Garden Journal and my favourite mug

each morning i fill my favourite Moomintroll mug with a creamy, hot latte. This is my favourite morning ritual. and my favourite mug. did you used to read the Finn Family Moomintroll books?

And in my garden, little things are constantly pleasing me.

     handsome broccoli:::::::handsome basil.

 feathered parsley:::::::tiny pea babies

 hardy silverbeet::::::::delicate kale

also, i've been making Fullyraw Kristina's juice (here) and it really is incredible. i have never tasted something so much like sunshine in a cup. oh my god. 

 happy in the garden with the chooks

Pinterest love on a Thursday

I have such a massive pinterest love. more love than can possibly fit in my body, it oozes out at 4am in flighty knitted necklines and hurriedly scrawled pattern ideas. i could spend so many, many hours crooning over the houses, gardens, knitteds and food i find. i just want to live in my pinterest page. i really do. one day i will, i guess. 

p.s. tomorrow morning is a lunar eclipse, getting up to watch?

all photos stolen from my pinterest page (where the links are) here!

Winter Poem

a little winter poem i wrote in Whistler, BC as the cold was setting in.

The Larch

bared wintry against my window

The Lark

soft burst of downy darkness

The Last

bittered leaf curls to the pavement

The Larkspur

breathes close to the earth, trying to warm.

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A little poem

I wonder.

The birds know, 

the trees and wind tell them, 

The little bear watches his mother

The yearling elk follows the trail of footprints ahead of him, 

The ground nods quietly to the feet, hooves and claws that gently walk it. 

A knowing, of the way to travel, the pattern and circle, 

the prospering through the moons.

A forgotten knowledge.

The way.

a little poem i wrote one night in Vancouver. photo of Franconia, White Mountains, NH. 

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me::::: in a dirty mirror in my gardening getup. steamy morning shower.
garden:::::: newly sprung winter microgreens... so cute!

My Etsy Shop

This morning I knuckled down and did it - I photographed some more of my things to sell on Etsy. I loved playing around with the paraphernalia on my inspiration table, using the colours and greyish morning light in harmony with the various knitteds and sewns of my Shop. 

There's a link on the side of my blog, and here's another (Etsy Shop). yay. 

love

of late

This new Osteo student is plumb-tuckered out.
My days are stacked high with scientific nomenclature and body-marking pencils. I'm full to the brim but excited. The philosophy of Osteopathy is beautiful (in my understanding): the observation and gentle manipulation of the bones and muscles to help restore the body to it's natural healthful state. at the moment, it is mainly understanding base science to build knowledge and memorising of terminology associated with anatomy and physiology. Wonderful stuff.
because most of my hours are filled with the above, I'm trying to squeeze my creative bursts around it as best i can. a little pair of angora socks on the needles for fun. food-making has been successful with 'chocolate and nut things', 'grain-free granola (this recipe)' and more smoothies. I made a coffee scrub from coarse coffee, sugar, salt, coconut oil and chamomile flowers. Today i set up a corner of my bedroom as a fossicking/designing/mess table. My art is on the walls, microgreens growing like crazy on my balcony, morning latte is a welcome ritual as is my frosty, half-dark walk to the bus each day - a beautiful chaos.