Munchys Outdoor Cook Out

After working far too much on my exhibition work we decided it was time to make a new play area for our daughter.  We had a square of dirt by the bathroom door, the dog sleeps there for shade and dirt blows into the bathroom, which is creating far too much sweeping which Im just not into.

I had been to the dump ( yes I love the dump) the week before and found a little oven and these cute french wire shelves and these large plastic bins with holes in them, so we brought the lot home for a kitchen for munchy, I get 4 weeks to do whatever I can with the junk I bring home, otherwise it  has to go back to the dump, its great motivation!

so anywho this is what we created....

We love a good build, now what do we need

nails and stuff...

my best friend the skill saw....

a magic helper fairy.....

a good keen man to dig the holes and mix up the concrete....

while me and munchy make the frames and paint them....

voila! it is done, these beautiful shelves are the ones from the dump...

What a beautiful Sunday....lets go to the beach and get some sand.......

Now where we live is a peninsula at the top of New Zealand and its rather skinny, so its 8 km from east to west coast, a five minute drive across, you can see the water on the other side in this photo, which is taken from the top of the hill in the photo above....

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 to go west to 90 Mile Beach you have to go through forestry, and the forestry is huge, the worst dirt roads, wild horses, wild native plants and wild driving.......

Its pretty quick but obviously boring for some.....

and extremely exciting for others!!!......

A huge beach, called 90 Mile Beach but actually 90kms  woops!..

I found some beautiful beach art made of summer treasures....

It looks so pretty sailing in the wind......

Time to go see how dads getting on....

Gathering sand for the kitchen.....

For my little miss sandy toes....

This is what 90 Mile looks like, wild, abandoned and deadly...to cars and humans.....

So we travel back with our sand in tow....

Through a magical forest haunted with hundreds of horses...

and fallen pine cones....

 back home...

I put down the weed mat with the help of Pipi....

and a few minutes later its done, how cool....

a perfect place for her new pots and pans...

so whats first on the menu??? ....

Mmmmmmmm muffins hehe

what a perfect oven to cook little sandy treats.....

what a wonderful Sunday project with so much fun to come, see the ducks down there waiting for their order!!.... she is going to have the busiest little cafe....

Speaking of food we better go munchy, theres a bbq going on over at Nanas house, what shall we make??..

watermelon, avocado and feta sticks drowned in sweet chilli sauce  mmmmmmmm

we are a huge meat eating country, mmmmm steaks sizzling on the bbq, can you smell that flame grill juicyness ( sorry to all vegeterians : )

and no meal is complete in our family feasts without a huge pot of peas.....

Well thankyou for reading my tale, im as busy as a bee and best get on with the framing of yet more little pictures

I hope this inspires you to create a little creative nook for a munchkin in your own life, and remember that the dump is your wonderland.  Does any one want me to do a post about my dump so they can see this wonderful place for themselves, lets see what treats you can spot in the photos, maybe I can go back and get them and create something for you.

have a happy and inspirational day today

sheree xxx

The Ever Resurfacing Flowers

A few years back now all I used to do was paint flowers, big flowers, this one is 1 meter x 800mm

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I eventually burnt out and went into landscapes of my local area...

but that became mindless work as I was only painting what I knew people were going to buy and my heart just wasent in it anymore so I gave up paintings all together..

This Calla Lilly was painted from 2am to 5am one night in a rage of passion, very weird to resuface in the morning and greet something you dont really remember doing!!!

This one is huge at 1metre x 1 metre too..

And so as I did the last paintings today for my Paper Moon Exhibition that is in 24 days (eeekkk) the flowers came back for the last ride...

I did one and enjoyed it so much that I painted all of my favorites from so long ago...

Its nearly midnight where I am so I had to use my flash, the gold hasent come out quite so well..

woops! I could have waited but who wants to wait!!!

You dont mind Im sure....

It was so nice to do a little bit of serious with my cartoon girl, she has been getting into much mischeif lately....

This water lily will be the picture on my flyers that will go up around town...

I also couldnt help but do the two peacocks that were on the posters for my Pisces Sister Exhibition over 2 years ago, so nice all my old friends still want to be relesed in new art forms....

gotta get both perspectives!!....

and I had to chuck in a spider web too.....

and my mother gave me the cutest birds nest today for one of my jars so I did a nest picture too...

This is my daughters grow tree which is painted on our wall, so this one is about her.......

The knitting lady, because when this exhibition is over Im gonna sit back and try to remember how to knit again.........

It has been a super fun day but also a bit sad that the 85 pictures to be framed for my exhibition are now done, I have so many little pictures in my brain but they will have to wait till March.

So off to the printers in the morning then back home to finish the jars and bird cage lamps.  pheeewwwww...

sheree xxxx

I wonder where the flowers will pop up next????...

My New Friend Etsy

Hi everyone

It has been a busy few days and the week is about to get even busier.  I am officially on Etsy now. Go here to have a look. The set up was a bit mind boggling seeing as i live in NZ and had to change all my pricing to US and also the postage in US too eeeeeekkkk!

 I seem to have released the contents of this magic genie bottle and all my artistic dreams are coming true.  A friend came over today and after hours of planning we are now starting a new arts collective in our community, no one else is going to do it and seeing as we had an art gallery here a few years ago we have alot of contacts. 

See what manifesting can do ; )

After all the feedback on OWOH I have been a busy bumble bee making more manifesting webs, Its so nice.. I have been sitting on the lawn as my munchkin plays in her pool, making magic,

Im preparing the wood for the webs.... 

to help people make amazing changes in their lives.......

it feels like a blessing

and these are the two I made last night, they are up on Etsy now

xxx

I also have a pretty peacock handbag......

A few paintings I dug up.....

and these wallets that I make too.......

and I wonder why I always look stressed in photos????

HHmmmmm.....Im still finding my balance!

I thought I would end on a cute note tonight, this is my munchy and her bestfriend Sandwich, they were born 6 days apart and they are in luuurrrvvv

It is no different between them if they have seen each other yesterday or have been apart for a month.  I guess thats what best friends are all about....

why do you love your best friend????

xxx