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  1. #1
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    Jan 2010
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    I'm passionate about my children's school and their education and I'm very involved. I'm also passionate about my horses.

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    Oct 2006
    In a house, on a hill with a big fat welcome mat!
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    Another horse girl here!

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    May 2010
    Western Sydney, Australia
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    I am passionate about education - I teach ESL kids for a day job (currently part time ) Mum arrived at kindy in the 50s, unable to speak a word of English, and was expected to just magically catch up. I love working with refugee kids - their steps may be so tiny to the outside observer, but seeing the light go on for them... wow.

    I try not to get too nerdy about seeing the light go on in my daughter's eyes too - but it is so incredible to see her absorb, process and use information.

    I'm a craft nerd as well. Patchwork is my mainstay and I've become quite prolific of late, but I also knit, crochet and embroider, and have dabbled in felting, scrap booking, card making and book binding.

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    Jun 2010
    District Twelve
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    PP I would love to do patch working and felting! Not sure I am patient enough for it though

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    Oct 2004
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    I love the concept of felting (I am very much a textile person, waiting for the days when I can do a weaving course), I just suck at knitting, which in itself is not a problem as it does not have to be perfect for the felting I want to do, I am just so, so slow. Add to that spinning the wool, it takes a very long time to make a little felted bag.

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    n2l, look up rotary cutting and chain piecing as patchworking methods - super quick and effective! Felting... no way but the slow way I'm afraid... no, wait - accidentally throwing your beautiful merino tunic in with the cotton wash is a quick way to make felt...

  7. #7
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    Dec 2007
    Hork-Bajir Valley
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    drawing and anything creative, that I can put my own spin on.

    Deloreans (I WILL own one....one day =) )

    oh and Skulls!! (...I know...) <-- kind of a superstition really I guess... I feel if i surround myself with death and skulls and skeletons and what not, then with the balance of life and death, life will be attracted to me and surround me (and mainly my work). itms...

    and Graveyards!! mainly discovering lonely graves that are in the middle of no where, and exploring WHY, that poor soul is there on the side of a road/in a paddock/under that tree, by them selves. Its the history and the story behind it that fasinates me.
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    Jun 2012
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    Photography and cooking

  9. #9
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    Jul 2010
    Rural NSW near ACT
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    1st passion my baby
    2nd passion my hubby (he has the same order for me)
    3rd passion my job- I am a horse riding coach and teach body awareness riding which is a bit like yoga combined with riding. I have heaps of competitive riders on my books and I live and breathe my job. Once I find a working pupil I'll have three horses back in work and be nuts with going to comps, teaching, judging and generally messing with horses.

  10. #10
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    Aug 2012
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    my family is my passion, so things I do like cooking, organising outings etc I do with zeal because I am doing it for them

    Before husband and kids though my passion was reading - I would devour books like no tomorrow
    and animal/child welfare i am really passionate about

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    Feb 2010
    Gold Coast
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    Changing the culture of fear surrounding childbirth.

    Crochet.

    Interior design.