Michelle Fleur Studio Blog

Spring is in the air and I couldn't be happier for the shift in seasons. Lately I've been spending lots of time outdoors in the garden prepping for the growing season ahead. But since my last post I've also been on a fabulous adventure! I spent the entire month of July overseas, mostly travelling through Scotland - spending a little time in England and four wonderful days in Paris as well. The trip was planned around a family reunion and my cousins wedding (both in Scotland)

It is almost mid-winter. The daylight hours are short and I find myself tucked up in bed earlier than usual weaving baskets or hand-stitching hectic patchworks from fabric scraps. I always find myself a winter craft - something that requires dexterity but little thought. I love drifting into the process and letting my mind wander to the far off realms of the psyche. Lately I have been thinking a lot about the nature of life and peace and the journeys that our existence requir

The Australian federal election was on over the weekend and the results have shocked me to such a degree that I have wept sad, salty tears and found myself inside of a darkness I haven't experienced for a long time. The darkness was only fleeting and I am grateful for that, but I didn't like revisiting it at all - I can only imagine that it was grave disappointment and a passing sense of hopelessness that spurred it on. I refuse to live there though, in the dark. I refuse to

This morning, on a whim (because that's how I roll), I decided to detach myself from social media for the rest of May. I can't say exactly why I felt the urge to say goodbye today, suffice to say that when I looked up from my morning phone session 3 hours had passed since I'd woken up and I had crossed nothing off of my day's 'To Do' list. Yes, I realised that I had fallen into that murky abyss of scrolling on autopilot and following rabbit holes through multiple online store