LITTLE

KNOWN FACTS

about

Claire

NAME AND VINTAGE:

Claire Elizabeth, born 1976.

Occupation:

Disciple of Jesus Christ

Mum to three wonderful, crazy boys

Milliner (I make a designer range of fascinators - those

1. *gorgeous feathery head pieces women wear to the races)
   

2. *Songwriter/Singer/Musician 
   

3. *Queenslander (that is an occupation you know)
   

My GUITAR:

Maton Drover with AP5 (that’s the type of pickup).  I often forget to replace the batteries in the guitar’s pickup before a show and end up having to borrow some out of some other electrical device - usually a camera - at the last minute.  Sorry to everyone I ever forgot to return batteries to.  I use whatever strings are on sale, 12s... or 11s if I’m feeling slack.

Favourite songs that I didn’t write:

1. *‘Royal in the Afternoon’ by the Whitlams
   

2. *‘Africa’ by Toto
   

3. *‘Exerciser’ by Rhubarb
   

4. *‘The River’ by Garth Brooks
   

5. *‘Count the Cost’ by David Meece
   

6. *‘I Told You So’ by Keith Urban
   

7. *‘In The Light’ by DC Talk
   

favourite songs that i did write:

1. *‘Raging Sea’ from ‘Claire Hazzard’  
   

2. *‘Without You’ from ‘Whatever it takes’
   

3. *‘These People’  and ‘The Spectacular Thing’ both from ‘The Spectacular Thing’
   

FAvourite book that I didn’t write:

1. *‘The Bible’ 
   

2. *‘He Loves Me’ by Wayne Jacobsen - Read it, read it, read it!
   

3. *‘A Voice In The Wind’ by Francine Rivers
   

4. *‘Battlefield of the Mind’ by Joyce Meyer - I read it once a year!
   

5. *‘The 77 Habits of Highly Ineffective Christians’ by Chris Fabry.
   

FAvourite book that I did write:

As if I would write a book! Ha!

personal mottos:

1. (1)There’s no need to rush in God’s economy of time
   

2. (2)Love required is not love at all
   

3. (3)There’s no such thing as a deadline
   

sport:

No thanks.  I did catch a ball once.  I try to do laps at the pool each week but I am super slow.  Still it’s fun.  There is HOWEVER one great ‘sport-ish’ love of mine - water skiing.  I’m not too bad on a single ski for an unco.  I even have my boat licence, although I really don’t know how that happened. 

if i could meet anyone at all:

Steven Curtis Chapman.  I think his lyrics are so profound.  They teach me so much.  I would love to meet the character behind those words.

favourite movie:

‘Emma’ starring Gwyneth Paltro and Toni Collette.

‘The Wedding Singer’ starring Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore.

“Transformers” starring Optimus Prime and Megatron.

“Hot Rod” starring some guy.

favourite food:

1. *Anything I didn’t cook
   

2. *Mud crab
   

3. *Macadamia nuts
   

4. *Avocado
   

5. *Chocolate fudge
   

6. *Coffee
   

7. *I HATE PEAS SO MUCH
   

favourite ways to kill time:

1. *Op shopping
   

2. *Scouring garage sales
   

3. *Baking in a silent kitchen
   

fears:

1. *Sharks
   

2. *Small spaces
   

things that really annoy me:

1. *Spelling and grammar mistakes - especially my own!!!
   

2. *Drinking to get drunk
   

3. *Mess - especially in my kitchen
   

4. *Skim milk
   

5. *Harmful additives in food (don’t start me)
   

6. *Constant, clashing, loud noise
   

7. *Evolutionon