5 Ways to Bring More Creativity into Your Administrative Life

It is a regular conversation for me at market with women who are feeling frustrated with their daily lives about how envious they are of me with my creative life. Meanwhile I look at them with some level of envy for the steady income they have been able to build their...

10 Tips for Enjoying VIVID Sydney

Over the last few years I’ve learnt that making the most of VIVID Sydney needs just a bit of planning, that is, if you want to be able to get around and see as much as possible without being overwhelmed by staggeringly big crowds by Sydney Harbour. Happily...

How to Make the Most of Every Job’s Crappy Bits

Setting up at market on Sunday I was laughing with my treasured market friend Natasha Dwyer from Arthur Avenue about how much we love the freedom of our little businesses, being at market and making a living from our creative talents. We do know how blessed we are for...

Getting Your Ducks in a Row

I was talking with my treasured friend Libby Heasman of Crimson Pear about how frustrated I was feeling about getting the next stage of a project for my porcelain jewellery designs going because I felt like I just needed a bundle of things in place first. To my...

How Making a Daily Mark Created My New Range of Jewellery

For years I had a burning desire to paint yet was too scared to give it a go, fearing the unknown. Once I gave myself permission to be crap at it life got a whole lot easier. I bought a box of paints and some brushes for my birthday and sat looking at them for weeks....