Holiday Sneak Peak

Hello!! It has been awhile, hasn't it? Sorry about that. Planning for a holiday, having said holiday and then the craziness of trying to get back into the swing of things once we got back left me with no time for blog posts I'm afraid. But I'm back and I had a great holiday!
I've put a few quick photos up there from our holiday. These are mainly iPhone shots, so the quality is not so good. I did take quite a few photos with the SLR. I just have to find time to upload them. They'll be coming soon!
For our holiday, we decided to do something a little bit different this time. Normally we would just go to the beach, but being winter here (and a particularly nasty one this year), we decided that the beach would quite possibly be really miserable and so we went out west instead. We first went through Chinchilla, Miles and Roma for a couple of days; and then we went to the Bunya Mountains for five days (which is technically going north, not west). Sitting in front of a log fire, in a cabin deep in the rainforest, drinking wine, reading books.... what more could you ask for?
Anyway, I'll go into a little bit more detail when I upload the SLR shots. How is your week going?

Lately

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Lately I've been feeling really quite down about life. I'm not having fun anymore, I have no time to do anything but work, my house is always a mess and I feel stressed all the time. Do you ever feel like this? I find it so easy sometimes to get really negative about life and be one of those annoying "glass half empty" people. I think these next "Lately's" need to be positive!

Lately I've been getting a bit excited for my husband who is about to complete his first semester of study at university! We made the difficult decision late last year that he would go back to uni, knowing that life would be a bit tight (ie money, haha) until he finishes. He's through one semester! Woohoo!

Lately I've been making plans for a little holiday we're going on in two weeks time (to celebrate the end of my husband's first semester - and no I don't think we're going to do this every semester). We're heading to the mountains and staying in a little cabin with a log fire! I can't wait! There's rumour that it might snow this winter too (almost unheard of here). I'll show you some photos when I get back, promise!

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Lately I've been trying to make my wardrobe brighter and wear more colour. I mentioned this in another post a little while back but years ago I used to wear bright clothes all the time and I've let myself slip into the habit of dressing in dull black all the time. Don't get me wrong, black can be really stylish at times, but sometimes really dreary too! I don't have a lot of money to spend on clothes, so I've been trying to find my old bright clothes I used to wear, or checking out second hand shops for colourful items.

Lately I've been making beautiful bouquets for beautiful friends and their wedding tomorrow!

Apologies for the iPhone shot.

Lately I've been getting my hair cut! I haven't had it cut in over six months so it was starting to look a little ratty. Sorry, no picture this time. (Next time, maybe ;-))

Lately I've been thinking about Christmas. Yes, crazy I know! It's ages away! This year we're hopefully having our families come to our place for Christmas, so I've been thinking about all the sweet little decor things we can do and the table decorations. Oh, it's going to be oh so much fun!

Lately I've been thinking....

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