Three years, two cakes and a tawny frogmouth

So little owlet turned three...She has been an amazing lesson in patience, acceptance and flexibility since before her birth. So many things we thought and did are now quite opposite in our house and I'm so glad for it. She's an amazing little soul. An absolute delight to spend each day with. So naturally, as with any birthday around here, we extended it to a festival. It began with cake.


Honey cake with lemon icing. The lemons were picked by the owlet herself from her own tree in the garden, planted (with her placenta) on her first birthday. Amazingly, the first lemons ripened just in time and the cake was delicious.

So here she is about to open her first present. A dolls house! Unfortunately its not the one I had planned to renovate for her. It was just too big, and it didn't have stairs which are the most important bit when you're three... Oh and life got in the way and I just couldn't bear the thought of working on it in the shed on freezing cold winter nights... *sigh* But gosh she loves the one we picked out for her.


Thankfully someone did handmade - yay Marie!! The skirt is beautiful and twirly. :)


Then a meeting with little owlet's favourite bird, the Tawny Frogmouth. She's been able to identify them since she was two and is really drawn to them. Later we said hello to a cockatoo, who said hello back, and passed her a little eucalyptus branch through the wire on his cage. She held it all the way home...


The day finished with more cake... same cake again because it was just so yum, but this time with a rainbow, candles and animals, as ordered. Happy birthday little one. I'm so looking forward to whatever happens next. xxxx

My creative space

I'm parenting solo while Huz is in the bush (owlet being a kangaroo, boinging over my head as I type), so my space is minimal this week... only doing bare essentials...

So here's the latest winter skirt and my button bowl, which follows me around. Its fun at markets when people stop by to pick out their faves and we have a chat and wonder who collected so many of these vintage buttons, and for what purpose... Wonder what I'll do when I run out?

More lovely spaces at Kirsty's. Check them out!

Rainbows, candles and markets...

Busy days here! I have some catching up to do... We're in between owlet birthdays. Rainbows, candles, animals and surprises! More about that later, but for now I'm prepping for Market day again this Sunday. Its at the Masonic temple on Sandy Bay Rd, near the corner of Davey St, between 10am and 3pm. Looking forward to another lovely day... Hope to see you there!

My creative space

I'm crafting on the go lately. There's lots going on, so it would seem, and I'm feeling a bit quiet and hibernate-y too... So I manage a tiny bit here and there in amongst the kid craft, outings and reflective moments on the lounge. So my knitting is sitting on the mantelpiece waiting for me to pick it up on my way past. Its very plain, but so soft and lovely and so very therapeutic. I have so many other creative things locked in my head right now (I'm dreaming crafty stuff!), and I'm so looking forward to seeing them happen sometime soon...

Pop over to Kirsty's for some inspirational creative spaces.

Dancing shadows...

We're rather enjoying playing with shadows this winter... We've moved on from frost shadows, to shadow puppets and now we're looking at how our shadows move through the day... and I'm loving watching my two little shadows move through their days, from one thing to the next, constantly exploring and learning in their own time. It won't be long before they won't want to be with me, following me, always by my side... so until then, I'm happy to play with them, dance and enjoy them, watch them grow, stretch and move through the days...

Changes afoot...

Just tiny changes, but we've had some quiet midwinter moments to notice things and make some minor changes around here. So I guess that explains the quiet week...

* There's been some furniture moving, nothing major, but enough to make our nest seem more spacious... and my creative space less cluttered.
* The little owlet has finally relinquished her favourite shoes (pictured above). It took some convincing, but she is three sizes to big for them so it had to happen eventually.
* The big owlet has a wobbly tooth! Her first!! Its the most exciting thing when you are nearly six... Time for me to make a tooth faerie pillow I expect...
* Our noses are less blonky. Yay for quiet moments and clear heads!!

Ok so its time for me to come through with that giveaway I posted so long ago now... It would seem even the owlets are too random to help pick at random, so I have three winners with the help of Random.Org. So... the winners are comments 1, 6 and 9... otherwise known as Cindy, Gina and the women at HIPpy Central Watch those mailboxes peeps!!

(pic taken by the big owlet)

Old fave...

We're a house full of sickies right now with the inevitable winter cold... or as the little owlet put it, or "special breath is sore" and our "nose is all blonky"... So its snuggly, resty indoor days and we're looking for things to do... Looking up fave vids on youtube has been fun. Here's and extra specially fave oldish music clip by Lambchop. Perfect for a winter morning...