10 reasons why I hate Cruise Ships

In no particular order

Number One: Sea Sickness. It’s real. It sucks. It can be avoided. Why would I willingly go on a floating piece of metal that is guaranteed to induce vomiting if I can safely stick to the mainland, vomit free.

Number Two: Cruise ships are slow. Too slow. Life is short and flying is quicker.

Number Three: Cruise Ships dump massive amounts of poop in the ocean. Not cool.

Number Four: Cruise Ships are more likely to fall victim to piracy than say for instance my beat up Mitsubish Magna. And FYI I don’t mean the rum induced jovial type Johnny Depp pirates, I mean the modern day terrorist type.

Number Five: Emergency Evacuation Drills. You are NOT on vacation if you are in any way forced to do drills of any kind.

Number Six: One for all and all for one. If one person on the ship catches some tropical stomach virus, everyone on the ship cops it. Delightful.

Number Seven: Eating THAT much buffet food can not be justified. Ever.

Number Eight: Older cruise ships have a massive carbon footprint. How massive? Google it.

Number Nine: World wide there are a total of approx 49 000 airports versus a total of approx 8297 harbours. Why limit yourself?

Number Ten: Titanic. Need I say more?

My school teachers would not approve..

I love opshopping. And I love boos. And the only thing that I love more than opshopping and books, is opshopping for books!

I love opening up a bended, beat up book to see if anyone wrote a special note inside. Sometimes the notes are more special than others. One time I found a tiny little note inside one of my second hand books. It was really bad handwriting and it baffled me for days. I finally took my book into work one day and asked the girls who worked with me to help solve the mystery. Turns out it said: Sorry I could not come to the concert, I had diarrhea.

It was really bad handwriting and really bad spelilng. Needless to say, I didn't hold on to that one.

However the other day, whilst shopping for new goodies for my new house, I picked up a dictionary for some reason. It has the sweetest inscription, and I thought I would share it:

People write funny, inspiring, romantic and impressive inscriptions to loved ones, and yet somehow, they end up on someone else's bookshelf.

The Book Inscritpion Project is a dedicates space where people can submit their strange and wonderful inscritptions.

Here is just one of my favourite ones:

This one is a note found inside a book, it says: Note to self, eat more fiber, drink lots of water.

Back to basics. I like it.

This is the inscription that started the Book Inscription Project. It reads:

Joey, I love you Soo much, You have surpassed the definition for all. I will always cherish our orgasmic moments. Love +  Resistance, Mark

So if you inscribe, think carefully, you never know where it might end up. And remember, eat more fiber, drink lots of water.

Just to say Thank You

Moving into my beautiful new little home has been such a blessing. It has been a long time coming and it still doesn't feel real. I was so overwhelmed by the amount of support and generosity from all my friends and family during this whole proces.s

I really wanted to say a heartfelt thank you to my girlfriends who helped me with the big move, so I made them some home-made choc-chip muffin mix. I saw this once at a Christmas Fleamarket and I have wanted to make it for someone ever since, so this was the perfect opportunity. It was heaps of fun to make, and I got to use my heart-shaped measuring spoons for the first time! I know they will make each muffin taste extra yummy!

Isn't it lovely?

It's super easy to make.

You will need:

- Some glass jars - got mine from an opshop

- An extra delicious muffin recipe of your choice

- Some ribbons and a card of your choice. I got my Night Owl Paper Goods cards from PigeonHole.

Measure all the dry ingredients out into seperate bowls, then layer them however you like according to colour. A bran muffin recipe with heaps of sultanas and bran will make the prettiest layers!

Now write the missing wet ingredients on the card and attach it to the jar with a pretty ribbon.

I hope my friends love their muffins as much as I love my new home.

Thanks again for helping me out girls!

Playing House

Wow. I feel like I haven't posted anything in ages. It will take me a while to get back into the swing of things.

Last year I made myself a little list. I always fail dismally at keeping new year's resolutions, so this list is not to be confused with resolutions.

My little list is simply 12 things that I would love to achieve in the next twelve months. Ergo, I have to achieve atleast one goal every single month. Some are tiny, other are gigantic, but more about them later.

I am pleased to say that I have officially achieved my first goal.

Finding a House.

I have been sharing with other people since I can remember, and this is the first time that I will actually have my own akwardly long name on the lease! Snaps for me!

Ever since I signed the lease, I've gone into a mad, frantic, uncontrollable shopping mode.

I am buying egglifters, pots, brooms, bookshelfs and wineglasses left, right and centre!

This blogpost however is not about my house, my efflifter, my landlord or my gorgeous new bed.

This post is a tribute to these gorgeous measuring cups..that sadly, I will  never own... 

I found them online at Anthropologie. Unfortunately, I am in Aus, and this gorgeous online shop is based out of the US. I wanted these measuring cups sooooo bad, unfortunately , the shipping costs is more than the actual cups. Sad face.

I really thought that these measuring cups would make all the cakes that I plan to bake in my new kitchen tase extra delicious. Ah well. I have to move on. It wasn't meant to be...



Sole-mates

I have a confession to make. I like taking pictures of my feet. Alot. Not in a weird fettish kind of way, just in a sweet, look-where-my-feet-have-been kinda way. It's kind of hard to explain. I think everyone has a strange habit, and this his mine. A friend of mine, whom I shall not name here, used to like eating cement...

I think we should all embrace our freakiness and flaunt our funky habits to the world. So here, for your viewing pleasure, is a collection of my favourite footy snaps. Enjoy

Beach feet, soon after my arrival in Australia this year

Green Feet, Shovelling 4tons of peas on a friend's farm in Delmas, South Africa

Sailors Feet, Relaxing with some blue feet after sailing the Swan River, Perth

Scuba feet, Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia

Jazz feet, at a friend's birthday this year, Ellington Jazz Club, Perth

I hope to collect many more of these footsie pictures in the future. What is your freaky habit?

xox

My day in Pictures

Today I started off with a bit of early morning early bird Christmas shopping at the Freo markets and then headed off to a day spa for some much needed mid morning relaxation. Next stop was the Beaufort Street Festival. Needless to say I headed straight for the Huge Vintage Sale.

Oh. My. Gosh.

I picked up three lovely dresses, two for m sister and one for me ofcourse. Can't wait to wear it!

My absolute favorite treat for the day was the Laundromat. The creative folks from Flexhaus transformed an ordinary old laundromat into the Kingdom of Lost Socks. Their whimsical story tells the tale of how lost socks and washing machines come alive and party the night away... It does make me feel a bit better to think that all my lost socks are out there somewhere making friends with other lost socks and  partying up a storm every night instead of actually just being lost... under my bed... or in a corner of my room somewhere.

The laundromat was alive, not lifeless and glum,

The machines know how to work,

But also have FUN!

I hope you had a fun weekend too.

xox

 

On the Line

I am househunting. And by househunting I mean searching on all my favourite blogs and sites for all the lovely things that I am going to buy for my new adorable litlle house instead of searching for the actual house. 

So I might end up with all sorts of lovely bits and pieces and nowhere to put it, but who cares, I am loving it!

Today, I found these cute dolly pegs via Not on the High Street. 

The strawberry ones are my favourite, how about you?

xox

A spring crush

One of my absolute favourite blogs ever ever is A Beautiful Mess. The author of this gorgeous space is Elsie, and she is getting married soon ! Yippeee and Congrats! Today she launched her very own wedding blog, Le Wedding Party, and that deserves a crush for sure.

Delightfully Tacky

I am always super excited when I come up with enough posts to start a new section on my blog. So drumroll please..... Introducing my latest section.... Crushes.

I am so inspired by all the creativity, prettiness, loveliness and originality of what's out there, I am sure will have no trouble filling my crush diary with plenty of sweet bits. 

My first crush is Delightfully Tacky. Marvel with me.

Elizabeth's blog is her amazing story about her travels in a 1973 Winnebago Brave RV. Along for the ride is her adorable pooch Little Bit (very photogenic). The pages of her blog are filled with beautiful pictures of awe-inspiring scenery along the way, gorgeous vintage outfits, every-day people and once in a life time experiences.

I admire Elizabeth's courage for taking on her dream to travel and only hope that I can show the same courage and fashion sense in the pursuit of my dreams...

 

Bow-Vember

The lead up to Christmas is sooo special and I am savouring every moment of it. Everyday I stare out the bus window on my way to work trying to spot new Christmas trees, lights and displays. Before we know it, Christmas will be over and all the shiny decorations will be packed away only to be quicly replaced by a multitude of easter eggs. So take a moment to just appreciate the wonderful and exciting couple of weeks ahead.

Have you started thinking about Christmas gifts yet? I have been on a shopping mission for the past few weeks, which explains my recent lack of posts.... sorry.

Today I stumbled upon Whiskers Lane, cute and crafty fashion accessories label that specialises in one off designs using vintage fabrics. The last bow even makes me think of a Christmas tree... or is it just me?