For years I have shared a free poster to celebrate Carers Week, which this year is held in Australia from 14 to 20 October. My annual posters came about as a result of my own experience as a mental health carer, and the website I created at...
Download poster here About a month ago I shared a free poster acknowledging the courage it takes to ask for help. It’s not rocket science. I’m sure we’ve all struggled with reaching out – whether to ask for a hand with the kids, or making a...
Download poster here Every day I see articles in the news about people struggling to come forward and ask for help – be it about domestic violence, mental illness, child abuse, gender issues, self harm, cancer, crime, homelessness, poverty… I could go on...
I didn’t plan this twirly headed chameleon like guy, but he obviously wanted to be noticed and popped up out of the blue in my mixed media painting. What can I say? I had been looking jealously at on line friends playing with doodles, ink splats and mixed media,...
Download poster here – and then please take a minute to leave a comment and say hello! [Post updated 1 July 2015 – in case you have a feeling of deja vu!] There have been some incredible kindnesses shown to me during difficult times. I have been sent...
He looked me right in the eyes and said “Don’t give up”. I don’t know if that’s what this personable little guy said to Sharon at all, but it is certainly what he said to me. Assuming that he IS a “he” of course – I...
As a medical librarian I see a huge amount of research around recovery from illness or injury, but it is often missing that individual, human element that makes life a joy. Miraculous as it is, there is only so far that science and medicine can go – and then it...
We love our “little man” dearly – Sully, the Australian Terrier who has loyally looked after our family since my daughter was a preschooler. Now she is taller than me and about to start her last year of high school, but her four legged brother still...
I’ve been going back through my sketchbooks, remembering times that I was inspired to draw. It’s amazing how many memories my drawings bring back to me. I don’t know why, but for some reason I look at a sketch and I can remember that specific moment...
I painted the background to this page before my trip to France, thinking that I’d find something appropriate to stick on it. I didn’t. But last week I was at my parents’ place in Queenscliff, sitting outside in the shade overlooking the garden, and...
This is how I see my beautiful fourteen year old daughter (most of the time – after all, she IS fourteen …!) I was inspired by the work of Kelly Rae Roberts, who contributed step by step instructions for an affirmation collage (like this one), in a book...
We didn’t eat out that often, but this day we went for a drive around the local villages and stopped for lunch. We sat in a shady courtyard opposite the restaurant and took our time checking out the menu and laughing with the outrageous waitress. You...
