Christmas cactus

Hello DearHearts,

Went for a “Christmas Run” this morning. There’s a great waterwise garden along the way which, amongst other things, has cacti. This morning and on Tuesday I saw fabulous, quite enormous (as big as a blooming saucer) cactus flowers, blossoming at the tops of the cactus trunks. They were wonderful to behold, almost joyous in their fullery. They made me smile!

Take care Beauties!
Meg

Truffles, cellophane, bowls, anticipation

Dear Christmas Eve blog readers!

I have been making Christmas goodies. Chocolate truffles (best not to think too much about the fat content as they are double cream mixed with chocolate!) placed in china bowls, some with macadamia nuts and some with shortbread, all with star-shaped gingerbread biscuits, packed in bowls with clear cellophane and ribbon. Kept in the fridge to keep the truffles in shape.

Other presents are wrapped. Friends and family thought about, arrangements made.

To sleep now.

Have a really lovely Christmas Day tomorrow,
or if not celebrating Christmas, have a great day, and enjoy the holiday that is appropriate to you when it comes,
Meg

Thank you my beautiful green customers

A tremendously big green Thank You to all the people who have bought cards from me over the past month or so, and 6 months or so.

In the past month, in the interests of providing a modicum of protection for cards people have purchased, I have been offering a scrap of greenish (in colour) tissue paper or a re-used shopping bag as packaging. Every single person has refused the packaging. Good for you! I am thrilled to have such green and fabulous customers.

Hope the lead-up to Christmas is behaving itself at your place.

Take care,
Meg

1 new link, 1 new quote, wonderful ones

Greetings ones of wonder!

I have mentioned the most excellent Barbara Sher before. She has written some books that have been very important to me, such as “Refuse to Choose” and “It’s only too late if you don’t start now”. Today I have added Barbara Sher’s blog to my blogroll. There is a range of different stuff there, I haven’t finished checking it out myself, but my favourite quote so far (the one that I had to tell you about) is:

I love technology. I kiss nerd techies on their lovely, generous brains.

Also, Thank you for adding me to your blogroll M. Tornado Puppy!

Thanks for reading, see you soon.
Meg

2008 – what a good number

Hello fellow breathers of air!

This site has had 2008 hits as of right now. Thanks heaps for visiting and reading this.

I have been eating a lot of pistachio nuts lately, Mmm! I decided that binning (to landfill) wasn’t the way to go with all the shells so have been collecting them in an old container. But I still wasn’t sure whether to put them in the bokashi compost or what. I have decided to utilize them as mulch (there are a lot of them), and I have arranged the first batch around my baby mandarin tree trunks.

In other pistachio news I have been reading (I think I mentioned) “Animal, vegetable, miracle” by Barbara Kingsolver (I got it from amazon.com, you can too) which is a year of local food growing and choices etc in the Appalachia region of America. I have been thinking about how to make local choices for food where I live. Last Sunday at the Farmers Market I found a local source of pistachios. They are quite lovely and less travelled!

2008 is also a good number because it also matches the year number – fancy that! The year is coming to a close rapidly. I hope it has been a good one for you.

See you soon,
Be excellent to each other,
Meg

4 answers, 9 hits, 50 reasons (link)

Hello web sisters and brothers!

I have a new widget. It can do polls. I have a silly one to try it out with. 4 answers and if you don’t like them you can type in your own.

Amazingly (I never thought it could happen) when I have 9 more hits this site will have had 2000 hits! Wow! Thanks for helping with that.

Check out this link to SquawkFox’s 50 reasons not to use plastic bags.

Keep well, keep green,
Meg

Pay attention to Seth and Naomi, people!

Hey DearHearts!

I am skipping with excitement and completely chuffed, pleased & tickled pink!

My artcards are in Naomi’s IttyBiz gift guide! Thank you Naomi & Jamie Dunford for including me in your cool Gift Guide. Buy from small businesses!

I appreciate Seth Godin saying in his holiday shopping guide: “Buy handmade items from people you like”. My ArtCards are not there as a link on his short link-list (for each word he has a different link – check it out), but I think the concept is spot on, in this strange financial climate. By the way: when he says “don’t buy gift cards” he means those plastic cards that have a dollar-value at a particular shop.

I like the way you both think. I think the financial swirlery is an opportunity to (amongst other things):

  • be more real in any way we can,
  • shop at small businesses,
  • care for each other, and
  • eat well and locally.

That’s just a little list, what else can you think of? Let me know in the comments.
More Seth quoting: Hugs are an underrated substitute.

Keep well,
Meg

Run through the Jacaranda blue

Hey folks,

Up early to get a run in before a busy day! The Jacaranda trees are blooming, and as I ran through some of the blossom that had fallen I had a range of sensory experiences. The soft give of the petals under my shoes, the scent in the air, and the blue flowers above (still on the branches) and below. Jacaranda is beautiful. What a lovely tree.

The last 800m or so of my run I was rained upon; I didn’t mind; in fact we could do with a whole lot more of that. Of the three duck ponds at the park one is completely empty. And we’re just coming in to summer.

Wish me luck for my market tomorrow.

Have a great day!
Meg