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Cinnamon and vanilla poached peaches
After the fun of poaching some pears the other week, I found myself eyeballing the few peaches in my fruit bowl and wondering how they’d go with similar treatment. They were slightly disappointing as...
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30 Lists: March 2016 (part 1)
A new round of 30 Lists is always exciting for me. I get to think about new ways to make my lists, and be all happy about making another little time capsule for the future. I am insanely busy at the...
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Mini book: Keep on Making Stuff
I don’t know about you, but I often find it very hard to quiet the voices in my head that tell me not to create. You know, the mean ones that tell me that I’m not good at it, or that it’s a waste of...
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Art journalling: Get Messy Season of Happy
We’re drawing to the end of a season over at Get Messy. It’s been my first on the creative team, and such an immensely fun challenge. The prompts had us thinking about what makes us happy, how we...
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Pocket pages: Hey there, handsome
Every time Arty gets a hair cut he seems to look a whole year more grown up, and the transformation kind of boggles my mind. We take him to this incredibly OTT hipster barber shop near our house, and...
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Washi easter egg cards
I don’t know what it is about making it egg-shaped that transforms chocolate into an even more irresistible delight, but it’s an undeniable fact that I’ve proven with extensive personal research over...
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Strawberry and peach upside down cake
Summer’s over in the southern hemisphere, and we’re getting to the tail end of the summer fruit. Some of it is amazing, but some of it is better enjoyed after being cooked. This recipe is a brilliant...
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Felt flower video tutorial #1: Pompom centred flower
Hello, lovelies! I am crazy excited today, because I’m kicking off a little tutorial series that I think you are going to love. If you follow me on Instagram, you will have seen me making a lot of felt...
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Attending your first blogger event: tips for the new and nervous
Yesterday I went to my fist official blogger event. I have been pretty resistant to such things for a long time – I mean I’ve been blogging for years, and haven’t been to one til now, and I think that...
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Creative work, housework, and ‘finding the time’
As a creative, self-employed, freelancing, stay-at-home-mum, I am often asked “how do you find time to be creative when there’s so much to do at home?” In fact, “often” doesn’t cover it. I am asked...
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One Little Word: March 2016
Ah, the vision board! I was so against this idea last year, and I completely turned around on it. So this year I was keen as hell to get snipping and glueing! I decided to take a similar approach to...
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30 Lists: March 2016 (part 2)
Minimal listing! Where have you been all my life? This round of 30 Lists is tearing by for me, and I’m loving jotting thoughts in my little Midori Traveller’s notebook. Here are my responses to lists...
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Emergency peanut butter tray brownies
When someone I know is hurting, I apply food. It doesn’t fix things, but it makes me feel like I’m doing something. It’s entirely selfish in that way – a way to get past that feeling of powerlessness....
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Felt flower video tutorial #2: Anemone
It’s time for another flower tutorial! Yay! These anemones are pretty much my favourite flowers to make. They don’t take long and they’re just so, so pretty. I love everything about them from their...
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My memory keeping roots: Travel chronicles
I’ve been recording my family’s everyday adventures through pocket pages and mini books for a few years now. My style has evolved, and my approach has changed, but on the whole the format has been...
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Granola a la Josie (nut free)
Whenever we go out for breakfast and I order granola, my mate Josie looks at it longingly. She loves cereal in all its forms, but she’s allergic to nuts, so most granolas are basically death-in-a-bowl...
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Felt flower video tutorial #3: Wild rose
Here is the third video in my felt flower series! Woo hoo! Thank you for the kind and supportive things you’ve said about the last two, it’s been so encouraging! I hope you’re all having the best time...
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Day in the Life: March 2016
Yay! Another Day in the Life! I love that Ali does these regularly – it’s the prompt I need to keep up with this little tradition. This time around I used my phone to take photos, and took brief notes...
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My memory keeping roots: photo books
Before iPhone cameras became awesome, I took photos differently. That’s not news – we all did. But I have been an avid photographer for a long time, so I generally had a digital camera bout my person...
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30 Lists: March 2016 (part 3)
Here are my final ten lists for the month! List 21: How I feel this week: Tired Withdrawn Contemplative Imaginative Grateful Quiet Worried Indecisive List 22: Time flies when: I’m reading I’m...
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