The letter G poses some interesting opportunities within SIM worldwide. Many of them start with the word ‘General’ and some start with the word ‘Guest’. Then theres ‘Gospel’, ‘Geography’, ‘Graphic’ and ‘Global’.
Generally Speaking….
Most of the Generally titled opportunities within SIM are medically related and all are in Africa. Here is the full list of [...]

Filed under: Africa, All Sorts of Things, SIM

Meet our new family addition, a little blue budgie called Babybird, aptly named by Keziah. Babybird is still very young, probably only a couple of months old so he’s very tame. We decided that we would accept my friend’s offer for a budgie that had just come out of the nest and this time, it [...]

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Hands up if you are a control freak? (my hand is up) If one thing is difficult in life its letting go, especially when it comes to our kids, family or just being generally in control of our lives. This is something that I am constantly re-learning each day.
I’m one of those people who [...]

Filed under: All Sorts of Things, Deeper Thoughts

I am currently having a storewide sale in my Wahmania store. 15% off everything. The discount is already showing on the listings so you just need to click the ‘add to cart’ option to purchase. There are 62 items to choose from and postage is included in the price already. If you have any questions [...]

Filed under: All Sorts of Things, Art, Sales and Competitions, Wahmania

For quite a while now I’ve been meaning to re-make crayons with K. After reading Tamara’s post over at Block Party Press I was reminded so we got to it the other day and I thought I’d share the results.
I don’t think I need to explain the sequence of creating these as the pictures tell [...]

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When K was born I knitted her a teddy bear which turned out to be the one she now refers to as ‘Daddy Teddy Bear’ and sleeps with all the time. It was so nice to know that she chose the bear I’d knitted to be her favourite (along with a cloth one called Mummy [...]

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I always enjoy the challenge of custom orders and Liza’s are a lot of fun each time. In the past I have created butterflies, nests, birds, fawns, cupcakes, lemon meringue pies and roses for her. This time she asked for little bunnies along with acorns and some more fawns. I really enjoyed making the acorns [...]

Filed under: All Sorts of Things, Art, Polyclarific, Polymer Clay

Keziah has been to the zoo three times now but yesterday Lucinda went for the first time. Her impressions…….well she’s only 6 months so I don’t think she thought a lot of it. It was a great day. We were there for 7 hours. We paid $12 and hired a little cart so Kez and [...]

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Today I thought it was time to do the next installment of current opportunities to serve overseas with the mission SIM. SIM works worldwide in around 40 countries and covers many areas of skill, training and expertise. Here are a few examples of opportunities starting with the letter ‘F’.
Foreign Languages
Can you speak (and teach) Spanish, [...]

Filed under: Africa, All Sorts of Things, SIM