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Michelle Fleur
Apr 30
A Cool Change...
It's late April and a cool change has finally found us here in Perth. Just this morning I pulled my fluffy winter slippers out from...
Michelle Fleur
Feb 25
Finding Magic in the Saltwater Realms
“There is nowhere else I’d rather be, nothing else I would prefer to be doing. I am at the beach looking west with the continent behind...
Michelle Fleur
Jan 25
A Printmaking Adventure in Ubud
It's a strange thing to be an artist. One works alone mostly, holed up in a studio, tinkering and toiling, probing and pushing, flowing...
Michelle Fleur
Jan 27, 2023
Studio Update...
Back in Brisbane I had a lovely big studio to work in with a storeroom off to the side where all my materials were stored. It had a view...
Michelle Fleur
Nov 11, 2022
Back in the saddle...
Well I'm back in making mode, finally. Things got off to a rocky start but I've returned to daily pottering with paints and pencils and...
Michelle Fleur
Nov 4, 2022
Here comes the sun...
And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar...
Michelle Fleur
Oct 4, 2022
A little life update...
Well, here I am, typing out a blog post at my dining room table in the sunroom of my new home on the West coast! Yippeee! Woah, what a...
Michelle Fleur
Jul 18, 2022
Setting Sail...Soon!
Oh, look, it's been over a month since I wrote in this dear blog of mine. I keep thinking to do it but life has been hectic of late and...
Michelle Fleur
Jun 8, 2022
The winds of change...
It has been cold in the Sunshine State. Chilled winds have persisted and knocked the breath out of us northerners, unused to the...
Michelle Fleur
May 23, 2022
Grandma
The timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness. And knows that yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream. ―...
Michelle Fleur
May 17, 2022
After the deluge...
Another week in the oddest of times. The past 7 days have been dominated by unrelenting rain and for the third time this year the south...
Michelle Fleur
May 10, 2022
Transitions
It's happy days in May for moi! So far this month has been full of celebration which has included a ridiculous amount of gastronomical...
Michelle Fleur
Apr 6, 2022
April
They came on one of April’s most brilliant days–a day as sparkling as a newly-washed lemon…a day when even the shadows were a melange of...
Michelle Fleur
Mar 23, 2022
Packing, Pottering and Pondering 'Place'
It's a funny old time of it over here in my studio. I've started the long, arduous process of packing everything up for the big move. It...
Michelle Fleur
Mar 18, 2022
Keep Peace in Your Soul
Whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life, keep peace in your soul. With all its sham, drudgery and broken...
Michelle Fleur
Mar 3, 2022
Hymn to Her
All of life ebbs and flows, until it ceases to exist altogether. At least, this is how it seems. I imagine that everything fits into a...
Michelle Fleur
Feb 24, 2022
Inspiration, Routine and Curiosity
I thought I'd start sharing some of the things that have inspired me in the online world and beyond. Just two weeks into my social media...
Michelle Fleur
Feb 15, 2022
A Little Green
In recent weeks I have felt the strong, earthy pull of nature luring me into the bush and down to the edges of streams and creeks running...
Michelle Fleur
Feb 11, 2022
Returning to the Trees
For about 4 years now I’ve maintained a regular yoga practice which consists of at least 15 minutes of asana a day. Alongside this,...
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