Bliss Beyond Naptime

Baby 'n Cakes

I'm being naughty. I should be packing but thought I'd be able to sneak in a quick little post to share the craziness that is our lives his week. Before packing up my craft room I really wanted to finish two dolls I'm making for a friend embarking on a great adventure with her little family. They parred down their belongings to the bare minimum, including the girls' toys, and have asked for little dollies to ease the transition. What an honour. My friend has watched Edie already for countless hours and I'm so happy I can return the favour in this way. Not to mention her eldest is Edie's best girl and the little one just makes me laugh for she's so special. They're not completely done, littlest one needs hair and they both need some jet-setting outfits.

On the other fun front, I got to help out my friend who was hosting a raw food retreat make breakfast for the 20 participants. They were all part of a vision quest journey with a Peruvian shaman the night before. Everyone's face was glow-y, sleep-deprived though happy, like everyone just fell in puppylove. On the menu was mint tea, fruit salad, smoothies and up above were some raw food cakes with blended apples, mango, banana and coconut and raisin crust (the symbols were made from rose petals and some kind of berries - goose?- I can't remember now). It was tasty and fun but I don't know if it's the drizzly weather, or my high protein needs but I had to immediately go home and ingest me some eggs and sausage. Bad yogi! We're moving this weekend, my computer's in the hospital so hopefully it won't be too, too long before another post. I'll try for early next week with pictures of us lounging in our new pad! Thanks for all the  beautiful pad name suggestions by the way. I'll bring them up at our next family meeting.

La, la, lazure

Our inspiration for our house's primary colour came primarily from Edie's duck book, and secondarily from the suggestion of Feng Shui lady. The centre of our house is of the earth bagua, and plus we need more of the fire element to balance us out so we stuck with an earth colour, oranges and yellows. Here's a before shot:

And after:

Duck D'orange anyone? I did mastablasta'ed the colour enhancement a touch to conjure up more of an emotional response from y'all. Sorry about that. Couldn't resist. Here's a Kleenex. Edie's room:

Our beautiful, special, funny, wise, talented paintress suggested a bowlful of apricots and peaches for Edie's room. A place where she can retreat back into the womb yet be free to express her fire-y side. My little angel is so divinely complex.

We want the rest of the house lazured but there is so much more that needs to be done first. Perhaps in the spring we'll get Sat Kaur here to bless us again. The previous owners have neglected a lot of up keep here. We need to replaster the entire interior wall for instance. There should be a plaster of about two inches. Right now there's only about a quarter inch; little bits of strawends can be seen trying to poke out. A little salamander was even seen busting out one of the open patches! Oh well, everyone is welcomed here to the Lucky Duck Lair (any suggestions on what to name this place would be appreciated! If anything gets me excited enough to make a big sign I'll send you some soap!).