Being Creative

July 26, 2026 by Tracey Buckley ♥ 0 Leave a Comment

Creative Sunday

I love being creative; I love the creative process and just seeing what develops.

Creativity is fun for me.

My new song, Princess Heart, has been out for a week now, and it is such a dream for me.

I am so grateful for everyone who has helped along the way and for everyone who has listened to the song.

I love the day before release, when you look at Spotify and your song isn’t there, and then, on the day of release, it is.

I love to sing, and I am always singing; I think if I am not singing, then there is something not quite okay.

Lately I have been loving junk journalling. There is so much to discover.

I love that it is called junk journalling; it doesn’t have to be perfect; it just has to be whatever you want it to be.

I have decided to fill up some of my notebooks. I don’t know about you, but I have quite a collection of notebooks that I had started in and then not finished.

I really can’t stop buying them when I see one that I haven’t got, well….. I really like the ones with blank pages. Oh, and yes, I did buy a new one in the school holidays; it was perfect for junk journalling.

So, in the school holidays I decided to work through one of my notebooks to finish, and I am loving the process. I have been using stickers, paper, washi tape, card, coloured paper and decorated paper. A lot of the supplies I am using I already have. I really haven’t had to buy anything for it, only double-sided glue tape.

I find it is such a nice thing to do after work instead of scrolling on my phone.

I am creating and discovering things.

Have you tried junk journalling?

I would love to see what you have created.

Will share more soon.

School Holidays

July 15, 2026 by Tracey Buckley ♥ 0 Leave a Comment

I am in my second week of school holidays, and I am grateful for the holidays.

If you have been following me you will know that I work as a primary school Chaplain, a job I love.

I also find myself making list to achieve things to do on my holidays, and that does include sorting my house. I think my list really needs longer then 2 weeks to achieve but I love a good list.

I find it is time to go at a slower pace and to lean more into my creativity.

Last Monday I had a session online with my music mentor Merelyn who is in Melbourne.

We worked through 3 of the songs that I want to record and I am really happy with how they are going.

I have continued with my gym journey, showing up and training toward my next comp in 2027. Monday I had a training session with my coach and I learn something new all the time. I love going to the gym and seeing what I can achieve.

Monday morning, I picked up my niece, and I have her here until this afternoon. I love spending time with her playing one of our card games, Taco Cat Goat Cheese Pizza. Last night we watched Bridge to Terabithia. I love that movie.

Tomorrow sees the release of my song Princess Heart, which I am really excited. This is a dream of mine, and I am so grateful for everyone who was a part of this journey.

Holidays are the time to watch some movies and TV shows that I have been wanting to watch.

I still have 3 more days until I return back to work and I am just going to enjoy the time.

What is something that you are grateful for today?

Will share more soon.

June Goals

June 1, 2026 by Tracey Buckley ♥ 0 Leave a Comment

We are now halfway through the year and it is officially winter here in Perth, Western Australia.

I have two Frangipani trees out the front of my house and I love watching the changes in them. In winter I notice the leaves start falling to the ground, the flowers are gone and it is time to shake off the old and watch what happens next. They are changing and what looks like pruning they are actually preparing themselves for the next season.

It is a bit like us, seasons come and go and changes happen.

Today I am thinking about goals for the next few months, I love to have goals.

I have a girls’ group at my schools which I run, last week we looked at goal setting and what we are working towards for this term.

My thought today is we have six months till the end of the term and what will your six months look like?

What changes do you want to see happen?

What areas in your life do you want to grow and achieve new things?

I love using SMART for my goals-

Specific

Measurable

Achievable

Realistic and

Time-bound.

Some of my goals for June are-

Setting up my private practice in counselling

Releasing my song Princess Heart

Updating my website – The Heart Project

Continuing my gym workouts 5 days a week to work towards competition in 2027

Looking at speaking opportunities

Go to an open mic.

What is a goal that you are working on or towards in June?

I would love to hear from you.

Let’s encourage one another.

June is going to be a place where growth will happen.

June is a space to create something exciting.

I will share more soon.

The Recording

May 11, 2025 by Tracey Buckley ♥ 0 Leave a Comment

Three weeks ago, I was in Melbourne recording 2 songs that I have co-written.

The songs I recorded are Rise and Princess Heart, these are songs about my journey.

I had the most amazing experience, I kept on saying this is my dream.

I recorded at The Song Store in Melbourne and it was the most surreal experience.

For the song Rise I wanted it to be acoustic, so my music mentor Merelyn organised for Bill who lives in Queensland to play the piano. Oh, my goodness what he did with the song was amazing.

I think amazing is my word for this experience.

Then she organised Brett Wood to play the guitar on both my songs and yes you guessed it he was amazing.

The song Princess Heart is also acoustic and I wrote that song in 2009 at my very first mentor session with Merelyn at her house.

I did not want to finish the song it was hard, because it was my story, we finished it. Merelyn and her husband David helped me to revise it.

I wrote the song Rise with Paula from Jetty Road, on a songwriting retreat that I attended last October.

I am so blessed by how both songs have turned out and how they sound.

It was even better then what I ever thought it would be.

Now I am in the process of getting all my socials ready for release.

I am not sure when, but stay tuned.

I have a photo shoot this weekend, which is also a first and I have to get a few other things organised.

It is journey but it is an amazing, incredible and I just cannot believe this journey.

As I have said to friends, it is was a pinch me moment.

I can’t wait to share the songs with you.

Will share more soon.

Day Thirteen #apriladventures2014

April 13, 2014 by Tracey Buckley ♥ 0 Leave a Comment

Sunday

This weekend I have really enjoyed the space to create.

#spacetocreate came about out of #marchchallenge2014.

I have had time to create art, to have a bit of a clean out, to blog and to prepare for the week ahead. I have also recreated my creative space and I have had time to clean my house.

Sunday has been a nice relaxing day and I am going to embrace these days. They are days when you are creating memories, when you can take the time to reflect on your dreams and goals. I love the fact that I don’t have to be anywhere at any particular time. These days are needed and I value them.

I have decided that I want to continue to write, to blog, to continue songwriting and to learn as much as I can.

I want to be able to embrace every day and learn from it.

I also want to keep on learning, I love learning, I really do, and it motivates me.

What inspires you to create?

Do you have a special place you like to create?

What motivates you to create?

School Holiday Program Project Two

This is a great idea for girls from years 7 and up.

Jazz up a Jar

You will need-