Dolly is ready

I have finally finished my dolly, well mostly finished her apart from sewing her hat on. I do love their little faces, so cute and squidgey.

I have also been knitting a cardigan for my friends (yet to arrive) baby. So I have been busy but just haven't posted about it :)

The apples on our tree are finally coming to an end, so I have been stewing them up and freezing them (I hate wasted fruit). As we now have a freezer full of excess garden produce I think I had better make chutney from the last batch of good apples. It has been freezing cold in our little part of the world, with frost even! All the veges looked like they had been too llong at the back of the fridge when I got up this morning. The sun is shining now, which makes it more bearable, but winter is almost here . I am kind of looking forward to the chill, just not the getting out of bed on cold mornings! Oh well...

eat dirt

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Just found this interesting article about allergies and anthroposophic lifestyles. It is a 1999 study, but makes interesting reading :)

the dirt

I have been able to spend some time in the garden this weekend, finally! We have two large vege patches and I have been trying to grow most of the vegetables we need. I hate supermarket shopping, so this is a way to spend less time there. Plus I love eating fresh spray free veges and fruit, so this is the best way I can do it! We also have fruit trees littered around the garden. We inherited an old apple, an early plum, an orange, a tangelo and a lemon tree when we moved here last September. We brought some trees from our last house, as the kids had bought them with christmas money from my 88 year old nana. So we also have two pear trees, a braeburn, two olive trees, a blood orange, a pink grapefruit, a clementine, two feijoas, a limequat, raspberries, blackberries and a blackcurrant bush. All of which are pretty small, but when they mature we should not have to buy much fruit either! I love the idea of being self sufficient, well as much as possible, but it is a long slow process to get to the point where you no longer need to buy all fresh produce...and sometimes I get impatient! Especially while drooling over the PathwaytoFreedom.com ....one day....

Hello Dolly

This is one of my latest projects, almost finished...although it does look like something out of Platoon at the moment. Stella is in her last year at Waldorf kindergarten, and Ruby goes along to playgroup in the same building once a week. They both love it, and we really are keen for them to continue through this education system as it feels right for us. So as a result I have become part of the craft group which makes gorgeous things for fundraising events. This is my latest dolly, my third thus far. Really close to being all stitched up into her finished form. It is hard to give them back, as you end up putting so much into them...

You have to start somewhere...

Rainbow fairies come to me,


Dance upon my paper free,


Help to make my painting bright,


Filled with love and joy and light.

This is my first post as a blogger. I have travelled in blogland, finding inspiration from other blogs, priviledged to see into other worlds, families, lives and dreams. I have until now hummed and harred about joining in. Not because I don't want to share, but probably because I think I might not have anything worth sharing. But today I have decided to leap. If anything I hope that sharing will not only inspire me creatively, but will actually force me to finish all those projects I have started! So my first post is about my inspiration...both of them. Above is Stella who is five. She is a thoughtful soul, sensible, caring and kind. And below is Ruby who is two. She is the comedian in our family, always making people laugh.



I find inspiration in both, and here is a place I can share that inspiration with others.