Worry

Today has been a lovely day, nice and warm not too warm but there have been dark clouds hovering.

Our beautiful friend is asking for prayers for her son, I am praying and hoping and wondering why these things happen especially to children. So we wait now. I will be with her Thursday, my day is being cleared of anything else, my children have a friend taking a day off to mind them and I will just be hers for the day. I wish it was for better circumstances.

I planted today but didn't feel in the mood. 3 more plants including a passion fruit and some mulch however lost interest in that too. Today was not the day for gardening.

The children were ratty too, I think they pick up on the mood of the household. A bit of Madagascar and playing outside with Daddy when he came home from work lifted every ones spirits a little.

My Redheaded Hurricane asked me today when I was going to die, I told him that I had no immediate plans, that i wasn't sick, that I wasn't doing crazy and dangerous things and I was eating my veggies, he seemed satisfied with this answer.

Craft is on hold till tomorrow. We had a lovely day and hope to finish some projects later this week.

A short one today, we will see what tomorrow brings.

First Week Day of the School Holidays.

Today is a lovely rainy day and I am about to set the children up for painting, an indoor sport. We bought all our missing supplies that we needed yesterday and have a wonderful collection of paint, fabric paint and other necessary items to entertain and help the creative juices to flow.



I also collected a couple of shells last week from our visit to Bonbeach and to collect an item from Ebay. The redheaded hurricane had a ball playing in the sand and falling in the water with his clothes on. He has his blue shell. I am going to thread up the shells and make a little present for my Petal.



I am also hoping to make a couple of these for my Petal.... just searching for perfect material to use in my stash. http://jezzeblog.blogspot.com/2010/03/flat-pattern-hair-band.html



So our inspiration for the paint was from an amazing artist and author Kelly Rae Roberts. My Petal and myself saw her beautiful work and decided that we should together make our own creation, so armed with hearts stickers, paint and lots of imagination we are going to attempt our own beautiful piece of artwork http://kellyraeroberts.com/shop/art-plaques/quiet-courage-art-plaque/ Stay tuned for the results.



I am still attemtping to plant the remaining 20 odd plants and me and the Redheaded hurricane managed to do quite a few the other day. The rain is great. Plus the significant other planted up the veggie garden with a few more additions of dwarf snow peas and some lettuces. YUM!

So all in all there is a bit of progress happening in the garden and I am hoping to enlist the Petal to do some gardening too.



Have a good day, I am thinking of you and my beautiful friend I am praying for you and your beautiful family.

And that would be four now!

The farmers market had a special addition of the sustainable event and my little Petal was out celebrity spotting today and managed to get a photo with our favourite gardener.... Vasilli. He had some fabulous advice and was absolutely lovely, I hope his back gets better very soon. (so that is 4 now, Coxy, Ricky Lee, Paul and Vasilli.) It was a lovely day meeting up with my very good friend and some of her family. Later we dashed off to a nearby childrens park and had another play with the kiddies, mine had face painting donw. My petal had rainbow and butterflies, my redheaded hurricane was a tiger!

Talking about backs (keep up i am sure that I mentioned something a while ago) I have done my an injury and things are very slow at the moment hense the lack of bloging going on.

I hope when you get a chance you check out my new addition to my blog list... Tania would love a visit and a few followers. Kootoyoo has a beautiful recipe today and Tinniegirl will just make you stop and pounder a little.

Nearly the school holidays, planting has come to a grinding halt as of Tuesday and so I have over 25 plants desperately calling to me to plant. My new favourite is ebay and getting them delivered, it worked a treat this week and so 20 plants came through the post. Love ebay!

At least on Sunday we had a busy day and managed to put in about 4 hours in the garden without too many interruptions. i love having an answering machine I just wish that people would leave messages when they ring, sometimes i am as far away as the garden and trying desperately to get to the phone sigh.

Ok all over the place, I will be a bit more organised tomorrow if my back allows me to sit at the computer.

My dear friend have a lovely flight and see you when you get back.

Bye for now when i have a bit less pain I will be back!!!! (I promise!)

Rain lovely Rain

Today was a great day, i managed to catch up with my friend and her beautiful boy. Make sure that you don't miss the photo of her boy enjoying his lunch, like my redheaded hurricane he does enjoy his food. Anyhow we met up for http://www.magnoliasquare.com.au/ and had a lovely time making a few purchases (I love my chairs) and chat. After that to Acland Street for lunch and her boy made a great choice of lunch places. Thank goodness I had my lovely friend with me as I have discovered that it is always good to only purchase as much as you can carry!



We saw Michael Klim there and I even had the courage to say hello. No photo this time but I will next time I promise. My Little Petal who celebrity spots and gets photos was not with us. It just would not have been right to get one without her. We agreed that it was the best Magnolia Square to date, although I did love the last one at Malvern Townhall.



We even had a job offer to go and work at some of the markets so my friend and myself are going to work out the logistics and off to markets we will go to sell some Ricci's Bikkies. I have to admit that I might eat more than I sell as they are SOOO lovely, hows that for good sales technique, just practising!!!



My next adventure is today now (forgot to publish that would be a blonde moment) I have your bikkies in the car already for you and that will be another blog..... see you after the farmers market.




Bye for now.


Ps will publish the photo's on the next one (another blonde moment).

A long week....

So it has been a busy couple of days.

I will go back to the french provincial design course/seminar that I attended. It was wonderful, started the evening with a glass of champagne, fruit and cheese. Then settled down to learn a few things, I have ideas swirling around in my head. I had a plan to milk wash a table in the bedroom however it is part of a set so I am not rethinking this and looking for the perfect side table. I am also looking for a Louis chair (A copy) of course I would have to sell my first born son to get the real thing. The last and most expensive with be the big ticket item of an amoire that is my dream list.

So who would have thought that a style that was around over 400 years ago would still be current and popular today. A relaxed style that translates well in Australia.

Next was last night we saw the new movie of "Alice in Wonderland" 2D, (I don't like the 3D option that much.) It was great, had a lovely evening of gold class comfort. Well worth going to see and very enjoyable night of lovely light entertainment.

In between this my little redheaded hurricane and myself have been planting and having a lovely time in the garden... today was a bit humid, so not so long. We did manage to do some weeding and planted a lovely new olive tree, that would be 2 now. We also managed to find and plant the passionfruit and a clematis (native of course). The garden is getting at least 1 hour of attention everyday lately. The results are starting to be visible. Even the parcel delivery man commented on how much things have changed since the last delivery. Nice to know we are making progress.

Ok well that is it, off to work on some more ideas for the french provincial look in the bedroom. Good night.

not here AGAIN!

another night away, please don't forget to feed the fish! Goodness it almost sounds like I have a life!

Nothing Tonight!

Actually there is quite a bit tonight and today.... but it will have to wait till tomorrow. I am off to do a short course tonight on French Design... I will tell you about it tomorrow bye for now.

My Jars

I have 2 jars that are my current projects. Firstly the one on the left is the result of the gardening group on Sunday. We found out that we have to test our clay, yes, we don't have much soil but we do have lots of clay. To find out if it will respond to clay breaker. So this jar is filled with a bit of clay and water. Keeping our fingers crossed. After this it will be a quick trip to Bunnings to buy gypsum if the results come up positive. Then lots and lots of soil improving will be necessary, mulch and organic matter. I am sure that we will be able to empty both compost bins now and still need more!

Secondly we have tadpoles. They are about 25 days old now and growing nicely,no signs of little leggies yet. The children were given eggs and watched them hatch and grow feeding them on a daily basis. We have a lovely destination for the frogs in our neighbours pond. I love the noises of the frogs at night time.

I have already learnt a little about blogging it's only going to be possible at night times after the redheaded hurricane is in bed.

Then there are numerous and probably too many to mention projects on the go, the more the better it would seem however maybe not. We are doing a bit of screening, I am sure that many have heard me venting about the current situation occuring with building going on nearby. So the plan is to plant more screening plants and it has been suggested by knowledgeable gardeners that a passionfruit might do the trick or a clematis. I am taking both these ideas on board and doing both!

I am trying a new tactic of one thing at a time or maybe 2....hmmm, we will see how I cope with this plan later in the week.

Now all I have to do is find a moment for a bit of sewing I have a skirt that is calling and a scarf that needs to be finished knitting for a very dear friend. (You know who you are!)

The Beginning

You know those weekends, where you look up and it is all over! It was so busy that we hardly had time to breathe.

It started with fish and chips with Nanny and Pop and ended with a blog instructions albiet a bit go for it you will work it out from a good friend! (Thanks Phil)

So this is it, my best friend from Daylesford said that we had to do this so here it is... I cannot imagine what on earth is going to be put here just yet but stay tuned.....see you when I get another moment.

I might add that there have been a few great blonde moments setting up this blog hmmm.

Also my twin moment for today was at the gardening group... another mother with twin girls and a boy, one of the girls names was Lily. I wish that had been me with the 2 girls running around. What would I give!