windy

today while the wind blew wildly..and it still is blowing madly outside... i played in the kitchen with my gocco. i printed so many pictures and some fabric also. i was in that space of gocco printing bliss that i have come to love. the possibilities continue to grow.

i hope the wind is blowing some wonderful changes our way. it seems by the end of this week we may be looking for somewhere else to live..or maybe re-organising the way we live here?. there is so much unknown. but all the things i do know are the things that matter.

this is my painting i'm working on, playing with.

monster sunday

yes the fun continued today...last night i wrecked another screen. .gee that hurts. so i was holding onto the last screen i had...but...today i found three more in the BOX ..hooray :-)

so it was Sindri's turn today....(i ruined his screen last night)... we had lots of monster-y fun with one of his drawings.. and whenI accidentally overlapped an image...oh wow ...another corner turned. we made pictures that look 3D. very cool.

I could lose myself in printing.. next...... fabric.

oh my gocco goodness

Veda could not wait. Understandably.

it's early saturday morning, and i have to say...i am bursting with excitement. it's like we have been lighting fire crackers in the kitchen...that sort of joy.... but no...what we have been doing is playing with our newest family member. a print gocco.

i bought the gocco off ebay and i was so lucky, when the BIG box arrived ( god i love getting mail) i opened it to find something like gocco heaven. not one but TWO goccos and TWO fabric stampers and heaps of ink and everything else i need. i don't need two of course....but now I can give Veda one to have forever... hopefully they will keep the gocco alive. I need to join the save gocco movement because my goodness....it is sooooooooooooooo fun, sooooooooooo exciting and soooooo addictive. We had the best time printing- after we worked it out. We wasted two bulbs because we had the print facing the glass the first time. oops. And we used the gocco pen to draw our pictures and it worked so so well. Its so much cooler than I imagined. Can you tell Im excited lol.

So Veda has printed a zillion beautiful fairy wrens that she drew. Each time we added different colour ink we got a surprise when we looked at the print. The excitement!!

My girl print was quite boring really he hee.... but the possibility of printing on fabric.....oh goodness...if it works i'm going to seriously burst.

Our Saturday morning has been wonderfulllll- a new little world has opened up.... the only problem is that we have to stop to eat...and that we will soon be out of screens and light bulbs.

And we also now have to leave the house...yes that's right, leave the warm cosy gocco nest...to go to the vet for one of Murrays cows. It has mastitis. And we can't have that can we?

I guess we could get some cardboard to print on while we are in town at the vets? yes...good idea. ok..off we go.............

the colours of my pastels

once upon a time i really loved to draw with oil pastels. i drew and drew and drew...i really loved the texture, the colours, the smell. i have my tin of pastels sitting in a (dusty) corner of my bedroom, probably sadly waiting for me to pick them up again.

maybe one day. or maybe not.

here are some of my pastel drawings. i'd like to get them made into smaller sized prints. or even smaller..cards.

maybe one day. or maybe not.

it was nice to open my folio and find all these drawings, like meeting up with old friends or maybe more like finding an old piece of clothing i used to love to wear.

musical happy-ness

this is part of a painting i did maybe a year ago. i'd love to go and paint by myself for a week or two. i snatch some painting time here and there...usually at 7 in the morning. but a week is out of the question right now.

rain rain rain please.

i'm liking escaping with music. Buddha Bar, Sunny cd that came with the cute kids book called Sunny... , Silverchair-strangely, and new Norah Jones. a weird mix and choice I know. but surely enjoyable :-) oh and I'm still " hanging out" with Sarah Blasko. so nice. if i was an organised blogger (or person) i would have the links and little pictures of the cds. but i'm not.

so our little Amelie is 3 on friday. it will be a wonderfully happy, sunny day. i need to get a list together, there's a teddy bear picnic happening at midday....... and the house...i need a giant vacuum to suck it all up ;-)

bye

a soup of pictures

it feels a BIT nice that it's a new month. nice because it's new..GOODBYE march.. nice because it's the school holidays. nice because it's easter soon and oh the chocolate is never better, nice because it's amelies birthday, and nice people will be coming to play. nice isn't probably the word, but it will do. easter is about new life yes? well. we are all ready for it.

and the photos. oh well....i can never see anough red gum flowers. i found some photos on my phone. i like the scratchy blurryness of them. my poor pink lamp has finally died. the plastic shade on it was cracked and is now well and truly broken. it has had a long loved life.

and a photo from my dads tool shed. i'd love to see him today.

and two more painting/drawings of mine.

peace :-)

thai overload

oh how i love love love a hot green chicken curry. i love the surprise of biting a red chilli, the burning sensation...l o v e .

so today i gave my garden some love...watering the daffodil bulbs waiting for them to poke their little heads throught the dark dirt.

mowed the lawn, trying to make the garden look neat...(very funny manda), .. so that we can present this place as somewhere somebody else would want to live. or even better, a place that when a prospective purchaser sees it, they fall in love with the charm and beauty (of the dehydrated land) of the garden and absolutely must buy it.

and i think the relationship between me and this painting is over. these two women spoke words of wisdom to me over many long quiet nights.

goodness

this is what i did on saturday. i (almost) finished this painting. and i pulled out so many weeds from the garden .. easter daisy weeds. the next day my body ached but i was happy to see this girl looking at me as i passed her to make my first coffee of the day...even if it did nearly kill me to walk with the muscles in my legs.

Uh-Oh

Today I cut my hair and dyed my hair black. I really should put myself in handcuffs when I get in these moods. I can feel it coming and then I succumb to the urge to do something silly. My hair copped it today. Luckily it's just a rinse so I need to go on a hair washing frenzy and it should fade to a not so scary shade in about a week. And it was too long anyway. Driving me crazy actually.

So anyway. It has been a really intense week involving sudden heart surgery for my father in law, and so an unplanned trip to Melbourne for a week, kids feeling the intensity of all around them and not knowing what to do with the emotions. We got home and I slept for many many hours. We are now finding our way back to equilibrium?... today the kids just played and played all day. I had an urge to paint lots of pink dots but I just didn't get there unfortunately.

I'm happy tomorrow is Sunday.

So anyway I thought maybe I should post a photo of something I have made. . .since my profile says I make. It should read -I imagine that I make.