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Blossoming and Sprouting

February 25, 2016 by Emma

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Four years ago, we sat in this very same cosy farmhouse and pondered our future. What did we want to do with our one wild and precious life? We knew we wanted to be on the land, always. We knew we wanted to do it together, always. We knew we also wanted to explore and spread and sprout and bloom. We also knew we were desperately unhappy in our current situation. So, we left. Hard as it was. Fortune favours the brave. We traveled Australia for 18 months as homeless nomad gypsies, in search of Home…which landed us right back where we started from, in a whole new situation, but that’s a whole other story…

Whilst we bumped along dusty outback tracks, worked on cattle stations and danced together most nights by our campfire to Bjork’s ‘Leaving On A Jet Plane’, an idea brewed in the depths of my creative mind. I wanted to create an online space full of simple country living pleasures, stories of hardworking farmers, their produce, living seasonally and creatively, growing, sowing, baking, making. Sharing creative projects and whatever comes out of my oven in any particular season. This idea bubbled and brewed…until in 2014 I launched She Sows Seeds, which in a way became that ‘baby’. Yet still, it bubbled and brewed. I wasn’t done.

While I grew a seed of a different sort, a chubby baby girl named Eleanor, the idea bubbled and brewed. The busyness of mothering ebbed and flowed, the idea bubbled and brewed. Until I left my baby blossom for the first time to attend Problogger last year, returning with creative vigour and purpose. I was a woman on a mission.

Next week, the idea which bubbled and brewed throughout 2012 and far beyond, will come to fruition. I will be publishing a seasonal digital magazine, blossom + sprout. The Autumn edition will feature local Gippsland businesses, farmy folk, fellow creatives, recipes, gardening advice and imagery from our country lifestyle which has become the Home we so longed to find.

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Watch this space for more details and the launch day…and apologies for the deafening silence around these parts as I put my skates on and the finishing touches on my ‘new baby’. I am blossoming and sprouting and growing and stretching towards the sun, and it’s pretty fabulous. I hope you will too.

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  1. Lecinda says

    February 29, 2016 at 11:45 am

    Emma that’s fabulous!! I can’t wait to see it!!!

  2. Kristy says

    February 27, 2016 at 2:40 pm

    Oh well done Emma! Just love your blog, have read back to the start! Exciting times ahead for you this year in more way than one! Looking forward to the launch date. Big hugs xo

  3. Amy Paul says

    February 26, 2016 at 5:39 pm

    Yay you! Looking forward to your magic. xoxo

  4. Phoebe Rae says

    February 26, 2016 at 3:00 pm

    Wonderful exciting times ahead. I put up my hand for Subscription #1.

  5. Amber Rhodes says

    February 26, 2016 at 10:32 am

    Sounds wonderful! If you grow to the stage where you need contributors I would be very interested (have written and taken photos for Gippsland magazine)

  6. Anne@GritandGiggles says

    February 26, 2016 at 9:06 am

    Good luck with the finishing touches and the lead up to the launch. What a wonderful idea!

  7. Cheryl says

    February 26, 2016 at 7:32 am

    Exciting times ahead! Looking forward to it ๐Ÿ™‚

  8. Tammy Logan says

    February 25, 2016 at 10:08 pm

    Congratulations! So satisfying to find a dream and follow it through. Well done on having the guts to make it happen ?

  9. Kathy says

    February 25, 2016 at 9:44 pm

    Great idea. I remember when I first became interested in your blog – it was the piece you did on “spuds” and how long to grow, get to the supermarket, costs involved etc. Opened my eyes to the farming world. I still love all the other things on your current blog but I will wait eagerly for more information like that too.

    Good luck – you work hard and deserve all the success that comes to you.

  10. Jo @ CountryLifeExperiment says

    February 25, 2016 at 9:03 pm

    Very exciting… feeling very proud of my friend for all her hard work! ๐Ÿ™‚ Can’t wait.

  11. Lisa says

    February 25, 2016 at 8:49 pm

    Woo hoo! Bring on the newest creative endeavor! X

  12. Elisha says

    February 25, 2016 at 8:30 pm

    Very exciting and I’m looking fed to a great read!

  13. Bel says

    February 25, 2016 at 7:54 pm

    Sounds great Em! Can’t wait to see it and well done on making your dreams into something tangible x

  14. Sarah @sarahdipityblog says

    February 25, 2016 at 4:11 pm

    How exciting! Good on you.

  15. Louise says

    February 25, 2016 at 3:24 pm

    Can’t wait. It looks exciting.

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