My Creative Space

Last night I found my dreams were full of Love Hearts.

Not surprising as yesterday I finished cutting out another fifty for Big Dreams, in Northcote. The cutting out bit is my least favourite part of the process, but I love it when there is suddenly a pile of fifty, all different colours and patterns. I never get sick of the heart shape.

Today I will be sewing them up and hopefully getting out to Lavandula to buy some more lavender. But to start the day off I went for a walk with Shell around the two lakes. We're trying to walk three times a week, it's a good way to clear my head and keep active.

It's a beautiful day here in Daylesford and the summer seems to be backing off, the seasons changing. I love this time of year. The light is different, the air smells fresh and the nights are cool, good sleeping weather!

I really feel like my creative life is blooming at the moment. I'm so happy to have some orders for shops, to have some new ideas, to be surrounded by lots of lovely creative people who are so inspiring. I love living here in Daylesford with it's rich history of creativity. Artists and crafts people have been coming to this area for many years, attracted by the beautiful surrounds and other like minded people. It isn't something that has happened in the last couple of years - our town has long been a mecca for creative types, and this is continuing today which makes it a wonderful place to live. I'm so looking forward to Handmade starting up on March 8th (venue to be confirmed) so if you are interested in coming along (everyone is welcome) please put the date in your diary!


As some of you probably already know I have another small business with my mate, Michelle, The Organic Paddock. You may have followed the planting of our second garlic crop last year, the harvesting and then storing. We are so excited as our blog is now up and running and we are selling our biodynamic garlic online! Pop over and have a look if you have a sec. I had fun taking the photo's, I really like this one above.

I'm hoping to catch up with lovely Peta from Pippiwillow today for a coffee. She has just moved into town so I'm looking forward to welcoming her. I don't think she has blogged much lately as she has been busy moving. Meanwhile I should be emptying the dishwasher, planning tonights dinner, feeding the chooks, hanging out the washing...oh, that's right, I'm meant to be sewing up Love Hearts! Better get a wriggle on. Hope you are having a wonderful, creative and inspiring day. Pop over to Kooyotoo for more inspiration, xo

Sunday Night Fever

Max is feeling the heat. We all are...and with more super hot days on the way it's summer alright!

We have one more week of swimming lessons, the kids are learning alot & having fun too. Not a bad place to be when there temperature is hitting 40 degrees C! (that's 104 F)

This weekend has been great, although pretty bloody hot. On Saturday three of the kids and I headed out to a friends place for a fun day of eating, drinking, chatting and hanging out with a big gang of lovely people. These friends have a pool so the kids spent several hours jumping, splashing and generally having a ball. On the way we dropped in to my mum's place.

I love these shiny red plums, they look like pretty decorations hanging on the tree. Must pop back and pick some for jam.

I've also been working like a crazy woman trying to complete an order for Big Dreams in Northcote. I had a little hiccup and minor freak out when I realised I had misplaced (read lost) my small labels. Uh oh. Not happy. Anyway, after a bit of wailing and hair tearing I managed to work a way around it. Luckily I had over ordered my bunny labels, the ones with the little tugboat on them. These seem to work fine when folded over and sewn. A little bulkier than the small labels but at least they work!!

Liza from Big Dreams tells me the Love Hearts are destined to feature at a wedding this week so I'm pretty excited about that! I think they are being used as gifts for guests, I'd love to see how they will use them.

Because it was going to be such a hot day today I went out early this morning to make sure all the pets had water and shade. The ducks are in a good pozzie & don't get alot of direct sun.

Sometimes I think it would be nice to be a duck, swimming around all day. I'm not sure I'd like the pooey water though. Actually I have been bucketing it onto the garden and it's an amazing liquid fertiliser! The roses are loving it but I have to be careful not to splash any on my legs, it's stinkaroony!

Here's Lucy in the garden. The kids had a lot of trouble getting to sleep tonight. It's just so hot in their bedrooms although it's cooling down now. Tomorrow is a Code Red day in some parts of the state. This is an extreme fire danger day so lets hope for safe day with an early cool change. Better go now and sew up some more hearts, see you soon xo

ps. here are a couple of treasures I picked up recently. I'm not sure where to put them yet but I love their flowery, olden day feel.