Well the unimaginable has happened. On friday we had two working vans, one our home on the road for 7 years and one as a parts vehicle with a nearly new engine (very grown up)......and today we have none.
It was rather an iconic van. Transporting us all as we grew and travelled in our flowmadic way
It was our home every sunday as we were part of a Growers Market in Macclesfield SA. It once performed in a military vehicles display at the Strawberry Fete, as the 'swords to ploughshares' exhibit.
It took us to the most amazing places......camping an incredibly large amount of people comfortably
Here it is in its crocheted splendour. A haven to the fibre and colour addicted
With artworks by friends....
Camping outside Alice Springs
Thoroughly, completely, crochetedly unique.....
We thought we had it sussed, and had complete vehicular security. Our beautiful roadhome of many years was running smoothly, and we had a parts vehicle to slowly replace her fading parts with.....
Till we went shopping on friday, and on the way home it made a funny noise.
Our roadhome gently died by the side of the road. We dropped a timing belt.
We got the kids home with a friends help, and got it towed and considered ourselves lucky as we had the spare. Currawong reckons our whole van looked sad as she sat on the tow truck. So he spent three solid days making the other one roadworthy, only to take her out on her maiden voyage and she died an oily death. Possibly dropping a rear main seal. We got home quick, a bit dumbstruck, and put it on the shelf to feed and bed babies, and decided to leave it till morning. And I wake up this morning in excited shock. Ya know that kind of rush you get when present at the great mysteries of life? With every death a new beginning.....
Can't quite believe that our van is dead. And the back up van too.
Now is the time to put into action all those "If anything really drastic happened we could..." ideas. We need some help. Caught totally on the hop we have us nine people without any transport. Without much savings. And in need of a miracle.
We've decided we need to get a coaster sized van in order to be able to go out together with our rapidly growing family. We've actually been talking about it for a while, but felt too much loyalty to our beloved van to take any further steps. Till the ball's been taken out of our court so to speak.
We need a new canvas for our dreams. Getting a vehicle that can carry the nine of us, and the ten of us when Jess visits, is no ordinary feat. And we could really use some help.
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I'm starting the (snow)ball rolling and selling my book 'Balthazar & Nimue - A Love Story' as an ebook on my blog. A 12 year old book that really wants to be born.
I'm going to start listing wearable art pieces on my blog as well.
And we're strongly considering selling both vans to someone mechanical who could make the one awesome van out of them both.
Rather than do a fundraiser, I'd like you to get something for your money, but if you felt compelled to donate us some money to speed our way to a new vehicle and home on the road, there's a donate button on my blog too, halfway down the side bar.
Please help to share with anyone you think would like to help us.
