I'd love to welcome @Cherise Clough who is a "System's Fairy" and I love good systems for everything from work in my office to cleaning the bathroom! Cherise is an admin Queen and @Paula Chapin is a paper lover who is ready to nuture her creative heart, so we are going to have lots to talk about!

🤩 COTTAGERS - I THOUGHT I MADE THIS WORD UP - I WAS WRONG! The word Cottager POPPED INTO MY HEAD a while back. It came from a trip I had in France - when I stumbled upon the sweetest tiny restaurant called "The Potager" The term "potager" refers to a traditional French kitchen garden where vegetables, herbs, and flowers are intermingled for both aesthetic and culinary purposes. I even gave my own meaning to the word .... 🏡"COTTAGER" essentially refers to anyone in our little cottage community here to grow in the area of creativity, cottage crafts and heart matters. WELL, I thought I better google before I gave claim to my famous word creation 🧐 I found this.... 🏡 "A cottager is a person who lives in a cottage. Depending on context, it can refer to a vacationer in a private resort home, or a rustic rural dweller." I still hold to my meaning where our Cottage members shall hereby be called "Cottagers" 🌟 Oh and I was thrilled to find a picture online of the place I visited some years back.

Today was a holiday here in Western Australia. We spent a lot of the day cleaning up after a wild storm and then spent the afternoon by the fire burning off all the branches that fell. Ate food with the family and had a beautiful relaxing Monday! CREATIVE MOMENTS I also taught one of my daughters to crochet 🧶 ✨and started a few little recycle projects! How did your week start?

Oh dear I made a boo boo! I just came on here to post the zoom recording of me spinning the giveaway and realised I forgot to press enter and so you didn't see the link to join me for the Wheel Spinning! I wondered why there wasn't anyone here to see it 😅 🇮🇪 Never-the-less I went ahead and I recorded it for you! I shall not tell you yet > please be sure to pop in a big CONGRATS in the comments for our lucky winner! YOU'LL HAVE TO WATCH FOR THE REVEAL AT THE END. WATCH THESE QUICK VIDS BELOW! The second one reveals all 🙌

I was going to wait until we got to 100 and do a journal giveaway, but then someone said, "why not do 70 and 100". We are going to have 3 giveaways! 1. Let's try to get the Creative Cottage to 70 members! 2. Invite someone in and go into a special draw 3. 100-member giveaway I thought - why not give 2 journals away - and the 3rd one will be another draw for those who invite people to the cottage! Just because it's better to give than receive! I love it! If you know anyone who would fit the cottage, please invite them via the INVITE link, and if they join, you will automatically go in the "second" giveaway draw! I think that makes sense. This is fun!