Friday I'm in Love: New things, last minute.

I think I must be the last person to own both these books, but I'm so glad that I waited so long to get them.
They're the first cookbooks published by two of my favourite bloggers; Joy The Baker and Orangette.
They're basically the blogs in book form, sometimes witty, always divine, they're the perfect addition to my ever growing cookbook collection.

Now excuse me while I go and make a peanut butter and jam milkshake...

~ A friend from my old job introduced me to Wolf Parade when I complained about needing new music to listen too. They're almost like a mix between Modest Mouse and Arcade Fire. I like it. ~

Friday I'm in Love: Terrariums.

I love terrariums! They're so cute and whimsical and lovely. My friend Steph and I have recently become enamoured with the idea of terrariums and we can't wait to make our own! We spent 2 hours in the city looking for moss and small plastic deer to include in our terrariums.

I'm not sure if I could keep a real one alive, I always forget to water the plants that I have already, so I really like the idea of 'Faux' terrariums, full of fake moss and  toy animals. (Rabbits! Deer! Squirrels! All the woodland animals!).

So here's some terrarium inspiration for this cold Friday.

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~ I'm sure you've heard of Best Coast. They're all summery and beachy (if that's a good way to describe them!). This song, Boyfriend, is from their album "Crazy For You." ~

Friday I'm in Love: This moment.

[I realise that this post is a day late, but just pretend it's on time.]

[image from 365 lucky days]

Right at this moment, my life is pretty nice. I'm almost on holidays from uni, and the weather finally realised that it's supposed to be Spring, and has shown us some sunny love. So here's a list of things that I'm loving right now, and things that I'm obsessed with:

• I love the feeling of hot sun on my shoulders
• I'm really looking forward to seeing Gotye in December. I can't wait!
• Pinterest helps me procrastinate when I should be studying
• I can't stop listening to this album
• Adding juice to wine that isn't very good and calling it punch
• This website makes me want to delete my facebook
• I really need to make this printed canvas
• This lady inspires me so much
• I would really like to try embroidery (see point above)

I hope you're having a good weekend! And I hope it's sunny where you are. 

Friday I'm In Love: Covered up.

Yesterday was deceiving.

The day started out warm and sunny, but then the black clouds swept in and rained all over everything, and ruined my dreams of springtime.

Not only that, but my usual rostered early start at work had been changed, and I turned up to work 6 hours too early. How. Embarrassing.

But there was a highlight in amongst this drab and dreary day. Umbrellas.

I really like umbrellas. Not necessarily what they represent, but I really like the way they look. I also find it really fun to walk around, covered up by a big umbrella.

So here's some lovely pictures of umbrellas, to make you feel better about grey, rainy days (sources below).

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Friday I'm In Love: bluegreen (!)

I really like painting my nails. It makes me feel girly and nice. But they only look good for about two days before they chip all over the place.

Baby Blue! Emerald Green! What a colour combination!

Also, I have a confession to make. I'm a bit late jumping on the Regurgitator band wagon. Like, 14 years late.
Of course I liked Polyester Girl when it came out, but I was a lil' bit young to actually appreciate the rest of their music. But they're playing at The Falls Festival this year, so Brent thought I should actually listen to their music.

I'm glad I did.

Friday I'm In Love: Makeover.

This dress has been sitting in my wardrobe for at least 3 years. If not more.

I think I got the dress from my Aunty Catherine, and she had it as a costume for one of her many plays.

The dress has been sitting in my wardrobe waiting for me to wear it. But the right occasion never came up, and I've been meaning to fix it up to be a bit more wearable.

And I finally did. I took the (horrible) sleeves off and took the hem up to knee length, rather than ankle length.
Now I just have to take it to the dry cleaners to get it cleaned up and then I can really wear it!

I hope Aunty Catherine doesn't mind that I altered her dress. But at least this way, it'll get a lot more wear.

Friday I'm In Love: Convert.

I never considered myself to be a sporty girl. At school, I was too busy with band and choir to be fussed with sport. And I was never really interested, anyway.

But these last two years, I've started to watch AFL, only because Brent is a sporty boy and he really is all about it.

Watching the footy with someone who is really passionate, is definitely the way to get interested about something. Because of Brent, I know the rules, the players, and the right things to yell at the right time. I even have a team (go the Blues!).

But watching a live game is a completely different experience. Sitting in a stadium surrounded by 75,000 dedicated and passionate supporters, is something you need to be there to appreciate. When your favourite player kicks a goal, or gets the mark of the year, there is nothing you can do to stop yourself from punching the air with your fist.

I'm a total convert.

Friday I'm In Love: Vacation.

I've just spent 3 days in Sydney visiting my Mum for her birthday.
The weather was perfect and we ate so much food. It was a little bit ridiculous.



We even went to see the Archibald Prize (which was amazing, by the way).
We had dinner with my Auntie and Cousin and had a lovely time.

I think I ate more French pastries in those 3 days then when I was actually in Paris. Wild.

But I had a really good time, and I was so lucky with my flights, I missed most of the ash cloud chaos.

We went to all the trendy suburbs, and I taught my Mum all about Hipsters, and I bought lots of vintage clothes.




I am glad to be home, though.

Have you been on vacation recently?
I can't wait until my next holidays. I'm going to spend the next 4 months organising something fun.

Friday I'm In Love: A sense of accomplishment.

I'm in holiday mode. Even though I'm not on holidays yet. Go figure. And so I've been playing around with the sewing machine. Trying to make something that looks nice but isn't too difficult. Yesterday, I think I accomplished that.

I made a dress. All by myself. (Please excuse my dumb facial expression).

I've made some clothes before, but I've always had the help of some knowledgeable parents and a pattern to work from. Not this time. This time I went out into the sewing world all by myself, without a single helping hand (I'm so grown up!).

I took a pattern off a dress that I had already. I'd like to say that I also went to the fabric shop and chose an amazing fabric that would be perfect for my first Adult Creation. But if I tell you a secret, will you promise not to laugh at me?

I cut up some old sheets to make this dress. But you promised you wouldn't laugh, so it's ok. We're all friends here. And if it makes things any better, while I was making it I totally felt like Sister Maria when she made clothes out of old curtains for the Von Trapp kids. Next thing you know, I'll be marrying my employer and running away from Nazi's.
Lets hope not.



But I did make this dress and I am so utterly proud of myself. When I went to the shops this morning wearing the dress, I had to stop myself from walking like this.

Friday I'm In Love: Crafty lady's.

It's no secret that I love everything to do with food. Not just eating, but food blogs, cookbooks, food photography... you get the idea.
But I like other things, too. I like music, reading, walking, art, and playing guitar.
You might not know this about me, but I used to do a lot of art and crafty things. I did photography and art in school and at one point, I was really into street art and I thought that that's what I wanted to do with my life.

With holidays coming up, I've gotten really into craft blogs. They've always got such good ideas that seem really easy, and get me really excited about sitting inside with a mountain of off-cut material, ribbons and a hot glue gun. My mother would be so proud!

So I'm sharing my favourite crafty blogs with you in the hope that you might also get excited and inspired. They all seem to be done by lovely lady's (aren't guys into craft?), so there are lots of girly ideas, like making cushion covers and headbands. But that's the kind of thing that makes me happy when the weather is so cold outside...

In no particular order:

Vanilla & Lace

The Long Thread

Papersnitch

Made

Living the Swell Life

Design Is Mine

Daydream Lily

Creature Comforts

A Beautiful Mess

Friday I'm In Love: Too many pots of tea and Cameo Lover.

Since confessing that I'm both obsessive and fickle, I've decided to put this into practice with a new weekly post: Friday I'm In Love

It will show you what I'm loving each week, and will force me to post here more often. The only thing is, I didn't really want this blog to turn into a place for me to post lots of pictures of myself that I've taken in the mirror (because, lets face it, I'm not 16 anymore. Thank god). But this is my blog, and I can write posts about whatever I want! I've already done a couple of craft posts here before, so I guess it's ok to branch out a little bit. And I promise there won't be any photo's of me that I've taken of myself in a mirror (well, not too many anyway).

And who knows, it might only last two weeks before I find something else to do...

This week I'm going to share two things with you.
I drink way too many cups of tea. I think I'm addicted.

The other thing I'm sharing is this song by ex-New Zealand artist, Kimbra. I've had this song stuck in my head all week. I love the video for it too. Everything from the fluoro colours to the tambourine. I can't wait till her album comes out.
There is one line in the song that I can't work out what the lyrics are.
It goes: "everyday's like talking in your sleep, love is like a ..........., open up your heart."
What goes there? Huh? Silhouette in teams? Silhouette in Jeans? Cigarette and tea? I don't know.
Either way, the song is great.

And there you have it! The first Friday I'm in Love. Hopefully there will be more of these to come!