rudolph

first day of holidays...aahhh sweet relief to have the kids home with us.
the kids and i did some pinata making, a rudolph the red nosed reindeer if you can't quite tell.
its going to be smacked to bits on the weekend at our family christmas party. poor rudolph.
but for now he hangs in our kitchen. i have a green cardboard nose that amelie painted, to put on the other side of rudolphs face. she insists i put it there...and why not.
.....another thing i love to do...make pinatas.

one more day of school for this year.

one more day of kindergarten.

there will be more school next year.

but i dont have any more little kids that will go to kindergarten.

gosh.

thats a big corner im turning.

tonight veda played at her end of year piano recital.

that was so cute.

in a little country town hall.

kids of all ages playing their piano pieces.

and her teacher/our friend played i think beethoven sooo awesome-ly!

after some supper, a beautiful night outside, so a little play at the playground across the road and home to bed and to our glowing christmas tree. somehow i think it is our most beautiful one yet.

my creative space

my creative space is consumed with getting our little people well/keeping them well enough to do all the end of year school and kinder going-ons. at the same time im fighting the sore throat bug. i was winning..though this morning i woke up and had eucalyptus lozenges for breakfast. mm mmm. having colds in summer near christmas is plain annoying. could be worse though ;-)

the kids are bringing home random pieces of christmas creations..like this pin-poked-picture by sindri. i love tiny holes with light. beautiful.

we made some gingerbread,but cinnamon instead of ginger...for amelies kinder party. the colour of it was beautiful before the kids attacked it with icing and marshmallow and shiny things..

it has the potential to break teeth too. i think i cooked it for too long.

the last lot of creative spaces for 2009 over at kootoyoo.

l o v e

the photo was meant to be a blurry christmas tree light photo. which looked cool. but its on my camera card which isnt here with me. i do love these squashed flowers though.
life is a happy blur at the moment.
our shopping day on friday ended with my farmer boy and our three precious giggling kids giving me a beautiful rose gold ring with a promise of forever.
of course we already feel married and forever is what our love and family is.
but now i have the sparkly ring on my finger. and i jokingly call my farmer boy my fiance.
one day we will have a wedding/party.
right now we are surrounded in happiness and love......................
me and ammie also have colds, which is rotten.
and the end of school is near. but not near enough.
amelie pulled all her strength together so she could go to prep orientation day this morning. big brave girl she is.
and christmas excitement is growing daily. im sure father christmas will find something special to bring to these three awesome kids.

make way for christmas

Providing the soundtrack for our lives in these past few days has been our grumpy old cat Spotty. We're not sure if he's just that. . old and grumpy or if theres something wrong. But gosh his meow is so loud. Especially at 4am when he comes out of hiding asking to be let outside. And who does he ask? Me of course.

the tree is in there somewhere

previous christmas card makings found in the decorations box

So it may have taken us almost a week to recover from the market. Recover , as in getting the kids well again and back to school, cleaning up some of the mess from the pre-market mayhem- so that we all stop tripping over and banging into things, and recover as in gathering my thoughts and just soaking in the thought that there is a world of possibilities out there just waiting patiently.

We've also got my sister Melinda and her 3 year old bundle de love Hana staying here, well here but just down the driveway at my Mums. And that is a whole lot of fun in itself. We've had a school awards ceremony to attend. I could write a whole post about the politics of schools but I couldn't be bothered. I've already wasted too much time thinking about it. What we decided in the end is that our kids are sweet hearted kind compassionate people and in life if they can be that, well thats awesome. Not to say that they don't deserve to be recognised for their amazing abilities also. They do. But too many times, they aren't. grr. see I obviously still have issues hehee...

So now we have moved onto Christmas. It's that sparkly exciting magical time of the year that is all about the kids and family. I love it.

The christmas tree is up. I wanted a fresh pine tree but we couldnt wait that long to find somewhere to buy one. So the tree is up and now you cant see it because it is covered in tinsel and hand made angels and colourful lights ...just how the kids like it.

Today I bought cardboard and glitter , star stickers and glue. Christmas card making is next.

If not tonight , maybe there will be some card making tomorrow for Melinda Amelie and Hana while I get to go to Bendigo shopping with my farmer boy. Something we haven't done for about 12 years ! Maybe not that long. But a long time. Nice.

Happy Sunday

The Daylesford Makers Market has come and gone. It was such a great day. A two hour drive to Daylesford with my sweet Veda in the morning is how it began. I was met at the beautiful Town Hall with busy elves setting up their stalls and my lovable sister Loretta and her gorgeous girl Laura. The lovely Steph showed us our space and from then on it was all fun.
I had my awesome friends and sweetheart family hanging out with and helping me for the day. I received lots of love for my work... I met a few of the lovely blogging girls, though didn't get much time to really talk. I hugged Kate and Jodie like I had known them for a long time. Its a strange cool thing that. The day had been anticipated for a long time and flew by so quickly. We came home with some special new things. So interesting what my kids like. I'll post photos soon...
I really like my button hairpins from Dandelion. So pretty.
Somehow I drove 2 hours back home again. Slurped some tomato soup and fell into my cozy bed holding hands with my Amelie as we drifted into the best sleep Ive had for ages.

Red love

Sarah Blasko won Aria for Best Female Artist last night...hooray for Sarah. I love her music and I wish she was my friend.

Kids are home from school today. coughing and sniffing. Im not sure Im going to like today.

Actually yes I will.

Im going now to mix up some henna. mmm mm mmm .

Then Im going to sit and henna all over my hands. and probably the kids too if they have their way.

And if you saw the Arias last night did you see Kate Miller-Heidkes hair? I want my hair that colour. glowing red. But Im too chicken to do it. And I dont have her face to match the hair.

Maybe I should put the henna in my hair. Nah . maybe not.

my creative space

my creative space has come to a standstill. its actually packed in a box or two. i was going to post a photo of the mess im leaving behind but i didnt want to scare you all ...hehehee.....

i was trying to go at double speed this week with some last minute making for the market..but with kids with sore throats and colds im going half speed instead. it happens like that sometimes. now im gobbling echinacea so i dont catch the cold.

so the boxes are packed, the girls are ready and i have a cute new tshirt to wear...(which came from the UK in record time ...i love speedy mail)... im excited and nervous and as ready as i possibly can be for the market on saturday. its going to be a whole lot of fun. fingers crossed that my Veda gets well...she's busting to be my shop assistant :-)

so i guess i will see some of you in Daylesford :-)

creative spaces at kootoyoo

:: My Place and Yours :: My Collection

Hello again....Im back from hiding from the scorching sun. Today its a cloudy rainy day. Ahhh such relief. I hear my garden sighing in relief too.

Im a girl who likes to collect..(although much of it I probably shouldnt collect...Im quickly filling our house..) but here are two of my favourite collections. My pull-alongs and my Dick Bruna books. Both collections started when I had my first baby. And the collections match too :-)

I like it best when I come across another addition accidentally...buying them from ebay is just not as fun. .(but I still do it sometimes ;-) Thanks to Kate for inspiring me to pull my pull-alongs down and shine the dust off them and give them a little love. More collections at Pips place.

berry happy

saturday morning

up at 6.30. the sun wakes me and the kids earlier than i would like on a saturday. i cant seem to sleep in any more.

early morning is the best part of the day right now. from about 10am onwards its too hot for this autumn loving girl.

today i picked the first three strawberries from our garden. its our best attempt at growing strawberries so far. the plastic around them to keep the weeds away seems to have done the trick. one strawberry on icecream for the three kids tonight :-)

and the raspberries are flowering. imagine if we grow raspberries. funnnn.

trying to get everything finished. i want the feeling of having nothing to do. i guess we need a holiday. only yesterday my farmer boy came in and said he needs a month long holiday. im thinking i need to just book a holiday because we'll never go anywhere if i dont. i said Italy. farmer boy laughed. i was serious. the food. the gelati. the sea. my Dad. i think its a great idea. and i know the kids would eat the food. which is one huge relief.

ahh to dream.

im off to write a list. yep. you heard right. a list.