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May 11, 2011 by Domestic Goddesque 6 Comments

Chilling out in the DG Garden

It’s been a really stressful few days, so much so that I have left myself only a week to organise PDs birthday party. It all got a bit on top of me yesterday and I really thought I was going burst with anger and frustration and the weariness that comes with days of interrupted sleep. And yet we girls ended up laughing and giggling and covered in paint.

We painted some stones that we found a few weeks ago on a Suffolk beach (I always follow Red Ted’s advice of limiting them to two colours) and that I subsequently spray-painted white. The bright and beautiful abstract offerings were turned into flowers with the deft use of black permanent marker. I threw in a bee for good measure, for what are flowers without bees?

Paint dried, The Girls had great fun ‘hiding’ the stones amongst the rapidly sprouting seedlings we planted a few short weeks ago. We inspected the latest growth of our sunflowers, smelled the herbs, and wondered how big our pumpkin would be (assuming one ever grows…) We talked about how the bees carry pollen from one plant to another, how the flowers that die become fruit on our plum trees, how our tiny seeds grow big and strong with sunlight and water.

And when they grew bored of learning, they made each other laugh by tickling themselves with daisies. They climbed up and slid down the slide together. They threw balls for the dog. They shouted and sang and ran as I sat on the bench my Mother bought to mark my engagement, and watched my little girls run in the afternoon sunlight. And I found that moment of calm that I was looking for, that I needed. Togetherness, sunlight, laughter and the satisfaction of growing something amazing.

For more examples of Chilling Out, Tara’s got another Gallery open….

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  1. cathy @ nurturestore says

    May 16, 2011 at 18:01

    Sorry to hear you’ve had a hard week – but glad it had a happy ending. I love the stones.

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  2. Chris at Thinly Spread says

    May 15, 2011 at 08:46

    Your stones are gorgeous! We did a stone fairy village a few weeks ago but we have some stones left over, we’ll definitely have a go at these!

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  3. Trish @ Mum's Gone to says

    May 11, 2011 at 10:47

    Very artistic – love the little bee. Glad you got some time to wind down and relax.

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  4. Maria @verybusymama says

    May 11, 2011 at 09:44

    what a great idea! and the kiddies look so cute!!

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  5. Sarah says

    May 11, 2011 at 09:10

    Such a beautiful post and love the last photograph! The painted pebbles are absolutely fabulous – and I love the tips of only using two colours and the black marker pen finishes them off perfectly.

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