tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4573422992082776289.post5627435006723138550..comments2024-01-21T21:41:49.449+11:00Comments on Foxs Lane: spots on the applesKatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04234467488696653117noreply@blogger.comBlogger27125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4573422992082776289.post-74930877251272503812017-03-23T09:51:49.626+11:002017-03-23T09:51:49.626+11:00I'm 12 weeks pregnant with my first, and so fa...I'm 12 weeks pregnant with my first, and so far I'm lacking the motivation to do anything besides watch netflix and feed myself frequently enough so that I'm not sick. I'm a photographer, but haven't created anything meaningful in a long time. I'm looking forward to feeling better soon. We have had a very wet winter in California, and I am hopeful that the sunny days on the horizon will help. My husband and I are starting seeds this weekend (peppers, eggplants, tomatoes, tomatillos) and I look forward to nurturing my garden as my belly grows. Roseannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12598463706395528954noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4573422992082776289.post-55556328756036386432017-03-18T08:35:17.786+11:002017-03-18T08:35:17.786+11:00Hi Kate,
Your trip away sounds fabulous. We all ne...Hi Kate,<br />Your trip away sounds fabulous. We all need time away with women folk. It's as important as air! <br />Maybe you need to set one day or half a day a week aside for some sort of art. Time to enjoy and explore that side of your creativity. Oh and don't forget, your knitting and sewing are works of art in their own way.<br />Last night I pressed buy on my virtual cart of bare yarn because I have a burning desire to dye and sell yarn. The Noble Fox Fabrics and Hand Dyed yarn is coming soon!!<br />Much love to you and the fam xxAbbehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17344272480443345083noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4573422992082776289.post-69237509414783894712017-03-16T22:13:21.680+11:002017-03-16T22:13:21.680+11:00So I've failed at home meditation and we'v...So I've failed at home meditation and we've decided to increase our gym sessions to an hour to see if we can meditate with our trainer there. How amazing would it be to be able to quieten your mind a bit. xxKatehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04234467488696653117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4573422992082776289.post-8431436238643381042017-03-16T22:09:35.982+11:002017-03-16T22:09:35.982+11:00Oh wow I'm so interested that your words come ...Oh wow I'm so interested that your words come when you need to make sense or gather calm. I really love the sound of your happy, busy, fulfilling life. And I wonder if one day you'll start to knit lacey socks when the new you feels a bit nostalgic for the old. xxKatehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04234467488696653117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4573422992082776289.post-58605513026617476302017-03-16T22:04:04.183+11:002017-03-16T22:04:04.183+11:00Ahhh it is ever so good to see your name pop up he...Ahhh it is ever so good to see your name pop up here again. Hope you're travelling well my friend xxKatehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04234467488696653117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4573422992082776289.post-79045688365017109802017-03-16T22:03:09.738+11:002017-03-16T22:03:09.738+11:00thank YOU!! xthank YOU!! xKatehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04234467488696653117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4573422992082776289.post-14143595652335729812017-03-16T22:02:29.903+11:002017-03-16T22:02:29.903+11:00Oh my goodness, thank you!! I've screen shotte...Oh my goodness, thank you!! I've screen shotted your comment and will be returning to it often. Such wisdom and truth. xxKatehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04234467488696653117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4573422992082776289.post-40345099126044366412017-03-16T22:00:45.940+11:002017-03-16T22:00:45.940+11:00Oh Carrie that breaks my heart. I really, really h...Oh Carrie that breaks my heart. I really, really hope you have more good days than bad going forward. You're so kind and generous, you have a husband and a dog and you can do yoga which I never was flexible enough for. Sending lots of love. xxKatehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04234467488696653117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4573422992082776289.post-624839290571706382017-03-16T21:54:57.104+11:002017-03-16T21:54:57.104+11:00You have no idea how much your comment meant to Ja...You have no idea how much your comment meant to Jazzy. As the middle child she is so aware of her place in the world and in our family and just knowing that someone noticed her was everything. She went back through my blog searching for herself and was unimpressed by how little she could find. In my defence she's only just emerged from her bedroom after months of teenagehood. xxKatehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04234467488696653117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4573422992082776289.post-73066913039895630992017-03-16T21:47:50.372+11:002017-03-16T21:47:50.372+11:00It's so interesting isn't it. I don't ...It's so interesting isn't it. I don't think there's a time limit to any of it, just more that we were something and then we weren't and where did it go and will it ever come back?<br />I actually think I was more creative when my girls were tiny than I am now. Not when they were babies but as little kids there seemed to be more time to water colour and make their clothes and paint murals. Now somehow I have less time even though they are all at school. Or maybe I have more expectations and demands of my time now. But you'll get to that drawing project, I'm sure of it. xKatehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04234467488696653117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4573422992082776289.post-8569302695903860502017-03-16T21:41:12.387+11:002017-03-16T21:41:12.387+11:00Oh wow, I grew up in a house full of writers. And ...Oh wow, I grew up in a house full of writers. And I totally am having a midlife crisis too. I'm actually hopeful that the me from before isn't dead just percolating. I'm hopeful that whatever i create when I finally get the confidence to shove everyone and everything out of the way, is richer and deeper than before. It may never happen but I have to believe it will.<br />Crap about your apples. Ours had a bit of coddling moth for the first time since we've been here. Such a weird season. <br />I hope you got the stove sitch sorted. Last year I spend a while in a stoves house and I couldn't believe how limiting it was. You get so used to something. Maybe you could borrow a camping gas cooker?<br />xKatehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04234467488696653117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4573422992082776289.post-37217471743421882192017-03-16T21:34:52.812+11:002017-03-16T21:34:52.812+11:00Yes that is it exactly. Yes that is it exactly. simplelifehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13397507005757292686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4573422992082776289.post-18905758541942962372017-03-16T21:30:56.310+11:002017-03-16T21:30:56.310+11:00So it's been 2, nearly 3 weeks since I've ...So it's been 2, nearly 3 weeks since I've left instagram & this week I've not thought about it all unless someone mentions it to me. Life is the same but I dont have 22000 photos & I dont feel like I'm wasting time mindlessly scrolling. And no, no cheating because I unfollowed everyone before I deactivated my account for that exact reason. If you search me up, I don't exist there anymore so there's nothing to look at!<br />It's funny, you think that stuff means something & that those connections you make are real but most of them are not. I had over 50 people contact me saying they'd like to keep in touch so this week I sent out a huge email just rambling & telling them what I had been cooking/reading/watching/listening to & you know how many replied? 3 & one of those was a super close real life friend so she doesn't count. If i'm not popping up on peoples feeds every day I dont exist. There's are a few people I've been emailing or texting but that was going on before I left instgram. Once you are away from that place ( Instagram ) life continues as it always does & for me I've found a clarity I haven't had for years. I feel like I have space for my thoughts, which has lead to a lot of deep thinking & awareness & I have time for the things I really want to do. I feel like social media has an expiry date for people like me that were there from the start. I joined Faceboook in 2007 & was out of there in 2015. I joined Instagram in 2011 & I know I wont be back. I'm happier within myself without all the "noise " social media creates for a person like me who is an over thinker, spends a lot of time alone ( or with little kids ) & has some anxiety. It's not good for me & I know that for certain now. xxxReannon https://www.blogger.com/profile/04215161182830545561noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4573422992082776289.post-23370515841006306872017-03-16T20:24:29.587+11:002017-03-16T20:24:29.587+11:00Oh my goodness Reannon I just read this with the b...Oh my goodness Reannon I just read this with the biggest smile on my face. I don't want you to move faster than you're ready to, but I am so interested that there is a glimmer of wonder about who the Reannon away from her children might be. I guess it reflects where I'm at right back at me and I can see that it's important stuff to be thinking about.<br />And I'm SO INTERESTED on your life since social media. Are you thinking about it less and less? Do you miss it? Have you cheated? xxKatehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04234467488696653117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4573422992082776289.post-41051608974107617862017-03-16T20:19:23.325+11:002017-03-16T20:19:23.325+11:00Oh Kate it sounds like we're in such a similar...Oh Kate it sounds like we're in such a similar space. Scared to walk forward but also scared to stand still. I hope we both find our peace with ourselves and our places in the world. Big love to you. xx<br />Katehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04234467488696653117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4573422992082776289.post-74017094946963833492017-03-16T15:24:54.543+11:002017-03-16T15:24:54.543+11:00What a week Kate. I'm intrigued by your medita...What a week Kate. I'm intrigued by your meditation, I must look into it, I know it would do me good. I think I'm too scared to wonder about who I am without being mum to four xmel @ loved handmadehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11089482748571082995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4573422992082776289.post-43086188266521327742017-03-15T08:28:14.184+11:002017-03-15T08:28:14.184+11:00I'm at the other end of the mom journey, with ...I'm at the other end of the mom journey, with a 4yo, 3yo, and a newborn. I wrote poetry and journaled all through high school and college, got my MFA in poetry, and worked as a writer/editor until my first was born. I stopped cold turkey: working, writing, a lot of the reading that inspired me. And I didn't miss it. That was a wake up for me that writing was something I did, and well, but this new thing was something that I WAS. There are certainly people who are artists and poets, and get sidetracked for a while by their other roles. I was never that. I was waiting for this, and didn't know it. I am creatively fulfilled in the knitting and cooking, intellectually challenged in the podcasts I listen to and talks with my husband. All those spaces once filled with poems are now filled by people, and it feels really good. That said, when I miscarried my son last year, I wrote poems. When I'm stressed, I compose in my head, and things get sorted. So maybe, for me, wrhat was jettisoned wasn't the craft but the need to display it. To pull out a knitting metaphor, I used to knit lace for the oohs and ahs they drew from others. Now I knit socks to keep my feet warm. It's all knitting, and my lace technique might get rutsty, but it's still there in my pocket when I'm ready to try again.<br /><br />I hope, when you're comfortable doing so, that you'll share our artistic journey here, as well, since you are one of the people filling my cup. 😊Kate (Hunter) Praterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16777012861574765496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4573422992082776289.post-6716539976633690202017-03-13T13:08:27.180+11:002017-03-13T13:08:27.180+11:00You are ever so good at helping me think through m...You are ever so good at helping me think through my own thoughts! Thank you :) Small Cataloguehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04967883601419963708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4573422992082776289.post-61797097858152151612017-03-11T16:53:35.680+11:002017-03-11T16:53:35.680+11:00Thank you xThank you xAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08627806214318662641noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4573422992082776289.post-57559973092552884622017-03-11T14:20:33.710+11:002017-03-11T14:20:33.710+11:00As a mama a few parenting years ahead (mine are 19...As a mama a few parenting years ahead (mine are 19, 16 and 13), your reflections this week resounded with truth. Learning about ourselves again is as much of a process as learning to be a mother was. It requires time and reflection, because we are not the same people we were nearly two decades ago. Thank you for sharing your thoughts and words here-- it feels like an outpouring of generosity, and a privilege to get to share in it.Katurahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07623373124351406081noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4573422992082776289.post-80869349219304993132017-03-11T09:39:51.410+11:002017-03-11T09:39:51.410+11:00(Sorry, that should be Harcourt Applefest. Clearly...(Sorry, that should be Harcourt Applefest. Clearly my subconscious brain wants to go to the wool shop in Maldon!)Pinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04202997946071488568noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4573422992082776289.post-21453247864276377172017-03-11T06:40:16.653+11:002017-03-11T06:40:16.653+11:00You are creative. Your blog writing and stunning p...You are creative. Your blog writing and stunning photography and knitting brightens my day every time I visit your page or see something on your Instagram. Please don't underestimate your creativity, embrace were you are in life, growing healthy food, bringing up gorgeous children and winning at the marriage and relationships game.<br />Since I can remember I have been utterly unimpressed with myself, full of depression, self loathing and lost. I really talk about just how bad it is. But i have a husband and a dog and when I'm feeling ok, I know I'm winning.<br />Proceed with the meditation (I find yoga as a moving meditation much easier) and embrace the unknown...Carriehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01475182740888543862noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4573422992082776289.post-74897000058980528202017-03-11T02:31:03.406+11:002017-03-11T02:31:03.406+11:00Hey Kate, I don't want to add to your woes, bu...Hey Kate, I don't want to add to your woes, but, when did Jazzy grow up? She has become a very attractive, elegant and tall young woman. That smile and those dimples are to die for. i haven't noticed many photos of Jazzy perhaps that's why it hit me so hard this time. You and Bren have produced some lovely girls. I'll just bet they are just as lovely on the inside too. Glad to see that all is well on the farm, you all look very busy and seem to be enjoying your work. Your life seems idyllic but I'm aware of all the hard work you all put in.Jackiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06844263537630989995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4573422992082776289.post-66837648863402481732017-03-11T02:06:37.000+11:002017-03-11T02:06:37.000+11:00In a lot of ways, I feel like you wrote the post I...In a lot of ways, I feel like you wrote the post I've been too scared / busy / lazy / unsure of writing, except that I am at the start of my journey as mom/person. In fact, being at the start makes it all seem more overwhelming to me, because how can I possibly even think of carving out more time for me to try some kind of creative journey when there are already so few hours in the day for work and dinner and laundry and snuggles? (I went ahead and outsourced the cleaning apart from the usual tidying sessions because life is too short to spend scrubbing toilets.) I thought to myself at the beginning of the year that I'd like to do a drawing project. I even bought some supplies and a drawing prompt book, plus some for the kids so we could all sit together and do it, and it hasn't happened. I tell myself it will, when the baby is more interested in scribbling than eating the crayons. For now we collapse on the floor (or on the couch in front of TV, let's be real here) at the end of the day. At least I get some knitting done after the littlest is in bed. At least there's that. As for the rest. I don't know. Someday maybe, I'll get my head above water.<br />(re-posted to link to my current profile!)Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15652214884171307328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4573422992082776289.post-71938958849714348212017-03-10T20:25:53.893+11:002017-03-10T20:25:53.893+11:00Oh my goodness, Kate – I absolutely get it. Writin...Oh my goodness, Kate – I absolutely get it. Writing was my salvation when I was a kid, and it kept me afloat through high school. Now I'm a book editor, and between working on other people's books and taking care of my kid, I don't feel like I have any words of my own anymore. It feels easier to channel a creative life into knitting and spinning and baking, except in some ways it's as if the person I always thought I'd be has died. (Or maybe I'm just having a midlife crisis …)<br /><br />Isn't it funny how MoNA provokes such strong emotions? I think the underground chambers make it feel so much more intense.<br /><br />Our apples are full of codling moth this year, but if you're careful it's still pretty special to eat them warm from the tree. I was going to make applesauce this weekend, but the installation of our new stove didn't happen today as planned because it turns out our chimney has some asbestos in it, so now we are stoveless and ovenless until we can find someone to take it out. Thank god it's a good time of year for raw vegies!<br /><br />Have a lovely long weekend. We're popping by the Maldon Applefest at some point, and I'd love to get to the Lost Trades Fair (but I suspect that's less likely). I was going to work tonight but reckon I'll probably end up watching Berlin 83 and knitting soon instead. xPinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04202997946071488568noreply@blogger.com