December 2002

I spent some time over the holidays reading the journals of folks who live lives that I would live if I wasn’t living my life. Lives of girls in apartments studying art or design,...

Bliss – the rain has just started. The wind seems to be still thick and heavy and hot but at least there is the smell of wet grass wafting through the house. My mum...

We’ve just been out for last minute christmas eve food shopping. The fruit at the green grocers all looked summery and incredible — what I could see between the jostling shoulders of crazed shoppers....

I was saying to the lovely bee, pea and kylie yesterday that the stuff I love about a lot of the blogs I visit are the many and varied craft projects that people throw...

The heat is setting in. This morning it was quite bearable, and even quite pleasant while hanging little itty-bitty socks and singlets on the clothes line, the garden smelt sweet and the breeze was...

I forgot to mention that our tree is up! Last year I found a tiny little tree in a nursery that was about a foot high and covered it in weensy little decorations which...

I am still going to make a doll for Amelia J – yes I really am – but today I went to check out a store in Prahran called AK Gallery as suggested by...

Well, movement on the doll front has been very slow. I am still going to make a doll for Amelia J but I don’t think it’s going to get to her for Christmas so...

We had a most fabulous, festive weekend. Friday night we got together with M (who is now a doctor! woohoo!), Dr Beard and M’s new man for some sushi. Unfortunately our sushi plans were...