monday

eating:: not enough
smelling:: rain
seeing:: mud and autumn leaves
listening to :: veda making beautiful music on her piano
telephoning :: removalists
because im thinking :: about buying an old school building to use as a fun place to make in
planting:: nothing yet...but digging up strawberries and making a frame for my raspberries-wild girls they are
listening to also:: regina spektor and temper trap
and now i must go pick the kids up from school, take veda to piano lesson and the beat goes on......

i just needed some pink

..and the pink on this nani iro fabric is just perfect.

its amazing how happy fabric can make me.

i made myself some pants today. strange because i was going to make a dress with this, also beautiful nani iro fabric....but i must have been in a pants mood today. tomorrow i may regret what i made today. but i do like them. i even went and washed my favourite blue top to wear with them. a new uniform for me. i tried on new uggs today and i was soooo tempted to buy them, but i didnt. i talked myself out of it. they werent the perfect colour or shape. but they were 20 percent off. im filling my time with meaningless conversations inside my own head as you can see. and its sending me a little c r a z y heheee... i need some more girl energy on the farm.....too much boy energy. . it drives me crazy too. . im thinking my own room to paint in that perfect shade of pink would be nice, please, universe.

im also discussing with myself what trees i need to plant and whether printing fabric is a good idea when i dont see how i could possibly print fabric that was as beautiful as i would want it to be. not to mention im refusing to do any grand making because i have no space to do it in. i can always make excuses.

so anyway, i have the pink nani flower fabric sitting on my table and it definitely cheers me up everytime i look at it.

a rainbow followed me home from school today. that was nice.

i got wet socks wearing socks with sandals today...time to wear wintery footwear i guess.

and whilst i make nothing, the kids making is endless and amazing....like vedas beautiful triangle pattern.

tuesday

our beautiful boy Spotty rests peacefully under the gingko tree. it was a horribly sad thing to have to say goodbye to him. we took a few sunny beautiful days with him. that was lucky. many cats just go away to die alone.

and ever since, it has been grey and cold and rainy. the farm is loving the rain. im not enjoying it as much as i usually would. i think i need some sunshine right now. that or a really good sleep.

i got the best mail the other day. the box of lost easter eggs that i sent to my sister in tokyo. 2 months later they were returned to me..how very cool. tomorrow i will send them again...this time with her whole address written on the box ;-)

im waiting for a fabric parcel to arrive so i can make myself a new dress. and i also bought myself a crochet hook. i am determined to learn. this year! hopefully sooner than by the end of this year!

in the meantime, slowly and holding my loved ones close. x

oh..and p.s we have wrens nesting in our garden. i distract myself, spying on magical little wrens.

saturday

today

today we celebrate our gorgeous boys 9th birthday.

he's a unique, magical boy. and so much more. we're having a beautiful sunny autumn day at home together. tomorrow he parties (goes bowling and pizza eating) with his friends.

these next few days we spend our last moments with our beautiful cat spotty. he's seriously not well and on monday we must say goodbye. which of course, sucks.

life. huff and sigh and smile.

beautiful girl

me spying on her spying on her brother

beautiful old things

a recent happy find in a box of old games and books. shes so cute isnt she. a story book with a message written in beautiful old writing inside, dated 1920!

i also got the frame which had an old watercolour in it at the clearance sale last week.

today i decided the book would be perfect in the frame. she is. and she sits on the wall just inside our front door, so i get to see her all the time.

little steps

im sorry you are in a small cage right now. im workiing on it.....

5 little ducks went out one day......

veda is becoming a strawberry farmer. here are her first cuttings from the strawberry jungle around the corner.

too much stuff.

delightful.

im sure somebody has pressed fast forward... the days and weeks are flying past before my eyes. the kids are growing upwards. veda is almost as tall as me. how did that happen?

beautiful autumn days are here. that chill in the air as you move and the warmth of the sun if you sit still. i heard on the radio the other day how calcium deficiency is often caused by not enough sunshine on your body. the sun making vitamin D which helps calcium absorption. me and abc radio are companions these days. i like the randomness of the conversations i might drop in on whenever i have to get back in my car to go anywhere- which is a pain in itself.

we are taking little steps down the road we want to travel. mothers day weekend was a lot of fun. on the saturday i drove my farmer boys ute, with my mum, to a clearing sale of antiques and collectables. i learnt that if they advertise it as that, people there are willing to pay ridiculous prices....well probably not ridiculous compared to buying new made in china rubbish....anyway. it was fun. and then sunday my sweetheart gave me a kiwi fruit and blueberry plant and the kids smothered me in their sweet love, and somehow they managed to squabble with each other more than usual for a lot of the day....rascals. we went to the farmers market and came home with 6 chookens AND 5 ducklings. cool fun. they have already layed us some eggs. how nice of them heehehe....

oh jeepers im out of time....its 8.08am and the kids wont get ready for school while im sitting here typing maniacally?? is that a word?

if you dont know tinderbox products...go gooogle them....they smell so delicious....and im really loving keri smiths wishjar blog again. i love her.

and i have new music to listen to, angus and julia stones newer album and a new buddha bar album..

okay ive really gotta go cook some toast.... talk soon :-) xo

words

today i was busy trying to work out how to use my camera. why oh why wont it auto focus? ive pressed so many buttons now i dont know what ive done. i think i need to do a short photography course. do i ? i have a cold too. blah. its a strange feeling...i havent had one for so long.
we have fallen in love with ponyo again. such a sweet film. we love ponyo.
i (and my boy and the kids too-im training them all ) have been having lots of fun buying other peoples junk...last weekend was a giant lions club auction, this weekend theres a clearing sale i would like to go to....i might be able to make it :-) ///... and hopefully we will get some chooks or chookens as amelie calls them, from the farmers market/chook auction on sunday. theres been a few foxes around though (and wedged tail eagles) so we had better make a chook pen tomorrow.. after i go to school and make chocolate balls with the preps for their mums. and the mothers day stall is on..the kids love it. i love their excitement. i need sleep. i will return with in-focus photos i hope. sweet dreams to you and me x

hello may

upside down on our new trapeze. kids are part monkey im sure.

.. ive been reading this book that my sister told me about a year or two? ago.... i found it by chance in an op shop. it actually nearly jumped off the shelf to me. really. i recommend you read it. it confirms what i already believe.. but to hear it again in a clear loud voice is good. and confronting. and scary too.

we are lucky to have this land, our farm. now we just need to power our place with the sun, off the grid, and get our own water source . it now feels like we need to make a sanctuary here for our family. the last place i would like to be living now is in the city.

so anyway while im reading this book....which i dont do often enough...read books that is...

the kids are interested in what im reading and the fact that i am reading myself a book.. and they are dreaming up their own plans of chooks and vegie gardens and produce stalls at the local farmers market :-) they are little sponges..so sensitive.

so ive been planting fruit trees, there are plans for chooks and more vegie gardens, while the kids are really not wanting to be at school..more than usual...

i just keep sending them...for now. i went to amelies class last week to do some more making with them. seriously, prep kids are so precious. their innocence is intoxicating.

i finally fixed my overlocker so tonight there was some secret sewing action for a little baby due to arrive in june. and one more thing....i wish these flies would just go away. they are disgusting little creatures and there are so many of them right now. urgh. im going to get the fly swatter. goodnight. x