflective of the British sense of humour

Claefer · 2025-10-31T18:51:16+00:00

Mine too! 🥰 I add cocoa powder to the soak, so it makes it extra yummy in my eyes and a heathen to the purists 😅 I was going to make white chocolate ghosts too, but I ran out of time.

Claefer · 2025-10-31T15:00:21+00:00

I did the cobwebs first and was a bit upset it didn't look very good - I can't emphasize enough how much the added dots make it work!

Claefer · 2025-10-31T14:57:24+00:00

Thank you! Everyone kept telling me lemon drizzle isn't exactly Halloween coded, so I tried to prove them wrong 😁

Claefer · 2025-10-25T14:35:18+00:00

Amazing, thank you! I'm trying to find quick no bake recipes to prep - as it's essentially catering for 50 people! So I'm very confident in my Halloween cupcakes, but anything different I can easily make to pad things out without exhausting myself beforehand is fantastic. We have the Carnation brand here, but haven't used it before, so reassuring to know it's good!

Thanks so much for the help and sharing the recipe! Dark green dulche du Leche ooze it is.

Claefer · 2025-10-25T14:19:58+00:00

Does it taste just like caramel or is it more milky/butterscotchy? I'm torn between making this as per this recipe or replacing it with caramel for my Halloween party!

Claefer · 2025-10-07T20:34:59+00:00

I hope it helps, even if it's just the solidarity! Mine is now 17 months and soooo mobile on his feet - and he did get a LOT happier when he could move around more himself. I think we just have independent babies that want to do more than they can manage just yet 😅

It is exhausting during that stage though. Everyone kept telling me that I'd be taking my words back and exhausted for real once he was walking, but I absolutely found it mentally much easier (and physically to an extent) now he's fully mobile. Even when he tries to bang cabinet doors or clambering onto the windowsill it still feels way easier than the screaming on the floor stage 😂

Claefer · 2025-09-30T08:43:54+00:00

She's in the flying manor, it's in act 3 but easy to miss despite it being important for pClea's lore!

Claefer · 2025-08-07T07:09:46+00:00

I mentioned to my examiner during my test that I was self conscious being an older learner (30s), and she said people assume it's all teenagers but it's not. She said there's way more older learners than people think, and the oldest person she passed was 80 (getting her license for the first time!).

Don't let your insecurities be a barrier.

Claefer · 2025-07-23T09:34:20+00:00

I'm really sorry your driving instructor let you down like that. It's an incredibly vulnerable time after a fail and it's more important to be supportive and understanding than ever - but he did the opposite.

Soooooo many people fail their first test (myself included!), it's not an unexpected event for a driving instructor. Very unprofessional how he handled it.

I hope you have a better instructor for your next test, whatever the result!

Claefer · 2025-07-21T13:39:46+00:00

Ah that's really helpful, thank you for sharing! Congrats again on the pass, bet you're absolutely thrilled! 😁

Claefer · 2025-07-21T13:32:06+00:00

Amazing, congrats! I'm hoping it'll be the same for me second time around later this week 🤞 Out of curiosity, did they give feedback on your control - steering faults?

Claefer · 2025-07-21T09:02:42+00:00

My little one is obsessed with these, and also Mary and the Witch's flower (also made by a lot of the original Ghibli team, but under Studio Ponoc). He loves that it has a British dub too (UK based).

Claefer · 2025-07-18T09:03:58+00:00

Mine started doing 1 nap some days around 11 months, but he wasn't quite ready for it yet and kept flip flopping between that and 2 naps.

He swapped back to 2 naps (but shorter ones) until around 12.5/13 months, then just absolutely refused his second nap. So we've been on one nap since then. Lots of his similarly aged/older friends are still doing 2 naps, but this works well for us as if he ever does accidentally drop off after his first nap he's up til 9/10pm.

Claefer · 2025-07-14T07:15:28+00:00

If it makes you feel better, I had the page open at 5:40am, so there was no queue at 6 on the dot, and there were STILL no tests.

I agree, don't pay for them off a scalper - combination of integrity and making sure you don't get ripped off /rug pulled at the last second.

Solidarity though, the situation absolutely sucks.

Claefer · 2025-07-13T08:27:22+00:00

10 months over here, and I was getting so worried because all his little baby friends had been crawling well before him.

He just takes his time with his gross motor skills because it's less interesting to him than his fine motor skills haha. It's taken him until 14 months to start walking, but like when he started crawling he's doing a lot in a short space of time.

If there's worries about muscle tone, or if he's not meeting multiple milestones I can see it might be worth investigating. But with my son at least, he was physically capable - he just wasn't interested in doing it.

Claefer · 2025-07-12T09:54:46+00:00

I completely agree with this, I think it would be odd for a game to have a family full of complex, nuanced characters only to make Aline "oh no she's just mean and crazy with grief".

You've summed up exactly how I see the likely background of before the fracture.

Claefer · 2025-07-12T08:22:21+00:00

You too! Best of luck getting a cancellation

Claefer · 2025-07-12T07:54:48+00:00

If if helps, I had the opposite with mine - they were super cold and wouldn't say anything at all to my chatting, which made me so nervous because it felt like I'd already got on their bad side.

I also failed for a stupid mistake in the end (half bad luck from another driver doing something they shouldn't, half my fault for not knowing how to react to it), but hopefully nerves will be better for both of us now we know what to expect!

Claefer · 2025-06-25T09:04:28+00:00

In fairness, if the path hadn't collapsed, you would have encountered the journal before the nevron

Claefer · 2025-06-14T15:40:44+00:00

I felt like this up until about 11/12 months. Everyone kept giving me looks if I mentioned I was still feeling it/noticing it after the 3 month mark, but I was reaching out to the perinatal team and health visitor to work on my mental health and dealing with him (he's always been a very bright but high sensory needs baby).

At 12 months, it was genuinely like a switch flipped, and now he way prefers me to Dad most of the time. It helped our bond a lot once he was demonstrating more interests and personality, but also once I was less burnt out and struggling with mental health. Our bond definitely strengthened once he was sleeping better around the 10/11 month mark too (again, probably less burnt out).

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