🌈Lifelong🌈
Be like a bird ... outstretch your wings.
Begin the journey of learning something new!
🕊️ Just fly 🕊️...
as you never know where your wings will take you!!
~ Paula St L 2022 🌻
📖 PAULA'S READING NOOK! 📚
"I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in."
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
📕 What I'm reading... at the moment! 📘
Try your local library for a copy.
If the book is not available, request an inter-library loan or suggest a purchase!
Best wishes, Paula 🌻
FEBRUARY 2025
The Soul of a Tree:
A Woodworker's Reflections
By George Nakashima
Find out more about the book here and the author here
"In Japanese, kodama, the 'spirit of a tree,' refers to
a feeling of special kinship with the heart of a tree.
It is our deepest respect for the tree...
that we may offer the tree a second life." ~ George Nakashima
March 2025
Chinese Flower Painting Techniques
By Stephen Cassettari
Find out more about the book here and the author here
"When all techniques have been practised, understood and
intuitively felt by being absorbed into the heart,
then there will be an ability that can be applied when
respectively approaching nature (the ultimate teacher)
for guidance and inspiration." ~ Stephen Cassettari
📚 Children's Bookshelf! 📚
february 2025
The Lost Girl
By Ambelin Kwaymullina & Leanne Tobin
Find out more about the book here
Find out more about the author here and check out a recent project by Dr Ambelin Kwaymullina - Indigenous Futurisms here
"This is for all the Aboriginal girls - may you walk tall, stay strong and always be able to find your way home." ~ Ambelin Kwaymullina
March 2025
Creative Crafts
Practical Techniques for all Junior Craftspeople
By Moira Butterfield
Find out more about the book here and author here
"Before you start a craft it is important to plan your work carefully.
Make rough sketches and colour them in with crayons or felt-tip pens,
so you have some idea of what the finished design will be." ~ Moira Butterfield
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