Image from Carl Larsen gallery The days away from my blog have been full of family. My sister Tricia flew up from Sydney on Thursday, we dr...

My uncle phoned yesterday to tell me that my sweet and wonderful aunty Joy died. She was my mother's only sister and they were very clo...

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

We struggle against the fruit fly here in late spring and summer. I am pleased they don't go for our tomatoes, we had them once in the ...

The photos were taken yesterday afternoon. Click on the photos to enlarge them. It's the first day of Spring today. Rain has been fore...

Thank you all so much for the lovely, heartwarming comments made yesterday. Congratulations to the winners of the stitcheries - Sharonskan, ...

I would like to congratualate the winners of Rhonda's 500,000 visitor giveaway. I printed all the comments and cut them up. I shrunk the...

Clicking on the photos will enlarge them. I thought I had today to look for a giveaway but after I read all your delightful comments on yest...

I wrote yesterday about my life and how I have changed. I want to take that a step further today and write about how you might simplify, if...

When I was growing up it was a commonly held belief that if you did well at school, worked hard and made a lot of money, you would live a li...