Posted in domestic on January 29, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Day 4 of this. And we’ve all had enough.
This is the closest we come to air-conditioning in our house. We are fortunate to be in a big old triple-brick house so, apart from a couple of days in a normal year we just don’t need it. Besides I think they are ugly and expensive and [...]
Posted in domestic, kids, mother on January 26, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Things have been crazy around here.
In the loveliest way.
And I have come to appreciate moments of calm in the revelry and notice how patterned we have become in our activities.
Spirals of frenzied playing, dancing, singing. Playfights and kiss-chasey.
Gentle pockets of drawing, reading, cloud-watching. Never quiet – just momentarily still.
Space while they sleep in the evenings, [...]
Posted in cooking, domestic on January 23, 2009 | 5 Comments »
So I’m probaby the last person to get on this bandwagon but oooh.
and oooh.
Nothing quite like a ham sandwich made from ham you have baked in the oven yourself between thick chunks of bread you made that morning from this recipe (thanks Sas, you’ve changed my life).
Jim Leahey’s ‘no knead’ bread recipe is just that. [...]
Posted in domestic on January 21, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Guess how many photos I have stored?
Stored, that is. Not waiting to be sifted. I mean stored – that I’m happy with. That I would be very sad if I lost.
That are important for sentimental, composition or exploratory reasons…..
7,490.
I reckon that’s excessive, but I can’t seem to get it down to a smaller number. It [...]
Posted in sewing on January 20, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Sewing has become for me, an entirely different activity than it was 20 years ago.
20 years ago I sewed because I had no money. Because I couldn’t find anything cool. And because I could invent something original and wear it to the club that night.
These days I sew because I don’t have enough money to [...]
Posted in kids on January 19, 2009 | 2 Comments »
In less than 2 weeks the kids will be back at school/kinder.
It has been a wonderful, wonderful holiday in so many ways – great for us as a little unit. The kids have sprouted like sunflowers and we have been pottering and adventuring. Exploring and expanding.
And I have been rusting.
In the most delicious, but dangerous [...]
Posted in art on January 17, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Dropping off works for the Linden Postcard show this morning. This is the 3rd year I’ve been in Linden. I love it. I love the diversity, the fact that it’s completely open and egalitarian, and I love to see it fully hung – all walls plastered with works from floor to ceiling. The biggest french [...]
Posted in cooking, domestic, tagged 6.5, disaster, feck, marshmallow, passionfruit on January 15, 2009 | 10 Comments »
“I’m making marshmallow” she said. Course she is.
Little bit later.
“It’s very good” she said. Course it is.
And then she blogged it.
And I got all excited and really had to try it.
And yesterday a parcel arrived in the mail from Ms 6.5 which cemented (the already done deal of) making it in the afternoon.
Which was where [...]
Posted in cooking, domestic on January 14, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I LOVE beetroot. The pickled kind.
Which is a strange declaration to make I suppose. It’s not really fashionable, or exotic, or the kind of thing one should lie awake at night craving… It’s the kind of food one enjoys quietly, or orders at the sandwich bar as an extra. Perhaps you have a tin at [...]
Posted in shopping on January 13, 2009 | 7 Comments »
antique wooden rice basket – brought home and very wabi-sabi.
Not too far from Queenscliff is Ocean Grove, and on the way there we stumbled over the motherload. MOTHERLOAD I tell you. I was hyperventilating and so distracted that a second trip had to be made.
Some of my favourite things:
Vintage Kokeshi dolls.
More kokeshi dolls – some [...]
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