some time off..

slow internet connections and unwell children have been my recipe this week. I'll see you next week when things return to 'normal'. Happy creating....

shop magazine

here is this months Shop Til You Drop magazine... see who's there on page 151? a selection of my cards with feelgood power! This edition is all about 100% Aussie, so I'm thrilled that my cards made the pages.

*** 7 ***

these wind whispers shall be winging their ways to these 7 peeps! Thanks so much for all your loving comments, truly they make the journey worthwhile...

• Kate
• Donna
• Wini
• Dotti
• Stephanie
• Martina
• Tracey

ps. if you are one of the 7 could you please email me your postal so I can pop them in the mail for you!!

Creative Dynamite!

So excited to be part of this stellar line up. Its been a dream of mine to teach at a national event so I'm giving myself a little pat on the back. I'm teaching 4 workshops and every one of them is dynamite creative learning, if I do say so myself! Can't wait to meet all you lovely creative people in the flesh....

edgy, feminine and a little burlesque.

I had some girly time recently and watched Burlesque and throughly enjoyed it.I loved the costumes and generally felt entertained. I'm a Cher fan and I loved Moulin Rogue so I figured I'd enjoy this one.And lets face it there is nothing like escaping into some sequins and stilettos for a while...

After this visual feast of textures and glamor I felt totally inspired and surfed the web until I found Bibian Blue, fashion designer from Barcelona...edgy, feminine and a little burlesque.

Bibian Blue

700 posts, 7 gifts, 7 days

wind whispers..

I clocked up 700 posts this week...I can't believe I've had so much to say and so many pics to share. That's worth celebrating! So as a big, big thank you for coming to visit, I'm gifting to you, whether your a newbie here or a golden oldie who's familiar with my creative story, here's to you.

Thanks for reading.Thanks for listening. Thanks for letting me share my story with you. I've grown in my creative journey,no doubt about that. My hope is through my sharing that maybe even the smallest amount of light has guided you on your journey too.

so what do you do? leave a comment here if you'd like to own one of these wind whispers.its open for 7 days and I'm gifting 7 cos its all about sharing....

nearly time....Art Is You

its nearly time for this announcement... you can sign up to get first hand info here!

Validation is an inside job!

Story Inspired by the Kindred Project

Flash back to 1985. I'm in my last year of high school and I'm doing a photo shoot for my final Textile project.Its about undergarments making a fashion statement. Madonna + Cyndi Lauper are topping the charts and its all about the corset look....

it was an amazing year with an inspiring teacher.

Encouragement, validation and acceptance for my creativity and myself, is what I found in my Textile teacher. She stretched me and my ideas and challenged me to be more than I thought I ever could. She believed in me and I felt alive and awake, thriving in her presence. It was a time I believed in the possibility of everything and that everything was possible. That year I topped the state with my final year marks for Textiles.

The upside of this amazing year was a feeling of being filled and fulfilled, blissful in a time where I really needed to believe in myself and my direction … I was 17 and I felt I could do anything in the creative world.

However the Universe had some tough love lessons for me..

Since then, I’ve spent a lot of time trying to find that full feeling of external validation for who I am and my creativity. Universal experience has been a firm handed teacher with many life lessons over the years. Looking back I can see how reliant I was comments from others about my art and how this shaped my direction, trying to seek their approval and acceptance for validation.

Finally I came to the realization that I’m not able to gain that fullness of validation from any other individual: not my parents, nor my partner, not my children, friends, university lecturers, clients or even strangers. I now know that relying on external validation is a gamble at best. True validation is definitely an inside job! It comes from doing the work, refining my skills, knowing I am doing the best I can at the time, with no comparisons to anyone else and telling myself “Well Done”. It’s a way I can fill my heart regardless of anyone’s opinion.

Truly I am grateful for what I learnt about myself in that year. My kind hearted teacher gave me a kick start in a life lesson about self validation. I got to feel how amazing validation is at its fullest, what huge achievements I can reach when I believe in myself and what I’m creating, and what happens when I stretch beyond what I think I can do. Thank you KB, you gave me a wonderful gift.

Golden Girl

Golden Girl close up ~ Kindness Over Matter

Golden Girl

mixed media painting on canvas 75cm x 40cm

its great to be an artsy girl!

I loved finding + watching these make up clips..it reminded me of how I've been painting lately.

And this masquerade look made me think of this image...