knock knock...

who's there...

number 25...

one. year. older. tomorrow.

two personal favourites

wishing everyone a nice long sleep in and a yummy 

breakfast for their saturday morning tomorrow!

adventuring

i want to have adventures with you...

wishing my friends josh and lu a wonderful time in europe, especially for their trip to the city of love. josh promised lu he wouldn't visit paris until she was with him, romantic much! i'm so very happy that they have chosen each other to spend the rest of their life together. and i'm also very happy to have beth back home safe and sound from her european adventure. i so wish she could have packed me in her suitcase!

anchored

able and game cards

it's no secret that i love cards and these able and game cards are no exception! i first spotted them for sale in a cafe near work and when i was in melbourne on the weekend they had a whole stall at the rose street market. i would love to recieve a card like the kitten one on my birthday and i would love to give the bridesmaid one out one day! there are so many good ones... have a look at their etsy store and their blog for more. oh, and going off their blog, i think they love cats as much as i do! hooray for fellow cat lovers.

bed time (aka 30 rock time)

that's enough playing blog catch up for one night!

even though i have a million more i could do.

i'm off for my nightly dose of 30 rock.

i read tina fey's book and converted.

so glad i did, it is simply hilarious.

goodnight and sweet dreams all.

happy friday for tomorrow.

i love how much she loves food and how daggy she is.
and i love this episode when she stops following the rules.
i need to call kahli this weekend to discuss how good it is.

birdies

powerful words

hear what you don’t want to hear. 

say what you don’t want to say. 

go where you don’t want to go. 

push yourself.

the trouble is... 

i love being inside my comfort zone.

i hate hearing what i don't want to hear.

i rarely say what i want to say. 

and the older i get, the less i push myself. 

time to change some things around here i think!

(i think this is the mantra of some very special people i know and they are well and truly living life and fulfilling their dreams as a result)

lo♥e the animals

i have been looking for a charity to donate to for a while now and i think i have finally found one. i decided a long time ago that it was something i wanted to do and i was inspired by my grandma joan. when we were cleaning up her house after she passed away i found an unsent cheque for the rspca in a draw. i know she didn't have much so the fact that she regularly donated to charity touched my heart. she would always rush off to find her purse for any cause when someone would knock on the door. so i posted the beautiful hand written cheque and made a promise to myself and her that i would donate to a charity in her place. i really wanted to continue helping animals so looked into the rspca, wwf and wspa however when i stumbled across this poster online it really connected with me. i was excited to have found them in my own way, as if it was meant to be. so the international fund for animal welfare it is and all in the name of my beautiful grandma and her love of all creatures great and small. learn more about the ifaw and the work they do here.

swashbucklin' sibblings

speaking of birthdays... my little brother matt turned 22 yesterday!

and my sister is 20 this year. what is going on here? rewind please. 

there are so many things i love about this photo, it makes me burst with love. 

dad had turned our coffee table upside down and transformed it into a 

pirate ship for us, complete with a bottle of grog and wooden cockatoo.

happy birthday me hearty, i love you and would do anything for you.

p.s. this website really assisted with the pirate terms featured in this 

blog post, grog being one of them as i don't normally use that word!

time flies when you're not having fun

i'm back! it's been almost two weeks! where does the time go? if a week and a half can pass by like lightening, is that what is going to happen to my whole life? i certainly hope not. i'm in a bit of a rut this week, despite having had a lovely weekend away in melbourne. i don't know what i'm doing with my life and where i'm going. i feel like i am wasting it by spending my days in front of a computer, knowing it's not a career i am passionate about pursuing. i'm too scared to take a chance and find out what it is that i am passionate about though, and i'm too busy! with my twenty fifth birthday fast approaching i am definitely facing a quarter life crisis. on the bright side, these e-cards made me laugh. there is one, or many, for everyone. ok, that's enough... back to sulking.

carry you home

give me a second i, i need to get my story straight

my friends are in the bathroom getting higher than the empire state

my lover she is waiting for me, just across the bar

my seat's been taken by some sunglasses, asking 'bout a scar

and i know i gave it to you months ago, i know you're trying to forget

but between the drinks and subtle things, the holes in my apologies

you know I'm trying hard to take it back

so if by the time the bar closes and you feel like falling down

i'll carry you home, tonight...
we are young, so let's set the world on fire
we can burn brighter, than the sun

i love this

winged eyeliner

i would like to give this winged eyeliner look a go. when i see it i think of shona, i'm pretty sure she wears it like this every single day! i asked her what she wore on a date recently and she described her outfit to me, adding winged eyeliner to the list which i thought was cute. maybe i'll try it on a girls night out.

free

top knots

who can resist a top knot?

not i. 

turn on happiness

happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.

on the menu

on the menu at my house tonight is homemade pizza. 

i'll be making a gourmet one with roasted pumpkin, rocket, feta and pine nuts, a hot one with pepperoni, onion, capsicum and jalapeños and a traditional one with ham, cheese and pineapple (my favourite!).

gosh i love food... what's for dinner at your place?

let's get productive!

i'm writing down my list of things to do today so that a) i can procrastinate and avoid doing them a little longer and b) actually hold myself to doing them! my poor little car overheated (again!) last night (at 2am in the suburbs!) so i'm literally stranded at home with no way of escaping my chores like i have the last few weeks. if my car was in working order i would find myself saying 'see you later housework, hello coffee in paddington with naomi'! i hope everyone has a productive saturday morning.

the list is...

vacuum
mop
wash bedlinen and towels
wash light clothes
wash dark clothes
wash coloured clothes
wipe down everything
clean the bathroom
do a grocery shop at the local iga (walking distance!)
bake banana bread
read my book in the sun (perhaps i should do this first...)
inspect the damage to my car
organise the food cupboard
and lots more!

traffic cat

take a look at this cat carrying her baby kitten across a busy street. how sweet!

there was almost no traffic this morning in brisbane, just another reason to love fridays!

melting for melting moments

so in love with melting moments.

especially with the passionfruit ones at our local coffee shop.

i have to look away from the big glass jar every morning.

i can almost hear them calling my name...

bellissimo

every time i go out for breakfast (which happens to be far more often than i should!) i crave pancakes. sadly i never order them (trying to show some self control!) but after seeing this photo i think i am definitely sold for next time. imagine waking up to love heart shaped pancakes and fresh berries. i actually had a rather delicious breakfast this morning... we headed to bellissimo, an awesome coffee shop near the james st market, and i had a dark chocolate and banana muffin. so yum! they have so many delicious looking treats there. we're going to move our monday morning team meetings there which could be dangerous! 

monday

welcome to monday. have a colourful week!

p.s. can someone tell me how it is march already?

thank you

thank you to my beautiful, kind, caring, supportive and understanding friends linda, naomi and anna who all helped me in their own way this weekend when i was slightly falling apart. your words and love helped me more than you know and i am truly blessed and very grateful to have you in my life throughout the good times and bad. thank you from the bottom of my heart, it means so much to me. and to all of my other wonderful friends, kahli, rach, beth, lu, kathleen, shona, jen, janet, ash and nicola, you have always been there in times of need (and there have been many!) and i will never forget all you have done for me.

'a friend is someone who dances with you in the sunlight, and walks with you in the shadows.'

♥

love affair

mmm i want to be eating this right now! 

instead i have dark chocolate, which luckily is just as satisfying.

ahh when will my love affair with chocolate ever end?

do or don't?

mix and match plates and 

quirky salt and pepper shakers?

i miss my op shopping days!

hold on