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All these great layouts were designed for The Scrap Heap – a terrific online scrapbooking site. www.thescrapheap.com.au offers a fantastic range of all your scrapbooking needs from cardstock to patterned papers, embellishments. It also specialises in colour co-ordinated and themed packs that take the hard work out of choosing products for you next layout. With […]

Cardstock: Juneberry and Petunia Patterned Paper: Sonnets Blush words 5mm Eyelets Ribbon Alphabet Stickers Start by trimming lighter cardstock 1 inch smaller all round. Cut tags (rectangles with corners cut off) with mats 1cm larger, punch holes and set eyelets. Cut words out patterned paper and attach them to tags, also attach ribbons. Cut mats […]

Materials: Cardstock: Bazzill Mono Walnut and Pinecone Patterned Paper: 7Gypsies Magnetique Computer Fonts: Title – Slash Hallmark, Journalling: Beths Cute Hallmark, Names and Dates: Barbara Hand Cut patterned paper in half lengthways and tear the opposite top corners off each half. Roll the edges of the patterned paper around a skewer to give the effect […]

First, it was Jack The Ripper Patricia Cornwell chose to investigate, now the world’s best-selling crime writer says she has uncovered new evidence during a six-month investigation into the death of Diana, Princess of Wales. It is believed Cornwell had access to those involved in the autopsy and has uncovered the truth about Diana’s rumoured […]

Exclusive extract from Barra Creek (Pan Macmillan Australia) by Di Morrissey, the Great Read in The Australian Women’s Weekly, November issue. Preface: It’s 1963 and Sally Mitchell, the well-bred daughter of a wealthy new Zealand sheep farmer, has impulsively taken a job as a governess at a cattle station, Barra Creek, in the wild Gulf […]

Shot, by Gail Bell (Picador,$28) When the author is 17, she is shot in the back. The crime is never solved and Gail, although changed forever by the trauma and suffering of on-going side effects, carries on with her life. This book is her exploration of the event – the police investigation, the experience, her […]

These elegant placemats are the ideal addition to any dinner table. Create them for yourself or give them as a house-warming or Christmas gift. Materials Craftwood placemats (available from major craft outlets) Jo Sonja’s Basecoat – Primrose Black and White photocopies of floral designs from botanical prints or wrapping papers (or choose your own theme) […]

To celebrate our 70th birthday, we asked a few members of the team at The Australian Women’s Weekly to nominate their favourite five books of all time. Here they are: Deborah Thomas, Editor Into Thin Air, by Jon Krakauer Wild Swans, by Jung Chang The Lovely Bones, by Alice Sebold The Wilder Shores of Love, […]

The prolific, talented Jackie French has won Book of the Year for her gorgeous children’s book, Diary of a Wombat, published by HarperCollins. Jackie, who is the gardening writer for The Australian Women’s Weekly, won against some impressive titles, including Recollection of a Bleeding Heart, Across The Nightingale Floor, Holy Cow and Almost French. The […]

We hope you enjoy this exclusive extract is from Three Wishes (Pan MacMillan Australia), by Liane Moriarty, our October Great Read. It was a Wednesday night six weeks before Christmas. A nothing sort of night. An unassuming midweek night that should have vanished from their memories by Friday. ‘What did we do Wednesday?’ ‘I don’t […]