Book club

I have committed to holding my first book club meeting before the end of August. I now need to recruit some members, decide a theme for the first month, and decide a name. I am currently thinking "faire des folies" which is 'to commit acts of extravagance'. I plan to make everything i ever do EVER for ever and ever an act of just such extravagance. I am slightly concerned that all these french names have little to do with me and i should be embracing a theme a bit closer to home, but i'm so over kiwiana. Cant it be just part of the extravagance?

to me on Monday...

Mystery daffodil

There is a mystery daffodil in my garden. It definately wasn't there last year, so have there been garden fairies tip-toeing through in the night? I cant wait til all my spring bulbs start flowering but this one is somewhat of an enigma...

A summery...

... picture to remind me that the seasons are cyclical and before we know it we will be eating icecream in the hammock on a summer afternoon again.

Three more things i yearn for: *getting tipsy in the afternoon and giggling and giggling and dancing on the grass barefoot;
*sleeping under just a sheet;
*naked kids

Winter tree

It is impossible to capture with my quite sad camera, but we decorated the peppercorn tree today and it is a magical wonder and joy, makes my my heart operatic...

We made the decorations a couple of days ago. They are painted shells, walnut shells and seed pods. And theres some pretty beads we found lying around too.

tango

This was me and Sean last night, we were tango royalty. I cant wait to learn more... so sexy.

New Seeds

Oh Palmers, how i love to throw my money at thee... i had such good intentions, but $67 later i have ANOTHER huge tray of icelandic poppies, three of ranunculus, and some VERY exciting new seeds! Yay yay yay i have SO been wanting to try some lisianthus, apparently very good sellers but very tricky to grow well... oh well worth a shot. Feeling more than slightly guilty but also overly orgasmic right now, bloomaholic mwah? I will make it up to Sean, partly when my flower stall makes MILLIONS and partly tonight when i lavish him with some of the friskiness this mini spending-spree has rubbed up.
We had a most lovely afternoon today, twas Sonny's idea to pick some oranges and make juice. Actually we have mandarins and tangelos so the juice was "refreshing" to say the least but with the amount of mucous flowing around here at the moment i'd say the vitamin C shot was most timely.

So gorgeous.

Simplify...

simplify, simplify! Thats what the card said last night when we drew for a reading. Apparently that includes clearing out cupboards and drawers, clearing of benches and tables, and cleaning windows of all things. Also recycling, getting rid of excess, that means ON WITH THE GARAGE SALE!! I have too big stuff for too small house. The stuffs not big, theres just alot of it, massive amounts. I have tried bafore and failed, but this time it's fo real. I will post photos of my progress before-and-after style.

The aforementioned reading was part of a Soul Doll workshop that started last night, for the next six weeks i am joining six lovely ladies in the process of making six Steiner dolls through a process of biographical work, crystal therapy and good old fashioned stuffing. I need to find some Moldovite, apparently its good for us lost sould feeling emotionally overwhelmed and homesick for whichever other planet in space we came from...

Sweet inspiration