Coming Out Of Hiding

Being the introvert that I am, I can at times go into hiding, enjoying some peace from the outside world, both on and offline.  The last couple of months have been about just that and now at the end of it I'm refreshed, ready to embrace the world around me, feeling healthier, inspired and enthused about work.

During the time I've had lots of lovely family time, enjoying our new surroundings...

The little one has taken a real interest in photography, initially using a toy camera but is now excited to have her own, hand-me-down, digital camera.  She had made a structure the other day and before playing with it, got out her camera to document it. 

We've also had a new member join our family.  She was a little nervous on her first day in her new home, but has since taken over the place and is growing so quickly.

I've been taking a few lovely long afternoon walks up my street and just have to pinch myself each time that I get to live here.  Each time I come home I also ask myself the question why I'm not doing that walk daily, so here's to forming a new habit.

It's a real joy to own a garden for the first time.  The man has been getting into the vege garden and planting lots of fruit trees.  I prefer playing with flowers and have been making a lot of trips to the local nurseries.

The new studio continues to be unpacked and set up, but I've started playing with ideas for a new range of formed silver.  This year I hope to add a lot more shape, dimension and colour to my silver work so stay tuned for that...

And then as evenings fall, personal craft projects have been coming out.  The stack of yoyos for my quilt continues to grow...

but as the weather has started to cool down, I felt the urge to pull out some wool and hook again, learning a crocodile stitch for the first time.

Work life is now about to get very busy again with BrisStyle's Destash and Dash market this Friday , wholesale orders to fill, interstate markets booked in for next month and a trade fair not too far to follow, but I hope to keep some of these quiet, cosy moments into my life on a regular basis.

Oh Where Oh Where Has This Blogger Been..?

Life has been rather quite on the Kimono Reincarnate blog of late... 

But now I can tell you the secret I've been bursting to reveal for a while...

As some long time readers may recall, I've been talking for the last couple of years about our Treechange dreams and how the Glass House Mountains made my heart sing....

Well... we've done it!  We finally found and bought a new home tucked away in this sweet little rural township. The first photo is taken from our backyard where we can see three of the mountains the town takes its name from... from the front yard, another.

We're planning a new studio, work that we'd like to do on the little house and what to plant in the large yard.  To encourage birds, they'll be lots of native Australian trees as well as fruit trees and a large vegetable patch (the second two which we'll try to encourage the birds to save for us).  The little one is very excited about having a yard for the first time and the puppy dog we'll adopt.  She and I will be able to walk to her kindergarten and then school everyday.  

We'll be moving in just before Christmas and really can't think of a better way to begin a new year, with the new, slower life we've been dreaming of for years.