Creating in the Cracks Alessandra Doyle and Sarah Fiddelaers

In this episode Sarah and Lessie swap Easter celebrations and shenanigans involving too much chocolate.

Sarah has continued her exploration of Tolkien’s translation of Beowulf while Lessie has been plugging along with her commission and examining her portfolio for Kidlitvic.

Lessie gives the Angel Studios film, Cabrini a glowing review in its ability to emphasise the humanity of its subject and the simply phenenomenal story of Mother Cabrini and her missionary order in New York.

In this episode Sarah’s and Lessie share the shenanigans of family life between 4-9pm, a bit about managing anxiety and why Sarah didn’t pursue birth coaching. Lessie talks about tackling commissions and Sarah discusses her latest Tolkien discovery which lead to a golden moment of motherhood and the joy of language. The KidLitVic conference is coming up in May, tickets go on sale next Monday, so Lessie is getting pretty excited!
Tolkein and Beowulf https://www.booktopia.com.au/beowulf-j-r-r-tolkien/book/9780007590094.html
Inspired to write https://www.instagram.com/inspiredtowrite/

India Rose Crawford https://www.instagram.com/indiarosecrawford/

In this episode, Sarah and Lessie swap comic horror stories about toilet training and being boy-mums, and delve into helping to heal recurring nightmares.



We share the discovery of Rachel Ryusch, an artist mother from the Dutch Golden Era, before launching into the fraught labyrinth of humanising people on all sides of conflicts that involve terrible ethical and moral dilemmas, inspired by the novel, The German Wife by Australian novelist, Kelly Rimmer.



Gingermelon dolls https://www.instagram.com/gingermelongirl/

 

Kelly Rimmer the German Wife https://www.booktopia.com.au/the-german-wife-kelly-rimmer/book/9780733649479.html



The Dream completion technique

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lv38dzpcxfA



Rachel Ryusch

https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/artists/rachel-ruysch



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Ruysch

In this episode Sarah and Lessie share the joy of catching up face-to-face and spending a friend's 40th birthday at the museum. Lessie is lacking more sleep than usual while Sarah has caught up on word counts over the weekend away.



The Story of the World Susan Bauer

https://www.theeducationalwarehouse.com/product-page/volume-2-the-

middle-ages-story-book-only-22-00

In this episode Sarah and Lessie talk toilet training wins, possum wars and the wonder of childhood and art. Lessie explores how mindset is impacting her creative practise and Sarah delves into the way her word count is directed by the verbosity of her female characters. Bouncing between all that as well as imitating and learning from the Masters of art and writing, there's something for everyone in this episode.

email: steinbingenstudios@gmail.com

instagram:
Lessie: https://www.instagram.com/ag_doyle/
Sarah: https://www.instagram.com/sarahfiddelaers/

Pixels profil WIP: https://pixels.com/profiles/alessandra-doyle

Tolkien article: https://www.catholicworldreport.com/2024/02/10/tolkiens-lessons-for-hollywoods-failures/
Stacie Bloomfield 5 day challenge. https://www.instagram.com/gingiber/
Beradette Salvador https://www.instagram.com/beesalvadorart/
The bible project https://bibleproject.com/

In this episode, Sarah and Lessie have both been feeling pretty flat in their creativity. They talk about recognising your inner critic and how to send them… well elsewhere. The girls draw inspiration from Claude Monet and Julia Donaldson while delving into ways to observe how one describes characters and settings whether through words or pictures. They also discuss the beauty and tension of the collaboration it takes to make successful picture books. We hope you enjoy the ramblings with cameos from a couple of small people, enjoy.

Email:
Steinbingenstudios@gmail.com

Instagram
Sarah: https://www.instagram.com/sarahfiddelaers?igshid=YzVkODRmOTdmMw==
Lessie: https://www.instagram.com/ag_doyle?igshid=OGQ5ZDc2ODk2ZA%3D%3D&utm_source=qr



Redbubble https://www.redbubble.com/
Pixels https://pixels.com/
The Jealous Curator Pixels https://pixels.com/
Susanna April https://www.instagram.com/susannaapril?igsh=Y28xYW15Yzg0Z3px
Paper Dolls, Julia Donaldson https://www.juliadonaldson.co.uk/books/picture-books/the-paper-dolls/