It looks set for a big market weekend with The Rocks Chocolate Festival on Saturday and Sunday. I will be there but in a different location to my permanent spot in Playfair Street as I am shifting up to the canopy area in George Street. Finding Creatively Belle at The...
Being featured in one of your favourite creative magazines is turning into one of the highlights of my year, especially as I’ve been able to share it with my mum during a really difficult time with my much treasured dad going through serious surgery. My mum, Helen...
I’m all a flutter about an upcoming watercolour event where I’ll get the opportunity to play with a bundle of Daniel Smith watercolours and get to meet the owner, John Cogley, as he does a tour around Australia, collaborating with local art supply stores...
As I start focusing on making sure I have enough stock for two x four day shows in Tasmania I find this beautiful island is calling me in my dreams, again. I’ve been to Tasmania 10 times now, attending the Tasmanian Craft Fair for six years in Deloraine and this...
I’m a firm believer that we each have the power to create in this world what we want to see in it. If you want heart ache and harm then you do the hideous things that make that happen. If you want peace and love then you share such beauty with others and create more...
I’ve had an idea about creating a series of artist palette necklaces and brooches for ages now and I finally settled down to a design and got making. Happily I’m thrilled with the results! The hunt for the duo necklace and brooch finding has taken a while...
Making your living selling your own creations at market teaches you a lot of things, especially about people and how they perceive value. I have the whole world visit my jewellery stall at The Rocks Markets and I love the diversity and similarity between us all. Kids...
I’ve something to confess, my life is lived with loads of mistakes, u-turns, oopsy daisy and oh-bugger moments. It is nothing like the perfect lives you’ll find on Facebook, with an amazing social life, a perfect family and loads of exciting holidays, a life where no...
I was talking with a customer on the weekend at market about being fully self employed with my creative business and while she was surprised she also said with a touch of envy “imagine being able to do what you want, whenever you want, everyday” and I had to laugh to...
The dream of creating a mega blog that has millions of readers and generates a healthy income to thoroughly replace the paid job is a dream for many and a reality for only a few. But happily the really achievable reality for many bloggers is the opening of interesting...
