Lazy Sundays

Artwork by Art Harrison

Planted

- pumpkin, zucchini, sunflowers

Cooked

- Broccoli and leek soup with rice

- Cupcakes with purple icing (courtesy of red cabbage leaves)

Reading

- Home love: 100 inspiring ideas for creating beautiful rooms by Megan Morton

Project

- racing out in between rain showers to plant my new seedlings (thanks Belinda :-)

- having lunch with my brother for his birthday (hence the cupcakes)

{this moment}

{this moment} - A Friday ritual. A single photo - no words - capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember.  Inspired by soulemama

 

 

Budding Artist

Little B has always liked to do craft as he calls it. He loves to cut and paste, do a spot of drawing and often comes home from kindy with copious arts and crafts projects. The latest being an incubator for chickens (made out of corks) and some solar panels (hmm wonder where he’s learning that from, Mr B?).

Now out of the blue, Little B has become obsessed with painting. Some days we spend the entire day painting – in different mediums, different textures and in different locations.

We’ve painted leaves, shapes, draped wool through paint to make patterns, finger painted, tried big brushes and small brushes. A current fave is to use cotton buds to paint, which was a tip from an arty friend (which dry out magnificently for re-use FYI). I have to say I’m running out of ideas but Little B’s enthusiasm doesn’t wane.

In a local crafty shop yesterday, I seriously contemplated some pastel paint sticks. Which on one hand seems over the top for a not quite 4 year old, but then again I’m all for encouraging passion and interests when they flare.

Anyways, it’s a great way to entertain him and enjoy his enthusiasm. A budding artist? Maybe…a happy pre-schooler? Definitely!!

Garden Update

Lovely, lovely beans

We’ve been having rather topsy turvy weather at the moment. The week starts as spring but by the end of the week, we end up mired back in winter. Brrr…I am so over the cold and yearning for more warmth and sunshine.

Broccoli

We have slowed our planting in line with the weather. Our snow peas are peaking through the earth and the rest of the beans are soldiering along. The majority of our seedlings will be ready for pickup in a few weeks and I cant wait to plant them.

Lebanese Cucumbers

We have quite a short growing season here so need to make the most of the time available to us. I have transplanted a few of our seedlings from pots into the ground. I’m probably about 2 weeks too early but thought I’d bung them in anyway.

Dwarf Peaches

We have 7 peaches on our dwarf peach tree this year (YAY!) which is so much better than last year when we had 1. Our dwarf nectarine is fruiting as well, only about 4 at this count. I’m also waiting to see if our dwarf apple (Pinkabelle) will do anything this year…fingers crossed :-)

Lazy Sundays

Planted

- Black Beauty eggplant, Green Sprouting Calabrese broccoli, Burnley Sure Crop tomatoes

Cooked

- Lemon cordial

- Roast Vegetable Tart

- Chocolate Pudding (yummmmm!!)

Reading

- The Bonesetter’s Daughter by Amy Tan

Project

- Lazy days of…

Soccer

 Gardening

Scooters &

 Growing veggies

{this moment}

{this moment} - A Friday ritual. A single photo - no words - capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember.  Inspired by soulemama

7:30am

So what are you normally doing at 7:30am?

For me, 7:30am varies wildly – I could be eating breakfast but I’m more than likely making a robot, or some pom poms or reading Yertle the Turtle for the 50^th time.

Equally, I could be outside watching someone hop through the garden in his pj’s and gumboots, or be making paper bag clown puppets. Another strong contender is cooking. I often launch into making muffins, soup or bread at this hour.

I dream blissfully of what other people are doing at 7:30am. Are they leisurely eating breakfast? Reading the paper? Getting ready for work? Or even having the mythical sleep in? ;-)

I’m a morning person but even this has been challenged for the last 4 years by a super cheerful, super awake, super morning child. I love his joy and exuberance as he wakes every day and asks “is it morning time?”. When I say yes, we launch into our day – rain, hail or no sleep!!

7:30am – same time, same place, such an extraordinary hour…