The days are getting shorter, the temperature is cool No more basking in the sun, or floating in the pool My heart is feeling heavy, but I know a special art A list of happy thoughts, to keep springtime in my heart As my wonderful friends in the northern hemisphere celebrate
Enraging any mother is pretty easy. Just say something rotten about her kids and you’ll wish you were being gored by a bull or clawed by a bear – the pain would be less. This fierce protection starts in the womb and increases to a point of touchiness that would put a snowflake’s
Welcome to another Wacky Workshops project – this week I’m sharing lots of little projects to keep your young children happy and creative. Most of these projects can be done in a few, simple steps and you probably have everything you need to make them already sitting around your home.
There it is. That sick feeling in my stomach combined with a kaleidoscope of butterflies reminding me of my terror. On the really bad days, it’s hard to make my legs work, my hands are shaky and I’m sweating. But my children are waiting – tiny infants school kids waiting for mum to
Are you a lover of trivia? Then you are in the right place. I’ve collected a bunch of interesting facts that you really DON’T need to know and put them together for a bit of fun. If you follow me on Facebook you may have seen some of these on Thursday Trivia days. If you
Welcome to another Wacky Workshops project – paper mache heads. I love making these life-size heads with my art students. The paper mache process teaches patience and coordination while the decorating process unleashes creativity and imagination. The finished product is full of fun and fantasy and can be used as a decoration
There are so many articles on self-love at the moment and it strikes me this is not a new skill to be learned, but more like a forgotten art. Consider babies and children – their absolute fascination with their bodies, even the things their bodies produce, shows a lack of the disgust
Here is the true horror story set in some retirement villages in Australia. You may have read the fiction mystery set in a retirement village – Smiling Palms. Keeping with the theme of horror and mystery, I’m now disclosing some scary facts. It’s a terrible thought, but did you know your inheritance could
Welcome to another Wacky Workshops project – stick art. There are so many wonderful things you can create using the sticks you find in your yard – or even in a park if you live in an apartment. Did you read my post, Making These Fairy Furniture Projects is a Walk in the
It’s no secret that children can often be our best teachers but it comes as a surprise that a five-month-old baby is teaching me something no one else has been able to. Our newest little Goddess is teaching me how to calm myself – from the inside out. Perhaps it helps she is
