Koalas belong in the trees.

The Koala was looking a bit bored sitting on the wine bottle the other day so I took him out to the trees! :D I think it was a fun time all round! Hehe.
He's so cute!! :)

I have not been playing around in trees today, no siree. I have actually been doing stuff! :O What? I know, I can't quite believe it either. BUT I have made a very late start to dissertation research, and looked at applying for PGCE...since I am again graduating next year. So I have a little list of things I need to do...I just don't feel like I can do them yet, like I have to do some more research or buy a notebook or something. :P I have been working though, so YAY!

Elle Decorations

On the LONG train ride back to Durham this Easter I bought myself an Elle Decorations magazine to kill some time with. I have since loved the magazine. I have not bought many copies, but the copies I have looked at are so filled with inspiration and totally awesome furnitures.

Yesterday we bought 2 copies, one of which had a few pages of sofas. My favourite of these was Confluences from Ligne Roset. Oh my!!

Not only is the sofa really cool but so is the whole website! I recommend a visit if you want some serious interior design fantasies. :)

I PASSED!

Oh yeah! In your face stupid Maths Department! Wheeeeeeeee!

Hiya!

We went up to the mountains again this weekend, and I took lots of pictures again. I will post them here when I have the patience to do so...which is not today. Hehe.

I really really want to tidy my room today...but I have a feeling it may not get done...ho hum, life goes on!

It's Wednesday tomorrow, which means my mum is off work and we can go into town together! Yay! Someone to shop with, and eat with and talk to! :)

Toodles!

Wouldn't it be nice...

Today James told me that if we had a song, you know like people think couples should, that whole: "It's our song" stuff... (Sasha spent maybe a whole week trying to get me to find one) well that this should be it, because the lyrics are so true.

I don't know why, maybe just because it's the Beach Boys, but I always thought it was a happy song. I suppose in some ways it is, a bit, but not much. :)

It would be nice.

The way my head works...

...I go into town to get some lunch, I come back wanting 4 new items of clothing. Oh dear!

Problem Solved

No wonder I have problems keeping to my goals!!

Mountains

We spent Saturday in the mountains. :) I do love the mountains when the sun is shining and it's nice and warm and there are all sorts of pretty things to take photos of. Whilst my dad slaved away in the kitchen (we do help occasionally) I feel like I enjoyed quite a pleasant day. We played a bit of Bridge (our new favourite card game) and I took lots of mini walks to photograph flowers.
I love the wildlife/nature up in the mountains, it's so very pretty. We had a bbq for lunch, due to the lack of kitchen, and mine and Sarahs favourite summery side dish, tomatoes and mozzarella with basil oil. Mmm mmm mmmm. It photographs quite nicely too, I think it's the lovely vibrant colours.
After lunch I wondered around taking photos again, there's no stopping me when there are pretty things to photograph. The day was just so beautiful.
THEN, COWS! Hehe, we could here them from the chalet, so out I was once again with my camera. They were very pretty cows, all gingery, it looked so nice with the blue blue sky and green green grass. :)
There were babies too, unfortunately my camera ran out of battery before the smaller calves came down. Oh well. It was a lovely day in the Mountains nonetheless.

We went to a wonderfully awesome bbq in the evening, and that's all I will say. :)

Cheer up.

Ehehe. :) We took some crazy photos yesterday and I thought I'd share them to help cheer me up.

I'm having some trouble deciding what to do with my life. I think I've become so used to getting approval from people when I make a decision that now when I don't get positive feedback I start doubting my decision instead of standing my ground...so in a sense I don't feel like I have my own strong opinion. I do, I just feel like it falls apart when I don't get the response I was expecting and then it takes me a while to get back to my opinion.

Anyhoo, fun photos! Sarah and I had fun yesterday afternoon playing cards and taking photos, here are some of the results. :)
My "photo shoot" or "paparazzi" moments:
Sarah's "photo shoot" or "paparazzi" moments:
Hehe, fun fun fun.

Autumn?

Where is Autumn? Ok, it's starting to be just 20 degrees, which is much nicer than 30...but still. I want to wear Autumn clothes, hats, jumpers and all that. I am mentally in Autumn, so it's a bit annoying waking up every day to sunshine. (I've just managed to complain about it being nice out...)

Anyhoo (which is NOT in the dictionary you know), I've not really had the best start to the day...could be why I am complaining about the weather (seriously, how English am I?). I went out to get some lunch, and potentially shoes. I had to be quick because I didn't want to leave the kitchen guys in the house alone too long. Well, the boots were both expensive and made me feel fat...I'm not sure how boots can make you feel fat, but these ones did. I am thinking I may have to give up on finding some nice and comfortable boots. That put me in a bit of a downer...I get down when my shopping plans aren't going as planned...retail therapy has the opposite effect for me a lot of the time. I got some lunch, and then managed to break a glass when I got home. Fiddly shelves! Yep, good day so far! :P

I am happy though, yup yup. I had a yum lunch, and should be having a fun evening tonight, so all is good. :)

But seriously, could Autumn weather PLEASE hurry up?!

Oh my!

Found at weheartit.com.

AWESOME tea set! Hehe, from one of my favourite movies. :) I have such an internal dilemma, the child and adult in my are always fighting over what I should have. The child in me REALLY wants this.

I would like to...

I have around a month until Uni starts again and I'd like to do quite a few things in that time. Some ideas aren't quite sorted out in my head, BUT I do know I'd like to sort out flights for next summer, organise my photos (ie. put all my favourites and REALLY nice ones into a folder and organise into categories) and maybe sort out my iTunes. AND sort out getting back to Uni, that would be useful!

Once I am back I have a few other things I'd like to sort out, but I'm not going to bother myself with them yet. Hehe.

I started filling in my 101 Dreams book last night, I have almost 50 dreams so far. It is nice to be able to write down any kind of dream you have and then maybe see if they are possible to achieve. :)
Thats all I have to share for now. :)

What've I been up to?

Well, I got back from Australia and gave Liam his birthday presents. To be honest I think I've had more fun with the Koala than he has. (Yes he is 19, but you have to understand he keeps a little owl in one of his coat pockets, so I thought it'd like a friend). I've also done a bit of studying and a bit of getting hungry, our kitchen is gone! Gone!!!
See the emptiness! It's moved on quite a bit since this photo, but still no units of anything in yet. Still, means I have an excuse to go out for lunch! Yay!
We've also been dogsitting for the ever so quiet Snowball, he never barks. Well, not never, but rarely...soooo quiet, but cute. :) We've also been playing a lot of Bridge, which I think we make WAY more fun than it should be...I think I get the blame for that...hehe.
AND we've been up to the mountains, where we also have no kitchen because my dad is doing that one up! It's looking good though. :)
I've also done my fair bit of shopping...AH, shopping! But other than that life has been relatively quiet. :) What've you been up to?

Been a while...

It's been a while since I updated, and will be while until I get into the flow of updating again, but for now here are some of my favourite photos from my trip down under. :)

I will try and be back with interesting updates, pretty things and all that. :) I'm also teaching my mum how to work blogger so she can update all sorts of cool things (I'm thinking mainly interior design stuff) on her blog. :)

Awesome things.

I was having a bit of an off day, I have had a few this summer, so when James and I were out and looking around a book store (which is now one of my favourite past times, I must make more time for reading) and he got me a book full of awesome things, literally a list of things that are awesome. These are little things, things we overlook but really are quite awesome. Anyways, the guy who wrote the book started it all off as a blog, it's pretty awesome, I recommend you check it out. :)

Been a while

Photo updating is on a slow go because I am enjoying my time with James instead. When I get home and am bored I'll sort through them all. :P

I was hoping to post a bit more regularly whilst out here. Oh well.

In the mean time, I bought a new book recently. It's a cookbook: The French Women Don't Get Fat Cookbook. It's really interesting and has some yummy looking recipes in it. We made one tonight, was REAL yum. :) Felt uber healthy too.

Talk later.