This is Tinkypoo (and friends)...hello
(oh and that lovely pink unicorn is by wonderful artist/animator Julia Pott)
now you see this is really a diversion to show you something nice, because I have been neglecting or avoiding my camera
...well my life has been a little unpicturesque lately...I have been on a huge reorganising, culling and cleaning binge...not pretty!
I guess you could call it nesting...(but that term always makes me feel a little like a chicken)...with only 3 months-ish to go before the babies arrive...I am on a huge mission to streamline and declutter my work and my life. Yes no more sitting amidst piles of fabric and paper daydreaming for me! Not for a few years anyway...My work space is going need to be very organised and minimal if I intend to get any work done at all...
I am working up the courage to show some photos of the crazy clutter I have been living and working amongst. I am thinking I will wait til' I have created some calm and loveliness amongst my space so that I can show you both at once, before and after style, so as not to scare you, and at least leave you feeling some hope...
After a trip to the tip and having filled the back seat of my car to the roof with bags twice! to take to the donation bins, I am still sorting. (lucky I have a ute!)
You see I figure all this fabric I have been coveting will not see any light once the babies arrive...not for some years anyway. Of course I am keeping those most favourite and loveliest of all pieces and carefully reorganising them into pretty stacks. But all those pieces I have been coveting for years in giant bags and boxes "just in case" or for when "I get around to that project"...I am releasing back into the recycling roundabout...
Do you know I have discovered a spare room in my house! Yes true...it was buried...and by reorganising and rearranging and letting go of some (well lots really) things I have uncovered a spare room in my home..."and I am NOT going to buy more stuff from the thrift store to fill up it with!" (She says in her best and most assertive Aunt Edith voice.)
My daughter Ruby (10) now has a new bedroom...most fitting for a pre-teen...it is bigger and airier than her previous bedroom...it's long and rectangular so that she has two zones...one for sleeping and one for playing and hanging out with her friends...she is most pleased...even about the fact that it is a very 'tropical', "Queenslander" style room (ie a verandah/balcony) ... previously it was a dumping area/store zone/play area...it is only partially enclosed with a little lattice and some bamboo blinds...and quite open to the elements, I suggested her dad enclose it with some recycled corrugated iron and build some shutters...but she assured me that she loves it open...and likes it just the way it is!
Rubys' dad and I slept out there for a year and I agree with Ruby; it is lovely being able to see the stars at night and the full moon rise and even to have the sun wake you up in the morning and to go to sleep to the ocean breezes and the sound of waves crashing gently on the beach....don't worry I am not a neglectful mother so she does sleep under a big mozzie net... she is very happy...Lovely!!
Now I also have a new bedroom for the babies....And I am still culling and sorting so If I am 'good' and choose not to keep things that I will not soon use or do not love...I believe I will have yet another spare room available which is going to become an open garden room (ie a room with just partial external wall which leads directly to the garden...sort of a balcony room but with no rails, just posts...(japanese-esque) ....Aaaah one of my favourite things to do...knock out walls! heheh...
So you see I have been a busy chicken, despite the crazy tropical summer humidity and my giant, 6-months-and growing-with-twins belly; which combined cause me to move at the pace of a snail...
Maybe it is a good thing: this frustration I have felt due to our lovely tropical rains causing my internet connection to become soggy and dysfunctional...you see I have not been able to sit for hours with two fans blasting over me, browsing the internet reading blogs and shopping for baby boys ...
Ramblings about shopping for boys (with some lovely finds) and in progress home pictures to come :)
Enjoy!
