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18/05/2026

Laying out my origami artwork. I think I will have to modge podge every single one 🤦🏻‍♀️

29/04/2026

Thanks for a wonderful day!

28/04/2026

Peace lily Kokedamas ready for tomorrow!

23/04/2026

Getting my groove on to test my handmade wares at a little Morher’s Day market next week!

21/03/2026

22/02/2026

So much fun last night!!!

16/02/2026

Rearranged my outdoor jungle again. Will be sad when the cold comes. I wish I was allowed to enclose my back courtyard with glass and have a ‘sunroom’.

13/02/2026

Finally delivered the fisherman’s float home Got to have a good yarn with Travis and the ticking off things on my never ending list of things to do.

11/02/2026

How grateful am I to have people around me who encourage me to promote my creative side.

I make origami Chinese Thread Books so I have moved another step by making a packaging label for them. The label tells a little part of my life……..

The caricature was drawn by a street artist when I was on a Uni exchange in Japan in 2001. It was on a little bridge near Dotonbori Osaka.

The red seal (hanko) I had to have made in katakana because I had to open up a Japanese bank account to receive my scholarship money. They don’t do signatures.

(There’s also an ESL nuance 😂. That’s another story)

The next step will be putting myself out there at a little market ….. maybe …..

Thanks to everyone who follows me in my creative adventures and no, I don’t think I can open a fifth IG account for origami.

Love you all 🫶🏻

10/02/2026

We have plant conversations at work. Not water cooler conversations.

I have randomly gifted chain of heart cuttings and people have told me they have roots and little balls/bulbs growing (Photos 1 & 2)

Open up a hair pin (Photo 3)

Put the rooted end in soil in a small pot and then you can either put the little bulbs under a little soil and the pin down the junction at the leaves (Photo 4) This is also known as butterflying (google it)

Keep the soil lightly moist until it grows more roots.

Hope this helps you get some beautiful lush trailing chain of hearts