Gail McMeekin          The 12 Secrets of Highly Creative Women: A Portable Mentor

Susan O’Doherty        Getting unstuck without coming unglued: A Woman’s Guide to

                       Unblocking Creativity

Sarah Ban Breathnach   Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy

            

                       Something More:  Excavating Your Authentic Self

                       Romancing the Ordinary: A Year of Everyday Indulgences

May Sarton             Journal of a Solitude

                       The House by the Sea

Julia Cameron          The Artist’s Way

                       The Right to Write

                       The Vein of Gold

                  

                       Walking in this World: Practical Strategies for Creativity                                     

                       The Sound of Paper

Sark                   Succulent Wild Woman: Dancing with your Wonder-full Self

                       Sark’s New Creative Companion:

                       Ways to Free your Creative Spirit

                       Inspiration Sandwich: Stories to Inspire our Creative

                       Freedom

                       Make Your Creative Dreams Real:

                       A Plan for Procrastinators, Perfectionists, Busy People,

                       and people who would rather sleep all day

Claudio Bepko          Singing at the Top of Our Lungs:

Jo-Ann Krestan         Women, Love, and Creativity

                       Too Good For Her Own Good

Rachel Power           The Divided Heart: Art and Motherhood

Diane Apostolos-Cappadona

Lucinda Ebersole       Women, Creativity, and the Arts: Critical and

                       Autobiographical Perspectives

Sabrina Ward Harrison  Spilling Open: The Art of Becoming Yourself

                       Brave on the Rocks: If You Don’t Go, You Don’t See

                       Messy Thrilling Life: The Art of Figuring Out How to

                       Live    

                       The True and the Questions: A Journal

Michelle Cassou        Life, Paint and Passion: Reclaiming the Magic

Stewart Cubbley        of Spontaneous Expression

Mirka Mora             Wicked But Virtuous: My Life

                       Love and Clutter

Lynne Perrella         Artists, Journals and Sketchbooks

                       Exploring and Creating Personal Pages

Somerset Studio        True Colors: A Palette of Collaborative

Publication            Art Journals

Rachel Ashwell         Shabby Chic: Treasure Hunting and Decorating Guide

                       Shabby Chic Interiors: My Rooms, Treasures and Trinkets

Ariel Gore             The Mother Trip: Hip Mama’s Guide to Staying Sane in

                       the Chaos of Motherhood

Dan Millman            The Life You Were Born to Live: A Guide to Finding Your

                       Life’s Purpose

Marlene A.Schiwy       A Voice of Her Own: Women and the Journal Writing Journey

Kate Llewellyn         Playing with Water

                       The Waterlily

Kate Llewellyn         The Penguin book of Australian Women Poets

Susan Hampton

Anne Morrow Lindbergh  Gift From the Sea

Natalie Goldberg       Wild Mind: Living the Writer’s Life

                       Writing Down the Bones

   

                       Long Quiet Highway: Waking up in America

                       Living Color

                       Old Friend from Far Away: The Practise of Writing Memoir

Eve Ensler             The Vagina Monologues

Edited by Karen v.     The Journals of Sylvia Plath

Kukil  1950-1962

Anais Nin              Incest (Journals)

Dorothy Porter         The Monkey’s Mask

                       The Bee Hut

Nikki Gemmell          Pleasure, An Almanac For the Heart:

                       Friendship, Love, Loss, Heartbreak 

                       Sex, Passion, Beauty, Ambition, Motherhood,

                       Creativity, Risk

                       The Bride Stripped Bare

Neal Brown             Tracey Emin

Leonard Cohen          Book of Longing

Poppy King             Lessons of a Lipstick Queen

Elizabeth Gilbert      Eat, Prey, Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything

Tessa Kiros            Apples for Jam

Guy Grossi             My Italian Heart: Recipes from an Italian Kitchen

                       (love the paintings by Mirka Mora)        

Alice McCormick        The Artist’s Lunch

Sarah Rhodes

Penelope Green         When In Rome: Chasing La Dolce Vita

Frances Mayes          Bringing Tuscany Home: Sensuous

                       Style From The Heart

Frances Mayes          Under The Tuscan Sun

Marlena de Blasi       A Thousand Days in Venice

                       Dolce e Salata: A Bittersweet Adventure in Tuscany

Mary Moody             The Long Table

Anita Kaushal          Home

Michael Cunningham     The Hours

Julia Briggs           Virginia Woolf: An Inner life

Lily Brett             In Full View: Essays

                       Poems: In Her Strapless Dresses and Mud In My Tears

                       Too Many Men

Denise Linn            Secrets and Mysteries: The Glory and Pleasure of Being a

                       Woman

Patricia Lynn Reilly   Imagine a Woman in Love with Herself: Embracing your

                       Wisdom and Wholeness

Christiane Northrup    Mother-Daughter Wisdom: Creating a Legacy of Physical and

                       Emotional Health

Doreen Virtue          I’d Change My Life If I Had More Time: A practical Guide

                       to Making Dreams Come True (excellent book)

Sanaya Roman           Living With Joy: Keys to Personal Power and Spiritual

                       Transformation

                       (All Sanaya Roman and Duane Packer Books)

                       Creating Money

Esther and Jerry Hicks The Law of Attraction

Euan Mitchell          Self Publishing Made Simple

Ted Andrews            The Spiritual and Magical Powers of Creatures Great and

                       Small

Scott Alexander        Animal Dreaming: The Symbolic and Spiritual Language of

King                   the Australasian Animals

Nancy Blair            Amulets Of The Goddess: Oracle of Ancient Wisdom

Karen Vogel            Motherpeace Tarot Guidebook

These are some of my favourite books and books that have defiantly influenced me in some way of the years.

Magazines.........

House and Garden:        Inside Out

                         Vogue Living

                         Country Living (British Edition)                                                                                                                               

                         (great vintage, modern country, French

                          provincial and rustic)

                         Real Living

                         Australian Country Style

                         British Homes and Gardens

Art and Craft:           Inside Out

                         Frankie: Art, Fashion, Music, Craft, Life

                         Dumbo Feather: Pass It On

                         Photofile      

Fashion:                 Madison

                         In Style

(Admittedly am quite the magazine junkie, yet find them very useful for

contemporary style and what’s happening now.  I get quite inspired by interior design magazines for art and life and love it when they have new artists/designers to

check out.....very inspiring.