Leaves, Nuts, Seeds

Gum nut babies, gum leaf babies, seed pod babies.  Made from wool felt, yarn and old wool jumpers.  For the harvest festival.

Getting away

The Perth branch of the family came down to the beach with us for Easter.


When our families combine we barely see our kids, except when they get hungry.   Tussles are mostly sorted out, a system for fairly apportioning easter eggs is devised and trips to the shops and the playground are made without adult interference.  I like having boys in the house, I even enjoy the constant thud of a ball being bounced somewhere, by someone, and I especially enjoy that I am not the parent who has to say 'take it outside boys'.

We had fires and sunshine.  We swam and got drenched in the rain.  There was tea and scones and a blustery view from the top of the lighthouse.  There was even a little bit of sewing.  It's good to get away.

Six Days and Nights

Was it really only six days and nights?

There was reading;

Knitting - my first foray into circular needles

Lily's swing jacket in malabrigo Bergamota

Lots of eating

Easter Lunch

Hunting and finding

Grace finds the caramel eggs

New things growing

But is it edible?

Firewood being chopped - thanks Pa

Sorry Ginger and Sassy, your New Years Eve tree cubby is no more....

Learning to roller skate

Creating

Sand eggs

Playing - a new family favourite 'Jumbling Towers'

Celebrating - two birthdays

Ruby turns Eight

And swimming, always swimming

How fortunate we are to borrow this magical space and how blessed we are to have friends who let us.

Superb Restaurant

I am rarely happier than when several hours pass without sibling bickering.  When those hours are spent in unsupervised collaborative creativity and when this means I can catch up on the many many unread New Yorker magazines in my life, I am nearly ecstatic.
This is a recent incarnation of a favourite pastime - making "Superb Restaurant" out of things in the garden.
 

The season is turning and in the overcast evening the colours were gorgeous.(which my photography does not adequately capture)

There was quite a spread on offer;

birthday cake even.

Piles of 'sherbet'; escargot; hay for the horses (?)...

The colour, the colour the colour.