Emily Shaw

Emily is a former ACPA award winning editor and journalist turned stay at home mum and blogger. She lives on a farm in regional NSW with her husband and their seven children where she spends the time she should be doing housework reading books, writing and sewing.

Care For The Winter Rose

  We are more than halfway through the season of winter now and a collective sigh of relief can be heard at the prospect of a green spring. But whilst some plants will come up again and perform beautifully from September 1st onwards, others like our gorgeous friend the rose, need a little maintenance now […]

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Mummy Judgement

  Why is it that we are so quick to judge other parenting styles? Even when we don’t mean to, we often put across our own preferred method whilst tearing down another which someone else has found effective. It is almost as though we feel threatened by difference here instead of discussing the pros and

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Selfless Or Selfish

  I have a theory about parenthood that I want to share with you. I firmly believe that becoming a parents makes you either predominantly selfless or selfish. Now that doesn’t mean that a selfless parent doesn’t have selfish moments and vice versa, but that for the most part you’re either thinking of others or

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Easy Lounge Room Makeover

  We were recently given some lounges which was lovely because our children had taken to our previous ones and they weren’t in great knick. The only problem was that aesthetically they didn’t go with the blue carpet in our lounge room. So of course, my thrifty crafty nature loves a challenge so I grabbed

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