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seriously good trio of very clever people involved in this editoral for milk magazine no.29…

thanks to emma I am seriously addicted to this site

are very very cute…..makes me miss you pola!!

have a little look…

*thanks for all the love on issue 4…so excited to be going to print soon..

(and don’t worry there will always be papier mache online …the print version will be bi-annual add on)

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here we go…issue 4…we made it amongst a sea of wintery sickness…holidays and more work then we could handle…

So we hope you enjoy it!

The good news is that next papier mache will be a ‘print’ issue…

We can’t wait…

Fingers crossed we survive and actually get it out for you all to read…(that’s to you paul..)

Thanks again to everyone who contributed to this issue…

Barbara will be back for the print issue (we are saving her up!!) but make sure you go and check out her new book..Looks amazing…

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nearly finished…..hopefully by lunch..look out for papier mache issue 4 in your inbox tonight..

image sneak peek from the amazing editoral in this issue from melanie rodriguez

go check out barbara’s new collection …she is a whizz kid

Wow…I had so much fun playing ‘guest editor’ over at Tada Shop...

I think I almost drove the lovely Hadley up the wall by my vagueness….lame inspiration…

But go over and check it out…if you like Francoise Hardy I’m sure you’ll have fun..

tada shop..

shooting…working…shooting…working…

our kids have mastered loads of different ways to entertain themselves….

karate on the roof of the car…that’s a new one…

issue 4 coming…..a few more days away…but before the weekend x

We are  so happy to be joined by the multi-talented and very inspiring

Tori-Dixon Whittle.

Next week Tori takes to the stage with ‘Songs By Sylvie’

A one woman show written and produced by Tori.

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When my daughter heard the quote from Romeo and Juliet

‘But soft! What light through yonder window breaks?

It is the East, and Juliet is the sun!’

She sat on her bed and repeated it over and over again..

Later at dinner she told me she loved how saying it made her think and feel….

In your return to the stage with ‘Songs for Sylvie’ I imagine it to be similar to Matilda’s first Shakespeare experience…

Was it was your time to again share beautiful words and moments with your audience?

My return to stage means so many things to me … it is an unearthing of a long-felt passion that I felt could not co-exist with me also fully committing to my family … I had felt that something would be compromised if I pursued both avenues … hence me leaving the acting arena close tpo a decade ago.  I have however through writing my own piece, producing & directing it myself, found a way to balance the two … and similarly to Matilda, I love how this makes me “think and feel”.  I have loved exploring a creative path through words instead of design, food, houses etc – paths I have followed in the past.  And all that has gone before has lead me to this very point, so I guess, yes, it was my time to again be before an audience … Your reference to “beautiful words and moments” … well, I’m hoping the audience does find some in amongst my performance … if they found even a  snippet of the beauty & potency of Shakespeare’s words I would feel like I had achieved a great thing – but no matter what the response … it has been for me, an amazing experience …

A self written one-woman show is quite an amazing achievement!

Thank you!!

What aspects did you find the most rewarding?

The most rewarding – when writing a passage and it just flows & truly conveys the emotion I felt inside … Incredibly rewarding to finish writing the piece!  And now that I am rehearsing I am LOVING being back on stage.

The most challenging?

Juggling my other commitments … I wish I had a photograph of me writing in the early stages … I would try & write every morning before the children woke up … but so often in the middle of a poignant part, Arlo (my baby) would wake … so I’d put him in the bouncer & I’d bounce him with one foot whilst I’d keep writing , and then Willem (3yo) would wake & jump on my lap, wrap his arms around my neck for a morning snuggle, whilst I kept tapping away on my laptop now sitting further out on my lap!

You have renovated over 20 homes with your husband artist David Bromley, started 2 labels including Velo Rouge..had 3 children,home-schooling your daughter Holly for a year…

Was writing ‘Songs for Sylvie’ a moment for you….

I try with everything I do (& have done) for it to be family inclusive … I love being around my family!  Songs for Sylvie has brought a great deal to all of us … Holly & Willem have been inspired through seeing me write my own story & now rehearse it to put together their own shows & so the number of performances being worked on in our house has now increased dramatically!!  The children & I have even started jamming on our musical instruments each night & Holly wants us to become the “Sunshine Band” … no chance of that however, even the dog starts howling when I sing & play guitar! (the children are very forgiving!!)

For those who won’t have the opportunity to see ‘Songs for Sylvie’ would you share with us your favourite moment or line from the play?

So many favourite moments … I couldn’t pick just one … oh, well, if I have to … right this second, its:

“And he kept standing there looking at me and me at him … that was the moment … there  is always a moment, there is always a moment after which nothing is the same again & you can never go back from that point.”

But ask me again in a minute & it’ll be something else … (had to of course, pick a line that wouldn’t give too much away either!)

Thanks!!

SONGS FOR SYLVIE

12th,13th & 14TH AUGUST

BROMLEY STUDIO

282B CHAPEL ST

PRAHRAN

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images courtesy of harpers bazaar

barbara

the new butterfly looks amazing..can’t wait x

frieda maria

sorry about  my absence…

alot going on

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