our new beautiful roof which has made so much difference to our lives and has only been up for 3 days
rustic gum posts and stained big chunky beams mmmmm
a wonderful place to sit and enjoy our view, but alas there is much more work to do, on with the pizza oven making, gather friends and let us create something together
Waiaria and Sioux putting down the brick base
Me and Anaya making the sand mound which will become the shape of the inside of dome
mixing up the first layer
all fun and games and great excercise
and we put down a hangi too to feed all the creative workers
Tia and Anaya
yum fresh lamb mmmmm
hangi is ready to descend
rain rain rain, we still work on....
finishing the first layer of the dome
Me and Sioux trying to remember what we had learnt last weekend about the size of the door hhmmmm must be hard, look at that tongue
Bushman Pete cutting the door
Caleb cutting the door
applying the insulating layer
many hands make fun work, the final pretty layer, home made dhajit
I love this stage it is so fun and mushy to apply
Indi playing in spilt cement, thinking "mum...why are you always so busy??"
finishing trowel work
yum yum yum kai is ready mmmm
Indi and Sam having their dinna
the finished product, i put a star trail over the oven diagonally with a cookie cutter and we pressed a tile i brought in thailand into the front, the fire will come up out the door and the buddha will get all black and sooty from the smoke
awesome to have so many people interested in our creative projects and want to be involved in helping each other, love you guys, this was an awesome piece of teamwork
bring on the pizza party
it will be painted and the stars will be gold leafed, for mega sparkle
now i need to find an amazing handle from a junk shop
we have a long drying process to go before we can eat, by xmas it will be all on
Indi having fun pulling all the sand out
Well our poor little miss had a rough time on the weekend trying to fit in around our building projects, when it was all over on monday we had an indi day and did whatever she wanted. She is obsessed with tomatoes, eating about 10 a day so we took a visit to bushman petes and billys greenhouse and she got to pick a whole basket and eat as many as she wanted.......
like a little happy pig rolling in mud xxx
whew, bring on Mt Mangonui, i need a break : )
