This is a time for reflection. A time for calm, for enjoying simple pleasures.
For considered thought. For gentleness.

I’m one of the lucky ones. I’ve had a wonderfully colourful working life. I’ve done a myriad of things. I’ve worked in a pottery shop to get me through my university years, done a short stint as a teacher’s aide, and I’ve worked overseas and here in Melbourne in IT recruitment for large multinationals. I’ve created two separate businesses from scratch – a scrapbooking product manufacturing and wholesale business with my daughter and, more recently, a beautiful haberdashery that I stepped away from to focus on my studies in a health and wellbeing profession. 

With my darling husband – my best friend and ally for five decades, I’ve raised three daughters, strong, beautiful women, each one, and I’m completely head-over-heels crazy about our two gorgeous young grandsons. We finally built our dream house, I embarked on a new career – I’m now a Certified Alexander Technique teacher, and, after losing my husband to cancer recently, I decided to turn my 20 years of experience in web design into a new side hussle. I continue to enjoy playing and teaching on my baby grand piano.

And, since I was a young girl, I have been a maker.

This is my notebook. I’m glad to have you along as I enjoy the simple pleasures of making, sewing and knitting a handmade wardrobe and sharing it with you.