Fig Woodworks Gallery.

06/04/2026

06/01/2026

Shout out to my newest followers! Excited to have you onboard! Ken Valerdi, Luca Massola, Brendon Szigetvári, Thaswill Flavor Julius, Denny Diezel, Egay Beriña, Nabarun Banerjee, Nakheel Basheer, Harvey Hoffman, Devraj Gurung, Md Babu, Gloria Baltazar, Rock Niro, Shahzad Mughal, Albert Gomez, Augustine Pora, Devendra Kumar, Tom Dunne, Côme Zigan Dekoun, Sukron Mahadi, Ned Spencer, Usman Khaksar, Melanie Sciberras, Deff Vianto, Asad Shah, Bobby Gathings, Trevor Singleton, Vahdettin Mutlu, Mullins Robert, Joshua F Garbett, JC Carlos Sanjur, Samantha D Nunley, Francisco Javier, James Wagner, Walter Noivo, Baagii Batbayar, Travis Mcgowan, Jason Parfait, Pearls World , Abigale McCarty, Founder Ram, Mark Spicer

09/11/2025

It is coming up to Lizzies birthday on the 21 November; this year it will be nine years without our beautiful daughter. Lizzie loved her Great grandmother's chocolate cake recipe. So please help celebrate Lizzies birthday on the 21st and make her favorite cake and enjoy it with a coffee in her memory
Lizzie’s Chocolate Cake
105 grams butter (4.5 Tablespoons)
3 Tablespoons cocoa. (For a darker richer cake add an extra Tablespoon of Coca)
1.5 cups SR flour
1.5 cups sugar
3/4 cup milk
3 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla essence
For a bigger cake double the mixture
Soften butter and place with the other ingredients into a mixing bowl.
Mix well for 3 to 4 minutes.
Pour into greased and lined 180mm (7 inch) cake tin.
Bake at 160 degrees C for approximately 70 minutes
Don’t forget to lick out the bowl and spoon the uncooked mix is the best bit.
This recipe has been passed down through the family from Lizzie’s Great Grandmother Coronation Spratling, it has been made by family members for around 100 years. At least five generations of family have enjoyed this cake.

06/01/2024

If you use the promo code:
JANBOOK20.
You can get 20% off my book 'The Empty Chair' Sale starts Jan 8th.

On March 24, 2017 the unimaginable happened, I watched my daughter die whilst I comforted her. This is a story of love, loss, grief, resilience and carrying on with a shattered heart. This is my story, a father's story of love, grief, loss, resilience, recovery and carrying on with a heart that has....

01/05/2023

A father's story of grief, loss, resilience, recovery and carrying on.

https://au.blurb.com/b/11512512-the-empty-chair?fbclid=IwAR3WLDB6n0cqLTByis6WsUNZOowrIV_qZcx3SdhjvB7UYAfOhJeXeZ8ah8o

A father's story of grief, loss, resilience, recovery and carrying on.

16/03/2023

My new book:

A father's story of grief, loss, resilience, recovery and carrying on.

09/03/2023

The second book that I have put together is a journal for people who have lost a loved one to write their thoughts and paste some pictures and memorabilia it can be found here: I also have a third book in the pipeline where I talk about my story, the impact and about resilience and recovery, it will be published shortly.

Journal, for those who have lost a loved one. To reflect and remember.

09/03/2023

I have been quiet on this page over the last few years, that is because my daughter died six years ago, and I haven't had the heart to go back to the workshop.
however, I have been busy writing some books the first is a coffee table book aimed at grieving fathers, simply because men do not grieve well, this book is designed to help them. It can be found here:

Meditations, for grieving fathers, written by grieving fathers, to help grieving fathers.

18/01/2022

A lot of my Face Book community have unfortunately suffered the loss of a loved one, sadly often this is the loss of a child. At times like this, it is hard to articulate feelings and there is a desperate heartfelt need to want to record those feelings and memories.
So with this in mind and having walked down this devastating road, I have put together a journal to help those who find themselves walking this path that no one ever wants to, or imagined that they would walk.
This, small journal has inspirational quotes to help the grieving person collect their thoughts to help them. It also contains a pretty good Chocolate Cake recipe, because we all know that everything goes better with chocolate cake!
This journal is for sale here at cost, I am making nothing out of this, it is simply put there to help those who need help.
It is available as a hard cover or soft cover.
https://au.blurb.com/b/11037178-bittersweet-reflections...

Journal, for those who have lost a loved one. To reflect and remember.