Before I met Michelle I felt like I knew her. Such is the experience when blogger meets blogger. Michelle and I, we’ve been reading about each other’s lives for years now, commenting [...]
We are home – exhausted and inspired. When we bundled into the house late yesterday with our suitcases, stories and jars of homemade jam, we agreed that someday soon we would return to [...]
I’ll be visiting the very talented Miss Haidee in her studio when I’m in Tasmania. She lives in a place called Peppermint Bay (of course she does!) and there she crafts signature [...]
“A portrait of my children, once a week, every week, in 2012.” I’m enjoying the way that these portraits are, rather unintentionally, working as diptychs. Che: Late afternoon in [...]
Lover of Vintage gifted me a sunshine award. Thank you! Nothing like a bit of light to lift the day. There’s some questions involved, so here are my answers: Favourite colour? Hmmm, it [...]
I clearly remember the days that I spent reading The Divided Heart for the first time. Che had a serious fever so I lay with him in bed, breastfeeding on demand, flicking through the pages of [...]
Packing for a family trip requires a certain amount of methodology. I don’t have a methodical bone in my body. The mere thought of packing a weeks worth of clothes for Che, Poet and I has [...]
My post on The Face of Birth received a range of comments – some embracing the film and my discussion, other dismissing it and accusing me of judgement. I’ve thought long and hard [...]
“A portrait of my children, once a week, every week, in 2012.” Che: “Look mum, a naked horse!” (ie. a horse without a saddle). First time horse-riding. Poet: In a vintage [...]
On Wednesday night I had the privilege of seeing the new Australian documentary The Face of Birth. I was in a cinema full of midwives, mothers and pregnant women. We were all eagerly anticipating [...]
I am thrilled to be one of 13 bloggers chosen to take part in the Sakura Bloom Sling Diaries. Once a month for the next six months I’ll be posting a photo diary of babywearing – kanga [...]
the daffodil-yellow bonnet is the handiwork of a clever little knitter known as dover and madden. Unfortunately my knitting skills don’t extend beyond a basic cast-on, knit, change colours, [...]
