a few things on a monday evening
My tea is ready.
A watched pot does eventually boil.
The kids are finally asleep.
Extra kisses and tucking in makes the difference (and a glass of milk after story time seems to have helped).
My husband is asleep, waiting to me to come and watch a video with him.
hmmm - lessons learnt?
Another wall went up today; well a panel of a wall.
Slowly and steady does eventually get us a house built; but just slowly.
I finally got my new shop ready and open!
Perfection never comes, so I became friends with imperfection / less perfection / still pretty excellent.
I proposed a big idea to my sister, and she said I'm in.
Big ideas are worth pursuing, even if they sometimes makes you a little crazy through the journey.
I think that's enough lessons and things for this Monday evening.
stones, pebbles, rocks
I have been working, slowly around everyday life, on a small collection of one-off stones/pebbles/rocks. It makes me so joyfully happy to use some thread and a hook, and make these sweet little covers for rocks collected at our nearby beaches.
I am working (ever so slowly) on a new website. And hope to have these pieces available for sale within the week. {Eeek - it's already Thursday. Shall we aim for the end of the week perhaps....?!}.
Do these speak to you?
Do you have any stones/pebbles/rocks that need covering?
Or perhaps an empty window ledge that needs one of these little ones?
Happy Thursday my friends. Today is a good day for I am spending it with people who make me feel excited and inspired and loved and appreciated; friends and dear family.
Enjoy your day,
E xxx
it's been a while {this post is dedicated to the letter 'c'}
concrete
crochet
overflowing creeks.
that is my life at the moment.
rain rain and more rain.
the creeks have been swollen for what seems like years and years.
crochet
overflowing creeks.
that is my life at the moment.
rain rain and more rain.
the creeks have been swollen for what seems like years and years.
We have been flooded numerous times, school was closed one day and other days we simply didn't go at all.
Between the rainy moments we have been mixing and pouring concrete. Making walls for our living room. They are taking much longer than necessary - I cannot know the reason why; there surely are lessons there somewhere...... We are plodding on and on to get the walls made and finished. For once we have walls we can lay the floor and put in doors and windows, and then ceiling lining. And then. Oh and then.
a room. a space.
Will be ready for us to move into. Something new and fresh. And made by our hands, and the hands of our family (my dad and my brother-in-law and us).
And then we will make our kitchen. And who knows we may even be moved in before my good good best best friend visits from New Zealand in 6 weeks.
(a girl can always dream, can't she....).
In between the concreting I have been crocheting. What else is one to do when the rain continues to pour and fall and fill up the yard. Tea drinking and crochet seem to have become big past times at the moment; And I am not complaining!
Thank you for those of you who keep visiting here. I always hope to come back more often, and life may have some changes over the next months so I may have more of a routine and therefore be able to visit here more. Here's hoping it all happens as planned. Here's hoping you can visit again soon, and I can be here and we can share tea and crochet and stories and laughs. How are you? I do miss you all when I can't be here; let me know how you are, won't you xxx
*as usual, you can find me on Instagram, search @petalplum
chocolate icecream and ......
I am eating chocolate icecream, while my family is all tucked up in bed (including the cat who has been sleeping on a piece of my fabric on a box for the last three days; he's only been up for food as far as we can tell).
I should be writing my speech for tomorrow's school presentation. I am expected to speak in front of the whole assembly, important p&c president type things - not sure it's something I can wing, so I should write some words down on paper.
This week on instagram I followed a little theme that was happening, choosing 4 of my favourite photos from 2012. While I can never choose 4 favourites, what I found while looking through my massive archive was that the images that spoke to me most were of these crochet stones and also of my natural plant dyeing and stitch work. These images jumped out at me, sang to me. Make me realise that these are the things that have made me most creatively fulfilled this year past. And that I want to focus and dedicate and commit to doing more of next year.
I am waiting until after Christmas to start any new year's resolutions, as I'm busy up till that point. But I have made a "my crochet stones" pinterest board, and intend to add many many images to that over the coming months. More crochet stones in life I do believe will be a good thing. And if they are crocheted using my own naturally plant dyed yarns, then that is even better. The best thing I think will be if those stones scatter off to live in other homes and find their way into the hearts of other people.
What do you think about that?
What made you happy, content, creatively fulfilled this year?
Was it something as simple as a little creek or beach pebble. Oh golly - I really am simple of heart, aren't I? and that I feel is a good good thing.