six

hello poor blog.

sorry but you are on a list that seems to grow as fast as it shrinks.

i was tagged by melinda to show the 6th folder 6th photo .

i was interested to see what i would find and happy to find this. one of the few photos

we have from our quick trip to sydney last year. most photos were swallowed by my last dodgy hard drive. ive erased that thought from my memory. until now.

anyway.

sydney was fun.

so remotely different to my last 24 hours spent at the local show with my farmer boy and the kids, showing his cows.

it actually deserves a post in itself. so i will go get the kids ready to go out for tea and i will return with the story of the local show.

it was sunday night again, 16 minutes ago...now its monday morning. gee the morning is going to be fun. i cant help it. i really like this middle of the night quietness.
i smell paint. we painted the lounge room today. it doesnt look like it belongs in our house anymore.
and now our kitchen and front verandah are full of books and furniture and stuff.
i thought maybe i should put a sign out the front. op shop.
the weekend was nice. its a strange time.
it is so extremely dry outside.
inside we seem to have tipped our house upside down. im not sure why we did that in the first place?

sunday night

i cant remember but i may have already posted this photo of ammie. i really like it.
she has her box on her head and her map book in her hand and she was happy.
life can be that simple it seems.

eating:: mango
smelling:: romance blend - orange patchouli sandalwood? gosh i cant remember...so bad!
listening:: to veda and sindri play piano
thinking::about rearranging
hoping::for rain
sleeping::not enough

all you need is love

if you like her maybe you could buy her and then together we are helping in some tiny way, the victims of these terrible bushfires.
my heart is heavy. so much sadness and shock and at the same time, so many people opening their hearts trying to help.

feeling so sad for the many people who have suffered with these horrible fires.

we survived today. and honestly, at times i was a little worried what might happen. it was so very extreme. if i lit a match maybe the world would have exploded. we woke to find that our aircooling had decided to die. how funny is that. not very ... luckily after some phone calls to many people unwilling to come fix it, and fair enough, we managed to bandaid it well enough to work for today. my friend, my garden is so battered by the sun and hot wind it hurts to look at it too closely. and at the same time i see even more beauty.

dear sun.....

:: above :: keeping the sun out of the bathroom.

.......today one of Veda's sweet little love birds died. Sun, you are being just a little bit extreme. Please. please. Please. chill out, take a holiday, go visit America or Japan .....

imhot.

when im not standing in front of the air cooler slurping on an icy pole or crunching on ice, i might be here in my studio...ie...the white table i recently squeezed into the kitchen area..looking at the cool things that people make.

when i get past this heat induced craziness i will hopefully bring my sewing machine to centre stage and , after i wipe off the THICK dust, i might sew something.

all the creating is going on in my head. and most of it isnt crafty but rather how to create/find a happy seaside life for me plus 4. i guess thats going to need a big imagination so quite creative after all....

go here to see other creative spaces and find some new blogs to hang out at.. you know , to waste more time that you (I) could be creating in.

sunday printing

standing outside next to our house yesterday, checking on the giant yellow squash i am attempting to grow...im thinking world record ( i must check just how big someone has managed

to grow one ) ....anyway...i look down to find this leaf arrangement that has dropped from the gum tree above. simply perfect. there are little gifts all around waiting to be found.

the kids like our garlic grinder thing... they put there magno-men...(which are one of their most favourite things to play with. magnetic little bendy men. ) inside it or on it like it is a spaceship or something... anyway the other day i found it like this on the fridge. i wish i still had the imagination i was born with.

my Veda made me lunch with leaves and flowers.

and last night she drew this beautiful tree.

this morning i dug through the rubble and found the dolly that i have loved ever since i brought it for veda to look at when she was a baby. i want to make some friends for her...if only i can make them half as cute.

happy sunday :-)