papa bear

oh my goodness.. i've just been over here ...nice nice nice.

bits of this and that

such nice green i took the veda babushka gocco screen to some calico i had. now what will i do with them? i might first wash them and see whether they disappear ..or not. my little rainbow girl on a grey day.
the clearing sale on our farm this week.. look at the men.
strange creatures.

it is so addicitvely fun to burn rubbish..and wood..and anything else that

gets in your way .

one more day

invitations are ready to go to school tomorrow with veda for her 9th birthday party. and its a slumber one. a ha. they are meant to be little vedaBABushka dolls in sleeping bags. hmm, not quite, more like melinda looking girls in spotted veil bags. oh well and dear. it is almost midnight again, i was meant to be sleeping two hours ago. soon.

so anyway...school holidays thank the goddess of happy days :-)

im so tempted to just keep them home tomorrow, veda has a horrible cough..how i hate public swimming pools, but there are invitations to be given to friends. im so excited for her, my baby girl who is almost 9 years old. oh god. i must be getting older.

today we had a school bus drama. ie.. the kids were meant to be on it and they weren't.

did i freak out? probably not as much as i should have. will i put them on the bus again? not any time soon. tonight im thinking they are just too little to be on a bus without me or their dad or someone big, looking out for them.

sleep is needed.

i should be asleep

i want to gocco print some fabric inspired by a tshirt i saw on brad pitt and angelina ballerinas beautiful boy in some trashy magazine i read sometimes when i feel lazy and cant be bothered thinking.
the same picture also inspired me to go googling about adoption. a friend of mines friend has just had a baby girl. oh god..i dont know whether this love of little babies i have ever goes away or just becomes something else that doesnt require me to breed forever.
im hoping the latter. mostly because im tired. and may turn insane. and im building a studio. a baby wont let me play in there. will they? nooooooo
so anyway. my current list is LONG. and its getting exciting around here. thankgoodness it is school holidays in two more sleeps. theres stuff to do. and people to play with. and visitors coming. and parties to plan. and a new dairy that needs to work smoothly and and and...boxes to pack and the list is long and nice, yep its a nice list. except for the dentist bit. aagh.
and by the way, tonight i made close to perfectly delicious lasagne. it was a fluke but nevertheless, delicious.

little dress big top

i dont like sewing patterns but i wish i could sew clothes that have a shape that works, in the right size. - without using a pattern. theres a big amount of chance in the clothes i make. but for some reason..i like it that way.
a new little spring dress. or top. depends who wears it. i think it will be for my friends little girl ..charlotte, who is about to be one year old. i know a few one year olds. what an exciting age to be.
the dress is probably more an 18 month old size... but its one of those grow with you piece of clothing. hopefully charlottes mama likes it enough to see it on her babe for an extended period of time . .. . .. . . .

in other news.. i have boxes. and how therapeutic it is to pack the house into them. that is...after i get the kids out of them.
and i dont know if i like the dress actually. that trim at the bottom, while i really like it..i just cant seem to use it in a way that i like. it doesnt really belong anywhere. so i just put it there anyway.

simple

do you know what I love? I love when i grab Veda and give her the biggest tightest hug and tell her just how much I love her and how lucky I feel to have her here with me. And she giggles and skips away.

wednesday

colour

planted :: snapdragons, marigolds, dahlias

waiting to be planted :: all the vegie seedlings

and now its raining . so good.

and not just beautiful rain,,but one gigantic, amazing rainbow.

boot walking

i really love wearing my boots. i feel like a little girl tramping around in gum boots. so today that is what i'm doing. and this here is a skirt i rushed together awhile ago..that somehow fits ok , with no zip and no elastic. i pull it up and on and it sits on my hips and doesnt fall off. i made a skinny belt to tie it onto my body with but god knows where that is now...luckily the skirt is happy without it.
i like golden fabric. i like wrinkled fabric too. and my red print goes nicely with both of the above .

the garden is calling me, the sewing machine is calling me, Amelie is calling me, the need to find a builder is calling me, and there is a birthday dinner party for 5 to be organised for tonight. better get off the computer then.

suns a shinin

yep its spring time. the days are beautiful, warm sunshine with a cool spring breeze. perfect for just pottering around the garden. pulling out weeds, planting more native bushes, without the worry of snakes being in the garden. that comes in a few more weeks. though they could definitely be out and about now. i dread snake time on the farm.

ive got some vegie seedlings to plant, cherry tomatoes yellow zucchinis- im hoping to get sindri eating these...he has a problem with green, but doesnt mind yellow. he hee... so hopefully that plan will work. and also some lettuce and parsley. ive planted giant sunflowers everywhere in the garden. if they all come up and survive it will be a magical land of giant sunflower beings.

now i just have to wait wait wait for the water to run freely through the hose so i can water the new additions to the garden. imagine not having any clean water to drink. i cant imagine. and i whinge about not being able to water my garden. always something to whinge about. or be happy about.

anyway... not much making going on. veda made a cover for her pillow with the overlocker. seems she has a heavy foot like her mumma. lucky girl ;-) and she also made pancakes today with not much help. how big she grows when she learns to do something new on her own.

tomorrow is my boys birthday. we got him some new sandals that hopefully will fit. sindri tried them on and its hard to imagine that his little foot may grow to that (giant) size one day.

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water. it all comes down to water.

tuesday here we go

spring making

the making that i want to be doing is not always, often, the making that i am doing. last night i wanted to make a new gocco print, but couldnt find the energy to get up and do it..at 9.30 at night. today i was outside mowing the lawn ..as you do on fathers day.. i have no energy, but the garden is calling me outside..every day. ive become a plant a holic. and the kids follow. they dig, they swing from the tree, they run around and around and around. they have a hidden source of energy that i wish i had.

this afternoon the making, was making the house clean for a fathers day dinner. making a cake, making a roast dinner...all the while , planning this doll print in my head...how will i do it... what will i do with it... i want to make a skirt with it..and embroider it.. and on it goes. so the making grows in my head, while i make everything else needed to keep the family going, and happy.

there is no wonder in my mind why i am so tired at the moment.

but the beautiful spring days and the daffodils and the blossom are seductive. so outside i go, with my new wheelbarrow...digging and planting and at night i flop into bed dreaming of the things i would like to make.

now i must go check the roast vegies, pour myself a baileys and get ready for a fathers day dinner. maybe tomorrow i can do some different kind of making.