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Out of the Mouths of Babes
My kids say cute stuff. Sometimes they say embarrassing stuff, or repeat my own words back to me. I’ve learnt an awful lot about how my words actually sound when they come back out of a child’s mouth....
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And Now We Are One
A couple of weeks ago Orion turned four. Eight days after that, Piper turned one. I adore birthdays and Orion is now old enough to count down the days on the calendar, which he did with the sort of...
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Consuming Cookbooks
Do you like cookbooks? I do. I love them big, shiny and filled with pictures. I love the feeling of flipping through the pages, inhaling the inky scent which is unique to books, all the while imagining...
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Writing Tips – To Plan or Not to Plan
I’m not much of a planner when I write. Actually, that’s not strictly true. I love to plan. There’s nothing more satisfying than fleshing out an idea. My fingers itch to make a dot point plot list or...
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Blessings In Disguise
I am not a morning person. At all. I grew up with my mum creating masterpieces at the sewing machine at 3am and my dad insisting that sunrise was the best part of the day, but this did not rub off on...
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Writing Tips – Writer’s Block
For me, writer’s block is the inability to continue with my current project. I’m actually writing this because I couldn’t nut out the post I originally had planned for today. Creatively speaking, a...
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Sponge Vs Scones
When I was a kid, my Grandma used to say “My mother always told me that you could either do sponge or scones, but not both.” She would say this with a twinkle in her eye – because naturally she could...
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Writing Tips – The First Draft
There are several aspects of the drafting process. The most commonly accepted form is to have three drafts; an initial write, a rewrite/edit, and the third draft, which is ready for submission to a...
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Sometimes I Do Craft
I have been feeling pretty bad that the craft section of the blog is languishing away in isolation. I am actually a big craft person but with two little munchkins running about I don’t always get a lot...
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Mama’s Magical Cookery Compendium
Cooking. A necessity for all of us, but something I find both relaxing and enjoyable. Which is good, because there are a lot of reasons in our house to cook things from scratch wherever possible. Apart...
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Adventures and Unexpected Surprises
Once a week, I take my two munchkins to playgroup. It’s a nice local group and my favourite thing is that all the mums and kids are friendly and everyone gets along. While we usually meet at the...
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Writing Tips – Procrastination
One of my biggest challenges as a writer is actually sitting down to write. Once I’m in front of the keyboard with a cup of tea, work happens. It’s getting to that point which can be difficult – and I...
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The Many Hazards of Shopping
Even though Orion is four, he still gets quite tired on shopping trips. It’s funny the way his behaviour has cycled – when he was young and just walking, he would wail and thrash about if I tried to...
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Writing Tips – The Second Draft
Once you’ve completed the first draft of your work, the first and most important thing you should do is celebrate. You conceived an idea, researched it and committed to putting it on paper or screen....
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Quick Crafty Update
I’ve been running around lately, trying to get a few things nailed down before christmas. I took some photos of a heap of recent crafty things, and do you think I can find all of them? I think I have...
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Santa Claus is Coming to Town
I love Christmas. The magic of the season always gets me. We’re not particularly religious, so for me Christmas has always been about the spirit of giving, Santa style. I like to think that Santa lives...
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Early Mornings
I am not a morning person. At all. When I grew up, my mum was often in front of the sewing machine at 3am creating masterpieces. Dad insisted (and still does) that sunrise was the best part of the day,...
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The Christmas Wrap-Up
Over the Chritsmas season, I was lucky enough to have my brother and his girlfriend come to visit from interstate. The kids were suitably over-excited and the house was full to bursting, but having...
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Beginning A Facebook Adventure
When I write, it’s like a whole different world. Cliche, I know, but true. I often imagine that if you could look at me with X-ray vision, you’d see my blood cells were actually little letters, like...
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Taming the Satay
I love peanut satay. Or rather, I thought I did. When we were kids, my parents used to make ‘chicken with peanut sauce’ all the time. Then as I grew up, I discovered the hard way that most commercial...
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