Grateful Sunshine Successful sheep wrangling Successful rooster cull Haircut Coq au vin

Dinner. Coq au vin Made with a rooster from the chook house. He was a big lad. Tasty too.

Hair cut time. Trying not to chicken out of getting my long hair bobbed. Chat Gpt says this is what it will look like but I think it lies.

Grateful Sleep in #artbeforedishes Roosters and dogs Woodsman kid visit Leftovers from family feast Major admin sorted

Grateful Big Family lunch Family Our kids playing guitar in the sun Very good guitaring Conversations about knitting and books and art Family

Grateful #artbeforedishes All day sunshine More painting Banana cake Gangs of hens and roosters Potting up more flower seedlings

#artbeforedishes paint o clock Happy Saturday.

Grateful Sleep in Beautiful sunrise #artbeforedishes My beautiful gang of barred rock roosters Guitaring on the porch couch in the sun Homemade gluten free flatbreads Family chat Cider and backgammon Hot bath Clean sheets

Joan Mitchell (1925 – 1992), US Abstract Expressionist Painter #Womensart

#artbeforedishes Happy Matariki Doodle gridding new work on a glorious winters morning in the far north. Looking up to the Waikare Inlet.

Grateful Quiet day pottering #artbeforedishes Surprise lamb Rooster gang Library time Bean pie

Grateful Cockle fritters Crafting Library time Archery Time with the grandkids Hens Jelly Dogs

Grateful Amazing sunrise cloud Good drive to Auckland and back Inspiring art podcast Grandies were awesome on the drive back Spag bol Catan Catan by lamp light Power cut was only half an hour long

Grateful Time with grandbaby Lovely lunch at the garden center Roast lamb Good dogs

Grateful Sunshine Potting mix Car passed its warrant Bare feet on grass Lemon tree loaded with massive lemons

Grateful Warm fire Good food Gumboots Leather bomber jacket Ukulele class Exhibition opening Home

Taught 5 year olds today. This afternoon I got out a stack of ukuleles, drums, claves and chime bars. They kept spontaneously and gleefully breaking into Jingle Bells. It made my day. So much joy.

Our group exhibition opened tonight - heaps of staff from my kura turned up to support me. So blessed.

Grateful Happy day teaching in the senior class Art work New game Warm fire My foot looks worse than it feels Nearly finished cutting up all the cyanotype cards Tomorrow the exhibition opens in Paihia.

Grateful Pizza Bed

Grateful Yum as lunch Home

Grateful Sunshine Got all the art work to the gallery Peaceful afternoon Yum as pasta bake dinner

Grateful Beautiful day Glorious drive to work Excellent day in class with senior kids Mixed media self portraits All the paintings are wrapped Wood block prints signed Cards ready to go

Grateful happy day in the classroom 5 paintings ready to go A print pricing problem

Grateful Happy day in the classroom Wananga Chats with our kids Night Printing

Grateful 6 year olds Writing fab stories and using words like colossal and hullabaloo Pizza on a Tuesday Enough energy to paint Finished all the paintings for exhibition opening soon Tiny Cyanotype prints of some of my favourite paintings

Paint o clock. A rock.

Paint o clock

Happy day printing cyanotypes in the sun.

Grateful #artbeforedishes Good batch of gf focaccia For my cricut machine which is labouring away while I read Art plans coming together Weeding and clearing the autumn flowerbeds out ready for the spring plants Sunshine Laughs Great dinner

Grateful #artbeforedishes Library time Finishing 3Birds New door with a fancy glass panel made by Mr Tomato soup Night painting

Grateful Sunny day Nice day teaching In bed by 7:30pm

Things that made me happy today Great sleep 6 and 7 year olds Phonics Noodling on the guitar 4eggs laid today( def improvement) Spag bol Art progress

Grateful Beautiful morning light Geometry Music tech Guitaring Uke Music conversations Kumara and lamb stack Hens are laying again Let’s do it all again tomorrow.

#artbeforedishes Tiny art. Playing with low relief textures.

Good stuff today Tui in the flame tree Tidy studio and desk Bought a new ukulele Pulling out all the UKE music Bare feet on grass Steak and kidney Videos and photos of grandkids Warm fire Night painting

Ooops how did that ukulele end up in my car?

Grateful Morning routine Ukulele lesson Coming home to the smell of cornish pasties cooking Pizza with figs, courgettes and feta Night painting

Grateful Resting in the sunshine Feverfew tea

Yay today. A day of making art with 10 year olds- Mondrian inspired houses. Innovation Sunshine after the storm Walking afterschool - Te Ti Beach New painting boards made by husband - semicircle plus! Curry and rice Night Painting Night rain

Grateful Sleep in #artbeforedishes Spray work New art lesson New hens starting to lay Spag bol

Today’s small joys Sleep in Late waffle breakfast #artbeforedishes Painting Cutting Glueing Experimenting New painting shape (semicircle plus) Watched a great art doco about light sculpture Hot bath Shelter from the weather

Oh happy day Sleep in Tui in the flame tree Trip to Kerikeri Long yarn with mum Cyanotype prints Steak and kidney stew Night painting

Grateful Gorgeous light this morning 12 year olds Wit and banter Wonderful library time Karakia and waiata Home Not being shattered at the end of the week Got my negatives ready for printing tomorrow

Grateful Crisp morning 6 & 7 year olds Reading Prussian Blue Looking through old photo albums Him Night painting

Grateful Glorious sunrise Sweet day amt school Ice cream on the beach on my way home from work Rack of lamb, new potatoes, green beans, blackberry jus (complete home dinner) Time and energy to play guitar and paint