Creative Friday

Welcome to Creative Friday :) Thank you so much to everyone who shares the love and posts their links to their amazing work:) Please feel free to post your links to anything you have created and would like to share, it can be a recipe, sewing tutorial, knitting tutorial, felting, crochet, crafts, art, spinning, weaving, working with fibre, photography, poetry...etc...

I also love to hear from you, so if you have a moment, please leave a comment:) Thank you so much for sharing your wonderful talent with us! Just add the name of your blog to the widget and then add your blog link with the http:// at the beginning of your link address:) I have added a Creative Friday button on the sidebar of my blog, please feel free to add it to your blog for Creative Friday and link it to http://www.naturalsuburbia.blogspot.com/ so others can find this space and share their creativity too:)

Lunar Eclipse in the Southern Hemisphere

Last night at 8:22pm South African time, we started watching a spectacular lunar eclipse. It was a beautiful sight. We all stood and watched the moon mask into shadow and turn a blazing red colour. Truly magnificant to witness! I took some photos to share...

*Wednesday*

Today I spent a lovely morning knitting with my dear friend Sue, we were both working on our Shalom cardigans and having such a nice chat...  I am so happy to be knitting down the body of my Shalom, my handspun I am knitting in is the equivalent of a DK and I think there are about 225 stitches after all the increasing so it is taking quite some time to finish. I can't wait to wear this project, which I hope will be soon:) I have also been redesigning my guinea fowl pattern to have a knitted beak and comb instead of needle felteded ones.

Jenna has been spinning up batts...

Just had to include this photo of Charlie...

I would like to welcome my new sponsor, Natalie, all the way from Sydney Australia, who has a lovely blog over at The Little Gnomes Home.

Right Now...

**Thanks to everyone who sent well wishes and remedy suggestions for Erin's flu, Caiden came down with the flu yesterday and was flat most of the day. Today they are both looking much better, the colour has returned to their cheeks, this tired mama is happy:)**

Right now.... we are enjoying our southern hemisphere winter crafts, we have been making lemon pomanders, they are so easy to make, all you need are some cloves, a toothpick to make the holes, lemons and some pretty string to hang them up if you wish.

Make holes with the toothpick and push in the cloves, you can make such lovely patterns...

I love how our dogs play so sweetly together, I can't believe Sandy is almost 1 year old...

What is it about boys and digging huge holes in the sand? Kye came and asked if he could dig a big hole, like the ones we dig for our fruit trees... so off dad went, found some spades and the three of them dug a large hole... Kye was thrilled. He always finds stones and pieces of 'treasure', this makes him happy:)

I know... I take far too many photos of these feathered girls of ours, but have you ever watched chickens sand bathing? It is truly amazing and very entertaining. The way they fluff up the sand, dig and contort their  bodies just to find the perfect sunny, comfy position...
They make little concave bunkers all over the garden, too sweet...

The girls are so excited, their seeds arrived from the poppy competition that they won and they have such great plans for them. It makes me happy that they are excited about seeds:)

Love to all xo

Images Around Our Home and Garden

Today has been a wonderful sunny and warm day, after the week of freezing and rainy weather we have experienced, the sun has been most welcome! I wandered around the garden and inside our home with my camera and have taken some photos to share here... I am enjoying visiting the links on Creative Friday, you are all so wonderful and thank you for the lovely birthday wishes for Jen's 14th birthday on Thursday. Today her little bird flew away out of his cage, she has hand-reared him since he was a tiny little hatchling. It was a most traumatic time, but then she went outside and called to him, she had a bowl of his favourite food (bird nutritional cereal) in her hands and he flew down to her from the oak tree and sat on the bowl! His name is Doug, he has never known life out in the 'wild' and doesn't know how to fend for himself, it is also freezing here at night, so we were all terribly concerned for this sweet little creature. We are so relieved he is back here, safe with us... Erin is down and out with flu at the moment, she has been drinking honey, lemon and ginger tea and taking her homoeopathic remedies, but I can see she feels flat... if anyone has any natural remedy suggestions that have helped to soothe flu symptoms, I would be most grateful to hear them:)

I have listed a new item in our Mamma4earth family shop, some bottle green glass stitch markers, made by my wonderful daughter Jenna.

Happy weekend xo
(PS Thinking of you my dear friend Shannon xo xo)
Linda