A wild windy night leaves me feeling rattled: feeling the fresh breeze around the edges of our duvet, and thinking in my stupor that a falling metal cat dish was a precious tile crashing off of our

This week has us riding in increasingly high waves of great gifts, just when we felt like the change of season might get the better of us (again!) this year! Once we committed to fetching our stove and

I wrote a longer post on this subject, which you can read over on our Goed Life Patreon pages here and wanted to riff here also, as our decentralised and our truly alternative communities have additional

The evening is drawing in. We are just back from a long walk around our land, snipping here and there at olive twigs and seeding dandelion-family plants, picking up walnuts and movibg rocks from the developing

We are so very busy, and tired, and trying to pace ourselves through all our priorities - whilst weather changes most rapidly, around us... In the meantime, I'm sooooooo enjoying my sewing!!! This is a

This week has been (even more!) heavenly (than usual): cloudy skies, proper rain, figuring out some tricky issues with our houses, and the most precious day with @vincentnijman for my 53rd birth day

The white dress is complete! From pillow case and duvet cover, to cutting additional lengthening strips from a vintage sheet, to scraping free time from between sessions breaking up old cement, hammering

The season changed!! We are suddenly launched into a new dimension: able to work, rest, play a great deal more (co)creatively! We've loaded the car up with cement and roof paint, and are bracing for the

We had a wonderful long chat in the tent last night before sleeping, with the orange moon rising slowly above the mountains in front of us. @vincentnijman and I unfolded some of our fears and vision around

Dearest Needlework Friends! I will try to express what a relief it is today, to get some momentum behind my sewing practise again! The atelier has been a bedroom and a living room, a store room and a workshop

There are times when we think we're a bit crazy for throwing ourselves into homesteading like this... But it is rare; mostly only when someone directly accuses us of rashness, madness or irresponsibility.

How potent it is to let go; physically, mentally, verbally (!!), emotionally, energetically: catharsis is such a great spiritual dynamic that I tap into periodically, and allow to wash me clean. taking

CAVEAT: this is a genuinely sacred rant, with heartfelt intention to release and resolve the tensions, charge and contraction around my challenging moment: absolutely NO UNSOLICITED ADVICE wanted, and

Our garden is becoming quite thrilling to explore every morning, as we're gettati out of the tent by the raging heat of the sun cresting the mountains in front of us. We spend our first hour or two with

I've had neither the head- nor the heart-space to get into my #needlework these past weeks: we've been navigating the extreme temperatures and the dishevilled state of our land and buildings; bumbling

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We're sheltering in the piazza of the nearby village, to get through the hottest day of the week. There's a delicious breeze keeping insects and being-boiled-alive at bay, whilst the bustle of school bus,

Wow - today marks one full year since we first set foot on our land... We've been looking back on our time here, seeing how far we've come and what has already been achieved: this helps immensely in how

updated photo, from this morning Hallo Brilliant Needlework Friends! It has been a while! As you can see fro the chaos behind my dress model, we're deep in our highly inexpert attempts to make our wee

our new 'fridge'! We are in the temporary 'kitchen' of our new home, having eaten our first meal in this house. A simple affair, as we haven't brought our cooker down yet. We're satiated and hydrated,