I absolutely love stars. Some of my favourite memories with my childhood best friends are of dragging a camping mattress into our back yard and sleeping under the stars:)
This week I've been making lots of festive stars.
Ive made a garland of t
hese stars
I also re-filled these star candle holders with sweet smelling beeswax. This is my tricky pouring-boiling-wax-while-looking-through-camera-view finder photo
In case your wondering, yes I did over fill them and have to pry the pegs out. All good!
Ahh pretty
for yarn along I will share these knitted play veggies even though I already blogged them the other day.
Links to the patterns-
Mushroom-
Radish
Cucumber
Carrot- loosely based on
this pattern (I changed it to be more pointy)
Tomato- made up (yet to get around to the green top)
Corn (the half done yellow thing!)
Little M had the greatest time washing his hands (and the bathroom vanity!) today for a good half hour. A bar of soap can provide endless entertainment
13 comments:
cute veggies!
i love the nativity. so sweet. you made that star garland? wow! that is amazing.
love the veggies and LOVE the candles, there is nothing better than the smell of real bees wax. nothing.
:)
jen
Beautiful! Where did you find your nativity?
Where to start? I love the stars (I've bookmarked the page!), I love the candles (I can smell the beeswax), and I love your vegetables. What a lovely post!
The stars are wonderful! Great job! And those veggies? Adorable!
So much beauty straight from your heart as always, Karen. I always feel uplifted visiting you here.
I love the stars. My daughter is wondering how you all decorate for christmas down there- with the whole seasonal thing being different. What types of natural decorations mean christmas time to you? We'd love to know.
Hey Karen,
I just love the way you are living your good life! Your home and garden are looking beautiful and full of love ;0) I wish I could have a bunny but you're not allowed to in QLD - I had to laugh at that photo of him in the rocker - you really captured that dizzy feeling. I just read a book called "The Peaceable Kingdom" where a man raised a whole lot of animals together to see if they could be friends. The rabbit was very private at first but became best friends with the cat. It was really cute - he came right out of his shell. A nice read. I love your sewn bunny too, inc his face. I always wanted to sew Kees a little blue Peter R. coat - I still have the fabric but I never got around to it. :0( I totally sympathise with your goal to somehow reconcile Christmas and summer time - I would love to see more posts about what you come up with!! Everything Steiner is often so northern hemisphere focussed. YOu have to create your own traditions in a relatively new society like Aus. Anyway, I better not "rabbit" on for too long! xo
I think these decorations are absolutely exquisite. I am with you 100% on the strangeness of summer and Christmas in Australia. I've been here so long and I still mull it over each year. I knew I was a real Australian when the smell of jasmine started to mean that Christmas was coming. But I still find myself listening to carols about snow and looking longingly at snowy pictures on other people's blogs. So it's gorgeous to find a magical one like yours, located in my own hemisphere to inspire me!
Thanks so much for the message, Karen!
The veggies are adorable! I love your stars. I would love it if you would share at my sharing party at http://craftymomsshare.blogspot.com/2011/12/sharing-saturday-10.html. Thank you!
I love the veggies. I'm planning on knitting some fruits and veggies for my daughter's Easter basket this year.
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