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Cecilia Macaulay
Apr 26, 20193 min read
Children love (most) work. Haunted Caravan Saga continues.
I wandered out to the garden Easter morning and what treat did I find? Children with cloths, brushes, and big smiles washing moss from...
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Cecilia Macaulay
Apr 20, 20192 min read
How to Reclaim a Haunted Caravan
Children are miracles, and when they are learning cool things and being creative, I find them captivating. So as my Easter treat to...
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Cecilia Macaulay
Apr 20, 20192 min read
The Cathedral we lost, and the Cathedral we saved
There is a shopping centre called Chadstone, monolithic and modern, with 20 million shoppers each year. Yet floating in its car park is...
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Cecilia Macaulay
Apr 12, 20191 min read
Futuristic uses for Fuzzy Felt
My six little brothers and sisters and I spend many rainy 1970's afternoons playing with Fuzzy felt. It a fuzzy black board, like an...
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Cecilia Macaulay
Apr 12, 20191 min read
Marina's Garden Sneak Preview
Marina hired me to create a beautiful Permaculture plan for turning the small-town garden, after 10 years of being rented out, unloved...
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Cecilia Macaulay
Apr 9, 20192 min read
Gently Squeeze a Frog
Day #3 Today was the big day. Bathe the World Foundation met with the traditional owners of Dalhousie Springs, who had driven from far,...
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Cecilia Macaulay
Apr 7, 20192 min read
J9 Lilypads: Stepping Stone Dreaming
Day #2 I awaken and emerge from the guest caravan, blinking in the golden desert sunshine, to discover I had landed last night,...
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Cecilia Macaulay
Apr 6, 20192 min read
Listen to each other, and beauty will be there. Greg Burgess Uluru Architecture.
Even if we are not architects, we can borrow the 'beauty creation ideas' wherever we go, and get the same kind beauty following in our...
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Cecilia Macaulay
Apr 4, 20192 min read
Everything begins when the butterfly appears.
'You'll be stuck with the school kids' the stationmaster warned me, as I hauled my dusty, travelweary self onto the country train. But...
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Cecilia Macaulay
Mar 21, 20192 min read
Harmony Without Monoculture
This was in the days in the days of my legendary Inner-Sydney shared house. I had a clever, beautiful guest from France for six weeks,...
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Cecilia Macaulay
Mar 19, 20192 min read
Already Beautiful: The Postcard Method for Uncovering the Quintessential Style of Your Home.
Its surprings how we don't see the reality of our homes till we get a camera, take a photo, and gaze at it. Maybe its having the four...
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Cecilia Macaulay
Mar 18, 20191 min read
Invest in People
Create good households, and you get all these relatives, freely-chosen, who know you in all your moods and moments, yet don’t disappear. ...
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Cecilia Macaulay
Mar 17, 20192 min read
50% Less conflict. Start with your salt.
Fancy hotels, Apple products and Japanese factories all have something in common. All unprofitable background friction is removed, so...
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Cecilia Macaulay
Mar 12, 20193 min read
The Unexpected Learning
The only thing thats important is that we find happy ways to be together. Not just co-exist, but to take joy in each other, and enjoy...
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Cecilia Macaulay
Mar 11, 20192 min read
Make things Self-Explanatory
When I visit a home for the first time, and everything is exactly where you guess it will be, its like I'm floating on a bubble of love. ...
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Cecilia Macaulay
Mar 10, 20191 min read
Chefs are Artists too
John Lennon met the artist Yoko Ono when he picked up an apple, bit it, and got scolded for eating her art. I wonder how chefs can keep...
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Cecilia Macaulay
Mar 7, 20192 min read
Towel Rack Dreams
A drawing of each housemate's dream and name identified their own towel, in our super-shared bathrooms. It was ‘three birds with one...
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Cecilia Macaulay
Mar 6, 20191 min read
Design Quirkly Families, not Armies
'When you make something from reclaimed, recycled goods, don't line them up like an army, they will look worn out and embarrassed. Armies...
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Cecilia Macaulay
Mar 4, 20191 min read
I Just Sold My Neighbor's House
Neighbor Dave would come and visit, down in the dumps, because his dreamland home had been on the market nearly two years. 'I'll have a...
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Cecilia Macaulay
Mar 3, 20192 min read
Declutter, Reset, Enjoy: Cecilia's Five Steps.
Step One Find a problem Something unlovely about your life you want to change, yet don't know how. 'I want more time' 'I want more...
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