doll love

Presenting my new improved babies. She is more Steiner "inspired" now as i have put my own personal inerpretation on tradition. I am much happier with this design and have had good feedback so far, so i might make a few more and see if they sell...

Name: Adelina

Size: 30cm/ 12inch

Clothing: Halter ruffle dress and princess hat, non-removable

Stuffing: organic carded sheep fleece

It was a long weekend and i got so much gardening done it was geat! The spring has been so warm this far everything is booming and boosting - including the weeds, thus much weeding was done ans still remains. I found this cosmo in one of my planters, the petals are completely tubular. Is this phenomenal or merely strange? It certainly spun me out. Son had a friend to stay and i got a good taste of what it would be like to have three kids, interesting...s

The fennel flan i made was a hit!! We had to eat it picnic style in the living room as my table is smothered in wedding craft - to be blogged at a later date...

If the sun doesn't come out soon i'm going to go nuts, thank christ there is a decent race track around our lounge/kitchen and thank christ for my cat... he gives me faith

Birthday dinner

Last night was really lovely. Despite all the family pulling out and opting to stay home in bed due to illness aplenty, we had a gorgeous little dinner for my gorgeous little girl. We had mulled wine warmed in the crock pot and a birthday berry trifle, which are incidentally my favourites. We listened to music and chatted into the night, and Ishta provided the entertainment, just as a good hostess should, by dancing to everything from Biggie and Meth to Mazzy Star. The girl has got mad skills...

A 1st birthday table

Blowing out candles with uncle David

Hooray for me, i survived the first year.... barely. I still may not last out the day. Cant remember what it feels like to NOT be sick, and my poor angel baby is sick for her big first birthday as well! It is so gorgeous how blissfully unaware they are of the fuss, Sonny has only really just got into the birthday thing in the last couple of years. He is planning his party already - racecars apparently!! So much of what i have done for Ish is for his benefit really, she couldn't care less, although i bet she enjoys the cake (may appreciate it more than the present).

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.

worries

I am very worried that i am going to have nowhere near enough in bloom come summer to make one bouquet let alone 10, and i'll definately be pushing it to have anything much ready for the wedding. It is very frustrating, being such a novice i just dont really have a clue. I had thought i was well and plenty stocked and completely on track, but i read the other day that most perrenials dont start producing well until their third year!! Wassup with that? At least if i ordered from Parva i'd get one year up on that time, but as we know, there is no money for plants... check out my raggedy june offerings:You can see our new tyre swing in the background, Sonny loves it but he need someone to push him and until my stomach heels i'm off the job. And then theres the rain... but he loved his party yesterday and in my tottally humble and un-biased opinion, he was the best dressed pirate on the ship.
He's so handsome.

Dont i make beautiful children