A space where we share our combined skills and knowledge about the art of simple living, also calling on the expertise of others who are living this frugally hedonistic lifestyle. Living our life our way is as much about what we tune out from as it is about what we tune into, as we seek the things that nourish us.
Our Life Our Way was established in 2015 as a visual manifestation of the joys, beauty and challenges we have experienced living on the outskirts of a small rural community.
We ,Kerrie, Pete and son Nick, run a sheet metal business from home, which includes the manufacture of pest-proof chicken feeders. Pete has a passion for the lost trade of tin-smithing and is slowly bring more of those skills into the products he is making.. from wash tubs, buckets, and cloches. From our old woolshed, we also run tin-smithing, welding and chicken wrangling workshops.
We live with an amazing assemblage of chickens, some sheep and a goat and grow lots of our own food. Our pride and joy is the salvaged wood cooker, brought back to life by Pete and now ‘ Mabel’ has pride of place in the kitchen, warming and nourishing body and soul.
Over the years we have noticed more and more common elements in our lives, like insisting on real tea made in a teapot. We talk about all the things we want to learn to do, like candle-making and weed-foraging and about wanting to pass on the knowledge and skills we already had.
Thus, the decision was made to launch Our Life Our Way as a forum to do all of that, with the Simple Living Store has been added to provide a online store where you know the products work.
We hope you will join us on our journey as we chatter about simple living, including things that go wrong! We will give it to you boots and all.
We will source beautiful handmade items we think will benefit your simple living journey and run workshops to give you the skills you’ll need to simplify your life. Sometimes we’ll present those workshops ourselves and sometimes we’ll bring in presenters we would love to listen to and share them with you all.
So Welcome! Come and join us for a pot of tea.
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