by storytree | Dec 12, 2010 | Uncategorized
The folk tale ‘Brave Vasalissa and Baba Yaga’ is an ancient female initiation story (see previous post). Last Saturday I had the pleasure of leading a workshop for a group of women in which we explored this rich tale and made a doll as a talisman of the...
by storytree | Dec 9, 2010 | Uncategorized
I need to shout it to the mountain top: after many nail-biting delays, yesterday I sent off the new “Story Tree and other nature tales” CD audio and artwork to the replicators and organised finance at the last minute… So the new CD is due to arrive...
by storytree | Dec 3, 2010 | Australian stories, Folk Tales, Resources, Storytelling, Uncategorized, Water stories
Here I am in the recording studio helping Michael, my sound engineer and producer, add the finishing touches to my new CD, “The Story Tree and other nature tales”. It is the culmination of several years of dreaming plus a year of writing, drafting and recording. It...
by storytree | Dec 1, 2010 | Uncategorized
Long ago in a cold country in Europe- a country where you need a very warm coat in the chilly months, a family had a little baby boy. The grandfather of the baby was a tailor- someone who makes clothes for a living. He bought some beautiful warm blue cloth and he...
by storytree | Nov 30, 2010 | Uncategorized
I recently had the great pleasure of visiting the fabulous Valentino exhibit at the Brisbane Museum of Contemporary Art. When the second week of our October school holidays turned raaaather soggy, we aborted our plan to go camping, and decided it would be more fun to...
by storytree | Nov 8, 2010 | Uncategorized
I recently had a fantastic conversation with Wendy Bunning, a counsellor and hypnotherapist from Sydney. Wendy found my website while web surfing, ordered my adult CD and then gave me a call. She is passionately interested in storytelling and its therapeutic...
