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20 July 2007
Homemade Christmas decorations
You can enlarge this photo by clicking on it. Another project I'd like to share with you is this one - my Christmas decorations. I made ...
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A dishcloth swap?
Now that some ladies are starting to knit dishcloths, and I know we have quite a few knitters among us, I wondered if you'd all like to ...
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Knitted dishcloths
It's minus 2 here this morning! That's the coldest I've know it to be in this subtropical area. The photo above is my dishcloth ...
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19 July 2007
A year's worth of dishcloths
Our older son, Shane, came over to see us this morning on his way home from Brisbane. I cooked him breakfast of golden yellow eggs and brand...
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Falling in love with yellow
I've never been a lover of the colour yellow. I'm more a blue, green or lavender kind of gal. But now I'm surprising myself in t...
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Not spending
Picture from allposters.com Lea rning how to stop spending is one of the most difficult things to do when you first start living m...
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18 July 2007
Three things I wish my mum had told me
The 90/10 principle. I spent the first 30 years of my life expecting the exeptional to be the norm but ninety percent of life is not except...
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Relaxation
I slept the sleep of the dead last night, boy, was I tired. After two big days at the Neighbourhood Centre I am ready to put my feet up and ...
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17 July 2007
Bloggers for Positive Global Change Award II
I have been nominated again for Bloggers for Positive Global Change Award by Kate at Our Red House . Thank you Kate. At first I wondered wh...
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16 July 2007
Convincing the family
It's difficult when one person in the family decides to change in certain ways and the rest of the family want to stay the same. I th...
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Lemon cakes
I made some lemon syrup cakes on Saturday, recipe from Lisa at Altered Cutlery . I made three cakes - one we are eating this week, the ...
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15 July 2007
Mid winter gardening
It's a beautiful, crisp, winter day here. Mid-winter, my elder son's 27th birthday. Unfortunately we won't see Shane today as he...
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Welcome to the neighbourhood
I wrote about neighbours yesterday and have been thinking since then about how we connect with others and become friends. I failed to realis...
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14 July 2007
Neighbours
The second stage of a revolution started yesterday. I went out to the front verandah at 3ish and found a box of food scraps. It was a large ...
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13 July 2007
Our home
I wonder sometimes why our paths lead us to this simple way of living. None of my friends live as we do, neither do any family memb...
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Rebatching soap
I discovered the benefits of good homemade soap several years ago; I love how it nourishes my aging skin. I usually make a cold pressed soap...
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12 July 2007
Baking - cherry slice
I made a delicious cherry slice yesterday that H and I had warm for dessert last night. It works equally well with any stewed, preserved or...
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Homemade fertilisers (fertilizers)
One of the things H and I are trying to do is to bring as little as possible into our home from outside. We try to make or grow what we need...
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