The book launch for my novel, "Find The Ancient Path" went well. It can now be ordered through bookstores, who can buy it from the supplier, IngramSpark. It is also available online.
Australian addresses can purchase it from Wing To Wing for $25 which includes postage.
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Find The Ancient Path

My novel "Find The Ancient Path" is now available on kindle. Only $5 USD.
The paperback is also available.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07DVYRHZQ

Commonwealth Games Live Artist

I was one of the live artists for the Commonwealth Games. I used a shopping bag as the base for one art work and made cards  to give away, using Stampin' Up! products.

Onstage 2018 Display Stamper

I was honoured to be selected to be a display stamper in Sydney for the Stampin' Up! Onstage conference.

Onstage 2017 Gold Coast

I had a wonderful time at the local Stampin' Up! Onstage 2017 event. There were sneak peaks of some amazing new products that will be available in the new Occasions Catalogue. There was business training, demonstrator acknowledgements, make and takes, lots of free products, technique and card making demonstrations, sharing with a very friendly group of people, lunch and more. There are two conferences next year. If you would like to attend one, contact me. You'll find a contact form on http://phillips.stampinup.net 

I was one of four  display stampers, which was a great honour. Here I am standing beside the cards I created with some of the products which will be available in the upcoming catalogue.

#OnStage2017

New Interest

In January I joined up as a Stampin' Up! independent demonstrator  and since then, I've been so busy with this new handcraft interest (see facebook.com/cardsRfun), that I haven't posted here as much as I was going to. I've put links to my other blogs above.
I'm now holding two workshops a month and attending a variety of related events. I've held stalls at a carnival and garage sale and sold some of my work online.
I've met a lot of lovely ladies and am enjoying the journey. If you need any crafting materials, or want to go to any events, check out my events or online store: phillips.stampinup.net

 

NaNoWriMo 2016

I completed the 50,000 word novel challenge for November.

1930's suitcase

While in Melbourne I found a 1930's suitcase in a vintage shop. It is perfect for my novel "Seekers Finders Finders Keepers: The hiding song" which is set in the period 1938-1948.

NaNoWiMo Winner

I met the challenge. I wrote a 50,000 word novel in the month of November.

Love

"It isn't love if it can be earned" by J. K. Phillips © 2013

A Young Adult's Novel on the Way

I felt like writing again two weeks ago, so began finishing off an illustrated teen novel I started in 2006. It only took me one week to write it and add some more illustrations. Editing is taking longer as I make a few changes and add a few chapters. I have now finished and printed off the first draft. I think it will be part of a series and I have already started writing and thinking about the second book. This is one of the illustrations for the first book. I think it gives an overview of the story.

Visual Digital and Concrete Poetry Book Published

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News

• I designed the cover of Michelle MacKinnon's award winning book "Escape From Eden".
  http://citwings.com/book_covers.html
  
  
• My art work "With Music Build The Dome In Air" was featured in the Canberra Times Panorama section. The art work is one of two I did for the BeAn Kubla Khan exhibition.
  http://citwings.com/ex_kubla_khan.html
  

A star shall fall

Mark13:25 "And the stars of heaven shall fall..."

Disaster is just around the corner.
A star has started...destination earth.

Don't be anxious be alert and pray!

Christmas Meditation

Concrete visual poetry

The letter t is the shape of the cross. It changes the star to start which is alpha.
Tar is a word for thank you. Christmas is a time of thankfulness for the heavenly child - Jesus.
It is also a black sticky coating for roads.
The letter a has the shape of a pregnant woman containing the Alpha.
The alpha star was tarred, coated in flesh and all the blackness of our sins and crucified. He is now the whitest of heavenly stars; the star of stars. We catch glimpses of His beauty - Now we see only in part.

I designed the cover for my sister Michelle MacKinnon's novel "Escape from Eden" as mentioned in the NZ Herald. It was a finalist in the Indie book awards and has been taken on by the Paper Plus book chain.

Forever After Solo Exhibition

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I am also exhibition 3 of my works in the Being Human exhibition in Melbourne.

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Being Human

February 2008



Three of my art works are featured in a lovely new Art book called "Being Human" curated by Stuart Davey, with a foreword by Cheryl Lawrie. It contains a collection of works from 27 artists.

"Being Human addresses aspects of humanity that are lost when we are bombarded with pictures of beautiful people or success stories. The artworks boldly address these unacknowledged parts of ourselves, together offering a genuine portrayal of what it means to simply be human."


For more information go to: http://www.searchingforoscar.com/project05.html

The book can be purchased for $35 plus postage from: http://www.searchingforoscar.com/shop.html

Be transformed by the renewing of your mind

It was the beginning of the year 2008 and as normal it felt like the holiday was too short. It was time to go back to work and I didn't feel like going. I had been very enthusiastic about work until I had a car accident in 2006. I was tired most of the time but forced myself to keep going. I began to wonder if I should just give it up. Maybe I should be doing something different.

We started the school term with two professional development days and most of us mentioned our negativity about the holidays ending, including me. The motivational speaker alluded to our negativity too: "just another week!". I thought, "more like another month or more of holiday for me!". When I got home I flopped down on the couch, tired out and turned the TV on. Well, miracles of miracles the Christian channel came on...the first time ever without me choosing it. An Australian preacher was preaching. The bible verse spoke to me and later I wished I could remember it. His words were God's words to me. He was speaking about our attitudes to wrok at the beginning of the new year and he said, "This is God's gift to you for now". I had not viewed it as such for some years! When I went back to school the next day I sat at my computer and felt weary, anxious and negative, so I reminded God that this was His gift to me. Then I thanked Him for the gift even thought my feelings didn't acknowledge this truth. Later a Christian collegue told me how sad she had been that so many had complained to her about starting back at work the previous two days. I said to her, "and so did I". Then I shared the word God had given me. That day the negative thoughts kept coming so I got out my rather rusty "sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God" (and God's word to me was, "This is God's gift to me for now") and confronted the feelings and thought with it. By the following day my feelings had come into line and some of the old enthusiasm was back.
We don't have to accept every thought that comes into our mind, or every feeling. We are in the process of being transformed and we have a part to play in it. There are practical things we can do to renew our mind. Using what the bible calls 'armour' there are times when we need to 'go into battl'. Some people call it 'spiritual warfare'. Renewing our minds is one such task. We replace some of the worlds way of thinking, with God's way of thinking.
Thank you God for your gifts and especialy for the work you have given me to do.

Beginning Blog September 2007

Welcome
You can view some of my web sites below:
citwings.com
www.poyema.com
phillips.pcug.org.au
art-australian.com
christian-art-shop.com