she never existed before

a beautiful quote i found while researching for my motherhood book:

the moment a child is born the mother is also born. she never existed before. the woman existed but the mother never. a mother is something absolutely new.
Rajneesh

peeing on the floor and other news

well after my son peeing on the kitchen floor and me drinking red wine and cooking pasta i thought it might be time to show what i've been working on. my little picture book. my amazing and lovely friend louisa cleaned up my drawings, because she is a champ and i am not so photoshop savy. i'm heading to melbourne soon to get the book printed with vegie inks and on recycled paper and then fuelled by manic demons i will stitch them together with beautiful red cotton. i am planning to sell these little babies at the makers market in dalesford. yay, self publishing joy!

all about olive

i watched a doco on abc iview called 'All About Olive'. at the time of making it she was 105, although she recently passed away. i cried and cried... because she was still figuring out her life and dealing with the past at 105! kind of a humbling thing to watch...

it got me to thinking about what i would recount if i were 105. what have been the big things that have shaped my life? so i started writing afterwards and i think i might have another idea for a picture book. thanks olive. apparently she kept a blog for a while too! but she called it a blob! bless!

xx

a picture book sitting under my skin

  

a few words and pictures i am playing with for a picture book that's sitting under my skin.

a loose list of ideas for this book:

. page by page, picture by picture build up a kind of landscape of motherhood (moments in the day that are just pure gold, along with the desperate moments)

. pictures that show both the gorgeous & the mundane
. honesty
. i also want it to be the sort of book that i wish i came across before having a baby, because really i had no clue about all of the intangible, emotional stuff.

xx