beautiful girls

its such a tricky time when you are in between

shes so much happier when shes free to play

today veda stayed home

she organised a coronation ceremony

it was awesome colourful and magical

little hana became queen

such a perfect beautiful spring feeling kind of day

on saturday

i woke up at around 10am grumpy because i slept all spaz because amelie was in my bed all night again. she owes me a hundred neck massages my sweet little bed hopping brat.
a strong coffee and a phone call from my big girls friend asking if she wanted to come over fixed my bad start to the morning a little.
a walk outside into the sunshine and a big deep breath of that crispy morning air helped too.
and a good morning from our rosie puppy who is almost a one year old. i guess shes a dog. not a pup. shes a big sweetie pie. ive never known a sweet dog. only little vicious ones.
the sunshine kept me outside most of the day. i mowed lawn and pulled weeds and chopped plants and tied some up and rediscovered my garden. i havent done this for a long time. she was happy i was out there loving her.
then i made a fire. how i love a fire on a saturday afternoon.
the kids cooked marshmallows and the dogs and cats and calves mooed and meowed and ran around crazy . rosie smoooched up with melinda. cuteness.
later i picked up the big girl , and some chinese takeaway for dinner. and then i wasted two hours trying to get my computer to behave because she is being such a pain in the butt lately. . . freezing screens on me left right and centre. .. sometimes i hear myself speak and i wonder where did i learn to speak like that.
anyway,.. i shouldnt be speaking i should be sleeping.
i'll go read some more of my book in bed....animal vegetable miracle.... i skip over bits of it and in the other bits i dream a little more about how i want my garden to grow and then i get itchy feet thinking i dont want to live on this speck on earth....surely theres other places... grass is greener over there type thoughts....and then i have our baby girl in our bed from midnight onwards and i wake up with a stiff neck.
oh gosh. maybe i should have a pandadol before bed. or a shot of whisky :-O and thats right, waiting for the chinese food i snuck into the supermarket and they had a little tree sale....so i have 15 little natives to plant tomorrow and the kids are going to help me. with dragging feet probably. nothing a fire and marshmallows cant fix.
goodnight . i hope you wake up refreshed and happy :-)

spots and blobs and flowers

while the kids are making and playing lego

and my bookworm has found some new books to worm her way through

and the chill of outside tries to get in

i can be found sitting on my kitchen floor

with hammer, flowers, blueberries and confetti.

making marks on fabric

and getting so lost in it,

i also made holes.

and i ate the blueberries too.

happiness.

flower fabric

it all started when amelie came inside with a little bunch of geraniums for me. i asked her if i smack just a few into some fabric. noooo mummy. oh come on am, just some? ok...just one. ahem.....well one led to another which led to the whole bunch which led me outside to pick more flowers and leaves, again and again, and then my farmer boy came home with some more flowers picked from the side of the road...here try these out. it is so exciting...and since i was pounding them onto eucalyptus dyed fabric, the colours were doing strange things, like the purple pansies turned fluoro blue. i smacked my finger as well as the flowers and oh my god that made me swear. each time i look at the fabric it makes me want to do more.