I’ll be sending out my Fairy Wren Cottage Postcard flowery newsletter this week. If you don’t already subscribe then you can subscribe HERE. There are lots of updates that I won’t be sharing anywhere else. Then I will be stepping away from social media for a bit, not permanent. I like to let you know […]

  Beauty in the Everyday Moments. In the garden. Pausing that bit longer to appreciate the dahlia’s as their second flush of flowers is coming to an end and marks the beginnings of them returning to the earth for the colder months. Checking on the hens, love how they afternoon nap in the warmth of […]

A cold Spring. An unfinished Hothouse. Tomato seeds that started off slowly and went down hill from there. The ground not warm enough to plant tomatoes outside during that cold Spring even if we bought large seedlings or tomato plants. Waiting for things to warm up. Buying the last of the local growers tomato plants. […]

    ~ Beauty in the everyday moments ~ Flowers in the dusk light. Picking Scarlet Runner beans. Sitting on the bench with Honeybee in her garden. Watching how she notices everything. Garden steps and a well used bird bath at the end of the day. The Indian Runner ducks waiting for me at the […]

It’s 4am Sunday morning and I have been lying in bed for the last hour and a half thinking about the 2 metres (yes, 2 metres) of rainfall parts of Australia have had since January. The very same areas that are experiencing that amount of rainfall also experienced the devastating bush fires a couple of […]

I’ve been wondering how to move forward with Fairy Wren Cottage Postcards. Wanting to share them on a more regularly basis, but at the same time not wanting to clog up your inbox. How does sending out a Postcard to you once a month sound? My plan is to send out this flowery newsletter in […]

“I will never apologise for embracing joy and beauty – even when the world is falling apart – because joy and beauty are my fuel for activism.” – By Karen Walrond, The Lightmaker’s Manifesto. Reading that quote yesterday on Brene Brown’s Instagram feed really felt like it helped shift my perspecitive. Motivating me to keep sharing […]

If you leave your pears to ripen on the tree, the birds, possums and wasps with get them before you. Remember that it is wasp season at the moment. They love to eat the inside part of the fruit that you might not be able to see when you are picking the actual fruit. Before […]

Written in early February, sharing it now. It’s always the way isn’t it! The one morning I’m out early watering the front garden, hair unbrushed and shirt on inside out, is when you see people to say hello to as they are walking past with their dog! In my defence I was relying on my […]