Camping in style

Just thought I'd type a quick post. We are at the Willowbrook Farm for the weekend. We just had a lovely night under the stars listening to bush poets and songs on acoustic guitar in front of a campfire. No photos until we get home, but just wanted to see how this NEXTG wireless internet connection works. Pretty good, huh?

Reading pulp fiction and something other than that

I read this book "Glamour" by Louise Bagshawe.


Now, I really like the idea of this book, three girls find devastation in their lives, but struggle through to become wildly successful with their luxury items chain store called Glamour. Very similar storyline to the other book of hers I read recently. However, I must say, books written in this style, (which appear to be catering for people with a reading age below 12) are a bit of a waste of an idea, because there is no poetry in the words. I enjoyed the storyline; I love Cinderella/ rags to riches stories, but there was just no depth to the language. The girls were forever blushing, and were always enjoying hours and hours of rolling around on satin sheets with their famous, rich soulmates. It wasn't very realistic and there were no memorable sentences. I yearn to read memorable sentences, and I am going to begin looking for more books that have them. Do you know any good ones?

Here is a special book I found for a dollar, second-hand.


A collection of stories about family from a bunch of Australian authors. The story"Madonna of the Streets" by Gary Crew is WOW. Beautiful, mystical and uplifting. Worth reading the whole book, if you can get your hands on it. Now this book has memorable sentences.

A way to store magazines

Got this great bookshelf from Ikea, a few months back, to have in the guest room. The idea was to fill it with magazines, and now that I've gone through all my magazines and chosen only the best (mainly home and garden mags), and decorated the plain white holders with some pretty scrapbooking paper to match the cushions on the bed, you can see my latest organising venture.

It fits perfectly in the corner of the room and was only $89. I got one for Jack's room too, for all his books.

My current obsession

I'm just waiting on the last question of May to be asked by Emily Falconbridge before I reveal my May tags on my 52Q blog (see my blog roll or button). Until then, here is a sneak peek. Last week's question asked, "What is my current obsession?" and, as I've spent the last week with my head in a filing cabinet, here is my answer:



I have about 50 more papers to file and I will have finished my four drawer filing cabinet of school papers. Then I move onto my four draw filing cabinet of home papers. I know there will be a moment of feeling great success when I'm finished, but, while the project continues...woe.is.me.

Beautiful shoes!

I'm not a huge shoe person usually, but, I had a gift voucher to spend from my birthday, so I lashed out on these gorgeous things, courtesy of Target. Flamenco dancing anyone?

All I really need to know I learned in Kindergarten

I picked up this book at a second-hand bookshop, and it is an enlightening read!


The author philosophises on subjects including, love, grandparents, nature, neighbours, motivation, progress and more. His main philosophy, the title, is expanded like this.

• Share everything.
• Play fair.
• Don't hit people.
• Put things back where you found them.
• Clean up your own mess.
• Don't take things that aren't yours.
• Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody.
• Wash your hands before you eat.
• Flush.
• Warm cookies are good for you.
• Live a balanced life - learn some, and think some, and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.
• Take a nap every afternoon.
• When you go out into the world, watch out for traffic, hold hands and stick together.
• Be aware of wonder. Remember the the little seed in the cup: the roots go down, the plant goes up and nobody really knows how or why, but we are all like that.
• Goldfish and hamsters and white mice and even little seeds -they all die. So do we.
• And then remember the books, and the first word you learned, the biggest word of all - LOOK.

The author goes on to say:
"Take any one of these terms and extrapolate it into adult terms and apply it to your family life, or your work or your government or your world and it holds true and clear and firm. "

Working in a kindergarten and being an adult in this world, I can testify that this is so true!

Painting the Roses Red

I have some more Alice in Wonderland cards for you to see, at this midnight hour! I'm pretty excited about this set, because I've been looking for just the right papers and embellishments since the beginning of the project. I am so looking forward to launching my card shop!