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Rate Your Routines.

Good. Better. Best. Rate your routines. Are your routines working for you? For me a routine is: that lead up time to meal time or a situation that occurs regularly, eg. going to school or work. If the energy during the routine is feeling clunky and stressful, the outcome not matching the energy going into […]

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Perpetual Rose.

Hello, how are you? I just wanted to pop on and say Thank You! Thank you for being here. You are loved, appreciated and never taken for granted. What ever is planned for today, I hope that there are moments where you can stop to see the beauty. Those quiet moments where it feels like […]

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Homeschooling: Mentoring Sessions.

Edit: I have closed the appointment book for now. Much Love, Jude x   When I started homeschooling our daughter Liliana, I really really wished that I had someone to ask all my questions, someone who I could trust who had the answers. If that is how you are feeling at the moment, then this […]

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A bandicoot in the garden.

I’ve seen the Southern Brown Bandicoot in the front garden three times now. It never gets old. I find myself standing as quietly as possible and have to remind myself to breathe! The largest bandicoot we have seen by far, this darling potters about, digging a little and grazing. The first time I saw Brown […]

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Tending a cosy home.

For us, a cosy, tidy home is steadying and reassuring especially when everything else going on in the world at the moment can feel unsettling. I want to make things easier for our family, and together we have worked out easy systems and routines that aren’t time consuming and flow with the day. It makes […]

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The Store Cupboard #2

  This is the second instalment of my Store Cupboard series, my first instalment I shared in yesterday’s post. Creating a Store Cupboard isn’t a once done, leave it and walk away kind of thing. It evolves. I replied to a comment left on my Instagram post in relation to The Store Cupboard #1 blog […]

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The Store Cupboard #1

Stockpiling – the accumulation of groceries and house hold supplies – has become a dirty word since it is now associated with the pandemic and those crazy photos of adults behaving badly in the toilet paper aisle! Our grand parents and great grand parents and all the generations before them saw stockpiling or keeping a […]

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Early January 2022

Hello! How are you? I hope you are doing as well as can be during these interesting times. For us we are doing as well as can be here. Lil is healing and we are really hoping that she won’t be needing more surgery. Over Christmas time I re injured my hand and am recovering […]

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Lessons from Mama Blackbird.

I’ll be taking my lead from this Mama Blackbird and nesting. Tending the garden, spending time with my little family, and focusing on moving gently through these next few weeks. In the meantime if you are looking for a Fairy Wren Cottage fix there are my free ebooks that you are very welcome to download. […]

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