sleeping next to you

I love the nights that we lay in bed talking until we say- realy, we are realy going to stop talking now, we need to go to sleep! (followed by, oh hold on ill just say this, and half an hour more conversation) I dont mind being tired the next day because its most deffinately worth it to spend time with you. Your worth it.

Some nights when i cant sleep the rhythum of your breath soothes me to sleep.

When were in bed we are almost always touching, even if its just out toes touching or we are facing opposite directions and our backs press together.

I love to kiss you between your shoulder blades, or lean over the back of the couch and snuggle into your neck

I love You

i love new camera lenses!

For my birthday Benny bought me two camera lenses, a 28-80mm and a fish eye. He always knows just what to get me. I've known for a long time that i wanted a new lens, but had no idea what lenses did what. Benny asked me what i wanted it to do and did all the research to figure out what lenses would suit me best. Isn't he just the greatest!

Ive been playing with the 28-80mm all week and a package slip for the fish eye arrived in the post this morning. Me and the boys i look after, excitedly wandered to the post office (me, excited because of my package slip, them because they knew id take them to 'pay gwound' afterwards)

Once id picked up my new favourite toy we all headed to the playground for a play

This is the main reason i wanted these lenses, to be able to take pictures inside. The 50mm (very zoomed in lens) that i had just didn't cut it!

I've wanted photos of my home, as i know we wont be here for too long (saving to buy a house) and want to have photos of mine and Benny's first home together as i know they will be special to look back at. Just like i love looking back at my old bedroom.

This is my kitchen/dining room area

The view from the kitchen of the dining area/kids play area. Look Oma, I'm still appreciating the roses you gave me from your garden on my birthday (most of them are a little dead now though but ill keep them a little longer:)

Our (messy) lounge room

My craft room doubles up as the kids sleep room, here it is set up as sleep room. Pics of it as craft room to come (when no ones sleeping there!

happy monday

Today we went driving. We took these photos, they make my heart sing

I always love holding his warm rough skinned hands. The hands of an electrician, there's always a new bump or scratch from his business at work. They're his and i love them

these birds are flying because Benny through a rock at them. 'for photographic purposes' (and perhaps because the little boy in him likes seeing birds scatter into the sky:)

love love love:) this ones needs to be big on my wall, i knew it as soon as i saw it

On the way home we went searching for garage sales. we found some good ones.Oh happy happy Monday

dont you love 'just because' suprise presents! one week my wonderful benny went to adelaide with his parents to do our food shopping but i had to stay home to work. i absolutely love jamie oliver's jamie at home series on tv so benny brought me home the book. its fantastic, i love it!

he also got me this realy cool old style weighing scale so i no longer have to look through a million (minor exageration) recipes in search of recipes that only need cup mesurements. yay!!

ive been out in the garden adding more no-dig garden beds. the one in my tutorial is growing fantasticly

esme, one of the recent chickens i got turned out to be a rooster so we swapped him for this little girl, lucy

ive been making a sour dough bread starter (natural yeast made by fermenting flour and water) for the past week. this afternoon a made a dough and its on its first rise at the moment

ducks, no dig gardening and a whole lota rain

on the weekend we got 3 ducks, the little white girl is called jemima puddle duck (and ironicly shes the only one who loves the pond so far) the male is bennys and he called it ajax. our last girl were still deciding on a name for

we whipped up their home out of an old cupboard. a few cuts, a whole lot of staples later its a cozy little bed for them to sleep at night. they are so adorable and very cudly (they arent easy to catch yet but as soon as youve picked them up their quite happy

heres dad with all the chookies.

my garden project at the moment has been setting up no-dig garden beds (as ive mentioned before our soil is very clay so no-dig gardens are a great solution for this).

the most fun one has been potatoes, i love being able to shift away the straw and see whats happening "under ground", very cool to see tiny potatoes forming and shoots reaching for the light.

ill take some photos of them to share. in fact im adding on to a garden bed tomorrow, if i remember ill do a little tutorial on how ive been doing mine

this is what i got benny for his birthday, a dart board. hes very happy with it

weekend knitting

while i was knitting the ben was doing this... (putting spare sock knitting needles through his earing holes. strange man but i love him:)

i finished knitting my pair of socks

and then an arm band as requested for benny. hes a bit in love with the softness of bamboo yarn. me too

hope you had a great weekend xo

a beautiful weekend

i had such an great weekend. me and ben spent most of it outside enjoying the beautiful warm weather, walking around my 'almost my' town. Its exciting to drive into pt wakefield now, feeling like I'm driving home. not long now! id have to say the thing im most excited about is the fruit and veg shop in pt wakefield, its such a warm shop (as in it has a good feel) and it has really great fresh fruit n veg (taste nicer than woolies and is often cheaper!) me and kylie (who used to live in pt. wakefield) are always talking about how great it is and soon it will be my 'local' so until i have a garden filled to the brim with home grown fruit and veggies(which i cant see happening while were renting) this will do the trick nicely, yay!

speaking of yay, kylie is going to be working in wakie over the summer holidays!!! it will be so nice to have her about the place while I'm still new to it, with kylie about it will instantly feel like home. Today we went to the beach together and had a sunny morning of fun and she introduced me to ice cream sandwiches. don't know what their really called but they're ice cream sandwiched between biscuit/cakey stuff that doesn't freeze(stays soft) they are REALLY REALLY GOOD!!!

and here's my funny man, each time i would take a pic of him he would try to blink as i pressed the button. it took me a while to notice as my camera is so quick it mostly caught a pic before his eyes closed! (i certainly didn't have that with the old point n shoot!) (pics taken manual, totally starting to understand what settings are about, so lovin the creative control that manual offers. ((well more so will offer once i know what I'm doing lol:))

also took some pics of his beautiful niece on the weekend. she is soo cute, almost a year old(she'll feel utterly spoiled on her birthday by her uncle benny and i, we went a bit crazy choosing clothes and toys last target toy sale) its so cute now that shes crawling around the place. she loves tapping on the glass door to get bens parent's dog Jasper's attention

and heres my fav pic a bit bigger so i can show off how sharp i got her eyes and eye lashes, im pretty proud of that effort. (especialy with a quick moving bubba!) pictures were taken auto with manual focus (because by the time i got camera sorted for manual she woulda been glued to to the window chatting to Jasper)

brownies mmmm

my babe made me brownies, they were so good! and i have a whole container all for myself... which i left in pt. wakefield:( sigh! oh weal, at least i have photos so i can look at them and remember how good they were. (kidding, that makes it so much worse!!!!!) i sure do wish i had brownies

he loves chicks that hug trees

aka me! love that shirt so much, makes me smile from ear to ear every time he wears it.

could i be any more flatterd? i feel so lucky to have someone who loves me completely and wholely for who i am.

3 things that make me happy today

1.chamomile (or as ben refers to it, "want some of that hippy flowers tea babe?") tea in my happy yellow teapot. note the pot holder, can you tell i love that kombi fabric? chamomile tea always makes me feel so relaxed:)2. my " man ring" ben made me at work

3. tomorrow is my sleep in day!! i usually get up at 6 but tuesdays are 8 at the moment. I wake up at 6 anyway but its so nice to know that i dont have to get up for 2 whole hours!! yay for tuesdays!! and i have the cutest little bub who comes for the morning tuesdays. what could be better than tuesdays?!