Thoughts from the fashionista

Exactly 68 days (not that I'm counting) until I will be jet-setting overseas for my ultimate trip to Europe - Canada - and back to Europe for a Mediterranean summer!


I cannot wait until summer 2012 rolls around - I'm dreaming of a villa in Greece, a yacht in Croatia...


This Roberto Cavalli kaftan would be perfect (and a cocktail in hand):

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I remember one of my first posts on this blog was about Hello Sunday Morning (HSM), where I decided to take 3 months 'off' from alcohol. It has been over a month since I completed that and today it really hit me just how much doing HSM has had a positive affect on me. Since doing HSM, especially the past three weekends I have had a fair bit to drink, and today I guess I just had more or less a realisation about my 'relationship' with alcohol and how I only want it to play a very small role in my life.

"Even though it has been over a month since I completed my HSM, today it really hit me just how much doing HSM affected me without me even really realising it until now.

For the past three weekends I’ve been going out drinking although it hasn’t been anything too huge…the first weekend was a friend’s 21^st on the Saturday night and pretty easy going Sunday sess, neither of which were anything too messy, the following weekend was another Sunday sess which was a bit more messy, than this weekend the Friday night was a little messy, followed by only two drinks at my dad’s birthday on the Saturday night. The past three weekends haven’t been anything crazy where I’ve been waking up to a nasty hangover or anything, but it’s still been a very non-motivating three weekends where although I’ve been happy in those moments, when I think back on it, if I didn’t drink as much or not at all, I would have definitely just had more motivation and made more out of my weekends like I did when I was doing my HSM. I think this has made me realise that weekend after weekend it’s truly just not for me anymore.   

A perfect example of my non-motivatedness (I know that’s not a real word, but now it kind of is) is what I look like right now,…it’s Sunday afternoon, earlier on it was so beautiful, and here I am, still lying on the couch when I know I should be getting stuff organised for uni or practicing some guitar or Spanish, just something productive like I was doing the majority of the time when I was going through my HSM.

For me, realising this hasn’t made me want to do another HSM right now, but I am glad it has woken me up again even though it’s been over a month since I did do my three month HSM.

So this is just a little thank you to HSM. When I went three months without alcohol, it did make a huge difference in my life more than I had originally realised, and even though right now I’m feeling lazy and like a fool, I am still a little happy that I do know that I’m not going to keep going weekend after weekend drinking just because I’m not doing a HSM right now. Thank you Hello Sunday Morning!"

Here is the Hello Sunday Morning website for anyone who is interested: http://hellosundaymorning.com.au/

 

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"I love you also means I love you more than anyone loves you, or has loved you, or will love you, and also, I love you in a way that no one loves you, or has loved you, or will love you, and also, I love you in a way that I love no one else, and never have loved anyone else, and never will love anyone else." - Jonathan Safran Foer.

Thoughts from the fashionista

I love Kim Kardashian's style...she is my ultimate style icon. I absolutely LOVE her casual look - teaming jeans, heels and a blazer...

I think the blazer and jeans combo is a chic daytime outfit that is easy for anyone to pull off with minimal hassle. My own navy blue blazer gets a weekly workout...whether it be on the weekend or to work, it really goes with so much. One of my favourite buys! At the moment I am slightly obsessed with the orangey/coral colour, and the navy blazer really compliments my tees/tops of this colour.

Recently, I visited my boyfriend in Cairns and we spent an hour or so having a look in the shops on the main strip. I tried on an off white blazer in Witchery but put it back on the hanger as the price tag was a tad too expensive for me (given I'm 3 months from a European/Canadian/American holiday!). HOWEVER, my very sweet boyfriend went back to Witchery after I had flown home to buy it for me, and sent it to me in the post! I couldn't believe it when I opened it up...it is absolutely perfect, and goes with so much. I feel a million dollars in it and love it to bits! It will be perfect for Italy :)


Here it is:

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Any Australian who comes across and reads this post will know what I mean when I say that one of the only TV shows worth watching at the moment is Offspring. For any of you lovely international people who don't know what I'm talking about you can go to this website http://ten.com.au/offspring.htm to watch free episodes of, in my opinion, is one of the best TV series to come out of Australia.

Both my sister and I are huge fans of this show and tonight's episode it looks like Nina will finally choose between Patrick and Chris. For my sister and I, we are huge Patrick fans all the way and hope that Nina tells that Chris Havel where to stick it.

I think Adele's song 'I found a boy' is perfect for this situation..... So here is some beautiful music for you all....

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I want one