Happy New Year all! Please excuse my absence and bumpy beginning to this whole blogging business. My favorite blogs are ones that keep up with the pace, posting regularly and providing their loyal readers with all sorts of interesting bits of news. I had such high hopes for my own humble little blog but picked probably the worst time in the world to begin one! The end of last year was too crazy for me and my family. We moved house, I did my first couple of Christmas markets, whilst working at my friend Amber’s shop over the month of December, with a week in Hobart in the midst of everything to celebrate my dear mother-in-laws 60th birthday. Add in general Christmas, end of year madness and you end up with one exhausted mama. Sure, I had plenty to blog about, too bad I could barely string a real life sentence together let alone a witty, coherent paragraph of interest.
so Andy, my sweetheart of a husband, decided a good old fashioned family road trip would sort me out, and he was right. We left our not quite fully unpacked from the move home just after Christmas day and headed north. Our travels lead us through country Victoria, across the Murray into the Riverina. Our destination was Wagga Wagga where we stayed in the beautiful home of a couple of Andy’s friends. We ate our weight in Frosty Fruits, swam in the Murrumbidgee River, visited the local pools, read, drew, slept and drove, drove, drove! It was at times perhaps more Chevy Chase’s National Lampoon Vacation than I would have liked but was it just what I needed? Abso-freaking-lutely!
Highlights include looking for treasures at the local op shop and antique stores, seeing little Coco run the length of a strange, stranded black submarine in the middle of the small town of Holbrook, (she seems to be recreating Kate Winslet’s character from Titanic in the pic below!) visiting the Green Grove Organic licorice factory, a small family run business doing amazing things organically and environmentally and the biggest highlight of all? Being with my family, just the four of us, before this year grabs us by the hands and propels us in all sorts of crazy directions. Twas fun….
Here are a few snaps on our trusty lomo.
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Gorgeous photos I love them all! take care, slow down. I want a lowly worm- he is divine!!!!!! the hanky blankys are superb- so unique and exquisite. Keep doing what you are so gifted at -mothering and creating beautiful handmade items.
What great pics!!! Good to hear you got some well deserved R&R on your break !!