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Burning Spirit Cannot be Crushed

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Hello Everyone, If you have seen the news of late you would know most of my country – Australia is up in flames! This battle has been going on for some time now. Many towns, families and memories have been lost. It is a hard time for us all right now. To help combat the heat and get an early start on some Australia Day ideas I thought it best to not talk about the typical BBQs and sausage frying. Enough of the country has been fried as it is! On a healthier note, and brighter note if you haven’t thought about your ideas for Australia Day then perhaps this could help. A salad! Fresh and healthy for you internally, and visually appealing to your senses. I have entitled this salad “green and gold salad”. Australia’s sporting teams often wear green and gold – something to look forward to again as this year there will be another Olympics (in Japan)! I think this green and gold salad depicts the attitude of the Australian, which is a fighting kind of spirit. Not in a bad way, b...
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A New Beginning

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Hi Everyone, Thank you all for your support in the year 2019. Last year when I decided to start blogging it all seemed a very daunting experience! Honestly, I had put off the entire process for years. Well. This is a new year, a new decade. I say if anyone has the notion to do something – go do it! One foot behind the other and move forward. Chase your dreams and find your future and success. Don’t worry about striving to be number 1, everyone is there own number one. Unless you can find someone who is exactly like you, with the same upbringing, the same thought patterns and looks identical to you? Not even twins are the same, for they are their own person. Where am I getting to with this? Great question. This is a new year full of opportunities that only YOU can achieve. What is really standing in the way of you and success? It can’t be other people because they are not you. Let’s do this together. As you would have realised by now I enjoy looking at the world in a creat...
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Last minute Christmas Gift wrapping

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Hi All! IT IS ALMOST CHRISTMAS! I hope you all have finished your Christmas shopping, creating, decorating, crafting, baking and anything else that could fit in that list! For us Christmas is already happening. Seeing some people here and there and on this day and that day. Gifts here, laughter and fun over there. For those of you who are pumping out the last few things, in these last few moments or the last day. Here’s some last-minute gift-wrapping tricks and ideas I’ve got. Hopefully throughout the year you may have collected some cereal boxes. These are great for other crafts too – and not just with kids! (New year’s resolution idea maybe? Keep cereal boxes for future craft and gift-wrapping ideas!) I remove the tabs off the top of the cereal box so there is an opening, then wrap the box up with Christmas Paper. Next for a finishing touch using washi tape around the edges of the opening. Then using a hole puncher, press two holes for each side where you can use a match...
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Finnish Independence Day 102 years

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Hi All! Finnish Independence is marked the 6 th of December. Although I am an Australian, much of my heritage and background is from Finland. Many of my family members live in Finland and one of my closest and dearest friends relocated there this year! Last year I had made some Finland shaped cookies with blue icing and I was happy to see many people seemingly enjoyed this post. This time, well time wasn’t on my side as my son shared his flu with me. While I wanted to bake a new type of treat with incorporation of the Finnish flag instead, I needed to resort to a quick batch of cookies. Now I’ll let you know, this recipe I’m about to share is 3 INGREDIENTS for the base of the cookie, extra ingredients for the flavours – whatever you choose. The method is also very quick! This is a super handy recipe to have on hand for anyone who is in a pinch with time! CHECKERBOARD Cookies (Finnish recipe often called “small tiger cakes”) *Note these are made using the decilitre...
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Doings and Goings

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Hi All, It has been such a long time since I have last posted, and I am terribly sorry for that. In review of my last post at least it could hopefully be viewed that I pressed on to busily do things before the end of this decade! *giggles* I have indeed been busy I will try to recap as much of possible events with pictures included and new creative inspirations. During October I was trying to do the ‘Inktober challenge’ not that I have much to show for that.   I did some of the drawings or random scribblings. Then on other days realising I need to find inspiration for the passed 4 days was not ideal. As I prefer to write over draw, I began to turn the Inktober prompt list into an ideas board for writing. Some were just sweet small verses of a poem to expand on later, while others turned into a short story. Participating in Inktober this way was far more exciting, with the occasional drawing. With the idea of a prompt list I dug out some of the game cards ...
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Ticking Time

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Hi Everyone, Lately my mind has been filled with the presence of time. It can be so capturing and consuming when you think about it. Take a young couple in love. Time feels to revolve around them. It ticks quickly by when they are together, but when they are apart it drifts slowly from one minute to the next. Then a person on deaths door, time feels like it is quickly coming in on them (that’s at least how I would imagine it). There has been much grief happening in my life recently, I won’t go into it all here, but it continues to leave this longing feeling of ‘what am I really doing with my time.’ A friend on Facebook posted a quote by Toby Mac saying, “There are three months left in this decade. IN. THIS. DECADE. Take that risk. Give it a try.” Okay sure.. there’s no longer 3 months left. THERE IS LESS THAN 3 MONTHS! There is still many things I want to complete and establish before the next decade comes. What about you? I always have craft projects stuck in limbo...
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Growth

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Hi Everyone! I’ve never had much luck in the field of gardening. When I was younger, the act of gardening would put me in a bad mood. (Possibly didn’t help that I was generally on weed duty.) I have this one memory of my parents asking me to get the dead looking fronds out of the palm lower palm trees. I had looked at the trees and thought “great since the fronds are dead, this will be easy.” Well! After some minutes of pulling and yanking I found myself laying in the garden bed and the Palm Tree had won! Thankfully at this age I did find the situation humorous. After those teenage years I really didn’t want to get into gardening. But oddly enough found something sweet hearing about trips my Mum and Mummu had made to get new plants for their gardens. I’m not sure what has happened, but now I have tried my hand at gardening AND IT HAS YIELDED RESULTS! I’m sooo happy!! Hubby and I have mostly wanted a vege or herb garden, but the occasional flower is FUN also. ...
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