New softies

What a week. Busy busy busy and I am looking forward to today being an 'at home day'.

As promised, better late than never, my new seamless shoes with laces.

And the new doll design. These are much funkier in real life and are loving it down at Stanley's          The Brown Dog.

Online and in-store soon

I have been madly sewing these last few days. Dolls, shoes.....more shoes.

I made it onto the MadeIt front page! One cat brooch sold and another two on order.

I am wanting to move over to Etsy where I can list my products in a much clearer way, and I start selling...grr.

This is my Etsy page. Please take a look around. My prices are going to be going up as I have got my work into a shop in the seaside town of Stanley and my prices need to reflect the style and quality that they are. Plus, looking around I think my prices have been too low. SO GET IN NOW AND GRAB A BARGAIN while prices are the way they are.

I have been creating some new Providence Meadows dolls. My own design, funky, retro, one-of-a-kind dolls. They are for The Brown Dog in Stanley. I want my own designs in store so that people will not have seen them before. Picture up for you soon. Oh, and I'm working on some sausage dog softies...they are so cute!

A toxic day, well it was for Aj.

Thursday am

What a weird sort of day, very dark skies but no rain yet. There is a 90% chance of rain today and tomorrow though. (Poor Aj and his class are on an Outdoor Ed camp ;)

Yesterday we said goodbye to a couple who were just strangers last Thursday. We first met Chris & Hosanna on the Spirit of Tassie on our way back from Melbourne after Christmas; a coincidence. They are from Cairns and go to church with another couple who moved from Melbourne a couple of years ago. They were told to drop in on us while in Tassie.

We are so glad they did! Chris & Hosanna have been travelling and working their way around Australia for the last two years and spent their last five nights in Tassie with us. They slotted into our family seamlessly. Never have all four kids taken to people so well, as they did to these two. Hosanna and I talked and talked and talked. The conversations were both deep and light hearted, and we were able to talk about anything and everything. It felt like we had been friends for life. As you know I struggle with friendships especially as those I am closest to have moved away (and/or are interstate). It would have been nice for them to have stayed longer and if the timing was different I'm sure they would have. As Hosanna wrote in the visitors book "...our home is your home. You may want to wait until we move out of the tent though."

Thursday pm

Today I took the trailer to get some gravel to fill in the  pot holes in the driveway and only after it was full (1.25ish ton ) did I see a flat tyre...grrr. I crept up to the house of a friend who lived close by. It was not running on the rim but was very low. Up to the servo we went to pump it up. We got some funny looks - hehe. A cuppa and then home, twins in to bed, and out to spread the load. MissZ came out not long after and sat in the front seat of the car taking pics on my phone. Two funny things she said were,  "Are you having fun mummy?" and when asked if she wanted the radio on, "No, I like peace and quiet". MissZ is generally anything but quiet and peaceful. Cute kid.

The starts of it

Work in progress

What got spread around the turning circle

One of MissZ's many many pics

Oh and while on the subject of kids. I can't recommend more highly 'almost-two-year-old' twins....they are so very very cute together. Today MrW went to help MissO up from the floor by clapping and putting his hands out for her. After helping her to her feet, he made sure she was coming with him. They looked like Tellytubbies though as they helped each other up.

As I finish off this blog, I have received a text from Aj saying his day was toxic and it was lights out at 8. So early, MUST have been a huge day for the students. AND it is now raining heavily here.

Miracles

What do you think when you hear the word 'miracle'?

God? His workings? Great faith? Yes, but it is so much more than that. The miracles that are recorded in the Bible are enough for us to believe and have eternal life. We do not need to see miracles today to prove God's existence. There are enough written in the Bible for us to see and read about. We shouldn't need to go searching for miracles.

John 20:29-31

29 Then Jesus told [Thomas], “Because you have seen me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.” 30 Jesus performed many other signs in the presence of his disciples, which are not recorded in this book. 31 But these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.

We can sit, pray and wait for God to 'show up' and do a miracle but it will only happen if it is in  His will. If it isn't in His will it will not happen and it will seem as though God does not care. But it isn't about Him not caring it's about us not listening to Him.

We get a lot of rainbows here and each and everyone is so very beautiful. They are a miracle  within themselves. It is so easy to miss the everyday miracles that are around us.

Look for the simple joys in life, and life will be simply more enjoyable.