reading matters...

 my studio time is limited presently
but fortunately my reading time hasn't been affected by 'stuff'


My local independent book store loves me

and they know I just can't go past a delicious book...

my stack of recent purchases threatens to sink a small boat
(or creek grrrrl?)
 

oooo BTW - I thoroughly recommend 'A Handmade Life: in search of simplicity' by William Coperthwaite

 but please excuse the amazon link -
its here just to show you more of the book - I don't buy stuff from the big A...

my indie bookstore even stocks my two new fav magazines

'New Philosopher'
(yumbo scrumbo for the brain cells)

and
new book/mag on the block

'Womankind'

 

(dippy name if you ask me - but there's not an airbrushed bikini-clad celebrity in sight -
& no adverts for plastic surgeons or stilettos either so I forgive them the name...)  

but there are the odd few things
that even the best little bookstore in the universe can't (easily) get for me

ie - these little lust-worthy blurb books
I've been hankering for....

(oooooo myyyyy)

I even threw caution (and paper) to the wind
and downloaded my first ever electronic book...

 .. and lo it was very good!

(insert smiley face here)


as lovely and amazing as all my books are

my favourite 'book' of the past few weeks was a little one that arrived in the post...

 its cheered me up and made me sigh

its message of peace

delivered in every pen/brushstroke

(thankee FD)

...

 

eco-dressing loveliness...

  

remember this?

the stunning, amazing, glorious gift of eco-colour loveliness from

the stunning, amazing, glorious India Flint?

(this might jog your memory) 

welllllllllll

given that I have more chestage than the original dress allowed for
and I have a small girl child with the perfect colouring 

and spirit to inhabit a dress of distinction
I chopped and nipped and tucked the original

added black bias-binding around the neck and armholes

and a bit of left over black linen to the hemline
(from a skirt that needed shortening to match my short stature!)

then we plonked a big satin ribbon around it all 

(EJ likes black satin ribbon)

 and now its a dress of dreams for a small creek gal

AND its goes perfectly with EJ's Kiandra Akubra
(that's her special 'cowgirl' hat) 
some little girls ask for Barbies and pink dresses -
our EJ asked for an Akubra for her birthday earlier in the year...

I think she's the perfect embodiment of a wood sprite in her magical dress

(and so does she)

ooooo and I have left overs for another special project too

bonus!


I'm feeling grateful for the blog-o-sphere today

looksee what I recently received in the post from the ever-so-talented Roz...
(after the parcel seemingly took a detour around Antarctica)

its a 'pair' of specially commissioned, one-of-a kind
 silver earrings etched with personally significant symbols

these are my 'thank-god-I've-finished-all-that-study'
celebration earrings
and when I don them I feel all jingley happy

(and something of a special sprite myself)

thank you Roz

thank you India





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