And I still manage to fit in the time to make something new.....

Yes it's true.

Got my beautiful boy going to school for the first time ever, (and he's loving it) a 2 month old bubba, the irrascible Miss Moon who's a 2 year old (say no more), Lovely Lilly who still need attention even though she's so easy and gentle and self amusing, my gorgeous hunk of a fella to keep entertained and MINE (oh my, did I sound jealous and possesive then??), fellow community dwellers to keep up to date with, work with, and try to keep real with, my mother and big daughter who have a whole world of issues to themselves, this internet life I seem to be diving into more and more, my addictive early morning bike rides and sing fests, 2 little creatures, a cat and a dog, that need loving, a science fiction addiction that needs feeding in the form of sci-fi movies, series, etc to be watched, not to mention the music addiction, minutes to be typed, budgets to be budgeted, desktop publishing and flyers to be created, photo's to be taken so I can seriously start trying to sell things on Etsy, internet research to be done, books to be read, pictures to be printed, dishes to be done, food to be eaten, nappies to change, clothes to be washed, jaunts to the outside world to be enjoyed, the beach to visit, fruit to be picked and eaten, friends to catch up with, felted creatures to be made.......

Puff, puff, puff......

AND I STILL MANAGE TO FIND TIME TO MAKE!!!

Thank you, thank you very much!! (said in an voice impersonating Elvis Presley...)

I quite like this little number. It didn't look like all that amazing a deal until the beautiful Queen of Lizards put it on.....

It's out of hand spun and hand dyed sheep fleece, and as you can see, wearable art in many different ways. I'm also trying to make another thing out of mohair, but I've already pulled it apart twice, and that was after I'd already made things out of the two separate dye pots and then decided I didn't like them....so stay posted and I'll see if that particular baby can actually get born!

Enjoy!

Thickening plots

Thickening plots

There's so much happening in my world.  For a start I'm 8 months pregnant, and after being distracted with a whole heap of stuff - moving to Victoria, moving back, looking for schools, realising my lover and his troupe are percussive geniuses, moving onto a community, trying to prepare my three other little ones for baby 'wildcat' (that came to me in a dream), doing the NEIS scheme and starting up an internet business.................well after all that, it's kinda hard to really sink into the feeling of being pregnant.  To just be with it and realise it.  

I've been really getting into writing about birth and our phobia's around it all, but all of that's for another blog.  More personally, I've been realising for the first time ( this is only my 5th baby!) how birth is meant to be painless.  But just lately I realised that even saying painless is still focusing on pain, so I changed that thought to easy, comfortable and orgasmic!!  Just think about it.  We're mammals!!  How many other mammals have horrific and fraught births??  Why should we??  How would we have survived evolutionarily if it was so horrible??  Surely there must be benefits??  But I've digressed.  This isn't my birthing blog which I haven't created yet, this is my beggining to selling my wares and my theories online blog.

So believe it or not, even while all this is going on, I'm still making making making, creating new ideas and beautiful mohair creations, luscious wraps and folds to lay near your skin.  Seductive fringes that move with your rhythms.  I keep trying to get around to making more felted creatures, but truth be told, I think I'm preventing myself from making them, because I can't bear the thought of selling them.  I find them so personal and 'birthed' and part of me, that to sell them is almost like selling my children.  I did sell one, and I've never stopped regretting it.  

No matter how much I try to fit my passion and art into the box of 'things to sell', I never manage to be very good at it.  I can never make another of something because 'it will sell'.  I try, I really do! But the inner rebel and passionate artist always ends up yelling "I'm not a factory!!" and it invariably turns into something completely unique and quirky.  

Anyway, here it is.  My latest offering to the goddess of creativity.  

7 balls of hand-spun, hand-dyed mohair from my favourite breeder, and two different dyepots. The body of the wrap is one dyepot, and the fringe another.  Rather clever use of different sized hooks to shape it, and a suprising collar when wrapped in a certain way.  Shown off by my beautiful Currawong in our backyard garden.  You may notice the spiderweb I've put in a tree.

Enjoy!

Beginagainbeginagain

I seem to have lost contact with my old blog.  I don't know how it happened, but when I tried to log onto it, I just got brought here, with a brand new blog.  Maybe it's symbolic.  Maybe it's a really good thing.  Start fresh, clean slate and all that business.  

So I will.  Start again that is.

We're living on a community in the Adelaide Hills, about to have our 4th baby together, and my 5th child all up.  I'm writing books and making things that flow, and trying to start up an internet business doing it all.  Inviting you into the world I'm creating from fibre and attitudes, Quantum Physics and plain old ancient's knowledge, wool and mohair and bunny fleece and crochet and felt, and just whatever comes to hand at the time.

I've been creating for 7 years now, and the time has come for my art's Saturn Return, to mature and come of age, and launch itself into the next stage of it's life.  From past experience, and reading, and checking stuff out on the internet, and words from the grass roots, I've decided to steer my way towards Europe and America, where  it  seems the whole handcrafted movement has hit long ago,  and  there is a greater population of alternative folk. 

I reckon I'm a genius, and a revolution waiting to happen.  I've got a whole new approach, and techniques, and attitudes that can lead to an explosion of creativity in your life, that will leak across into all aspects of your creativity, as you decide to try and make things yourself in your own way.  When you get the incredible power and beauty of things that people make, when they're in love with what they're doing.

Passion and love are all that really matter when you get down to it.  We've convinced ourselves for far too long that we have to make compromises, and do our duty, and earn a days work before we do what we really want to do.  Bollocks I say.  You have to just do it.  Follow that passion and do what you want and the universe magically makes it all as good as the feeling that inspires you to just do what you will.

Stay tuned.  I'm going to be making things and taking photo's and videos and organising events, and showing some of the beautiful photo's we've taken along the way. 

Everything is connected.