Place: My Office

Poison: A Plum

Favourite Things: The music festival that I can hear through my office window, good vibrations…nice…gotta love live music.

I have just come back from a fundraising meeting for the Riverview Children’s Foundation. Where they are empowering and inspiring community fundraisers to raise large amounts of money for projects that are linked with the foundation and I am so inspired.

People who are using their gifts for a purpose.

I had a small group of people, who are everyday people doing such amazing things. We came up with this concept of ‘Love Thy Neighbour’ products, so standby they will be out and about very soon.

Microenterprising amoungst the poor of the poor, brings honour, value and respect. When we use our resources to by from the slums of the world, we pour money back into their worlds, so they don’t feel like charity cases. I know I am simplifying this greatly…But rather than spending our money say on big name coffee, we can spend it on coffee that is giving back to the community. Like in Perth a company called ‘Five senses’ has done an amazing job of this.

Or if you are doing a t-shirt for your local footy club, or for your church, or to fundraise, go back to the people who are mostly doing the work, (often in asian countries, make sure they are child free labour), then pour our money back into these places.

Every person has the ability to take what is in their hands, and make a difference in anothers life.

LOVE THY NEIGHBOUR!

(its a commandment)

A

Place: My Office

Poison: chicken and salad wrap

Favourite Things: My new craft book.

My lovely friend Brooke, brought me a very fancy, funky and inspiring book late last year and I havent really had the time as I have been travelling to get into it.

http://www.blackdogonline.com/all-books/making-stuff.html

(that’s actually my desk…tea pot and all, no set up of photo here, literally 30 second shoot)

So this weekend I created space and got crafty!

Craft does not need to be like the embarassing toilet covers that my nanna makes with barbie doll heads on top. Craft can actually be very crafty, with people not even aware that it was put together with super glue in your back shed.

The book is called: MAKING STUFF- an alternative craft book. And its from America, but can be brought online.

So this weekend I made a cake stand, which cost me 30cents per plate and $1.60 for the sherry glasses, (I smashed one, so had to go back to the opshop and in the process got a parking fine for $90, which cracked me up because the cake stand now cost me around $90 something dollars, SMILE)

I also made a little coin purse out of a mans tie, then used the rest of it as a head band.

I found a frame at a op shop for a dollar, which I painted black and then glossed it. It looks hot.

So get crafty, IM INTO IT…..

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Place: My Office

Poison: Water

Favourite Things: Skype, and my buddies around the world.

 

I am skimming through art brochures, looking at art classes, working out how to create space in my diary to create this year.

When you work in a creative job, it is so easy to fall into the trap of creating with an end result in mind, not creating, just for the the sake of the process.

Creating with purpose, is fulfilling satisfying and is a discipline that hones your skills like a personal trainer.

However allowing space to create with no expectation or time restraints, staff awaiting your ideas, or criticism is a very important part of the process also.

Try to find a way you can create with no expectation…

Space.

Time.

Results.

open your mind, to a place of creative stimulation, without any agenda.

A

Place: My Office

Poison: Long Black

Favourite Things: New floor rug

 

 

 

Place: Qantas Club

Poison: Verdhelo

Favourite Things: My boarding pass that says Perth, very soon.

A story to start off…

Over the last few days I have been at an amazing young adults conference in Sydney called ‘awakening’. Its been gold. However yesterday something hilarious happened to me, of all things, in the toilet. SMILE ALREADY. I was innocently depositing all the water I had been drinking like a good girl, and the arm band you get as a guest of the conference, fell into the toilet bowl. RIGHT in the middle of my, lets say it nicely number 1′s. So I had to fish it out, or else the big bouncers would have carried me out of the auditorium, so I thought, I’ll wash it with soap and then go ask for a new one. But smiling, didn’t help, no new band for this groupie. So today I left it on the wipers of my friends car with a note that said…’here is a wee little present for you!’ She knew the story. She hasn’t text me back.

I am so a crazy cat when it comes to stuff like that, crumbs around my mouth when I meet someone knew, dropping plates on tiled floors in VIP lounges, words that come out of my mouth at inopportune times…

A couple of days ago, a few of my closest friends, went out to a farm and went four wheel motorbiking. We all had one each, in the theme of today’s blog, I looked like an old lady on her little shopping mobile, and my friends looked like they had walked in from the set of Mad MAX. Hilarious.

As I flew around the bush, (okay crawled…I was scared of the accelerator button!) I had this moment of pure joy. Covered in mud, as we launched through big puddles, screaming as my friends came right up behind me in a bid that I would go over 20 kms per hour, I had this revelation of the crazieness of life. Within days I have been to my friends memorial, I have soaked in a thermal pool watching thermal activity bubble to the surface, helped a friend with a music festival of 30,000, hung out with my closest friends, met a friend from Queensland, gone to a radical conference engaging young adults with their dreams, eaten amazing lebanese food and hanging at a lebanese crib, walked into a Maori marae and eaten an hungi…then  I find myself flying through the bush in Sydney hills on a four wheel drive motor bike.

The privlege of life to the fullest, is so easy to forget. Heath Leger’s death really shook me. Close to my age, went to school in my state.

Life is so short. The canvas is so much bigger than we see. Enjoy every single moment. Don’t take the privelege of our worlds for granted.

I truly am grateful for the little things. Motor bike riding in the outback, covered in mud, screaming, laughing, scared witless.

Yehaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

A