Tuesday, July 20, 2010
My Groovy new Draft Guards :)
I put up with it last year, but not this year!
And so, I made a couple more for the other doors too :)
The Front Door has a beautiful Gold Shiny one....
And the back door has a Magic one with witch's hats, toads, wands, crystal balls and stars and things on it...
Cool hey? well, actually warming really...
I used some scrap material, a bit of cheap wadding, some old lined calico for the backing, and filled them up with beanbag beans. Very quick to make and I feel so accomplished also. Gave them a good dosing of Clove Oil to keep ze wittle bugsy wugsies out of the house as well...smelled so good ! :)
Monday, July 19, 2010
Hummingbirds and cloud messages...
so, anyway
Humming Birds are a flightly tiny, industrious, beautiful kind of thing. I love their 'hummmmmmmmmmmm', the vibration, the resonance of their existence, so I was aware I was receiving a message of some sort 'from the universe' when I began to take notice of the reoccurrence of this little being in all these clouds all the time. I loved this website about the Hummingbird animal totem's message...
And yes, it was very pertinent to my life.This flying pattern also has meaning for us. So often, we find ourselves stuck in time: lost in regret about or longing for the past, or hoping (often without much true hope) that the future will be better, hanging our dreams on a distant cloud.
Hummingbird shows us how to re-visit the past for the purpose of releasing it instead of being caught in a permanently backward flight pattern. It also helps us to see that if we step aside we may see our life differently.
Hummingbird teaches us to transcend time, to recognize that what has happened in the past and what might happen in the future is not nearly as important as what we are experiencing now. It teaches us to hover in the moment, to appreciate its sweetness.
Hummingbird tells us to drink deeply of the nectar of life.
When I took the kids up to Mt Tamborine's Gallery Walk, the first shop we stopped in had an array of 'beautiful things', and Charlie picked up..you guessed it, a crystal hummingbird sun dazzler... :)
Thursday, July 15, 2010
Mt Warning, Wollumbin
A day out on Mother's Day this year, to the beautiful mountain of Wollumbin, named Mt Warning by Captain Cook.
This place is special.
Big, immense, green, perfect, Beautiful!
We picnicked, walked, daydreamed, looked, ahhhhed, ooooohed and then stopped to appreciate it all. Had a great day.
If anyone lives out this way and wants housesitters, we're in! :)
Here's some pics from the day...