making donations

Hello friends again, just a quick email to let you know about two worthwhile causes worth donating to if you are able to do so. A-M a most lovely blogger here in Brisbane is rallying donations for two most unexpecting Brisbanites who were effected by the floods. You can read their stories and donate here and here.

To help do our little bit, we will be donating all profits from our shop sales this week. Our shop payments come through paypal and we will then redirect the payments straight through to A-M's paypal donation service.

Being back home we are so grateful that our house and studio is up north and spared from the floods. However our hearts go out to those less fortunate. Through small donations like the above we can all do our little bit to help Brisbane recover.

Talking of recovering, this morning whilst walking Ruby along our beach (although not much of a beach now with serious erosion and alot of muck around) we watched a great big crane lift out sections of the Brisbane floating walkway right off our beach. It had traveled all the way out of Brisbane, through Moreton Bay and dumped on our beach right here in Scarborough. It simply just blows my mind.

more friends

Hello friends! We arrived back in Brisbane yesterday and this morning are back working in the studio - we've got heaps to do now that we are back - did I tell you we had a whole pallet of paper arrive before we left? That is 426 kilos of cotton paper awaiting to be printed - we are going to be jolly busy!

However before we get back into work mode, I wanted to share the above picture with you. We spent the past few days staying in a very cool farmhouse in Bellingen (photos to come) and Miss Ruby Tuesday wasted no time getting to know the locals. That is Lizzie and Reggie above. I can't say that they kicked off their friendship as beautifully as Ruby and Nigel did, however Miss Ruby sure did give it a good shot.

Poor muffin, I think she now has post holiday depression being back in the boring old print studio. No fences with intriguing animals on the other side. I really don't know how she is going to cope.

goodbye dear friend

Ruby - Goodbye lovely cow
Nigel - Safe travels my friend
Ruby - I'll never forget you.
Nigel- Promise you'll write
Ruby - Every day.

in the garden

Sweet lovely garden I will miss walking in you each day, and I know Miss Ruby will miss sniffing you just as much as well.

a weekend walk

making posies

Scattered around Baroona their is a mountain of old rose bushes. Apparently some of them are 60 years old, and they have been flowering abundantly whilst we have been "down on the farm".

I've been a busy little bee picking the buds and making little posies for around the house. This sweet little bunch is in an old Shelley milk jug we found at a local antique shop. Just the perfect thing don't you think?

in the vegie garden

Baroona has quite an impressive vegie garden. Having had astronomical amounts of rain in the past few months it well and truly is overflowing with abundance. If anyone is short on tomatoes I suggest you put on your gum boots and go for a walk around the vegie patch (garden, lawn, paddock maybe?). Just make sure you keep one eye out for snakes and the other on the goodies - Your bound to find more then you bargained for.

conversations

Ruby - I see you
Nigel - I see you too
Ruby - I've been watching you
Nigel - I've been watching you too
Ruby - You look funny
Nigel - You look like kind of strange too
Ruby - I am red dog
Nigel - And I am a red cow
Ruby - I have a white tail
Nigel - Me too
Ruby - Maybe we are related?
Nigel - I think we might be
Ruby - We should sniff each other
Nigel - Yes please
Ruby - Same place, same time tomorrow?
Nigel - See you then my friend.