As you travel through lifeyour dreams will guide youdetermination will get you there& love will provide the greatest scenery of all A page out of an Altered Book titled Madam Butterfly and themed on Love.

If you want to view paradise, simply look around and view it. Our office had an athletic challenge event early in the morning. My disability prevented me from joining in and got to play team photographer instead. While I was waiting for everyone else to run the course, I took photos of Brisbane River at […]

As part of the challenge to Scrapbook the Secret, we are working on pages with the topic of Shifters & Triggers, the things that put us in a such a strong positive frame of mind that it is impossible to feel bad. For me that has always been arts & crafts, more recently paper crafts […]

Warning: readers from the Maritime to Cape Cod can skip this page or at least try and not to giggle while we share this recipe for left overs.That’s right, left overs. When we travel it is natural to learn customs of the places you go and share a little of your own culture. For some […]

This is a mini book I recently taught a class on. The brief was to make it a bit kitchen’y homespun which of course made me think of warm comforting quilts to base the design on. Our family quilt was started generations in the past.Designed with love, its pattern’s rich in values that will last.Each […]

Life is not about “finding” yourself, it is about “creating” yourself. And of course it is the You that you put into anything that makes it uniquely You. Not sure if this is for Ngaire’s Beautiful Challenge or Scrapbooking The Secret Challenge or a little of both.

Are you into sketches or collage?This is a link to a page on the All The Rage blog as a sample of some of the columns that we are writing for the ezine. The launch date was postponed due to server and technical problems but in the mean time, that means you get lots of […]

Are you into ‘the secret’ Scrapbooking the Secret is a web site that is exploring the concepts in a creative forum. Links on the left if you would like to see more. This is my first week’s submissions for the Secret, the dedication page of my gratitude journal and a page for my siblings who […]

Both abundance and lack exist simultaneously in our lives, as parallel realities. It is always our conscious choice which secret garden we will tend… when we choose not to focus on what is missing from our lives but are grateful for the abundance that’s present — love, health, family, friends, work, the joys of nature […]

Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them. William A. Ward Photo: Harbourside Cleveland Australia