3 little birds!

these little Birds are one of my newest creations!

My little Messenger Birds...

I mount them on drift wood that I find at the beach and have just a few little Red Seed Beads to add some colour and off they are set free to send their messages to the world, new homes!!!

I don't actually write the message...Its too personal I think who knows where these little birds are going?

I just love them!










Some have 3 little Birds, and some have two!!

Here is a close up of the Messenger Bird!

I am starting to also make a collection where one of the Birds is in a little shelter!

The shelter is a sort of nut that comes from Africa (that I bought at the Eumundi Markets) and I cut open into quarters! I had a lot of cleaning to do on the inside but they are clean and create a great shelter for my Little Messenger Birds!

Conversations!

I think we have entered a really funny stage for the world around us!
We have been going out to social events like camping festivals ever since Tullula was a little baby, but I think being in such close proximity with others changes as children get older, start walking and moslty talking, being more social!

Not that Tullula is very social yet, but talking she sure does a lot of!!
This weekend we went to our second "The Planting Festival" and it was interesting to hear how poeple around us were amused at the conversations they were hearing from Tullula and I!
A One way conversation...As reality is they were not able to understand what I was saying, but could understand all Tullula had to say, and could clearly see that we were having a coherent conversation, meaning that Tullula was understand all I had to say....

When I think of it, its true that it must be strange to hear such a conversation...To realise that we are having conversations in two languages, each our own yet understand one another!

Stephen has continued on to tell me that for him, being on the outside of it, he has witnessed many moments where poeple raise an eye brow, or are amused at what they are seeing/hearing...He has found it interesting to stand back and watch it happen...I cant see it, as I am in it. But it must be so interesting to observe!
If it was me, I would want to sit there and stare at myself and Tullula all day!

There also has been a change in the way people per sieve me...I have mentioned how isolating it has been to talk to Tullula in French and all, but I get the impression that now others/strangers realise that I must speak English, as despite me talking to her in French, I seem (well I do, but to others I seem) to be understanding her English, thus I must be able to speak it too!!
And this weekend has be the proof of that, as poeple would speak to me as well without any apprehension that maybe I did not speak English!
How wonderful...


Buts that's just the way it is at the moment...I speak in French and Tullula replys mostly in English!
And I hope someday it will change where we will both be speaking French and just sound like foreigners!!

              Here is a little video of a band that playing this weekend, I just LOve her voice!

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Enjoy!

For the past few months now I have been working extra hours well maybe it's even more extra days!!!
I have started a new job working at a spa and work there 2 days a week and have picked up an extra day at my original job!!
It's all a lure to get more money, more cash for my Europe holiday!
yes sometime despite all the extra work I never seem to be ahead financially... Crazy world we live in, the more you have the more you want the more we work the more we need to work!!
But at least I have a long holiday ahead... A goal I am working towards!
Yesterday I took my back pack to the dry cleaner to get it cleaned up a bit and well it turns out all the straps are rotten and I have to get a new bag! Good thing Easter sales are on!
Reality is that I am getting tiered,tired of the rat race for more money, for it only to be spent in the end on more material things, sure those things will be special and from France, but what will they be in the big picture? Nothing....Ok I might look and feel pretty good in a nice Skunk Funk dress form Paris...(and reality is that I will get one or two:-)...But what I am trying to say is that I get lost in it all and I am getting tired!
Tired of working for money opposed to pleasure, these days all I want to do is sew crafty things!!!
(but I need money as "Spotlight" is becoming an expensive hobby to have)...
I have a whole big new list of things I want to make, and still one to finish...
Gota get that update out to you all!
I think I am going to skale things down and really try to enjoy special Time with Tullula.
Last night she was asking and asking me to play with her, and I had one thing after another to do (none were craft either, so not much fun for me) but in the end, she just gave up on me and said to Stephen, "you be mommy and I be daddy" so he did, and she said to her daddy "momy, you want to play with me?" so her daddy that had become her "momy" played with Tullula, I mean "daddy"....Very confusing, but they played for a good hour and they never seemed to get confused as to who was who...
I think it was a revenge on me not being available!!
I get so caught up with work, house chores and desperately trying to do the things I want to do, i think I have been neglecting my child!!!
It has to change, something has to change...So of course I dream of sailing away, driving away (in the bus of course, and since I cant drive it I need stephen to be there too)...I even have been having dreams of flying of to Mexico!
Ole!!!
Maybe i am just getting itching pants, of something like that, after all I am not used to being in one place for so long, and this is starting to add up as being the longest time in one place....

 well at least the Kookaburra's out side our window a beautiful and let me come super close!

Oh and for all the non Australians, here is a little song/nursery rhyme that's a Classic in Australia!

Tullula already knows it and sing it to us.

Kookabura song!

Tuesday Tullula

 

A Photo worth a thousand words, that's what I feel this one is!