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Karawatha Home Hand poured candles | home fragrances | cards and prints... find us inside Workshop26, Kimba, and at quality retailers across South Australia.

A few weeks ago, we moved my mum and dad back home to Kimba.They’d lived in their home in Adelaide for the last dozen ye...
16/06/2026

A few weeks ago, we moved my mum and dad back home to Kimba.

They’d lived in their home in Adelaide for the last dozen years, enjoying a slice of big smoke life after all those years on the farm.

The upshot is, this beautiful three bedroom home in Myrtle Bank is now for sale, and goes to auction this weekend. (I’ll pop a link in the bio if you’re like me and love to peep at homes for sale.)

It’s no small thing, supporting your mum and dad into the next stage of their lives. Moving house is always a big change but I’m so glad to have mum and dad back here in Kimba now.

I popped in to see them before my stint at Workshop26 this morning and it’s just pretty great to have them so close and be able to do that.

They’re enjoying being back in Kimba and getting themselves around. Dad has worn a line from their new place to the local newsagent and that hardware shop (and to be honest, probably needs a speedo fitted in his gopher to slow him down a bit).

Mum is starting to make herself at home in her new garden, and treated herself to a big, beautiful pot which helped soften the blow of leaving her beautiful cherry blossoms, Lilly pillies and agapanthus back in town.

It’s been a big few months but once Saturdays auction is done, we can all settle into this sweet new chapter.

It’s always a surprise to see our home on lists such as this one.It ‘just’ a little farmhouse and I often find myself lo...
25/05/2026

It’s always a surprise to see our home on lists such as this one.

It ‘just’ a little farmhouse and I often find myself looking at jobs to be done and things I’d like to change, but of course sometimes you need to remind yourself how far you’ve come. Revisit the before and after to truly understand the work you’ve done.

We were flicking through old photo albums at Workshop26 recently (Lisa had set us all the task of finding a 90s photo of ourselves 😣), and found these photographs. Some from when we first moved in, others from when we enlisted the help of Ray Betts to make some changes to the back of the house to update the kitchen space.

It’s a bit of a blast from the past and reminds me that actually, we’ve made ourselves a pretty comfortable home in this little old farmhouse.

📸After’ photos are by the wonderful , some of which appeared in Country Style magazine, a fact I still pinch myself about!

A little refresh for karawathahome.com.au, with almost a dozen extra fragrances uploaded and now able to be ordered from...
09/04/2026

A little refresh for karawathahome.com.au, with almost a dozen extra fragrances uploaded and now able to be ordered from the comfort of your own home, wherever you may be across the country.

The website was previously just a little slice of what I create, a little tasting plate if you will, but now you can shop the full range of apothecary jar, room mist and reed diffuser fragrances online.

That’s right, if you love fragrances like Outback (Eucalyptus, Sandalwood and Lemon Myrtle), Port Lincoln (Thyme, Bergamot and Sandalwood) or Kelly (Peach and Citrus), you can now have them delivered right to your door.

You’ll still love coming into my little shipping container in Workshop26 for special one-off scents, cards, prints and preserving jar candles – and of course, for the great conversations and great people – but if a trip to Kimba this weekend is not on the cards, hopefully karawathahome.com.au doesn’t feel quite so far away 🤎

📸 Photographs by Jade Norwood Photography

In the rhythm of life on our property, with March comes shearing; long hours yarding sheep, treading the lanolin-soaked ...
20/03/2026

In the rhythm of life on our property, with March comes shearing; long hours yarding sheep, treading the lanolin-soaked boards of the woolshed and, of course, the oven and the kitchen sink working overtime churning out food for a team of hungry shearers and shedhands.

There’s an electricity that crackles across the farm during shearing.

Literally, you can hear it as soon as the shearing plant is switched on at 7:30 each morning, the buzz of the machinery that drones its way down to the house and through your very bones, and punctuates the patterns of the day; the morning run, the smoko break, and back into it again til lunchtime and beyond.

If you’ve been part of life on a farm during shearing, you’ll know exactly the sound I mean. It doesn’t leave you.

Even once the plant goes quiet, the sound of shearing is constant as the bleating of the mob penned ready for the next morning reaches the house through the night, the chorus of high and low voices a reassurance that you’re as prepared for the following day in the shed as you can possibly be.

There’s an extra energy in all of us this week, as the rain that fell over the weekend helps tense shoulders ease and turns the corners of mouths up.

Whether your season or just your garden depends on the rain, I hope it feels the same at your place.

Over the summer holidays, an Adelaide-based family who were visiting the Eyre Peninsula made the 140-kilometre round tri...
25/02/2026

Over the summer holidays, an Adelaide-based family who were visiting the Eyre Peninsula made the 140-kilometre round trip from Cleve to Kimba to pick up a bottle of room mist.

They were a bit pressed for time so they weren’t able to wander Workshop26 or enjoy lunch at Eileen's like most day-trippers do, but they did
take two hours out of their day just to drive here for the fragrance they’d come to love while staying at Kylie Villis’ beautiful Cleve Boutique Accommodation.

They took two bottles home with them and I like to think that they remember their Eyre Peninsula summer each time they walk into their home in the suburbs, in that special way that scent can take you directly back to a memory you didn’t know you still had.

📸 Photographs by Bec Smart Photo and Jade Norwood Photography

February. It’s still hot, it’s dry as toast out the back of Buckleboo (though the weather map is getting interesting!) b...
18/02/2026

February. It’s still hot, it’s dry as toast out the back of Buckleboo (though the weather map is getting interesting!) but suddenly the pace of the year is picking up.

There are community AGMs to be held, sporting commitments to resume (heat clauses permitting of course), school buses back on the Buckleboo Road, and the s-word is getting thrown around by husbands threatening to being preparing for seeding - you could be forgiven for wishing you were still on holiday.

These sweet little paper daisies are the February photograph for my 2026 calendar, and I hope they’re adding a little sweetness to your home on these long hot days.

I like this photo so much I framed it and popped it just outside of my shipping container at , a hit of white in a dark and moody corner. And how sweet is the white bougainvillea cutting on the shelf next to it – they don’t last long as cut flowers, but they’re so pretty in the meantime.

I’m down to just one or two calendars left, but if you’d like one please jump to the link in bio and I’ll have one in the post to you as quickly as I can!

May February be kind to you and the cool change be on its way.

Working remotely today… when you miss the memo about a planned power outage on the farm and need to go ‘up the hill’ to ...
03/02/2026

Working remotely today… when you miss the memo about a planned power outage on the farm and need to go ‘up the hill’ to find signal for phone and internet.

Lucky there’s not too much traffic out here!

There’s a lovely breeze this morning, so while the shade holds out this is where you’ll find me out the back of Buckleboo… wish me luck 🤎

P.S. I’m working away to load more fragrances to the Karawatha Home website so that you can order more of your in-store favourites online. Let me know if there’s one you’d love to see online.

January. It starts slowly, long, languid days running into one another. Indian summer nights by the coast,escaping the i...
22/01/2026

January. It starts slowly, long, languid days running into one another. Indian summer nights by the coast,
escaping the inland heat at the back of Buckleboo.

The air filled with the scent of BBQs and aerogard and the ocean as we all collectively exhale after harvest. A soundtrack of cricket or tennis on the tv in the evenings.

As the month goes on, it runs faster, until suddenly we’re a week from school going back.

I took this photograph at Arno Bay, not too far from the beach shack where my family has been privileged enough to holiday since my children were small. Now our grandkids stay at the shack with us, precious family time that none of us will forget.

I love the way this shot captures the colours of summer. It is the first image of the year in my 2026 calendar and I know you shouldn’t have favourites but this is surely one of mine. I can almost hear that wave crashing.

There’s just a handful of calendars left now – they mostly sold out in the rush that was Christmas. If you’d still like to get your hands on one, whether as a timekeeping tool or just to frame the photographs for the ultimate in affordable art, the link in my bio is still live for a little longer yet.

Soak up these last few days, whether your household beats to the drum of the school year or not. January feels precious, like time doesn’t really count, and I wish for that little bubble of peace to last for you for as long as it can.

I’m off to Ceduna for my annual Christmas pop-up with my mates Debs Shed and Dion () and JD’s cooking. We’ll be popping ...
06/12/2025

I’m off to Ceduna for my annual Christmas pop-up with my mates Debs Shed and Dion () and JD’s cooking.

We’ll be popping up at the Ceduna Memorial Hall from 8-12 December to help you do your Christmas shopping locally.

If you couldn’t make it to the Workshop26 Christmas Market a couple of weeks ago, don’t fear because I’ll have a selection of goodies from my Workshop26 mates too.

So if hand-poured candles, calendars, cheese boards, sponge rolls, vintage gear, modern hand crafted jewellery, gardening goodies, woodwork, books, jelly cakes or cream puffs are of any interest to you, please pop on in and see us!

Guaranteed we can help you out with teacher gifts / stocking stuffers / something for your hard-to-buy-for in-laws etc 🤎

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