Friends

 

 

Mein Spatz had his friend Miss S around for dinner and a play.

Miss S loves dressing up and performing. 

They dressed up and danced to German Beer Hall Music.

Miss S is a great balance for Mein Spatz.

He can be very grounded and serious she lightens him and gives him support to fly.

Just what friends are for. 

  

Ein Prosit der Gemütlichkeit

Southern Season Exchange - Autumn 2011

We found a lovely surprise in our Post Box today.

We joined  Southern Season Autumn swap to make an Autumn gift for a partner's nature table.

My gift was made with such love, skill and attention to detail

 by the lovely Natalie at  The little gnome home.

( Have a look at her site to see what we sent to her family )

A beautiful Autumn girl with plaits in her hair

 and gorgeous little gum-nut hair ties.

Just so beautiful!

An Autumn felted leaf and a poem written on a hand-painted leaf.

.......Autumn winds come whispering

Autumn leaves come drifting

Wait till Spring comes peeping

   Warmth will come once more......

Thank-you very much Natalie for sending such a stunning addition to our nature table.

You should really think about opening a shop on your blog.

Thank-you also to Katie for organising the swap.
 

Sending you all love and light for Autumn and Easter.

Just popping out of my bubble..........to say....................

 I hope that everyone can go easy on themselves because sometimes some nasty S#*T just happens.

Looking at a blog can make you think "Everyone else is just living this beautiful life and I am just crap!"

This is not true.

Bad things happen to good people all the time.

Husband/wife up and leave a good marriage.
Great children get nasty diseases.
Families face dire financial crisis.

The sky can even fall down- just ask Chicken Licken.

Things can just go from bad to worse before you can say HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I want to share some great Authors/books that have helped me, just ME the women. Not the Mother, wife, daughter or friend. But the essence of self ME.

 Stephanie  Dowrick  all of her books are wonderful

Louise Hay  You can heal your life

Clarissa Pinkola Estes  Women who run with the wolves

All is OK in my world.

But some great people have had the sky just fall down on their head.

Love and light,

 Angela

Something special from a friend

 At our post office this was waiting for us today.

Our lovely friends from stillparenting sent it for our nature table.

A lovely idea as Australian customs can be very strict.

We sent them some seed pods.

Dear Arianne,

Thank you for the wonderful photographs of native birds taken from your surroundings.

They will make a special addition to our nature table.

We have not met but I feel like I know you really well from your blog.

I feel like we are soul sisters.

I hope to become more descriptive and creative, as you are, the more that I write.

Sending you love and light from Adelaide, Australia.

 Angela

 On another note, Mein Spatz and I have been house bound with the flu this week, a bit of cabin fever and hair dressing clippers turned this face into this.......... 

I don't think it suits him.

He looks a little rough and tough.

He said "That doesn't look like me Ernst-Wilhelm!"

But it does make him eyes look like chocolate drops.

Introducing a new photographer on the team......Mein Spatz

 Breakfast

 Henry

Around the house

Self portrait

 Out and about at a friends house-both boys taking photos of each other

Rise up

For the last two days I have had troubles posting due to difficulties uploading my pictures.
Oh .........How I have missed it.

I wanted to write about friendship and how important it is to share time with the wonderful women in my life.
I hope you are reading this, great women.

Tomorrow night some dear women friends are coming around for the evening.

I have  really wanted to do this for some time but things always got in the way, and would continue too, until I just stopped procrastinating and trying to think about how to make it perfect for everyone.

I just asked them................

Do you want to do this .....?

What night....?

Good all organised!

I only met these women because I became a Mother. Mein Spatz was the key that gave me entry to the wonderful club that is Motherhood.

Most of the time in new social situations shyness and childhood fears can hold you back from approaching people and joining a group or reaching out for friendship. Two years ago I decided to grow up and stop being so scared of rejection and go forward and ask people "Do you want to be friends?".
This paid off.

I do not have a big circle, but it is all I need.

So........I am looking forward to seeing these great women tomorrow night sans children.