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Share the Love

I am in Queensland this week visiting family and friends. I love it up here and try to make four trips a year. It’s warm, humid, salty, sandy and very, very relaxing. I try to balance family time with walks on the beach, sushi, lots of work, dinner with...

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Confessions of a Tea Lover: Taking the Plunge

While there is nothing in the world that is better than a fresh, hot pot of tea, it’s not always possible or convenient for us “busy-type” people to be warming pots, turning it three times anticlockwise and once clockwise, waiting, straining, emptying, fishing tea leaves out of the spout,...

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Nurture. Support. Inspire.

It’s only recently that I finally, truly understood that to be happy in your work life, you need to be doing something that you love. Then it’s not work. I finished school in the 1991 and went on to complete a nursing degree, nursed for a few years and...

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What makes a great cup of tea?

You can probably guess from the name of my business, SHE-TEA, that I LOVE tea! When I was a little girl my Grandma (Dot) loved to make a strong pot of tea. She always sat the pot on the kitchen bench, rotated it 360 degrees, three times anti-clockwise and...

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The Commission Process

I’m just going to jump straight in and tell you about a commission piece I am doing at the moment for a lovely couple in Melbourne as I have had some feedback that the “commission process” is somewhat of a mystery to most people. I am not sure how...

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Pickled Beetroot

I could introduce myself by telling you all about my tree-change from Sydney to a little country town in Victoria five and a half years ago, I could tell stories about renovating an old, run-down, leaky, one-hundred year-old home, talk about my life as an artist, my challenges and...

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