Hi there!
I’m Rachel, an early childhood teacher and mother of…
two creative kids,
living in sunny Queensland, Australia,
who loves anything arty crafty and creative:
writing stories for children,
cooking,
sewing,
scrapbooking
and making gifts.
I love a nice cup of tea too!
I also have a passion for reading and strive to encourage children to read and to love books from a very early age.
Through my blog I will be sharing my crafty creations and talking about writing and publishing, picture books, chapter books and novels, authors and illustrators, writing competitions and what’s on at local libraries.
Come stroll along with me on my path to creativity!
Creatopath 
Hello Rachel, how’s life?? How time flies and it is already Nov! How’s the fund raising for Movember? Hope everything is going fine. Have a nice day ahead!! Cheers!! đŸ˜€
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Hi Rachel!! Just dropping by to wish you all the best in Year 2013!! Cheers!! đŸ˜€
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Thanks for visiting my blog! You seem to have some very interesting material here.
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I love the title of your blog, its really catchy
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Thanks for stopping by and having a look.
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Hi Rachel – can you contact me on jackiehosking@bigpond.com to claim your lucky dip prize for leaving a comment on my blog. Thanks đŸ™‚
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Your short story on kids book review was fun! Great blog, very inspiring and informative. Just launching into creating my own blog account on children’s writing and the love of all books. Any tips? Thanks.
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Thanks for visiting my blog and your lovely comments. Have you been sending in your stories to KBR too? That’s great that you are going to create a blog about books, writing and reading. Here are some ideas that I’ve noticed on other blogs and I think are really good. Some of the blogs have theme days so every Monday for example they will have a children’s book review then on another day they might have a poem or something and readers can add in their poem in the comment section if they want. Perhaps you will get more readers if you blog once or twice a week? I would love to do all this but don’t have too much spare time so I just blog whenever I can and sometimes it’ll be about books, other times about reading or competitions etc.
Good luck with your blog. I will see if I can pop over and have a look.
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Hi Rachel, yes I entered my story into the KBR unpublished picture bk award this year. It was great to receive positive feedback from them. I think I will plan to blog once a week on Fridays. I’ll let you know when it’s up! Thanks so much for your advice.
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Hi Lyndal,
Yes, the KBR writing competition gave great feedback. Another good one to enter is the CYA writing comp. Think it opens in Jan and closes in April. I went to the CYA conference this year (had a ball and learned a lot). I wrote about it in one of my posts. Every Friday sounds great. Yes, let me know when it’s up and running so I can take a look!
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Hi, i am antonio luis, nice to meet you and i am looking for two books:
Little miss jealous
And
Little miss Stella
Both, of Roger Hargreaves (Adam Hargreaves).
Could you help me, please?
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I hadn’t heard of these titles but you could try Amazon or the book depository.
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Hi. I have nominated you for the Daydreamer Award.
Check it out http://edwinasepisodes.com/2015/03/08/episode-205-the-daydreamer-award/
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Oooh thanks! Sounds interesting. I’m off to bed now so will check it out in the morning!
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Ok great đŸ™‚ Good night.
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Oh… Your page makes me smile – yup:) I am soooo not crafty but I love crafty things and people!! Awesome:)
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Hiya Rachel, just nominated you for the Liebster award. You have such a creative blog and I really learning more about what you’re up to. You should have a pingback I hope! đŸ™‚
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Thanks Sarah for your lovely comment. I’m going to a scrapbooking crop day tomorrow so hopefully I’ll have some more pages to put up on the weekend. I’m not sure about the pingback. I haven’t seen one but I’m not really sure where to look! đŸ™‚ Would it come up in my comments section?
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I thought that by tagging you (which I did) and linking to your site (which I also did), it should pingback? But if it hasn’t then I am not sure!
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Yeah, if you linked to my site then it should have worked. Strange. It’s probably there but I haven’t seen it!
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Hey! I’m passing the Liebster Award torch over to you (you might’ve already received it or you might not care for awards, but this is just my way of showing my love for your blog). đŸ˜€ Here’s more info:
https://izzyreadson.wordpress.com/2015/03/09/liebster-award-id-like-to-thank-my-nonexistent-cats/
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Thanks for thinking of me Izzy. Another reader nominated me too, pretty much at the same time as you! I’ve never had awards before so still getting my head around them. Will have a look on the weekend.
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Hi Rachel,
I just had to pop over to your blog after all the love you have given mine today! I hope that you survived the recent cyclone that hit Queensland and the floods that followed. It looks like you have a very creative strong creative streak. It’s so nice that you will be able to pass that onto your kids :). Hopefully you’ll be able to find some recipes on my blog in the future that you can do with them – it can be fun to cook with kids – well I think so anyway. Oh and congratulations on your nomination above ^.
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Thanks for your lovely message. Yes all was ok with the cyclone. We just got a lot of rain. My girls love to cook (the eldest is making mars bar slice tomorrow) so I will definitely find some good recipes on your blog to test out.
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I’m glad to hear that it missed you. Wow mars bar slice, that is very impressive. Good luck for tomorrow!
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it’s really easy and really sweet – mars bars, rice bubbles, syrup, butter and milk chocolate. Yum! Not so good for the waistline though. đŸ™‚
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Hello there. Thanks for stopping by my blog. Hope you will come back and visit some more. I live across the ditch in NZ. My niece who also lived in Queensland is now living here in the Auckland University. Her parents are still back home in Cairns. Due to shift over here later. Congrats on your nomination. You have a lovely blog. .
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Thank you! Yes I’ll be vising your blog again. I holidayed in NZ about 10 years ago. We loved it. Went skiing, bungy jumping and ski-diving. Loved all the beautiful scenery. You must be looking forward to more of your family moving back.
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Thanks for stopping by my blog , yours is awesome. Very interesting and thanks for sharing.
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Hello! I have nominated you to take part in the Liebster Award! https://fsmithwrites.wordpress.com/2015/03/20/liebster-award-2/
Hope you accept.
Francesca.
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Thank you! That’s very kind of you. I have been nominated by two other blogs as well so I will do a combined post soon!!
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Hi, Rachel. You look like a lady with a bright and sunny disposition and a wonderful creative talent. It seems your children are following in your footsteps, too. I hope your writing is going well ~ your pieces of flash are great. đŸ™‚
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That’s so lovely! Thanks. I’m really enjoying participating in the flash fiction events. Get the ideas and creativity flowing and I love reading how everybody else interprets the picture too.
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Me too. I find the FF totally adictive! Too much so – I should be writing my book! The different interpretations are fascinating.
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Yes, I too am getting a bit carried away writing FF and trying to read everyone else’s. I should be working on my drafts too!
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They’re so darned addictive. I often think I should never have started them – but they’re such FUN! đŸ™‚
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Hi Rachel I’ve nominated you for a liebster award. Thanks for your inspiration.
Check out my post for details
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Thanks so much Waffles. That’s lovely of you. I will check out your post soon.
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You are most welcome
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Hi Rachel. Just lettting you know that I’ve nominated you for the Blog Tour Award. It’s a good one for writers and relatively quick to do. See what you think (on my post).
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Thanks Millie. I will have a look at your post.
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Of course, it’s up to you, but it’s a nice little challenge for a writer.Thaere are only four questions and you only need to nomiate four peole. So it’s much quicker to do than most blog awards. Have a great day! đŸ™‚
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Hi Rachel ~ Oh! I can’t wait to dive deeper into your blog. You’ve created such a soft space here.
Ellespeth
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Hi Ellespeth, thanks for the follow. Hope you find some interesting things on my blog. đŸ™‚
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Rachel, I’ve nominated you for the Liebster Award. The details are here: http://mariegriffith.me/support/
I LOVE your writings and your creativity in general. You’re fun and inspirational and share a variety of things. Congratulations!!
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Thanks Marie. That’s very kind of you. Glad you’re enjoying my blog. đŸ™‚
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I knew that I want to follow your blog when I saw your picture with your Swinging Twenties Outfit. Straight from the streets of Berlin in 1920.
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Thanks! It was fancy dress for a friend’s birthday party. I love dress up parties!!
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Hi Rachel, I love finding other writer’s blogs! Yours is great and I will be definitely reading more. Thanks for your kind words about my blog!
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Hi Rachel. I clicked on your blog from Life of an El Paso Woman’s blog party. I too am a crafter most commonly using fabric and thread but I think this site is well worth a follow. I am always looking for craft and other inspiration.
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Hello. Thanks for visiting. The blog party was such a good idea. I need to check out some more blogs from there today. I also need to get on to some more sewing and crafting activities as I have been spending all my time writing at the moment!
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This is such a fantastic blog!! I came across it through a fellow blogger who is participating in the A-Z Challenge, and am so happy I did. I love the creative, eclectic feel of it and look forward to reading more!! đŸ™‚
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Thanks for having a look at my blog and for the lovely comments.
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Hi, (Is it Rachel?)
Thank you for visiting my blog. I’m glad you liked “7 Ways You Can Increase Your Blog Traffic Using Google”. Nice to meet you.
Janice
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Yes, it’s Rachel. Nice to meet you too. Thanks for the tips.
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Hi Rachel, I love the format of your about page , very creative. i updated a comment I sent to regarding sugar scrubs, I missed typing a word and changed the whole meaning.oops sorry.
ps I am happy that your from down under too.
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Thanks! Now, where will I go to see your updated comment on the sugar scrubs? I’ll look around your blog and see if it can find it. Where in Australia do you live?
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Hello Rachel! I’ve decided to read and follow 10 interesting and new blogs a day every day of May 2015, and yours is today’s #7! Feel free to come visit me when you can at http://www.thatssojacob.wordpress.com, and follow if you like what you read. Happy blogging!
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Thanks for having a look at my blog and following. I’m a bit behind at the moment but will have a look at yours soon.
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Hello!
I have tagged you for the Share the Blogging Love Tag.
https://fsmithwrites.wordpress.com/2015/05/31/share-the-blogging-love/
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I will have a look. Thanks.
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I pinged to your website yesterday but I am not sure if it went through so I am also sending individual notices about You being nominated for the Liebster award by me. You can get the details from my post at http://susanspersonalblog.com/2015/12/13/another-nomination-liebster/ If you are unable to accept that is okay.
Congrats. Susan…
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