Photo by rawpixel.com on Unsplash January is over, we are at the beginning of February and 2018 has already made itself know in many ways. I would like to start off by wishing you a year full of blessings! I started to follow the practice of selecting a focus word... Continue reading

My 7 year old daughter and I had great fun in November stamping T-shirts with fabric paint. I planned on setting the paint and stamps out for us to each create our T-shirts together at the same time. Completely unrealistic expectation!! I had to very quickly adapt the activity to... Continue reading

# Photo by Amaury Salas on Unsplash Dear Friends, I am so excited to tell you about my November creative project! I love all sorts of fabric and the idea of printing or dyeing your own fabric with your own colour and pattern designs gets me so very excited, I... Continue reading

"Everything you need, is already within you" ~ #sayQuotable You know the feeling don't you? When you come across wise words - words that resonate so deeply with your soul - that you want to remember it. I want to write it down in my notebook. I want to stick... Continue reading

# Photo by Rodion Kutsaev on Unsplash Dear Friends, It is so good to write to you again! We are re-energised and back to regular blogging from the start of this month, October 2017. We had a bit of a slowdown in posting over recent months, to read through existing... Continue reading

I pray that you, being rooted and firmly established in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the length and width, height and depth of God's love. ~ Ephesians 3:17-18 Dear Friends, It is good to be back after our break over the Christmas holidays... Continue reading

“And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for you; for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly, therefore, I will rather glory in my weaknesses that the power of Christ may dwell in me. For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults,... Continue reading

If you live the questions, life will move you into... Continue reading

Today is Day 63 of the 100-day Project. We are over the half-way mark and entering the final stretch. I managed to keep going each day for 63 days in a row now. I can’t think of anything else in which I persisted with so much dedication except for loving... Continue reading

“I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them. The greatest gift I can give is to see, hear, understand and to touch another person.” ~ Virginia Satir This week I... Continue reading

A normal day! Holding it in my hand this one last moment, I have come to see it as more than an ordinary rock. It is a gem, a jewel. In time of war, in peril of death, people dug their hands and faces into the earth and remembered this.... Continue reading

“And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower, they themselves never hoped to see.” – Alice Walker. I was so fortunate in my life to learn the following handcraft skills from my mother – knitting, crochet,... Continue reading

A woman who walks in purpose doesn’t have to chase people or opportunities. Her light causes people and opportunities to pursue her ~ Dr Farrah Gray Sometimes we are so stuck in worry about our future and the decisions that we may need to make that we don't realise that... Continue reading

Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we’ll ever do ~ Brené Brown Owning our story – is that not the hardest thing to do? There are so many things from the past that I do not want in my story and there... Continue reading

There are things you can't reach. But you can reach out to them, and all day long. The wind, the bird flying away. The idea of God. And it can keep you as busy as anything else, and happier. The snake slides away; the fish jumps, like a little lily,... Continue reading

Faeries, come take me out of this dull world, For I would ride with you upon the wind, Run on the top of the dishevelled tide, And dance upon the mountains like a flame - W.B. Yeats, The Land of Heart's Desire As a child I was always looking for... Continue reading

The creative process is a process of surrender, not control – Julia Cameron I am at a point where I constantly crave to make stuff but seldom go over into action. Is it the distractions of the daily grind that are keeping me away? Or is it fear whispering “why... Continue reading