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Tired of the Instagram hussle 🙄

I was pleased to see some genuine feedback to my question on Instagram for this post. I just find Instagram is changing so quickly these days it’s so hard to keep up. Blogging on my website is far more enjoyable and sits better with my creative time. There is so little time to use Instagram …

Aussie bush childhood adventures

As fourth in line of a family of five children often it was a fight to get my parents attention and more so time with my Dad. I would do anything to spend time with my Dad, even doing boring chores like food shopping on a Saturday morning with him. But the time we all …

Saturday early evenings

Just driving back from a full family day at my great niece’s 1st birthday party an hour away from where I live but it was so good to be there and chat with family and have baby girl cuddles too. Babies always smell so delicate and true to me. And as always driving back home …

Mudbrick in lockdown

A little mudbrick art studio in it’s cosy surround, picturesque windows built from artist travels in French provincial early-mid 1900’s. This is Montsalvat at the gateway to our Yarra Valley. I spent a few years working up on the mezzanine level as an artist and eventually had to capture it on paper in delish soft …

Walks around the neighbourhood

We are tending to take more notice on our one hour of exercise a day structure in Melbourne for now. I keep finding treasure in the many gardens and such adorable little and biggish homes I pass. Homes that must be filled with a vast array of stories that could fill a book. I think …

Early Friday’s

I do love my early Friday’s when I only work a half day. I’d mostly dash home, whip up a quick lunch for my home schoolers; but more often stop at my favourite Pattisiere and grab some homemade pies and a cake each for the boys and I. It’s time for school to go back …