Hooray for the Easter holidays!

I love watching my girls grow up, this is happening really fast, Alice (6), my red head, came along after 8 years of patiently waiting. My little miracle baby! Evie (3) is equally as precious of course she is my cuddle bum. 

This week being the 1st week of the Easter holidays and weather not being kind to us we decided to go and see the new Cinderella movie at the cinema, everyone loves a fairytale. Could this be the new Frozen though?

Both girls left the cinema needing a beautiful blue gown like 'Ella', the glass slippers were to die for.

With all the excitement this kept them dreaming for hours, leaving mummy to concentrate on university work.

My module this semester is to build a brand identity for me, this is perfect, I have been trying to design a logo since I started my blog. When designing for yourself its really difficult, I think I have been up to my neck in screwed up paper. I have come up with 2 ideas to develop, I would really appreciate some feedback.  

I am really enjoying being creative and getting lots of opportunities to design logos for friends, I hope this leads to more. I am very lucky to be studying a subject that I love, another positive when I am designing I am not snacking in boredom!

Sorry been AWOL.....

So its been a few weeks since my last post and this I because I have not been feeling my ‘rosy’ self! I have been having a few complications and issues to deal with but I think I am out the other side (fingers crossed)! I don't want any negative posts on my blog this is supposed to be a supportive place!

I want to bring in my heart issues, after I had my daughter in 2011 I decide to try and loose the baby weight and feel good and healthy, I joined the gym, slowly started loosing weight and everything was going OK, until one day I started getting pains whilst listening to some trashy music on the treadmill! I called the doctor who referred me for tests. I then noticed it more and more, when I was swimming walking and even lying down!

My letter came through from the hospital and I was booked in for a stress test, this could have been carried out at home on any given day. I turned up with my joggers and trainers on hoping not to make a fool of myself. I managed the first round and a half on the treadmill before the pain erupted and I felt like I was being strangled. I was immediately told to sit down, the nurse urgently scrambled for the consultant and within 10 Mr Consultant had arrived.

I had to undergo an angiogram which I would like to add is possibly the third most uncomfortable procedure I have had to endure. The results showed I had a narrowing of my left ventricular aorta, this is the main one that feeds the body! I had to then wait a further 8 weeks for a stent to be fitted!

The morning of the operation arrived and I was extremely anxious, I really didn’t know what was going to happen, the consultant took one look at me and asked the nurse to give me plenty of surgical ‘Gin & Tonic’.

Wheeled into the theater I was expecting to start counting down to sleep, a deep sleep and then wake to find it had all been done, WRONG!!! I was awake through the whole procedure. When finally the surgeon said all done I felt as if I had been in there for hours!

The consultant came to see me after about an hour in recovery handed me a picture and said ‘What a lucky lady! I have just opened a artery with a 98% blockage and here is the proof!’ (See picture).

I am now 3 years down the line and its unbelievable what can cause you chest pains, and the biggest cause I think is stress, I have eliminated 2 main areas which I feel have added to me being unwell for the last 6 months and I am beginning to feel better.

I am going to give myself two weeks and then I am going into pure focus mode.



Healthy eating + Exercise = Happiness