I've followed Ashley Longshore's artistic journey for a few years now. I like artists who are daring, outrageous, and sassy! When people...

Oh my, what happens when you put a bunch of creative women from all over the world together in a room for 4 days with a mountain of...

While I was in New York in October 2024, I was lucky enough to be invited to Johnny Depp's exhibition, "A bunch of stuff." The opening...

I absolutely adore going to this shop. As soon as you open the door and the jingle of the bells announce your arrival, you instantly feel...

Book Camps have become a highlight of my creative calendar. From the humble beginnings of Camp Book NZ what an adventure we've been on!!...

What a treat to discover these at Junk & Disorderly. They were a challenge as the drawers looked like they needed a lot of work and they...

I can't begin to stress how important it is to simply play. As adults we don't always recognise the importance of it and how it benefits...

I often flit between multiple projects resulting in piles of items dotted around the studio, taking up space on the tabletops. When...

Answers to commonly asked questions Can you imagine experimenting, exploring, delving into a glorious technique over ten years, then...

Last year, I was invited to take part in a wild idea by bookbinder, poet, printmaker, & life alchemist, Kiala Givehand. She'd had the...

How could I drive past this when I saw this old school bench discarded on a neighbour's lawn?? Here is it outside my woodworking teachers...

What I love about my hobby, woodworking, is how it's helped to solve issues in the studio. For example: When I needed to store my paper I...

WARNING: This blog contains much fan girl gushing. I make no apologies for it! Years ago, my friend Ailie Snow, gifted me a copy of The ...

We were so busy and got stuck in I forgot to take photos from the start! But we effectively created a kit set to put together, based on...

Here's the backstory. In January 2022, I was invited by Wendy Solganik (known on Instagram as Willa Wanders) to be a Fodder School 2...

I can't believe I never thought to create a blog based on colour! Or one colour, to be more precise. It's actually quite lovely to see a...

I recently found out that Featherston, a small town situated in South Wairapara, was holding a Book festival. As my sister Jo, recently...

I was asked recently to create a book for a bach, a beach house in New Zealand pronounced as 'batch'. In the South Island they're known...

A few years ago, I was visiting a friends house who at the time had a handful of young children milling about. The house was chaotic,...

As the garage is used as my art studio, my poor pergola ended up being 'that place' to dump a range of stuff. In the end, I couldn't bear...