words and weather

late night
should go to bed
head full of thoughts
body tired
noisy blah blah television
noisy blah blah thoughts in my head
crazy weather
crazy happenings here there and everywhere
so much rain
wild winds
battered garden
but still, picking baby spinach and bowl-fulls of strawberries and bunches of flowers and eating raspberries one by one while flicking those little bugs off my plants
as wild as my garden is right now (and always) its my happy place
i need to make little nooks for the kids to play in.....
id like a hill for them to roll down and run over
it wouldnt be so hard to make a hill with my boys tractor
one day i will learn to drive that big yellow tonka truck scooper
and now that my head is this many words emptier, i will go to bed.
goodnight x

hello rain

7.30 pm last night, the kids and murray start watching a new japanese animation...it looks a bit scary so me and ammie wander off to my , or should i say our (me muzz and ammies) bed. we try to get the computer to play games with us but its so slow we crack it with the computer and decide to draw pictures together instead. amelie loves drawing with oil pastels and is still drawing cute icecream sundaes with cherries on top. she taught me how to do that and then we snuggled into bed. we had our nightly conversation about how much she doesnt like school and all the things that upset her while shes there. she is so insightful and wise and sensitive. i think i fell asleep just after i felt her little fingers fall from my hand.

i woke at midnight and ate some cold canneloni. damn i made delicious canneloni last night...spinach and ricotta mmmm...... then i went back to sleep. i then had some crazy canneloni induced dreams about cats with strings of crystals around their necks ..and then i woke when my boy went off to milk cows at around 5am.

then at 6.30 i really woke to the sound of pouring rain and grey skies, thinking what a bad idea it may have been to plan a garage sale for this weekend.

now its 7.30 and im thinking it would be nice for the kids to be home on this rainy day. but they stayed home yesterday and ammie only went on monday. hmmm....maybe they should go today. i torment myself like this most mornings....but hooray because theres only 15 more of them left this year.

today im gonna find some solar powered fairy lights for my garden. and something to make the mozzies go away....like a giant lizard that will stick out his sticky tongue and eat them all. sindri would like that.

my creative space

on my fridge::from my garden::by my side::from my travels::on my windows

more spaces at Kirstys :-)

today has been one of those happiest of days. a day out in bendigo with just my big girl Veda and our two friends. and then home again to my two little sweethearts and one big one. feeling so lucky.

p.s i need a scarecrow

mum and i found our way across the countryside to a little hall filled with lots of old stuff. people paid astonishing prices for old metal signs and cameras and oil bottles and anything else that was old. there wasn't much that made me go "ooohhhh i want that" and especially not since everything was so expensive. but yes, i had to have some bidding fun. the kids love the record player. i do too. now i'll be on the lookout for records to groove to on my opshoppin expeditions.

spring flowers

flowers picked from my garden for my mum. it was her 73rd birthday yesterday. she had 9 children and mothered another 4 little ones from my dads previous marriage. she really is an amazing lady. last night we went out and had a delicious dinner together. she really deserves all the magic and love in the world.

today im pottering around thinking i love saturdays. the kids and i decided that school should be two days a week and weekends five days. dont you think?

and today what is making me happy is the jacaranda and the silver princess that i planted awhile ago, that have both lost all their leaves and look like dead sticks, ....well i have been living in hope that they are just resting ....they have sprouted new little leaves. hooray for all the magic rain we have had.

theres a clearing sale in toolern vale tomorrow that im tempted to go to. last night i found a listing for the 600! lots that will be auctioned. could be fun.

i'll let you know what i find, if i go :-)

my creative space

today i took the kids to school, came home, made a coffee, grabbed the orange woollen? fabric i picked up at savers yesterday, ignored the kitchen with dishes almost hitting the roof, and went outside to my room. aaaah bliss. determined to make something cute for a child that i dont know, but who might like something cute to snuggle or play with.

and ta da...as amelie likes to say, ....here is miss or mr pussycat. she...i think shes a she , is off to pips for softies for mirabel. i hope her new friend likes her.

its nice to be back making. think i might ignore the dishes more often. i just went inside to grab my camera and the dishes are gone. now that, i like.

heres to ignoring dishes and heres to making toys for beautiful kids.

off to here to see some more making . see ya.

november here i come.

aahhh these perfect spring days....even the spring rain came at a perfect time, ...my garden is calling me outside.. closer and closer. every day there is something new that has burst. little peaches and broccoli and sweet chamomile flowers. (and a million nettles that like to prick my fingers if im not careful)

my studio is evolving into somewhere i want to be. soon i will have power and music. rosie has made herself a bed next to my sewing table. outside i can spy on strawberries. if im quick enough i might even beat the crows to the juiciest red ones.

the kids are having a great time with their cousins today. they went trick or treating last night, have covered themselves, their bikes, and rosie in mud. they have bounced and giggled themselves silly and are now flopped in the lounge watching princess mononoke-veda's favourite movie.

im off to play some more in my room. i've even had my gocco out and my sewing machine chugging along. maybe im finding my groove again. its only taken almost a year!