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glooart giveaway

my cool friend jaz is offering up one of her designs as a giveway...this could be you!!

all you have to do to enter is go into her etsy shop and window shop - pick what you love the most and tell us in the comments section here...and a winner will be drawn at random friday morning. if you have dreads, you will love her dread twisties! i have a bunch of them and need to take photos! they are very cool.

i am excited too as jaz is heading home to perth for a few months so i will get to see her! she has plans to photograph 'a day in my life' - so that should be fun, and also embarressing when you see how messy my house is (there were no need for covers last night, as i slept under a mound of clean laundry).

so enter away and good luck!

inspired by simplicity this season

images found 1. here, 2. here, 3. here, 4. here, 5. here, & 6. here

homegrown

i'd really love to have a thriving garden, but i have been unmotivated to do anything more than a few house plants or herbs seeing as we have been living temporarily in one place to the next. i keep saying 'one day', but really - when is 'one day'? so again, i learn a valuable lesson from my small one. she came home from granni's house a few months ago with planted seeds in a polystyrene box. she has watered and cared for them lovingly and proudly picked her first crop this weekend!

the carrots were cut up with a fairy knife and eaten on a miniature plate, and the beetroot went into a yummy juice!

yeah, i pretty much think this child is amazing :)

(ps - i read ivy all your comments on her knitting the other night, she was beaming from head to toe, so thankyou! she will ask her craft teacher this week for the knitting patterns...and promises to have a duck finished by the end of the week. wowza!)

if you would like to promote your small business for the holiday season here on my blog - please email me emilyfalconbridge{at}hotmail.com

sweet knitting girl

tuesdays and fridays are the best days for this 6 year old as they are knitting days at school. on the way home after pickup i hear about exactly how many rows have been stitched and in what colour, and how she just can't wait for the next knitting day! the craft teacher is lovely and i have started going to a knitting circle  at her house every fortnight. i may not be as quick to learn as my daughter, but i'll try!

ivy's second project - a koala, was knitted up in a matter of weeks and is the most adorable little thing i have ever seen! she has declared it banjo's christmas gift and hidden it away in her room (you know, incase he goes prying...)

 

this rainbow ball is the latest delight to come home, with her newly-learned purl stitch. i'm so impressed! it will be hanging on our christmas tree so i am told, and then gifted to yindi.

it's so exciting to have this little crafter and knitting companion in my life!

now if only i could follow her lead and finish a project...

52Q - 47

(wednesday is the new monday, did you hear?!!)

Q - when you think back to your childhood, what moment first comes to mind?

mummas and babies in the bush

yindi has finally settled into her groove since banjo's arrival. the first month was challenging to put it nicely, but now some time has passed things seem to have clicked into a much happier place with the dynamics around here. one of the best bits for me is seeing her act like a little mumma with her baby dolls - imitating what she has seen me do, right down to the positioning of her feet as she rocks her baby alongside me and banjo. there is also matchy-matchy breastfeeding, shhhh-ing, pram pushing and sling wearing! as we got ready for a bushwalk with chels last week she scurried off to fetch a sling for her babe. i'm so glad chels captured these pics of my little mumma...

 

and i'm so glad i have this trail just steps from my frontdoor :)

(here we are walking the same trail {and in the same skirt!} back in september with another soul-friend. a lot can change in a few months time...)

a true friend

it was so very yummy to have chels here last week. we became friends while we were both living in the US (pics from our visit with her family in ithaca, NY here and here), she has become one of my dearest friends and so much fun to be with! having been back in australia for 2 years now she knows everything i have gone through - it almost seems we are living parallel lives! moving, living in transition, surprise pregnancies, the eternal student for a husband etc etc! we had lots of great talks and laughs on a few bushwalks, my couch and in the kitchen...

(no idea why yindi looks as if she is eating a rotton lemon instead of chocolate cake batter!)

we got to have a girls + banjo day out to fremantle which is a must if you've never been to perth before! lots of fun little shops to browse in (note to self: your body is still not ready for the harsh reality of a changeroom mirror. don't try on new clothes again for 6 more months), yummy food to be tasted and streets to stroll down. i love this funky wall down one street and knew chels would love it too...

 

we were taking pictures and loving the craziness of it when this old bearded guy starts chatting away to us and it turns out he is the artist! it was really great to hear his story of his years of (illegal!) painting and designing of this wall. his baby. i think he was chuffed to see us striking our poses against it ;)

 

 

there is nothing like spending time with such an beautiful soul-friend to give your tired old self a pick-me-up! someone you can feel comfy with no matter how many fat rolls or milk stains may be adorning you. someone who just makes you feel good to be in the same room with, and who always finds the fun in life. chels, i love you...lets rendezvous in tassie next ;)

52Q - 46

chels and i were in my 'studio' (ie bomb room) last week while i whipped her up one of my teeskirts. she started rummaging through my piles (of which there are many!) and next thing i know had made us this weeks challenge! one of the many reasons i love her. she sees a need and dives right in. she is also extremely artistic!

Q - what makes you glow?

my answer is seeing those chubby baby cheeks puff out in a big old smile (he is smiling a LOT and it is so very beautiful when that happens isn't it?), and watching two little girls hold hands and play together. nothing makes me happier or glow-ier than that.

wishing shiny things for your week!

(and thanks again chels!)

cabbage leaves, winner + another giveaway you should jump on!

i've been in bed for the last few days with a nasty dose of mastitis. not fun - but the smelly old cabbage leaves seem to be doing the trick as i'm feeling a lot better today.

what was fun was having my dear friend chels come for a visit last week from tasmania! it was her first time to perth, so we hit up a few favourite places and took lots of photos. more on that tomorrow!

 

so it seems i am not the only one wishing for more sleep these days! the divine dreaming meditation kit (i really wish you were all getting it!) goes to:

this might just be the answer to my sleep-deprived life...i could really use a good night sleep. 

Posted by: Mae | November 12, 2009 at 07:06 PM

mae - email me so you can start your snoozing!

and...if you haven't seen this awesome giveaway on todaysmama.com - you better click on over and enter!