Dusty City

This is what we woke up to on Wednesday morning. The sky was the weirdest color ever. It looked like we had been hit by an atomic bomb or aliens had invaded. But it was a dust storm.

That was the Sydney Opera House in that photo and the visibility was terrible.

We had to take Bailey to school at 6AM for an excursion and it was just eerie. The entire car was covered in a thick layer of dust. After a time you could taste the dust on your tongue and my hands felt constantly dirty. The government announced that all children had to stay indoors for the day, so all schools were held indoors for the entire day.

It was dull and eerie looking all day with enormous winds blowing the dust everywhere. This photo was taken in the daytime. Hard to believe hey?



Then at about 3PM the blue skies came out and it seemed that the wind had blown all the dust away. They say it will come back this weekend. Hope not.


You should have seen the car wash lines in the afternoon.

More fairy magic

This is our new fairy home, that was made with lots of love. We think it is just beautiful. What do you think?



Last night to celebrate our new fairy home we waited up to see if we could find any fairys. And guess what? We did. Here is the first beautiful one.
And then we found another gorgeous one. It was very exciting.
This fairy was almost jumping for joy.
But sadly as the night hour grew longer one of the fairys became very very cranky and had to go to bed. She was very tired and very CRANKY.

Fairy furniture delight

The girls and I have been quite taken with the idea of a fairy garden. I have spent lots of time looking at ideas on the Internet and found some so gorgeous things to make with the girls. There was one site called Magic Onions which showed how to make fairy furniture. SO I made a fairy bed out of a piece of bark and twigs for legs and then we made a petal bed cover to go on top. Very sweet but not pictured here.

I also decided that even though apparently fairies prefer natural things to duck down to Spotlight for some glam fairy things. All these jewelry pieces were on sale and so I hot glue gunned the girls a heart chair and a butterfly chair. They turned out really sweet. I also made a fairy flower table. To put their rhubarb pie on.

The rhubarb pie were an idea also found on Magic Onion. But were taken from a site called WHIMsy. So so cute. We made them at work with the oldies and they really look real. I am very happy with them.

I also made a fairy flower carpet to help create atmosphere as well as a few extra tables for the pies and voila we have a tiny fairy garden. The girls love it, I love it. I want to make more. I think I will. The only problem is they are so delicate that they keep snapping legs off things. Oh well it is for the kids. I won't be precious about it. Just keep the glue gun handy.

If I was a fairy I would go here for sure.

This is what I have been up too this week.

and this



and this




and feeling like this


Wow that photo really made me feel dizzy. How about you?

So you can see what I have been up to. How about yourself?
Any sympathy will be greatly appreciated. LOL. I am feeling a bit better now. Out of bed at least. Although I wouldn't mind hoping back in.