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A few things lately ❄️✨ I’m feeling a little disconnected somehow from being here. I know it’s me, and I know it’s because I want more - more depth than these squares allow. These are the beginning glimpse, but actually I want to delve further. I feel like sometimes in this space we’re standing outside talking and it’s very lovely - we’re chatting. But I want to go inside and know more, hear more, see more, feel more. I want to be in the heart of your home and I want you to be in the heart of my home. Sometimes I feel like we look at each other’s hearts through this space ..... but are we really really hearing them, and listening. Maybe occasionally.⠀
And then I realised; we’re all like these dew drops. Individual, formed alone, sitting here waiting .... and one little slip, one movement and we can join together - we form into a bigger essence when we join up. Our sparkles can connect.⠀
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I am trying to find ways to be here more meaningfully, mindfully. I want to talk with you, not to you. But it’s getting harder - don’t you think? I mean are you even here ??? ❄️✨⠀
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Anyway — just some thoughts and this photo that I love so much, and feel so proud that I snapped it. And I’m working on getting it printed to share with you .....

Little Moments of Creative - this is how I do things, in pockets of time, mindfully fitting my creative work into my daily life & my mama-ing. And it’s something I’m passionate about sharing with others 🕊how we can all connect with our internal whispers while the busy noisy world keeps screaming at us.⠀And please tell me - what do you do to find / make / create the space you need for your creativity? Share below so we can all learn new ways of nourishing ourselves.
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Many years ago I had a creative project kit called #littlemomentscreative and I’ve decided it’s the right time to bring it back. Last time around people loved it, exploring their creativeness & tapping into their inner soul, while also making something tangible & beautiful. So please check out that #⠀
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If you would like to join in - I have opened up subscriptions for this membership, which includes my own hand dyed fabric, hand painted fabric, threads, little projects & the tools / supplies needed to create them, as well as a hand drawn art work & one of my photos, and more .... because I want it to feel like a treasure box full of possibilities. ⠀
🌸 Please check out my website to join in - & have a read because there’s a community collaboration connected with the membership & I’m very excited about us all joining together as a creative community.

Ain’t he cute!! 💕😍 this is from my archives, but is truly one of the yummiest photos I have to talk about Plastic Free July @plasticfreejuly . I’m gonna be honest here and say sometimes I feel worried about “going on” about being low-Plastic...... because ⠀
a) someone once told me that when I mentioned that tea bags have plastic in them, it annoyed her. (She said meaner words than that actually, but I’ve deliberately forgotten the specifics). ⠀
b) we are not zero-plastic or totally plastic-free, but we are ‘low-plastic’.... whatever all those labels mean. I actually think sometimes they intimidate people and sometimes make people look more virtuous than they are. What do you think? 🤔 💭 ⠀
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My feelings about a) I am a very passionate person; sometimes I might emphatically over-emphasise something. It’s not a judgement towards you, but I do feel that education and talking about things is how change occurs - not hiding & staying stuck because people are too afraid or lazy to make the change, or talk about hard but important issues. I also think if you’re upset by what I’m saying maybe it’s your own guilt rather than me 🤷🏽‍♀️🙊⠀
and b) it’s hard being completely plastic free - our modern society is so overladen with it, BUT we can all make changes and some things are very easy, you just have to want to (like using these reusable @onyalife produce bags & a market shopping bag or @boomerangbags instead of using plastic bags for your fruit & veges or your shopping or your new clothing / thing purchase). ⠀
And other things are harder and you don’t have to guilt yourself, but being conscious of it starts the journey towards slowing down plastic usage.
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What’s your hardest plastic give up this month of plastic free July?⠀
(We get cheese in plastic, and now milk because that’s the only option unless we buy a cow). *full disclosure our Onya bags are no longer this clean after 2yrs of usage, but still in excellent usable condition - we use them every single week for our shopping.

Home from the farmers market with the weekly fruit & vege shopping. This week, with no-one else at home & no car, I was grateful for two neighbour-friends for driving & picking me up.⠀
This is my crochet string bag that I finished up a few days ago (the third one I’ve made this past week 😊). If you want to make your own, the pattern is available free on my website (there’s a swipe up link in my story highlights) - and for those of you a little scared of crochet or following patterns, it’s very forgiving & easy to make changes. So give it a go!! Perfect for @plasticfreejuly #plasticfreejuly (if you’ve already made one, I’d love to see it - use #petalplummakers to share).⠀
Yarn is a delicious recycled denim cotton from @woolandthegang, but you can use anything op-shop cottons, t-shirt yarn, @string_harvest has a great selection of linen, jute, natural fibres. Use what you have is my best suggestion! ⠀
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Thanks @murwillumbahfarmersmarket for a beautiful morning full of luscious local produce, sunshine & music! ⠀
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Also I wanted to say :: I notice that some of the market stalls use those plastic netting bags for their produce (many already tied up ready for buying), remember that it’s totally ok to undo and pour the produce into your own bag — the stalls I do it at don’t mind in the slightest. Berries, alas, are one thing that I can’t buy plastic free so we miss out on them. ⠀
How are you going for Plastic Free July? What’s been your hardest thing to give up, not use, or find alternatives to???

This little girl of mine has been home sick for a few days now, hoping she’s better to go to school for her last day of term tomorrow.⠀
This photo was from a little mid-Winter homage we played with last week, in the last golden light of these short days. Berries from weedy bushes down the road, she stood in the middle of a ferny patch in our garden, while I poked berries in her hair, & River ran around in front of us like a 3-yr old does.⠀
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Because these are weeds that we don’t want growing in our garden, we picked up all the berries that fell off and burned them in the fireplace - I feel that was the right thing. I’m always conscious of the weeds, seeds & rambling things I bring home, to make sure we don’t introduce weeds into our property.

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