Our Studio

This is where we have been living this last month, It is owned by a family from the school. They lived in it till they built their real house. I could live here forver.
Oh, I forgot about the sugar gliders who do a dance ( and more) every night and all through the night!

Everything has been reclaimed, it is so inspirational. And it runs off solar energy and has a composting toilet which I love, they are fantastic, although Joey thought he could fall through the toilet hole, so I had to hold his hand.

The family are professional muscians, and everynight Ron would come down and play the didgeridoo and tell us stories about catching red bellie black snakes and how a perentie carried him up a tree!

Jim was in awe. The next week he brought along his didge to play along with Ron.

Felted goodie's

The goodie bag for the children comming to celebrate Joey's birthday, each got a felted friend.

I got the pattern from Etsy, I love e-patterns. Instant!

I made one a night. luckily there were only 12 children ( my four make a big chunk). I wrapped them up for pass the parcel, so there was no fighting about who wanted what.

Isn't he cute!.

Joseph's birthday

I have a seven year old......... just like that.

My party's always have a theme, and Joseph wanted a dinosaur party.

So..... a dinosaur egg race.

A pin the tail on the dinosaur.

Happy birthday, my sweet sweet boy.

Oh, the magic of those first seven years!

Homelife

Sorry for being off the radar lately, besides pacing the floor, chewing my nails down to their stumps and all, and blogger hasn't been able to publish my posts.

Last month, I thought I would be here in this house, the home that Dan and I built, built for us and the dream of our family to be. ......forever.

This land, our land is family land, our roots are deep and after 10 years, I can see what a wonderful place we have made here.

But life sometimes throws you a curveball, and I've had enough signs to know that this is the right thing to do.

Friends and family are in shock they can't quite believe we are doing this, so quickly, but you know, there's no need to hesitiate when it's the right decision, right for us.

Flynn and Alice eating our bumper crop of apples, we have not bought an apple since Feburary, and it's August! the last of the crop was eaten tonight. we have a wonderful orchard of snow apples, jonathan, golden delicous, pink lady, lady williams, granny smith.

I love this pattern, I think it's been around for decades.

Fully reversable pinnie. I think you all know my obsession with pinnies.

And I love that it keeps her jumpers clean, much easier to wash a cotton pinnie than a wool jumper.

Farewell,

For the last couple of weeks my head has been in a whirl and my stomach doing backflips.

We have been deciding what to do with Schooling for our children, We love the Steiner way, this is the philosophy we live by.

We love our little school, it's the childrens second home, Jim has been there since playgroup, which has made making this decision so much harder.

Sometimes the hardest decision, is the right one..........who said that!

But our little school only goes up class six. We've looked around at mainstream schooling, children working in a classroom on their own computer, the teacher on her computer, there's nothing human about it.

I'll admit I'm an idealist.

I'm not at all interested in the mark after year 12, for me it's about giving them the tools to find their own way, it about creating enthusiasm in everything they do, to love life and know they can achieve anything they set their mind to.

It's about the whole child, bringing the head, heart and hands together, all of equal importance.

I know I succeded in life in spite of my education, and I sure that's the case for many.

But once the Steiner way gets into your soul, there's no turning back. In fact I doubt that my body could drive my children to a mainstream school.

Which is why
we have decided to send the children to Castlemaine Steiner School.

So today we farwelled our school, and we wished them all the very best, and they for us.

But it was hard, really hard.

Am I strong enough to do this journey ahead? I have a million thoughts going through my head at this moment.

Sigh, it would have been so much easier to stay.

Well the sun will come up in the morning and our new journey will begin.......

Rose necklace

The roses have been in full bloom this season, these petals are the last of them.



I was inspired by Garden mama's post on rose garlands.




Flynn sorted his rose petals into colour, and was busy for a couple of hours, patiently threading the rose petals onto thread.

A proud boy, and he smelt nice too.

I walk with my lantern...

All of the four festivals at our school are beautiful, I look forward to them all.

To see the children breathing in, reflecting on this special day, the winter Solstice.

To see my two boy's walking the spiral together, makes my heart skip a beat.

The lantern walk, takes us around the school grounds, the children proud and excited to show us their lanterns they had made for this special occasion.

To hear the children singing......