Sorry business, this.
It’s a sad day for the Northern Territory, and for the whole of Australia. The “rock that stands against time” passed away last night. Mandawuy Yunupingu was born in Yirrkala in Arnhem Land, an...
View Articlecameo in Homespun 10/13!
A tiny spirograph embroidery of mine got featured in Homespun magazine’s October 2013 issue! Oh, and I love the spin they put on my Valentine’s Day story about the Spirograph, too. My thanks to Janai...
View ArticleSnapshots of the Northern Territory
I got very little in the way of creative work done this past weekend. I took my bicycle to town for serious repairs. From there I walked to the optometrist to get my eyesight checked (and she...
View ArticleA dinkum Aussie by tomorrow arvo
It’s finally here! The day I’ve been hanging around for, for the past 8 months or so, and the penultimate ‘loose end’ that stands between me and my man: my Australian Citizenship ceremony is tomorrow!...
View ArticleThe Armoured Wombat : Society6
I’ll be adding the animals from last year’s Dream Menagerie to my Society6 shop, too. Here’s the first one, Panzer Wombat…as though this little living tank of a marsupial needed to get any tougher!...
View ArticleSome changes…
I finished working for Jacksons Drawing Supplies last Friday. A bittersweet occasion. Wonderful to have tied up that loose end (and feel, more strongly, that things are happening), but I took many a...
View ArticleThree-day retreat
N.B. I wrote a long blog post about this, right after it happened, but failed to save my typing and lost it all when my browser crashed. In early October I spent three days, two nights, with the glass...
View Article𝌟 endeavour
smallestforest:Vegemite and I are friends, but we’ll never be hot lovers… Originally posted on schizzograffia: A cheeky present from a cheeky friend, to welcome me to Australian citizenship. She gave...
View ArticleDeparture
It’s little I care what path I take, And where it leads it’s little I care; But out of this house, lest my heart break, I must go, and off somewhere. It’s little I know what’s in my heart, What’s in my...
View ArticleBurning the midnight sun
I bought a POLLINATE ENERGY Rechargable solar lamp recently, after seeing it in action at a friend’s garden party. I’ve been using it every night, since, and cannot praise it enough. I connect the...
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