Who Said I Can't Eat That?

Cheree has always had an interest in cooking and craft. As a child she spent school holidays with her Grandma, cooking, sewing for her dolls and later making her own clothes. She was soon making clothes for her friends.

When she married and moved from place to place with her husband and daughters, she was dressmaking for her new friends and their children and entertaining with new and old recipes. Along the way she discovered artwork and started to sketch and paint with pastels and oils. This led her into porcelain doll making - a craft that combined her love of painting and sewing. Other people wanted to know how to create their own dolls so Cheree enlisted into Seeley Australia's Teacher Programme to become a qualified teacher and started teaching this craft in 1991, which she still continues to do as well as her cooking and dress making for friends and loved ones.

Cheree found her interests helped her to forget her health problems. Now of course since her food intolerances were diagnosed, and her diet addressed and corrected, she has more energy to do these things that she loves.

Little did Cheree realize that these interest and hobbies were creating further problems with Cheree's allergies. She had suffered migraines from a very early age and the frequency and intensity of these were increasing as a direct result of careless handling of paints, glues and chemicals used in these crafts.

As Cheree became aware of the impact of these products on her health and took the necessary corrective action and treating them with more respect and care by making sure that she wears gloves, masks and using them in the open air her health began to improve. A complete turn around in her health was completed when she adopted a diet around her food allergies and began using food that is preservative free and chemical free.

Bad days and migraines are now a thing of the past, and Cheree is hoping that sharing her knowledge and skills with others will lead to more people increasing their quality of life.