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a most special gift never lose it ms alys the world needs more people like you and here for your viewing pleasure are the contents of my most wonderful and delightful parcel this is what i saw when i opened up the parcel bag scrumptious perfectly colour coordinated eclectic and plain outright delicious check out the detail that ms alys went to on both sides just look at these jewelesque bottle caps from california that glorious gold ted s root beer cap is my equivalent of a 10oz figgy fizz i need to have a lay down if you aren t from last century didn t watch sesame street before it went to the dark side or just can t remember check out this clip to see what i am talking about with the 10oz figgy fizz quote https www youtube com watch v 2ls2vnfqxyc gorgeous printed bunting check out the amazing detail on the printed cloth each image carefully selected from past blog posts on the road to serendipity and most perfectly paired together to give the very best representation of what we are all about and our ethos i am positively gobsmacked at how lovely this all looks in the very last of our errant summer light love you ms alys lastly this wasn t in the package i made this for a classmates new baby sister no one likes normal baby hats right ella s mum is going to tie her dummy to that long tail dual purpose hattage my favourite kind catch you all later i have to race up to sanctuary and get watering before stevie boy gets back with earl bezial and i are having a rest of walking today have a fantastic time till we meet again evolving 16 feb 2015 58 comments by narf77 in uncategorized tags crochet crochet covered buttons epiphany evolving happiness lessons in blogging life lessons hi all what s this didn t narf just say i won t be regularly blogging for a while and here she is blogging well yes indeed i am you see i just had a little epiphany i have been reading and digesting your comments about my rather hastily conceived blogging hiatus that i dumped on you last wednesday life last week was past hectic and into crazyville and i was pruning away like mad to find a little bit of something normal to hang onto we spent the weekend planning and prepping we have lots of meals in the freezer we have organised ourselves well we are on top of it all and this morning i read a blog post by the always chic ever interesting and often thought provoking ms cityhippfarmgirl who was the instigator of my blogging epiphany she has been blogging for 5 years now not much more than i have and threw a word into the arena that gave me great pause for thought the other day i was feverishly crocheting a cover for a tablet that we purchased to support our latest study load stevie boys twitchy fingertips had been all over it and if the fbi had have wanted a sample of his dna they could have easily swiped it and had more than their fill i was considering how to protect it from the bumps and knocks that seem to follow our chaotic life around at the same time as find an instant way to slither away those finger marks no stevie boy dna for you fbi and came up with the idea for a crocheted cover mainly because i can t sew for toffeenuts once it was finished i had to work out how to close it i have no idea how to put zips into things and even if i did i didn t have a zip so that was out of the question i ended up thinking buttons but all i had were some teeny tiny ones that would have required a shrew like sequence of them and nimble fingers to keep the cover closed and knowing how impatient stevie boy is i could see them being left undone and the tablet slipping out in transit or worse still when the cover was held aloft like excalibar what was a girl to do hmmm in the midst of my feverish musing i suddenly remembered a pinterest pin that i had shuffled into my crafty bollocks board and i went hunting i finally found it and gleefully started hooking the pattern was for lovely eccentric crocheted buttons as the wool that i had used to make the tablet cover was so very thick and chunky double insulation for life s bumps and knocks the buttons ended up huge but who cares they served a purpose and put a narfish seal of approval on the final result i would love to share a photo of the cover with you all but it is 3 50am and stevie boy has sequestered both tablet and cover away somewhere and i don t want to wake up the dogs and pique their early morning interest so you are just going to have to believe me that it is a eccentric and b serves the purpose when i was making the buttons i immediately knew that i wanted to share the pattern i wanted to tell everyone how to make them and how much fun it was to customise your own buttons and then suddenly i remembered i am having a rest but you see i didn t want to have a rest i just wanted a bit of freedom to blog about what delighted me and what would be fun to share and that was my epiphany so i won t be stopping blogging my dear constant readers my knee jerk reaction to almost drowning in c h a n g e which has always been my bugbear what a magnificent word and sticking point was to throw caution and all of my sheets to the wind and run around howling just before i sequestered myself under the bed with earl at arms reach i took all of your wonderful and most caring suggestions on board and my posts will be shorter and more to the point when i have something that makes me squee with delight i will share it i can t share my nectarines with you as they went in my mouth and i ate them but everything else you can consider fair game i want to thank ms cityhippyfarmgirl for giving me the most splendid and thoughtful epiphany my word for this year is evolve and evolve i shall see you soon when i will most probably have something to get excited about and at least one photo to brighten it up a bit if you would like to have a go at making your own squeealicious crochet covered buttons here is a very easy tutorial there are many more out there but lazy old me just went with numero uno as it was a doddle http www annettepetavy com pages en newsletter 2012 10 html update stevie boy is up now so i took a photo of the cover with the button sewn on it i am imagining that your buttons will be a whole lot better than mine i left the benchmark pretty low i like people to feel good about themselves ta dah here s to simple pleasures 11 feb 2015 67 comments by narf77 in uncategorized hi all the older i get the more i become enamoured of simple pleasures i got to skip my 5am walk with earl this morning because we are going to take the dogs for a long walk later on today i got to walk into my dark kitchen and put a gas flame on under my simple kettle i got to pluck 2 tea bags i like my tea strong from my simple ceramic tea canister and place them in my big mug i got the time to wait for the kettle to boil as i was loading up my rss feed reader and going through the process of working out exactly where my mind was going to go this morning i got the distinct pleasure of the scent of the promise of simple happiness as i poured the boiling water and my first mug of tea started to infuse i decadently carried it over to my work station at 3am and settled down to start awakening my mind with possibilities aided and abetted by the intensely heady but at the same time fundamentally basic simple pleasure of tea at 5am i made myself another cup my day can t get much more luxurious and bohemian than this isn t this bunting amazing marlene sent it to me she sent me 3 strings of bunting and a lovely card and i am completely and utterly in love with it along with the gorgeous bunting that mommermum and ms pauline sent me and sanctuary is going to look like a wonderful hippy bazaar isn t this little crocheted dragon magnificent it was sent to me by ms snail i have more than enough bunting to cover the front of sanctuary and this little dragon makes me smile stevie boy was born in the chinese year of the dragon which makes this little fellow doubly special ms snail also sent a wonderfully penned story about the birth of sanctuary the dragon that gave us his full pedigree i can t begin to thank all of my wonderful dear constant readers and mr snail who have contributed bunting dragoons and pedigree to serendipity farm you are all wonderful and we love the bones off you isn t this picture of max and sam mr and ms snails babies gorgeous i find that simple things are starting to make me smile more often i love heading out into sanctuary and noticing some new leaves or a slight blush on a tomato ripening or seeing that first tentative tendril of purest green emerging from a dormant seed i love the possibilities that come from each new day the first thing i do when i wake up is to say thank you god for another day the very next thing is i hope i do something worthwhile with this one every day is a gift a new chance to start again to fix what you don t like and to learn more about yourself and the world around you every day is another chance to explore and to evaluate and to measure and to infuse your senses in the older i get the more aware i am becoming what happened to that urgency where everything had to be done stat since when did i start to pay attention to little details and take such pleasure in the small moments earl taking in the view on a hot february day stevie boy took this photo of a gnarly old log he thinks that it looks like rumplestiltskin i think he has been into the cooking sherry this little fellow was in a bag of dog toys that we bought this week to placate the boys and i couldn t bear to let earl dismantle him he is made of hand dyed fabric and will join the other rescued toys in stevie boys music room i am just pouring my milk into that second luxurious cup of tea perfectly brewed this morning because i don t have to rush or watch the clock i can stretch my toes out under my lap blanket and i can take a few nice deep breaths i can inhale that perfect aroma of fresh tea and know that all is right with my little corner of the world if i had just one precious thing to give you all today it would be this perfect nugget of wisdom find your pleasures in the simple things that is where life is truly beautiful our girls out on the range free ranging 3 rocoto tree chilli capsicum pubescens babies i have more sprouting in the glasshouse but wanted to see if they would grow outside they grow in temperate climates they are perennial and they produce chillies that start out green and mild and progress through black and hot to red and very hot you pick the colour and choose the heat my kind of chilli what a lovely last paragraph today i am rushed off my feet i got up later than i should have i have roughly 40 minutes to race through my rss feed reader and stumble half asleep out into sanctuary at 5am where i get to water in the dark with stevie boys torch wedged in a most determined manner between my teeth like i am pretending to be an overweight middle aged female pirate with aspirations of slicing my possum foes in twain with bright l e d light i am attempting to lose a bit of excess adipose tissue i don t know about you but where does this stuff come from it seems to creep up on me from all directions i discovered by complete accident a lovely and most highly flavoured low calorie sauce for vegetables last night by racing around like a chook with my head cut off doing all of the things while i was simultaneously attempting to make the next day s lunches cook stevie boy calzones from scratch and play an online game of anarchistic jigsaw puzzles something had to give and it ended up almost being my steamed veg i caught the pot just before the inch of water in the base pot boiled dry and when i peeked inside the lower pot and saw that condensed vegetable water that was as thick as gravy i tasted it and it was delicious all of this time when chefs have been boiling down sauces i thought it was just a waste of time apparently not you can turn humble veggie water into something thick sensuous and very very tasty it s my new go to sauce and hopefully will play a predominate part in shrinking my hind quarters appropriately whilst i bask in my new found saucy joys look how tall our baby grape vines have gotten we can start training them onto wires next year but this one has decided that it might train itself by the look of it earl and bezial in sanctuary eating grass the pumpkins are getting bigger it is wednesday morning and i just juggled a mass collective of things to do and you ended up winning the what can narf do at 4am lottery life has suddenly changed on serendipity farm it has gone from ordered languid chaos whereby we move around the place doing things as and when we saw fit to holy crap we are l a t e having to adapt to a completely new schedule coupled with integrating ourselves into a whole new lifestyle has been exciting and incredibly tiring stevie boy and i are now physically attending school rather than lolling about in our pyjamas studying from home i have had to seriously adjust my schedules accordingly no more lovely up at 3am and spending the next 4 hours basking in online joy for me i have gone from that first delicious and life giving sip of tea that woke me slowly to please cool down fast i don t have much time my first attempt at succession planting i planted beetroots and lolo rosso lettuce i consider this attempt a success some of the scarlet runner beans that we have been harvesting from sanctuary finally pepino s 3am 4am is my time to do all of the things now at 4am i have to work out what has to be done specifically for that day today being wednesday is that day wednesday whereby we study 3d animation and i am supposed to post a blog post at 5am i stumble out the back door in the dark to head up to sanctuary and water this part of my day is not negotiable as manic and exciting as my day is going to be sanctuary is my happy place and shall always remain so a parched and dying happy place is an oxymoron and only a moron would allow it to evolve so its narf and a cantankerous bolshevik hose and a lot of muttering and under my breath swearing and the odd wide eyed and bewildered dog at my feet beseeching me to go back to the house and stop putting the things into play that will take us away from them and leave them pack less an artistic shot of my potato garden from the side earl has done a great job this year i have had quite a few nectarines from this tree the faerie village in sanctuary s mint bed is taking expressions of interest this is what happens when you add almost a full bag of mushroom compost to top up your mint bed this adjustment has been whole household bound and thank goodness both stevie boy and i are great at organising things as otherwise we would have most probably gone barmy in the segue between our old home study lives and our new fully integrated with class lives i must admit the new study format is awesome we already feel like part of the team and our lecturers are completely 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