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Blue and yellow, magical backlighting, balanced asymmetry, low minor tones, peace. We need it.

#hasuikawase
Book launch at Farrells Bookshop, 3 pm Saturday, 2 August if you’re in Melbourne. It will be rather super-special, like extremely rather super-duper-special … like unexpectedly extremely rather …

@patrickguest_author @pinkety_ill
πŸ’›πŸ’›πŸ’› because I no longer have these in my archive (I kept giving away my archive copies of these two) and they didn’t make it into my Dirt Lane Press video, I found some long-ago Insta pics I made on their publication: both such extraordinari
❄️❄️❄️ Such pretty ice patterns on the car bonnet this morning. Hard to capture …

#ice #frost #winter #skoda
πŸ’›πŸ’›πŸ’›the advances have arrived for this trifecta of firsts: first-time author @gilbertscake , first-time illustrator @hello_nieuw and first book for my new mini-imprint @the_gilded_snail 

Publishing in one month to celebrate Gilbert’s birthda
Weirdly, it’s sometimes (and sometimes often) amongst the people most dear to us and whom we love the most that this unique loneliness can strike. 

While we love our families with a death-defying passion, there are moments when we feel we are
🏑 surprised and delighted (possibly also a little gobsmacked) to have been granted a residential fellowship in 2026 at Varuna, The National Writers House in Katoomba, Blue Mountains.  Now to find the prefect 3 weeks for this retreat … I think
The gorgeous that is @criss.canning 

#chriscanning #banksia #natureart
Sometimes we focus on what we THINK we should do instead of focusing on what our heart wants us to do. 

We rationalise like crazy and convince ourselves that what we’re doing is what the world wants. And that we’re doing what WE want.

I
Found this gorgeous image by @twoinatree in my saved items and thought it deserved another airing πŸ€—

@twoinatree #brightcolour #lyracolourspencils #colourpencildrawing
I found this inspiring but also confronting thought today in a carousel of similar insights from @darby_hudson 

It made me hyper-aware of how easy it is, and how often it happens, to put off the creative moment until tomorrow. And then suddenly anot