29/09/2025
A scene I created today to honour my Mother. It's her birthday today but it's the first birthday she is no longer with us. 💛 Featuring little gifts she gave me - like the book Saffron Road, which she randomly picked for my birthday one year and turned out to be a brilliant read, and the little pyramid trinkets from the Egyptian exhibition she bought me (she was always bringing home trinkets 🤦♀😄)
I bought the huge Protea flower this morning which if I had given her she would've said something like, "Woah Jodes, that's a beauty! You shouldn't buy me flowers, they're too expensive." 😃🥹
Only at the end when I was photographing the flower I realised there was a little spider who is living in there! 🕷 I love that a spider in a flower could symbolise;
✨Hidden protection or the idea that beauty is guarded by watchful, unseen forces.
✨The web of life ~ The spider is a weaver and in a flower, it hints that even within fragile beauty, there is an unseen network of relationships.
✨Feminine power ~ Flowers are often linked with feminine energy and fertility; spiders too are tied to the feminine (weaving, creativity, sometimes the archetype of the Mother).
For those interested in a good read recommendation:
📕The Saffron Road: A Journey with Buddha’s Daughters by Christine Toomey
The Saffron Road invites you on a journey alongside Buddhist nuns from every corner of the world — women who have chosen courage, stillness, and devotion over the paths expected of them. With warmth and curiosity, Christine Toomey shares their stories of resilience and awakening, showing how their search for meaning can illuminate our own.
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02/09/2025
It's very true...'In tending the garden, you are also being tended.' How satisfying it has been to grow this garden over the years that is never finished, only changing.
We are lucky here in Brisbane, I was able to plant some flowers at the start of Winter that are already abundant by the first day of Spring 😉
Welcome Spring! And welcome everyone who visits Soul Space and enjoys the space. It's very satisfying sharing these simple pleasures with you all.☀😊🌸
13/08/2025
It’s something I’ve wanted to offer for a long time — and it’s finally happening! ✨
Grace and I studied photography together many years ago and have worked on countless shoots since. She’s an expert in posing and someone I trust completely to make you feel comfortable in front of the camera.
While I moved to Brisbane to start my own business, she stayed in Canberra — clocking up 20 years photographing small businesses, families, politicians… and even the Queen! 👑
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