mondayinsanity

yep. thats where im at.

sunday making

on this rainy sunday i have a stiff shoulder after spending the night with veda in our bed. its nice and cosy drifting off to sleep with her and then it goes downhill from there. we end up hanging off the sides of the bed and veda has a lovely queen sized- sleep in the middle.

but this post is not about that anyway.

its about the pants i made for amelie this morning. i used the fabric i printed with my gocco awhile ago. they have some gold fabric trims and they look a bit old and dirty and a bit girly and a bit special with the little bits of gold.

i like them. amelie doesnt. she refuses to try them on.

i love her three year old determined-ness. i wish i had some of it.

lovely animals

Hello.

Oh-oh. My adorable boy Sindri quite possibly is a bigger gocco fiend than me. And while that is so very cute it is also sends me a bit loopy when he is NAGGING me every two seconds to gocco. -either a new print or in a different colour. I wish I didn't have five million things on my imaginary list right now but I do. I can't gocco ten hours a day..... But anyway>... his prints are so great. I love them. (and he loves them.) . . And I love Veda's drawings too. This is her "lovely animals" gocco print. It is printed in brown ink and looks a bit old and I love it.

somewhere over that hill

well its been awhile, i agree. ive been looking for a new home for us . and the cows.



and......

::ive been letting all the ideas i have, swirl around in my head. and remain there mostly.

::i have wasted two gocco screens + globes because i was impatient

::ive thought about all the things i need to do

::i havent really done much have I?

::i have really. but you dont want to hear about the never ending piles of washing, of feeding never endingly hungry children, of playing and snuggling kids that dont like to sleep alone, of drinking coffee with friends, sharing the good and the hard times of being mummas. . .of wondering where in the world we are going to move to--- that is probably taking up a lot of my energy.

and today, if i could teleport myself to another country, ..say, japan. i would.

if i could be bothered taking photos, i would be looking at the wattle tree that is now bursting into brilliant yellow...actually i might go take a photo of it...its b e a u ti f u l.... and i would be photographing the wonderful pictures and letters my kids make for me everyday. i would show you my recently finished painting. im having urges to paint over it...but im resisting for now.

i tried to take some photos while we were away last week, we happened to land in the land of fog. it was so very eerie. the camera sat in the car the entire time we were away. we were having too much fun.

update.:: i went to visit the wattle tree with camera. though you really need to be next to this tree to feel its magic.

now if i could do anything i think i might go to bed and hide there for the day. or go to my (imaginary) mudbrick/strawbale studio and gocco and sew all day and night.

oh my god.

and i remember what i DID do.

i went to see Sarah Blasko sing. live. in a little bar. with my sweet friend. but first we ate thai food. just to make it a PERFECT night :-)

if you havent heard Sarah sing. you really should. she's beautiful. amazing.

saturday

the geranium was looking very lovely (and green) today a butterfly
and a different, coloured butterfly
our amazing wattle tree is ready to burst into flower

friday 13th

all of us sick. aching. coughing. in bed. for the week.
new moon tomorrow, im feeling it is ready to listen
new gocco print today. a butterfly. im wishing i had a big stash of paper. once i start i dont want to stop.
sleep.

house

sick::muzz and sindri, veda recovering, amelie may be on the way downhill. me:: doctor, medicine woman.

distance travelled:: o km.

an ending

today we sold our house/farm. the last remaining bit.
my first reaction was of much handclapping excitement. ten seconds later i started to feel something like butterflies in my stomach. this is really happening. somebody else is really going to come and live in our home. and worse still,...we have to pack up and move out. and even even worse..how are we ever going to find and agree on a place where we could both/all be happy. and find it in the next two months?
we have been trying to go away to start our searching but it seems the gods are against that plan. veda was sick with a cold or flu and now it seems muzz is getting a mutated version of it.
and maybe sindri too. we thought we would be able to leave early tomorrow. i cant see it happening..but who knows what a new day may bring?
so i have been on holidays with the kids albeit, at home on holidays rather than on a warm beach in queensland...or some exotic country.....la la la la ......
and its been a blur. the whole of the year has been a bit of a blur. maybe i need to start taking gingko...i think my normally wonderful memory is a bit fuzzy. tired, thats what it is. muzz told me im the tiredest person he knows. i thought for a second and then replied i do day AND night shift every night. for 8 years. dont talk to me about being tired.
and here i am on the net at 12.30 am. hmm,,...better go to bed :-)
goodnight.

fly away pete

pete and rosie were in a cage crash outside. pete flew away (we hope) rosie survived. if pete doesnt come back we have promised rosie we will find her a new friend to play egg hatching with.

in between

out of my kitchen window tonight this is what i saw.
im hoping to find that sunny place sometime next week when we go new home hunting.

fridge

veda's fairy wren gocco print. i love it.

fuzzy sunday

veda love
hana-pie

i could have easily spent the day on the couch soaking up the warmth of our wood heater, dreaming and snoozing. i didnt though. instead we went out and ate delicious pasta and pizza for lunch and then went ten pin bowling. i like sundays alot. a funky market filled with old treasures and nice handmade and grown things and i would have been in heaven.

and then the afternoon was a bit like.... are we really moving? really?

and then tonight i got a call from my adorable aunty anne. it was a surprise. a nice surprise. i wish i could have given her a big hug down the phone line..or invited her over for a coffee. :-(

she reminded me about being sure about the place we are going to move to. its something i worry about, but then i think we will know when we find it. im not moving until i know its right. can you remind me of that? ive waited long enough to be moving to a place where we both want to be.

i know i said to my sister no more gocco-ing because seriously...it could take me 6 months to pack up this place. but i have a drawing on the table calling me to print it. its midnight. dont be silly manda...go to bed.

i didnt go to bed. you want to know what i did? i got caught up looking through my photos on the computer and after seeing my sweet hana-pie i then went to the cupboard and brought back to the computer with me a block of caramello chocolate. comfort eating . yes. did it comfort me about the fact that they are in japan and i am here? no. did it taste nice? um. yep.