rainy school holiday days daze . . .

Greetings all,
I just realised my eldest is on high school holidays for 8 whole weeks, no wonder she's starting to follow me around.  So it's raining, hard, non stop, i'm hanging washing around the house & the street is a river.  Yet my children have energy to burn . . .

 so we're swimming in the rain . . .

 under angry grey green skies . . .

 still raining, so we trotted off for a hair cut . . .

 & because i've got time to kill & more rain forecast, i've booked the children's haircuts on different days (unheard of for multi-tasking-stacked-appointment me), this child is next . . .

 still more rain . . .

 so being 'cheap Tuesday' we trotted to the movies.  I've been taking different children to a variety of movies, this week was War Horse & i even splurged on pop corn (but took our own drinks, fruit & tissues).  It's glorious, draining, i cried & promised each of my children a pony.  War has changed - without my war expert sitting beside me - i know they don't run on the blow of a whistle across no-man's-land into machine gun fire.  Oh the humanity, so ridiculous & so many lives wasted (& horses!!)     

 I had baked cookies for the cinema but they were eaten warm out of the oven, they left me one lonely star cookie for afternoon tea with my magazines, as it was still raining. 

 We are scratching at straws, it's not all harmony here, i'm not a 24/7 fun factory, i do have to resort to saying things like "why don't you play with paperclips" . . .

 & they do, bless their hearts, of course, totally cute paperclips to play with!!

I love the school holidays: i find school runs, pressing uniforms, making lunch, marshelling children into the garage with bags, hats, drink bottles + homework & sports runs - times 4 children versus 1 adult - repetetive & exhausting . . . compared to barefoot baking & endless swimming . . . 2012 we're doing things VERY differently, i'm only half way into living apart from my husband for 4 years, i have to pace myself. 
So it's zero commitments outside my family, we should purchase our land (by Easter) so i am directing all my focus to the farm.  My husband is going to visit during the school term instead of holidays, takes pressure off me & the high school sports schedule (until 9p.m. weeknights for Volleyball, yawn).  Oh & then there is surgery on my hands, see what i mean, a focus purely on my family including me, that's enough.  Love Posie

things i'm loving 'pieces of joy'

Greetings all,

Paisley Jade's 'Things I'm Loving' today celebrates pieces of joy in my studio - they are not expensive, designer or fancy, but colourful finds which make me smile this week.

This pigeon hole bookcase holds an incredible volume of my craft supplies, it was free from the Shop Handmade shop fit.  I earned it, by GOD it was heavy, hard to move, trailer home & store in the garage until i was ready to use it in my new studio makeover.

Don't you use a vase as your dish cloth tub??

Kikki-K Swedish Horse stamp, so excited to use this.

Always up for a note holder from Smiggle & my first apple stamp from Kikki-K went missing, i couldn't live without one, we could always do with 2 apples stamps anyway!!

While in Smiggle i found these giant push pins, now i realise i should have put a ruler in the shot for scale.  Let me assure you, they are huge, pack of 5 for $5.

Treated myself to Eat Pray Love on DVD this week, still yet to watch it.  Really looking forward to her take on Italy, we love Italy so much, the food is a huge part of it.  I'm pretty zen with my love & life, so i wonder if the movie will have an effect on me?? 

So a quick trip around pieces in my studio which bring me joy.  Have a great weekend, i plan a whole lot of sewing in my new studio space with movies in the background, the children can do some stamping (looks like rain all weekend, sports have already been cancelled) oh & i'm running a BBQ fundraiser at the local hardware store on Sunday.  I just want to sew in my cosy space, i need quilts, lots of them for the Shop!!  Love Posie

PS i'm also loving a great giveway, check it out & good luck!!