I Love Gorgeous

I Love Gorgeous

Wednesday, 6th of April, 2016 It is always my goal to live in a state of love and peace, and to conduct myself as someone who is gentle and calm, but it seems that despite being this whole heartedly, on a daily basis, something happens that lights my fire and I become the opposite of […]

Sponsor: I Love Truthpaste

Sponsor: I Love Truthpaste

Monday, 4th of April, 2016 I was not joking the other day when I said I had been using Truthpaste. Truthpaste is a real thing, and while I was talking about it in a metaphorical sense, to imply complete and utter honesty, it is a product that you can actually use to clean your teeth […]

There is Truth and Knowing in Geometry

There is Truth and Knowing in Geometry

Sunday, 20th of March, 2016 One day everything you think you know, that is safe, that holds you, that keeps you comfortable can suddenly fall away. It could be as simple as learning that the earth is not just a solid set-in-stone sphere, even though you thought is was, or it could be more personal, […]

Make Love Not War

Make Love Not War

Monday, 15th of February, 2016 Despite conscious efforts to sail the uncertain seas in a positive manner, Cam and I had a fight. It seems valuable to share so you know what fighting is for us. I consider arguing, bickering, disagreeing with raised voices, or any conversations that includes tears or door slamming, as fighting. […]

Cam Loses His Job

Cam Loses His Job

Thursday, 14th of January, 2016 We had an interesting day, which as usual started early. I like to rise before everyone else, when it is still dark and spend time writing alone, and then when the girls get up, my day with them beings. I have a new system in place, that when I rise, […]

Wanderlust Blues

Wanderlust Blues

This time of Winter I usually get wanderlust, and the truth of the matter is that we are not always able to travel. Today I felt like writing a list to cure travel blues. 1. Social media can be a great place to meet friends to do a house swap with. Even if they live […]

Peace Pie Recipe

Peace Pie Recipe

I dashed into the kitchen where Cam was in the midst of making coffee. We hugged quickly and then I started jabbering with creative exuberance, “I am going to make a peace pie! Do you get it, a PEACE pie?” I said spelling out the letters. Cam turned and looked at me, and it is […]

Healing The Past With Cloth

Healing The Past With Cloth

Monday, 1st of February, 2016 There was not a lot of money to be spent on clothes in our house when I was a child. In some ways my childhood was very privileged, because I was born into an extended family with a beautiful farm in paradise, but in other ways life was hard. Most […]

Running With The Bulls

Running With The Bulls

Friday, 8th of January, 2016 It was decided that we would go for a family walk in the woods at the top of our street. It is a short walk up a hill and when you get to the top of our street you can see Manhattan in the distance. When we reach this spot […]

Maya Meditation & Imagination

Maya Meditation & Imagination

Monday, 18th of January, 2016 I started babysitting quite young, and now I think about it, I count the families I child minded for as some of my most inspiring life teachers. I remember the night Mum dropped me off at my first babysitting job at a farm house on a country road in Lindendale. I […]

Jealousy, Menstruation and Pubic Hair

Jealousy, Menstruation and Pubic Hair

Friday, 23rd September, 2015 – Autumn Equinox. This is the first equinox in a while that I have not gone to some effort to celebrate creatively with some sort of seasonal show. A little too busy and tired today, but I felt the goodness in my heart that Summer had passed and Autumn was officially […]

Open To The Public

Open To The Public

Monday, 4th, January, 2016, I have decided to start writing the date at the top of the page, because the day I start writing something and the day something gets published are two different things, and so there is a sense now that when a spark starts inside of me and when it become public […]

Breath into the New Year

Breath into the New Year

Friday, 1st January, 2016 Maya came into my room around 9:30pm on new years eve. We had tucked the girls in their beds about half an hour before. I could sense Elle was already sound asleep, but here Maya stood peaking around the door wide awake. “Mummy, can I sleep with you?” she said softly […]

Krishna's Blue, How About You?

Krishna’s Blue, How About You?

Monday 28th, December, 2015 I woke up feeling a bit sore. I have been doing yoga and having bedroom dance session at night. I have rearranged my bedroom furniture so I can have my bed, yoga mat, and writing-table in a concise feng shui flow, and in making this furniture shift, there was more room for […]

The Squirrel Almanac

The Squirrel Almanac

I am not sure what the Farmer’s Almanac says this year but my new and imaginative prediction is that it is going to be very cold. Stock up on extra kindling before the snow falls because we had a very clear message from a squirrel today. Despite Elsa Beskow saying that squirrels are scatty thoughtless […]

Dear Cosmos

Dear Cosmos

Dear Cosmos, I am really glad I have a strong connection with you now. For a long time I felt lonely, and then bit by bit I let go of my fears, and realised I could be held by your energy. It is funny, and kind of sad really that I did not learn this […]

Darth Vadar Toaster and the Third Eye

Darth Vadar Toaster and the Third Eye

We were in the kitchen having breakfast and it was 11am, and Cam had just spoken to me about shirking my motherhood duties because it was so late. He stood at my bedroom door like I was someone who needed to be told what to do, “It is 11 o’clock and the girls are both […]

Fairy Play

Fairy Play

There is nothing I love more than to spread the joy of fairy play. We have had a rich childhood filled with endless imaginative scenarios because of a little blue felt fairy we bought in Australia when Maya was three. For many years Bluebell has been Maya’s go to toy (she even has a character […]

Brand New Noise

Brand New Noise

Woohoo for Brand New Noise !!! We are huge fans of these brilliant little noise boxes, or as Richard Upchurch likes to call them, sound gadgets. The aesthetic, the impetus, the way they are made, make these toys an ideal addition to every playful household. The hands, hearts and minds that go into each one, put […]