After taking a couple of weeks out with my 2 year old son due to family day care having a well earned break, I realised actually how important it is to pause for a moment and....BREATHE...to actually enjoy just being.
Not be to be preoccupied with the business admin. as you're making school lunches, not to think about getting the washing on the line whilst you're doing the accounts, of trying to plan what to cook for dinner when really, the most important thing is to cut yourself some slack and get caught up in the moment of whatever it is you're doing!
For a while I've loved origami - something about taking a sheet of paper and animating it. We've had a box of old catalogues sitting around for a while and it seemed criminal just to get rid of them (as there really is no such place as 'away'). So it seemed to make sense - make stuff! Soon we'll be exhibiting EcoDepot in Austinmer (opening 28th November), there will be flocks of Catalogue 1 cranes hanging around to greet you. Planning also on selling the cranes in packs, all money will be donated back to bushcare. The cranes are such a joy to fold on the front verandah as the kids monkey about in their treehouse. We live in a fantastic part of the world, where the local bushcare groups do awesome work.
So it's nice being able to share something in return.
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