Leafdays http://www.leafdays.com Making the world a prettier place Wed, 30 Jun 2010 07:43:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 en hourly 1 Where the spirit goes http://www.leafdays.com/announcements/where-the-spirit-goes-2/ http://www.leafdays.com/announcements/where-the-spirit-goes-2/#comments Wed, 30 Jun 2010 07:43:28 +0000 Carla http://www.leafdays.com/announcements/where-the-spirit-goes-2/ Today a caring, tender, exceptional woman lost her husband. Today a sweet gentle little girl lost her father.
I wish there was something, anything I could do to ease their sorrow, and it enrages me to know that there isn’t.
But there is perhaps something I can tell them. His spirit is still with them. He is in the banana tree out in the garden, in the kalo patch he tended, in the waterfall and the shrimp-filled river down the mountain, in the orchid that bears his name and in the distant sound of the ocean that laps the beautiful, verdant island where he lived.
Farewell M. May you watch over your family forever.

]]> http://www.leafdays.com/announcements/where-the-spirit-goes-2/feed/ Where the spirit goes http://www.leafdays.com/announcements/where-the-spirit-goes/ http://www.leafdays.com/announcements/where-the-spirit-goes/#comments Wed, 30 Jun 2010 07:43:11 +0000 Carla http://www.leafdays.com/announcements/where-the-spirit-goes/ Today a caring, tender, exceptional woman lost her husband. Today a sweet gentle little girl lost her father.
I wish there was something, anything I could do to ease their sorrow, and it enrages me to know that there isn’t.
But there is perhaps something I can tell them. His spirit is still with them. He is in the banana tree out in the garden, in the kalo patch he tended, in the waterfall and the shrimp-filled river down the mountain, in the orchid that bears his name and in the distant sound of the ocean that laps the beautiful, verdant island where he lived.
Farewell M. May you watch over your family forever.

]]> http://www.leafdays.com/announcements/where-the-spirit-goes/feed/ In my garden http://www.leafdays.com/blogging/in-my-garden/ http://www.leafdays.com/blogging/in-my-garden/#comments Thu, 27 May 2010 17:05:33 +0000 Carla http://www.leafdays.com/?p=912 I am still shoulder high in crates, but I took a minute today to nip to the garden, and look what I saw. Aren’t roses beautiful?

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]]> http://www.leafdays.com/blogging/in-my-garden/feed/ We are moving (well, almost) http://www.leafdays.com/background-paper/we-are-moving-well-almost/ http://www.leafdays.com/background-paper/we-are-moving-well-almost/#comments Mon, 24 May 2010 12:16:47 +0000 Carla http://www.leafdays.com/?p=908 We are almost there! All our furniture has arrived from storage and we are now in the (long, tedious, untidy) process of unpacking the 60 or so crates that contain our possession.

We are sleeping at the old flat (so the children won’t have to live with dozens of unpacked boxes littered everywhere) but the new house is looking more and more like home, hooray!

My paints and brushes are still buried somewhere in the unpacked mess, but I found one of the last background papers I made before we left the flat in Italy.

It was a free painting exercise—blue and green splotches ’stamped’ bubblewrap, corrugated cardboard and milk bottle caps. It is not the best one I made in that series, but it is the first one I came across when unpacking, and therefore deserves the honour of being used.

Painted background

I am not sure what I’ll make with it yet, but it should celebrate our new home.

]]> http://www.leafdays.com/background-paper/we-are-moving-well-almost/feed/ Look what I have just stumbled upon… http://www.leafdays.com/blogging/look-what-i-have-just-stumbled-upon/ http://www.leafdays.com/blogging/look-what-i-have-just-stumbled-upon/#comments Fri, 21 May 2010 13:46:03 +0000 Carla http://www.leafdays.com/?p=905 …a lovely piece of floral ephemera which I had forgotten all about. Can’t wait to use it…

Lilies ephemera to collage

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