Sticks, stones and mud - and love, and crazy haircuts..
I love homes that shine and shimmer with love and creativity. I would love to share this home with you and hope you find it as beautiful and inspiring as we did!
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On the way back from the high country we stopped in to visit a dear friend - funnily enough we realised, on the way there, that it was her BIRTHDAY, which meant we drank far too much red wine. We loved chilling out in her most beautiful home, which she is housesitting with her husband Mick.
They have a fabulous meeting story where she followed a whim to answer an ad for someone to rent a room up bush. Anyway 10 minutes from the property her car breaks down and she rings them for help. Mick joked that he was going to pick up his wife and the rest is history... within a few weeks they had wed each other in the bush and are as in love as anyone could ever be, creating art and life together in their warm and humble home.
The woman who built it used to build it in her spare time. It is all made out of recycled wood, stone and mudbricks. I loved the little features that gave it character and personality. A real home is a creative expression, like our moving homes are.
There is a view of gum trees and hills out nearly every window and a bookshelf of interesting books.
A beautiful vegetable garden supplied us with dinner. We woke to the smell of Mick's homemade sourdough which we ate with local honey and butter. Kate made us pesto pasta with homegrown basil for lunch, and sauted strips of zucchini with garlic. As anyone who gardens knows, zucchini season means massive bloody clubs of zuccs and a lot of zucchini slice (which we had on the first night with lots of cheese on top - yum!)
It was 26 degrees .. big blue skies.. deliciously warm.. cant believe this idyllic Easter weather. We took to the local swimming hole to immerse ourselves in cold water to get rid of those red wine headaches. What a paradise we were in for a few days.
Things got a bit crazy with Mick's 'hack job' haircuts where Kate and Jamie got a new do. We did laugh quite a bit. Good for the soul, that.
Loving joy of joys, to be with beautiful souled friends. Life can be good. The two of them are so powerful together. They want to start a community there with art and love at its heart and I reckon they can. Its a sound vision and one full of heart.
Mick and Kate truly believe in the power of thoughts to make the world. He was saying that all the happened to fuck up the world was that we imagined it wrong. When we see the small macrocosm of this beautiful world at the edge of Victorian mountains it is possible to see that if there is a critical mass of beings imagining the world right then we could only ever have love, community, kindness, compassion, art, empathy, music - we could seriously unfuck the world.
I think there a lot of Steemians doing good work doing just that.
Please comment - the community here is definately the amazing thing about this platform. And of course, would 🖤🖤🖤 an upvote or resteem too.
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AMAZING. Thanks so much. I will be there for sure!!
I will have to figure out the time thing as its already Tues 10th April here in Australia!
WOW! Great to share this with everyone :) and most think we live a bad life if we go alternative hihi..
The pic there , is that a metal bed they used with clay? I made in spain a hut from around 40 metal beds, then wrapped it with chicken wire mesh and clay from the ground to cover it! Its the same there, must be!
I know its AWESOME... I think we live a better life! Yeah metal beds.. awesome idea!!! Even just as dividers without mud, they are so cool. Thanks for your comment, glad you loved it!
Love the house, surroundings, food, and story! Looks like you had a great time. Hopefully no hangover after all that wine hehe!
Oh it was awesome. And yes, had a red wine headache, which is why we chose to swim in a freezing cold stream!!! Eek. Thanks for reading! 💗💗💗
Did that work for the headache.. must have a little at least.
Yes it did... I had to keep diving down to where it was super cold... better than an aspirin!
Oh cool. I just hate cold water but I'll have to remember that trick. Thanks
That was a fantastic tour of your friends' home. A beautiful home it is!
They remind me a bit of my wife and I and our vision for the property we have to build a community where art, permacutlure and love is it's main thing.
I'm game, let's unfuck the world seriously!
Thanks for that post... sorry I had to leave the Waleshares Show early, but I'm happy I saw your post before the end of it.
I'm resteemin that one, thanls for the inspiration
Thanks so much for the resteem, thats cool. Glad you liked it. The show was fun... liked your funny photo and that was a great convo about tomatoes!! See you there again sometime..keep unfucking the world.
You're welcome! Yea it was a great convo... I do love my tomatoes.
Thanks
And your dream sounds brilliant... DO IT!
Thank you so much, we're actually moving onto a piece of land June 1st...! It's both exciting and scary at the same time. But at least we have a small motorhome to start with.
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It's a beautiful place and I'm in love with that dollhouse-oven. It would be nice to live in such a peaceful place :)
It is so lovely. The birds are super noisy in the morning though!! Cockatoos woke us at dawn 🤣
Are they so loud? :D
Oh my god cockatoos are crazy loud screeching beasts!!! You must find a video of them..
And how cute is the oven. We made one once with a dragon on top. Must make one again!!
If I had a place with that oven I would probably spend my time building puppets and playing with them
Oh that's cool!! Clay puppets??
Clay, fabric, whatever. I usually like making puppets out of breadcrumbs at dinner, they don't last long but it's a pastime I use to take since I was a little kid.
I'll definitely watch a video about those weird, noisy birds then
Thats awesome!
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Gritting teeth so much right now.
hihi dont take anything personal, because its not ;) - but what if the grammar nazi is from USA and I wrote COLOUR!
Oh! Now that would TOTALLY wind me up!!!!
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What a great home and place to be at.
Thanks for your comment. Talk about things that bring you joy!! We didnt want to leave...
OMG stop it with such great posts, i'm crying over here ; ( Just teasin.
I console myself with the fact that i do have many lovely Eucalyptus trees around me! : )
Hold on here... Is that a Kookaburra?? Now i'm dead :) :)
Haha!!! Yes they are fluffy gorgeous creatures!!!! Dont die!
Too late! Without Kookaburras in my gum trees life is just not worth it. Haha
We do have big green parrots! How they got here nobody knows. They must be from southern Australia because they can survive the cooler weather we have in winter. The tropical ones don't make it when they get out and about here
I love green parrots. Poor you.. life without kookaburras. We only see them occasionally at ours but there were heaps in the mountains. We have parrots, cockies, gang gangs, honeyeaters, pardelotes.. so many.