Today I made blogging my new life

I have had a blog for about 6 months now but never really understood what I was doing here??...I love to look at the same blog every day in quiet desperation that she has posted something to inspire me. 

I feel like it is my turn to do some inspiring.

 I have decided these holidays that I will not be going back to my job looking after children.

I am and will be an artist selling my creations from home, doing adult art classes, posting on my blog daily and selling thru ETSY and other craft pages.  I need desperately to connect with people like me who cant help but create everyday, I need to feel alive inside again.....

So as I camped at the most beautiful beach yesterday with our wonderful friends, I sipped wine and thought 'how can I ever complain about my life", look at how amazing it is.  I need to change a few things and see everyday as the magical blessing it is, and tell people all about it so they can feel this way too.....

So where did I end up starting????  i love love love to research, my dream is that I am embroiled in some mystery like the Da Vinci Code ( minus the guns!)  I used to draw treasure maps and hide them in my books and then pretend to find them and go on the hunt, ohh if someone had only made me a map!!!  eehheemm  so anywho...where did I start??

One thing I have done is buy my first copies of 'Artful Blogging' magazine for $40 each EEEKKK!!!

They are so worth the money I paid.  Reading them....Its like living in a dream!  I am so a blogger and I wasent even aware of it, this is what I have hunted for...its been a long search....

Speaking of hunting and searching........

As we looked thru rockpools with our beautiful daughter, I realised that she was seeing everything for the first time and  it was all new and all exciting and dragging her away from those catseye snails was going to be hard.... this is how I have been feeling the last few weeks with my blogging hunt, staying up far too late because I just need one more look, one more blog....

I have found my treasure, and this is where my life changes.

So we came home today and as Kel and Indi cooked dinner I swanned around looking at my fairies thinking what i will use for my new banner for my better more functioning blog....blog blog blog my poor brain!

I spy my daily affirmation box and think 'hhhmmm, what do you think about all this?'

I open the box slightly worried that I may pull a harsh card that could possibly throw me,

knock me off my path a bit........

"Uniqueness"

How perfect can you get, everything I have read in the Artful Blogging magazine says 'uniqueness is what sets good blogs apart from shallow bad blogs.  Keep it real, be yourself and the people will come.

I cannot wait to be involved in this whole other secret world....

I love to write my ambitions down, its the best way for me to visualise and make things materialise, and with this page that I started a mere 2 months ago, its nearly all come true.  i even get my new macro camera in two weeks which will take my photos into a whole new level.

For me if its written down it has to happen.  Its already real if someone can see it.

So I would love you to come along on my creative journey, we have so much to learn together.

Im getting set up for tutorials, give aways and creative get togethers.

I am officially in LOVE xxx

xxx Sheshe

creating a lady cave

wow what humble beginnings, we felt like the luckiest people in the world to be living in our caravan in our beautiful fairy forest

but alas the may rains were whispering their arrivals in the wind, we had to build fast and with no money how???  $200 on wood and alot of dismantled pallets, iron from the dump, the gifts just kept on coming.

our wonderful house was built with luck and love, this was our lounge, dining and kitchen, im still not sure how we did it so well, look at that beautiful colourful mess xxxx

the day came to move the abandoned home to our new home so we could cherish it forever and thank this shanty of memories for our amazing start together.  3 days of towing, every strategy every thought up to move the house of junk, who thought it would be this hard....

the huge kauri bi fold windows were taken out for the move, i cleaned as the men towed, so pleased my darling shanty would have a new life..

precicely placed in its little nook....

oh joy!

goodbye burnt orange, your new colour is ever green

a welcoming step was made of old bricks and mud, a solid front step for welcoming its new guests

the concrete mud technician, monitoring how wet the mixture is..bless my practical child xx

meditative moulding and the hunting of treasures to make a beautiful display of creative fingers work,

 big and little fingers he he, indis stones are at the front

but hmmm, its still too small to become an art room to create treasures, lets call dave  : )

down with the walls and up with the floor, do you like the wave design in the roof,

me and kelly could patent this style

and the addition is on, just like that, yay hurrry and finish so i can decorate tee hee

everyone helped out, builders big and small  xxx

so here we are now, we have two french wwoofers ( willing workers on organic farms) and they painted my whole room, it took them 3 days, 3 painful fidly coats, bless their souls

are you ready to take a peek inside??

not just yet we havent finished painting, look ive even roped kelly into painting, he must be able to see how desperate and itching i am to get it pretty

so starts your tour, i have to warn that i have only had one day to tidy and put things together so these are not finished photos, i need furniture, after living in a caravan for so long one dosent accumulate much furniture

knock knock....we want to come in!

lets take a peek inside...

my make shift desk till i find perfection, a bit hard in houhora...

so many treasure to unpack, being watched over by Saraswati for wise choices

white white white, any one who knows me must think this white thing is so out of character,

i have gained so much confidence in beleiving in my path from reading a blog 'a fanciful twist'

Vanessa has inspired me to have a space of my own where my creations are free in their own world to become real.  And doing this in such a pure environment of white fresh beauty is something i feel i need, back to the basic sheshe, refinding what makes me tick insteading of ticking to keep in time with everyone else..

bird cages for 'Paper Moon Exhibition'

old barn doors for an ideas board, memory wall, inspiration....

old meets old meets older....

where the magic happens, anyone have a huge desk they would like to see right here???

catch the dream as it tries to float by....

seeds shelf for this is the seedery too, this amazingly ugly but beautiful vase was from my late nanee, bless her soul, she made me drive 4 hours to pick it up because she was afraid it would smash in the post, and of course there was the 4 hour drive home again xxx

old fairy party things from times long ago

more seeds....

sunset shadows.....

maybe an afternoon cup of tea....

or a crafting party for more, eewww i feel good creative times ahead...

so much material and bits and bobs to use...

the most beautiful lights to put up.....

i wonder if i remember how to paint anything but my nails???

Indi's dolls house, im thinking im going to do it up 'Trelise Cooper Interiors' style

so the first tour is over, a lot of prettiness to do, please come back and see how

were going here in the lady cave

its always nice when people stop by, oh heres a visitor now, Mr Crickini...

my expensive and high tech locking system!!...

This is where it all began, you are being allowed a sneak peek into my brain xxx

'click on the picture to see close up and both pages'

Thankyou for visiting, hope you one day own a treasure form the cave xxx