Thursday
noisy happy life
Tuesday
home
Saturday
the cows take over the blog
Wednesday

Sunday
im planting a forest
Saturday
in the garden
so have a look at this amazing origami i found whilst visiting swissmiss
funny
Thursday
ssshh
Wednesday
before the clock strikes 11
Tuesday
Monday
me and the spotties
.. the next morning the kids saw what the mumma elf had been doing the night before and when i finally forced myself out of bed i found their beautiful creations alongside mine. i love that.
today some nice fabric and trims arrived in the mail. a card dropped in my letter box suggesting there was something good waiting for me at the post office. i have to drive 20 kms to pick up parcels. i asked the kids if they felt like going for a little drive. i was sure it was going to be a moaning nooooo.. (and fair enough ) , but it was three okays . hello sunshine :-)
Friday
friday
Thursday
make me happy
but the machine which detected through vibration what my body needed. . seemed to be working with me... so now i have a special little bottle of flower essences and some herbs that will hopefully help me get some immunity back, after the chicken pox + the world around me took it off me.
and before the naturopath i visited bunnings- hardware nursery megastore.. and oh goodness. i have now, sitting happily in my garden- in the exact place where those annoying four legged black and white mooing pests destroyed my last tree, a BiG BEauTi FULL silver princess tree. I was so very excited to find her. and around her i have planted lots of daffodils, some of which are flowering. im cheating sort of. i know.but that is irrelevant at the moment. the silver princesses are flowering at the moment in the local area.., but this one has no signs of flowers. you dont know how happy i will be if she flowers in my garden. well melinda knows how happy. and my mum too. my farmer boy is now talking of putting them all the way down the driveway. funny boy.
i also found some perfect garden tools for the kids. wooden handles and real metal tools. kids sized.... inspired by a montessori book i received in the mail yesterday ( im thinking my sweetheart may put me into therapy soon for this shopping addiction i have right now. BUT at least im buying nice things ;-) .
so today we dug in the garden. planting, watering, sweeping. my garden is messy but beautiful. tomorrow im going to buy some paint and we will paint the kids poles and platform cubby land on the weekend. i still need some rocks. maybe i will ring somebody? the rock delivery person.... and order a truck of gravel and rocks. what am i doing? oh and some sand. we need to re fill the sand pit. or just have a pile of sand for digging. its a pity i cant move a beach here.
Monday
frosty monday
Sunday
Friday
Thursday
magnolia
Wednesday
Monday
pink
the spots are still coming. i look very scary. i slept so much yesterday. today im awake. tomorrow we will see. i look forward to being fully alive again,..im sure i will be different. im sort of shedding a skin here. strange.
Saturday
with a spot over here
Friday
scared cat
oh dear

Thursday
ssssh
i have to try not breathe on the kids. i really dont want them to get it. and that hurts too. i cant hug and kiss them too closely.
but nothing hurts so bad because i have a friend who is very sick. and she has little babies. a sore throat or a sore head is really nothing for me to whinge about.
ive taken no photos either. hows that for fun.
what i did do today is clean the kitchen table aka my studio. it was totally visible until the kids came home.
then tonight it became the site of superhero costume making for tomorrows hero dress up day at school. my kids. sindri made up his own hero. involving a cape, aeronautical flaps attached to the side of his top and a triangular headband. veda. she is going as a black and white snow leopard. animals are her heroes.
now lets see tomorrow who actually wears their costumes out of the house.
maybe i should have dressed up too. oh gosh. i should go make myself a costume. if i wasnt feeling like i was swallowing nails i might just do that. instead i think i should go to bed.
i'll be back soon. hopefully in one happy whole piece. with pictures. :-)
spitfire
Tuesday
compost
i henna-ed my hand on sunday night with a tube i got in melbourne. its a bit too orange coloured and the lines, a bit too thick. and now i have to look at it for a week or so.. on monday i got my package of henna from india. so happy. if only i had waited one more day i could have had nice warm brown henna patterns. oh well. i can always do some feet mehndi. it was fun to see the kids faces at kinder when they got a glimpse of my hand. i think they liked it when i told them i drew on my hand with special paint.
this autumn weather is very nice. i dug around in the garden with amelie today. id really like to build. with some rocks. i need a pile of rocks. im thinking of andy goldsworthy. thats his name isnt it. without checking. and relying on my ageing memory . oh dear. im making a compost heap. well ive been feeding wild animals with our scraps for a few weeks now... but now ive covered the scraps with dirt and im hoping the worms will come to the feast and we may have some compost action happening soon. and looking at my moon calender tonight it seems now is the perfect time to be composting. fancy that.
i potato stamped some fabric the other day. with amelie. of course. she is my little shadow at the moment. she doesnt venture very far from my side. anyway.. it was fun. but not so pretty. but i can see the potential. i have some big pots of screenprinting ink that wont fit through a gocco screen. so i thought maybe i could stamp some fabric. im sure it would work somehow. maybe i need to water the ink down some. lotta jansdotter makes it look easy. i only had two potatoes left in my cupboard to dissect too. i will try the potato stamping again. oh and i was trying to stamp pink ink onto black fabric which probably wasnt helping the situation.
anyway. why i am telling you this i have no idea. i could call my blog the midnight ramble.
Sunday
sunday
Saturday
run away?
i have to say.. if it weren't for my children and my love i may just put those shoes on and walk my way to the edge of the world. maybe in search of the sea. or at least to a place where there are nice people. or no people. people are too complicated. maybe just trees and flowers.
i made a doll today. a blank felt person. the kids took her before i could give her a face. or some clothes. she doesnt need either of those apparently. shes already become the mother to their dolls.
