tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15044869086465515752024-02-19T16:57:46.883+11:0013mimosaOne big girl, two little ones, not enough spare timeVictoriahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05576666721273174380noreply@blogger.comBlogger1126125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1504486908646551575.post-29962839486688897692014-11-06T11:26:00.001+11:002014-11-06T11:26:22.609+11:001104<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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In Warburton there is a deserted building adjacent to, and I believe part of, the <a href="http://www.warburtonadventists.com/signs">Signs Publishing House</a>. We've driven past the site a number of times and on each occasion it's filled me with a sense of not so much forboding, but given me a feeling of weight, of mystery I guess and if time is frozen in that space.<br />
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On this trip we stopped and I jumped the fence and took a few photos. I love the architecture, I find it utterly appealing. These may appear tenuous references but for me it reminds me of the supermarket scenes in Fantastic Mr Fox and also for the large scale works, particularly in supermarkets, of Andreas Gursky.<br />
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The contrast of the classic 70's bricks with the blue metal framed windows, the clock that stopped, everything about it is utterly bewitching. I love that it's there, but it's empty, suspended.Victoriahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05576666721273174380noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1504486908646551575.post-60039635150305185822014-11-06T11:14:00.002+11:002014-11-06T11:14:20.549+11:001103<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Cup Day meant a drive into Warburton and walking the <a href="http://parkweb.vic.gov.au/explore/parks/yarra-ranges-national-park/things-to-do/oshannessy-aqueduct-trail">O'Shannassy Aqueduct Trail</a>. Whilst it was a lovely outing, feel it's a walk better suited to bikes as the scenery a little monotonous for walkers. There were some very intriguing routes up the hillside, but with the wet weather we weren't dressed to deal with deep very squelchy mud.<br />
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A gorgeous part of Melbourne.Victoriahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05576666721273174380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1504486908646551575.post-45614825856616285692014-10-30T13:16:00.001+11:002014-10-30T13:16:07.604+11:001102<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Lunch with the foges at ours, the weekend just past. No reason is a good reason to get together. Should always find a reason though, really, to enjoy being together.Victoriahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05576666721273174380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1504486908646551575.post-6293032996778788422014-10-13T18:27:00.000+11:002014-10-13T18:27:27.330+11:001101<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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11 years old, another birthday, they seem to roll around super fast these... years. The <a href="http://13mimosa.blogspot.com.au/2013/10/1078.html">10th </a>, the<a href="http://13mimosa.blogspot.com.au/2012/10/943.html"> 9th </a>, the <a href="http://13mimosa.blogspot.com.au/2011/10/787.html">8th</a>, the <a href="http://13mimosa.blogspot.com.au/2010/10/626.html">7th</a>, the <a href="http://13mimosa.blogspot.com.au/2009/10/it-happened-at-2045.html">6th </a>, the <a href="http://13mimosa.blogspot.com.au/2008/10/couldnt-be-more-beautiful-if-she-tried.html">5th</a> and <a href="http://13mimosa.blogspot.com.au/2007/10/and-then-she-was-four.html">4th</a>. All those years on this blog, 8 years of birthdays, that's one of the things that makes it worth coming back to this space, if only irregularly these days.</div>
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The effort of getting her what she asks for, which is never too much, is worth it for the absolute pleasure she can't hide when it appears on the birthday morning.</div>
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So pretty and poised, every year growing more so as she grows into herself with confidence and grace.</div>
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Her dearest friends, so special every one of them and so important to her. Girls I've watched grow up from kindergarten alongside Ella. This year I noticed their conversation was turning a little, talk of boys, not emotionally but they were in the conversation, a subtle shift. Mostly it was how stupid they were, but they were still given air time. I can't imagine a time when these girls won't be friends, but who knows what the future will hold.</div>
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My oh my, so grateful for you Ella. You came out midway through your party to me prepping something in the kitchen, looking a little sad and forlorn. When I asked what was wrong you said you felt you were neglecting me, that you weren't paying me enough attention or including me enough. Darling girl, so kind, always. I am so lucky to wake up to you every day and go to sleep knowing you're safe in your room, that's everything I ever dreamt of and so much more.</div>
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Northern NSW, how gorgeous you are.<br />
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Every holiday is different, mostly through the girls you realise how things are changing and recognise how to mix it up for the next trip. This time we realised that wifi is important, that the girls do not currently enjoy sharing a bedroom, and that one bathroom is not ideal.<br />
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We were also reminded that we prefer the company of each others and our daughters over all others. That's not to say we don't enjoy friends, family, as we do very much, but we're so lucky that our children are such a pleasure to us, so interested and interesting, so appreciative and increasingly adaptable.</div>
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Cake for a dear friend helping out in a challenging time.<br />
Everyday luxuries.<br />
Mike's pomegranate coming into leaf.<br />
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My darling Dad's 70th birthday celebrated with family this weekend. There were pictures on display from the whole of his life, from him as a small boy, through the 60's and 70's with much longer very dark curly hair, to now. I don't think either of my parents change much, they don't look any older/different to me, just themselves, but I concede that they have changed, although I feel only for the better.</div>
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We gather with my side of the family only a few times a year. My eldest brother lives in the NE, as does one of his daughters and her family - the gorgeous mother of the two youngest in these shots, my great niece Aurelia and my great nephew newly arrived, Dristan.</div>
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It's lovely to get together, maybe because we don't do it so often it feels a real treat. So lovely to see our girls with the chance to take care of little ones, something they both enjoy so very much. Time seems to have gone so fast, I love where we are in our lives with our children but it so amazes me how quickly we seemed to leave that phase and get to this one, with children approaching young women. I can only imagine how my parents must feel to have three generations in front of them! I don't know that either of my parents expected to be a great anything, but we all are!<br />
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Happy Birthday Dad, it was a wonderful celebration of a wonderful man.Victoriahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05576666721273174380noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1504486908646551575.post-79582612078766988022014-06-22T10:58:00.003+10:002014-06-22T10:58:48.337+10:001095<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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A long absence I know. Some declare that they're giving up their blogs, having mistreated and neglected them for so long. I can't give mine away though, not completely, even if my habits suggest otherwise. This space has meant so much to me, I should put more time into it, as much to prompt myself to keep taking photos of our gorgeous girls.<br />
<br />A weekend to Bendigo over the Queen's Birthday, a short trip, but such fun. The girls outside the Chinese Museum, us in a doorway and my favourite Charles Blackman painting, so beautiful.Victoriahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05576666721273174380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1504486908646551575.post-56696128833872592602014-03-16T10:06:00.003+11:002014-03-16T10:06:32.983+11:001094<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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We went down to Barwon Heads for 3 nights and as per every other time we've been away my response was, <i>we must do this more often</i>. I don't think I'm a materialistic person, I can do without stuff, although it's nice, but I would spend more money on getting away if I could. I'm not sure I'd want a holiday house, although again I wouldn't say no, because we like to try different places, but relaxing, somewhere fresh, with my guys, is one of the things I love most.<br />
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I'm amazed that I remembered my password into blogger, considering how little I'm around these parts. I've had an interesting conversation with a few blogs who I've read for many years, <a href="http://www.littleredcaboose.ca/">Ella being one</a>, about how things have changed for some of us.</div>
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Friends of ours are expecting twin boys with their second pregnancy. When their daughter was born a couple of years ago I made a lovely quilt for Sienna and now will do the same for these little boys with the two fabric combinations above.<br />
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This selection of fabrics, all from Spotlight, I bought a few years ago with a baby boy quilt in mind for no-one in particular. I love the softness of this grouping, including some soft blue linen in the centre, and will use these for a quilt for my niece Hazel's second baby due next month, this time a little boy to join my great niece Aurelia.<br />
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I also have to finish a family tree quilt for my parents, queen sized, begun last year (or the one before?) and really just need time to deal with a lot of mitered corners, which are really not my favourites - but they must have it for this winter, they just must.<br />
<br />So, away with me, quilting season has begun.Victoriahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05576666721273174380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1504486908646551575.post-15259371112588100302014-02-24T13:39:00.002+11:002014-02-24T13:40:25.213+11:001092Geez, I'm really a stranger around these parts. Life is good just, I don't know, I'm busy living and finding less time to talk about it.<br />
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We started with dinner out, the Old Melbourne Gaol for Purple Rain had a long wait, then we headed past the library (but didn't go in as the queue was too long to wait another hour), into the sea that was Swanston Street and to Chapter House and down to the river.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We had such a wonderful time at the beach yesterday, the girls and I. We have many happy times, but yesterday I was aware that I couldn't stop smiling. The stars had aligned and it just seemed the perfect day. It wasn't planned well ahead, it wasn't expensive, it didn't take a lot of effort to make it happen. We were just there together on a perfect day having a wonderful time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Then last night I came across the quote <i>What good is the future, if it's in the future?</i> and it really resonated with me. No excuses, no list making and planning for something months or even years from now, just being happy now, making choices today, that stimulate and excite the whole family.</span></div>
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It's a long journey we've taken together thus far, him and me. I was 25 when we met, he was 24, before too many years pass we will have spent half our lives together.<br />
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We're very different, in many ways. At times I've focused more on our differences than how we are alike. We don't have the same interests in all things, I can't stand watching sport and he doesn't stitch for relaxation. He exercises most days and I talk about exercising most days. He often comes at discussions from a <i>rational </i>viewpoint, which naturally clashes with my <i>emotional</i> viewpoint.<br />
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We do however, share the same love of each other and our family. We have the same dreams of more time together and a life more in balance. We both try our hardest to support each other even when times are really tough and for the most part, we both succeed.<br />
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I've loved this man for a long time, those gentle soft hands, his forgiving spirit. We both wish for something different in one main aspect of our lives this year, something largely outside of our control. It's those things that are the hardest to manage, those things that you want so badly but can't predict or control, the frustrations, the disappointments, it can be hard to manage those hurts.<br />
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We have a lot to focus on, to get us through. We have an amazing family, our girls especially make us both so happy and so proud. We'll focus on the great stuff, there's plenty of it, focus hard on that and patiently wait on the other wheels to turn.<br />
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E This is absolutely what she does most of her days. She is a sedentary soul not because she's lazy, but she's always creating. We have to remind her of the great outdoors most days.<br />
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L A delayed birthday party, water themed. Wonderful friends and great success.<br />
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<a href="http://www.gigglesdownunder.blogspot.com.au/">Kristi</a> giving up her blog has really touched me. It feels like the end of an era. Perhaps that may sound silly, if you're just dipping into blogs for the first time, but I never realised what they could come to mean to you.<br />
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I consider myself if not old then definitely middle school. I started my blog 6 years ago and back then it wasn't so common, or at least those that were around were more homely. My blog has always been for me and that means not commercialised and honestly not even that polished, but good enough for us. These days it seems that the standard of mum blogs has gone through the roof. I'm not sure if they have far greater skills than me or are paying for help, but wowee, some of these are super polished and have all kinds of labels and categories! Many of the blogs I used to follow have dropped right off, perhaps as their own children are getting older.<br />
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My children are no longer babies. Leila was not yet 1 when I started and she's now 7. My focus was only on my children and all their tiny little landmarks. There are still plenty of landmarks, many of them huge, but focusing on them isn't quite right anymore. It's relevant to me, but I don't think I feel the same desire, or entitlement, to share.<br />
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I'm going to shift my little space more towards me, which you may not like as much, but it's always been for me so I'll be okay if I don't hold your interest. I'll still join in the <a href="http://www.practisingsimplicity.com/">52 project</a> as I love that memory for the years to come. I love the blogs of <a href="http://pomegranateandseeds.blogspot.com.au/">Rebecca</a>, <a href="http://www.elephantine.typepad.com/">Rachel </a>and <a href="http://casayellow.com/">Sarah</a>. They all have incredible voices. They love words and are so wonderful at sharing them, so skilled. They focus on their interests (aside from children) and I love that too. I'm going to try and share more of me, Victoria, and see if in doing so it helps me to find more of myself, for myself.<br />
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Today she accrued 7 years. She wished for a day with her family, starting with water slides after breakfast, chicken sandwiches at home with us, Nan & Pa for lunch to be followed by pasta with bacon, mozzie and olives for dinner. Her requested cake was lemon cupcakes with very lemony icing. Her birthday wishes included "a garden for my window" which we planted together this afternoon.<br />
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She is ever so thoughtful, proactively helpful around the house and garden, tender hearted, creative with a gorgeous singing voice and graceful limbs. We is now 7 so there is some rather cheeky sass entering the equation, but still my baby remains in her cuddles and snuggles.<br />
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Beautiful Leila, our love, Happy Birthday.Victoriahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05576666721273174380noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1504486908646551575.post-18810566079179910552013-12-28T11:54:00.001+11:002013-12-28T11:55:17.047+11:001087<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZORONSghSTpNsrPyfUJVqC0ujUjbtJ7yox48cIeouOdY7U-Vq76e4Kng1ZLtUMTZOTDx0c0ZXavv2jwRalorXDVhGlsreQjzRJEE0IF5s5GTGis3Ik6menva7rZK3cRIURNoPgTmaJXo/s1600/DSC_0004.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZORONSghSTpNsrPyfUJVqC0ujUjbtJ7yox48cIeouOdY7U-Vq76e4Kng1ZLtUMTZOTDx0c0ZXavv2jwRalorXDVhGlsreQjzRJEE0IF5s5GTGis3Ik6menva7rZK3cRIURNoPgTmaJXo/s400/DSC_0004.JPG" width="265" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEions193_Iw16yMorm919UaWNVZHdiOYUPx9PRvYPcj8zc0PC-hhSIwK6R0yzVYZUg3YVfu_jPPvKG9mMzs5kG9NovNyBLFnPrt0cB_x2r0ndII-QGMO-KV1wBqnzzF-naCJ55ZMku6JeM/s1600/DSC_0006.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEions193_Iw16yMorm919UaWNVZHdiOYUPx9PRvYPcj8zc0PC-hhSIwK6R0yzVYZUg3YVfu_jPPvKG9mMzs5kG9NovNyBLFnPrt0cB_x2r0ndII-QGMO-KV1wBqnzzF-naCJ55ZMku6JeM/s400/DSC_0006.JPG" width="265" /></a><br />
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I love the colours in these images. Boxing Day and a trip to<a href="http://parkweb.vic.gov.au/explore/parks/maroondah-reservoir-park"> Maroondah Dam</a>. One day, if there ever is such a day, if I come into money, I will seek out an artist who paints sky/cloudscapes which are like lying on the grass gazing at the sky. I love clouds, of all sorts. On this day it was the white to dark grey and all the shades between that I loved so, somewhat mirroring the dam wall.<br />
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One of my most loved people is going through a very tough time and I'm so very far away from her. I love her so, and it's torturous to not be able to hold her hand through this process. I am a fixer, by nature, I find it hard to not be able to manage situations, to help people find a way through, but there are things we sometimes just have to do alone. My love is always with her, I'm always here, if I'm not there. There are clouds here and clouds where she is, so we will focus on those things somewhat joining us and I'll try my best to help her through the rest of it.<br />
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Merry Christmas 2013 x</div>
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