The beginnings of a cotton nightie I started last weekend. My simple life is a series of small changes. They may appear inconsequential to ...

I wish it wasn’t like this but money has a lot to do with simple living. I guess it’s naive to think that money, and the power attached to ...

My knitting stash and knitting needles. One of the lovely things about first coming to your simple life is that you make your day-to-day liv...

Yesterday was the coldest day of the year here in our little home. It was raining and dark and just right for a day of reflection and knitt...

There is a season for all things. I know the way Hanno and I live now will change in the future. At some point, we will grow too tired to ...

I met Hanno on my 28th birthday, we married when I was 31 and our first baby, Shane, was born a year later. Shane turns 28 next Tuesday. H...

I am a home body. I enjoy being in my home more than any other place. There is so much to do here, it's never tedious, the hours are f...

I was feeling relaxed and focused as I went about my work yesterday. I pottered around the house doing this and that, and then worked on Sh...

I love baskets. I often take a basket with me when I go to my voluntary job, or out with Hanno to do the grocery shopping. When we go out f...

It does me good to have time away from screens. I know this and make sure I have a couple of days most weeks when I spend most of my time co...

It's going to get worse before it gets better. With the cost of petrol continuing to rise in Australia and around the world, which also ...

Some of you would remember that I bartered a couple of things for some fertile partridge wyandotte bantam eggs around Christmas time. Tw...

I want to carry on from my post about tightening your belt because there are more important things to consider. Yesterday I wrote about the...

I have often thought that modern society has divided into two camps – adults and children. This might seem quite obvious to you but I don’t ...

There is always something to do in the garden at the moment. I love the photo above, it is of Hanno planting tomatoes with the chooks watchi...

I'm really pleased so many of you are interested in starting to stitch. It's a wonderful way to make beautiful gifts and it will hel...