Do What You Love

Today’s Do What You Love interview is with Kathy Heslop, an incredible woman who has lived many lives already, as professional musician, nautical globetrotter and serial entrepreneur who has seen multi-million dollar success for her creative businesses. She also happens to be one of the funniest women I know. British by passport, half Scandinavian andread more >>

Historically there have always been a number of major differences between the North and the South of England – dialects, industries, weather, and the big divider – how we make our cups of tea! “To gain optimum ambience for enjoyment of tea aim to achieve a seated drinking position in a favoured home spot whereread more >>

Drum roll please… Welcome to the Great Big Stitched Postcard Swap*!  I would like celebrate my discovery of just how fun and easy it is to make stitched postcards by inviting you all to join in and post a bit of stitch love around the world!  And you don’t even need a sewing machine.  Here’s how itread more >>

You guys rock!!  Thank you, thank you, thank you. Seriously, I cannot believe how generously you shared your advice to help me get over my first-machine-use-phobia.  And I think you cured me!!  I started off with baby steps as advised by the lovely Anne at Craft Gossip Sewing, and then I realised how much funread more >>

Is it just me or she beautiful, this shiny new birthday present of mine? In fact, she is so beautiful, I am too scared to plug her in. I so want to make gorgeous things. But I haven’t the first clue how to use her. I have a pile of fabric. And ribbon. And some buttons.read more >>

Following on from my previous musings I did a bit of research… What is generosity exactly? Giving time? Money? Things? Attention? Encouragement? Emotional availability? Some say it is an essential human virtue. Apparently Bill Gates thinks “Antiquated ideas of kindness and generosity are simply bugs that must be programmed out of our world. And these cold, unfeelingread more >>

There is something very special about receiving a gift in the post. The excitement of not knowing what is in the parcel when it lands with a thump on the doormat. The anticipation as you peel back the crackling brown paper, and reveal a hidden chunk of thoughtfulness, wrapped in a pretty paper. Thus wasread more >>

If you want to put a rocket under your ideas and ambition, start or grow your own business or revolutionise your current business, and make your own choices and your own money, then you need to meet Danielle LaPorte. She is one white hot woman.  She made me think differently about aspects of my own business, andread more >>

Do What You Love interview: CHRISTINA SBARRO (creator of ‘A Field Guide to Now’)In the first of a new series of Do What You Love interviews, I’d like to extend a warm welcome to Christina Sbarro, a woman who is on a mission to truly do what she loves.  Christina is all wrapped up in the creationread more >>

Today I am 32. Tomorrow I will be 33. Pretty old, pretty young, depending on your perspective. Or maybe just right, for me, right now. It has been quite a year.  1. I quit my jobSome say change is stressful, I say it is energising, important, refreshing. Quitting my job was hard. It wasn’t aread more >>

Capturing a fleeting moment in a way which one day will take you right back to that place, the smells, the sounds, the feeling. There is magic in photography. I love taking photos and I think something in me helps me take some sweet shots with the occasional flukey great one, but I don’t reallyread more >>