At the end of each month throughout 2010 I’ve been using a Map Journal to notate a Journey Jottings *highlight*… So, at year’s end I’d have the year simply summarized on a single sheet! My December 2010 highlight… We produced our first retailers newsletter 🙂 I wanted to keep it simple ~ No fluff, just […]
Rainbow visions for 2011
Its New Year’s Eve! An evening of optimism and anticipation ~ New Years Eve is like a rainbow ~ No matter how dark or stormy the end of year may be, a glimmer of sunshine always filters through to create a streaming arch of colour lifting you up, and over, and who knows, maybe to […]
5 Local Places I Love
I was asked by the Got Saga team “What 5 places I’d take a visitor to in my ‘home town” ~ If you come to the South Moreton Bay islands in the Bay off Brisbane, Australia these are my favourite local places that I’ll share with you… Mangroves and sea eagles ~ The inter-tidal zone at the bottom of […]
Christmas Travelling Tales – Part 2
Each month we share travelling stories over on our Facebook page In recent months… We’ve shared Favourite Travel stories Crazy, Stupid & Scary Travel stories Father’s Travel Stories (Special for Father’s Day) Music Travelling stories ~ Music you’ve heard on your travels or can’t bear to leave home without &… This month, what else could […]
Christmas Travelling Tales – Part 1
Love hearing about other people’s travelling experiences, so we hold themed travelling tale jamborees on our Facebook Page. Last month it was Music Travelling Tales As we travel towards the festive season, this month its… Christmas Travelling Tales Sally Foley-Lewis Christmas! When my hubby and I moved to the UAE we had done some research about the […]
How to Make Mineral Resources Fun in School – Part 2
As part of our CSR we operate a schools programme as we believe learning should be fun! We supply bundles of our pictorial maps in classroom lots to offer Australia school resources that will make learning and class projects more fun. We supplied a primary school in Western Australia with a classroom bundle of our pictorial Australia […]
How to Make Mineral Resources Fun in School – Part 1
We believe learning should be fun 😉 So we operate a schools programme as part of our CSR ~ We supply bundles of our Australia maps in classroom lots as a school resource for children to enjoy using in class projects. As we come to the end of another school year its great looking back to […]
Year at a Glance – November 2010
Each month flies past so fast, I often get to the end of the year, and say – Where did that go? What did we do? So, at the end of each month I select a *highlight* and record it in one of the jotting boxes on a Map Journal, so at year’s end I […]
101 Ways of Using your Map Journal
Travelling holidays are full of amazing experiences but, that’s only half of the tale ~ Spending time with your travel memories when that moment for nostalgia strikes, is like taking a marvellous mini-break… IF you can remember them! Australia Map Journals simply summarize your trip on a single sheet… so, Here are 101 ways to use it 😉 […]
Australia through Artist’s Eyes
Poles apart, I leave the quiet tranquil waters of the islands in the Bay off Brisbane… for the hustle and bustle of Brisbane city At the Queensland Art Gallery I’m confronted by images reflecting problems civilization is creating in our modern world… with this work (promoting an upcoming exhibition by Scott Redford)that appears to be overheating […]