Little Freya Fae is growing! She is giggling, smiling and enjoying playing with her toys and books. She is showing a liking for mythical creatures... she loves her Walter Dragon, hurrah!

Here she is in her party dress ready to see her cousins, aunts and uncles at a family gathering!

Not had much time for anything other than my little Faerie, but wanted to check in and say hi! Have started writing again and will be back on here more really soon! Love to you all xxx

Hello everyone!

I just wanted to share with you my new blog, which is all about making fairy gardens.

You can find it here at How to Make a Fairy Garden.

I'd really love for you to take a look! Thank you xxx

Faerie blessings to all my dear Enchanted Friends! I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and wish you all the happiest times in 2010!

Lots of love from Louise and Freya-Fae! xxx

John and I welcomed Freya Louise Brooks into the world at 11.35pm on Wednesday 18th November 2009! 

I would have posted here sooner but we had a lengthy hospital stay. After a long labour at home in the birthing pool, it was decided that Freya was not going to come out alone, and so off we went in the ambulance to hospital! 

Freya was delivered by forceps about an hour and a half later - and no wonder she wasn't coming out - she weighed a healthy 10lb 3oz! 

She developed a little infection so we had to stay in hospital for a course of 5 day antibiotics, and arrived home late Tuesday 24th. As you can imagine it has been non-stop ever since! 

We are overjoyed with our beautiful Freya, and here are some pics to share with our enchanted friends! Thank you so much to all of you for your kind messages! 

Faerie Blessings, 

Proud Momma MerFaery! 

Blessed Be everyone!

It is 10 minutes past midnight here and I'm officially 6 days overdue! Despite a long country walk today there is still no sign of Bumplet moving from his/her cosy quarters!

Saw 3 magpies today, 3 times over, which signified a girl but right at the end of our day in lovely Eastham Ferry we saw 4 magpies, signifying a boy, so still none the wiser, hehe! Was hoping that Friday 13th might be my lucky day but no such luck!

I just wanted to say thank you so much to everyone for your kind wishes and support. Thank you so much to Tommy for your sweet post on your page! And to those of you who have since sent me lovely comments and messages. Between here and Facebook my fairy friends have been truly tremendous and I feel very blessed! And of course, thank you to Be and Drew for their love and messages also :o)

I am sitting in the lounge right now listening to the pounding rain outside, I love the feeling of being cosy inside while the rain pours down! Am enjoying the quiet time, grateful for the opportunity to have the time to spend reading the many books I have to catch up on! It has been a while since I have sat down and read a really good fantasy novel and I'm enjoying The Braided Path trilogy immensely at the moment.

Am looking forward to meeting my baby very soon! Can't wait for that magic moment when the midwife announces whether it is a boy or a girl! It is so strange to think that in anything from a matter of hours to days I will have little Freya (Norse, noble lady) or Callum (Celtic, peaceful dove) in my arms! My next appointment (if nothing has happened by then!) will be at the hospital on the 18th, where I will have a scan to make sure baby is doing okay, and if nothing has happened by the 22nd, well, that is it, baby will have to be dynamited out of me in the hospital and the pool will have to resort to being a posh paddling pool! But the midwife was pretty confident that Bub will be here by then so fingers crossed :o)

Love and blessings and thanks to you all! I will post news as soon as I can! xoxoxoxo