Tuesday, July 20, 2010

My Groovy new Draft Guards :)

This is one of the groovy things I made to help out during Winter this year. Really HATE cold drafts in houses when the weather is 'blurk!' and you want to feel cosy. When we moved into this new house I was amazed at how the wind howled through the door, when it was closed...

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...

For the last few months I've been seeing Humming birds in the clouds, on t-shirts, as figurines in shops etc etc etc, but mostly they've been messages in the clouds. The last time this kind of portent came in so strongly was when I was seeing Dragons in clouds,....for years!

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...

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.

And yes, it was very pertinent to my 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...