Michelle Fleur Studio Blog

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