Today we spent the morning counting and sorting through stars. As the deadline creeps closer, we want to encourage people to send them in as soon as they can. This is such a huge and important task and we love all the different people that drop in for a few hours or mi...
Yesterday was a huge day for the project and me personally.
It began with an early morning birthday call to my mama in Samoa, who turned 60, and is living her dream of being home on country with her partner in life/and all round super dad. My parents embody the meaning...
Last Thursday we met at Wes Barrett Park, The Village, Oonoonba, for a lovely meet and greet and star weaving workshop with Townsville star weavers, organised by a Star Weave Community leader, Rachel Cook (The Village Star Weavers and Youth Weaving Crew). I always desc...
We made a short but sweet trip to Kingaroy, a regional town about 3 hours north west of Brisbane. My trusty helper on all things One Million Stars and big daughter, Tavina, joined me for the early Friday morning drive to meet with some of the star weavers and to hear s...
From the announcement of the partnership between the One Million Stars project and the Queensland Government, Office of Commonwealth Games (OCG) in February to the growth of Star Weave Communities - over 100 Star Weave Communities by August. To th...
Friday 3rd March was the opening of an installation of over 10,000 stars at the Redland Performing Arts Centre, Cleveland. This one was special for me, not only because it’s my home town and most of the stars installed are part of our local Star Weave Community, Redlan...
I love visiting Star Weave Communities. I get to celebrate with them, marvel at their beautiful stars and take a moment to take in their incredible achievement of weaving 10,000 plus stars. I also get to hear behind the scenes antics and have belly laughs about how the...
I'm writing this late at night while my family is sound asleep. (This will probably be how I roll for the next few weeks until the installation in Dec...