Our holiday

I've finally got my act together, and edited some of our photos from our holidays a whole seven (eep!) weeks ago. Feels like forever ago!
This isn't all the photos we took. You'd be downloading forever if I did that! (You might still be yet!) but these are the best photos we took (I think). Sorry, but this is a photo heavy post. You have been warned! :)

The biggest bottle tree you will ever see in your life! (in Roma)

PHOTO HEAVY POST!!

ABC

I'm very sorry for the lack of posts! I've been madly trying to get some photos edited from our holiday recently. They will be coming soon, I promise!
In the meantime, here's some useless tidbits about me. I don't normally like doing these meme kind of things, but this one seems like a bit of fun....

AGE - 28 years and 2 months
BED SIZE - Queen. Double is too small and I think I'd get lost in a King!

CHORE THAT I HATE - Cleaning the shower!!

DOGS - None :( and I'm so sad about that. I'd really love a dog. We used to have a labrador when I was young and she was the cutest thing, but very lazy. If I were to get a dog now, I'd love a Nova Scotia Tolling Retriever (haha, look that one up!) or a pug or a golden retriever or a labrador or an english bulldog or or or....
ESSENTIAL START TO MY DAY - A coffee! Unfortunate, but true. 

FAVOURITE COLOUR - I've gone through a lot of "favourite colours" over the years, so I've decided that I simply just love ALL colour! But at the moment, I do love yellow and orange and grey. Oh! And turquoise and coral. And! Ok, leaving this question alone now.

GOLD OR SILVER - Gold, but I like silver a lot too.

HEIGHT - Oh dear. I just got measured by the doctor last week and now I can't remember. 200-and-something centimetres. Helpful? No?

INSTRUMENTS - Double bass! I've been playing it since 1998, which makes it 13 years! Wow! I also used to play flute and piano, but I'm pretty rusty (read: dodgy) on these now.

JOB TITLE - At my proper job, I am a senior web analyst, but that doesn't come anywhere near describing what I do (ie. much much more than analysing). When I'm at home, I'm the chef, cleaner/tidier, sewer, gardener (at times), and general woman about the house.
KIDS - Nein no non. Not that we won't ever be having them, but not right now.

LIVES - With my hubby on half an acre in beautiful, sunny Queensland.

MOTHER'S NAME - Suzanne

NICKNAMES - Really? I've had so many over the years. Apart from normal ones, Norb, Chimesy, Bron-whiggams, Bronweena (thanks Dad!), Bronnikins (again, thanks Dad!), etc.

OVERNIGHT HOSPITAL STAYS - None!

PET PEEVES - Greed. There's just no need for it.

QUOTE FROM A MOVIE - Hahaha, oh dear. When I was little, I used to watch Disney's Alice In Wonderland over and over and over, so now I can quote a fair bit of it.
"In my world, books would be nothing BUT pictures!"
"The time has come, my little friends, to talk of other things. Of shoes and ships and sealing wax, of cabbages and kings. And why the sea is boiling hot, and whether pigs have wings. Haha! Callooh, callay, come run away! We're cabbages and kings!"

RIGHT OR LEFT HANDED - Right handed.

SIBLINGS - One little sister and one little brother. Except they're not so little anymore.....

TIME TO WAKE UP - I aim for 6am, but that doesn't always happen. As for my hubby, well! After I've tickled, pulled the covers off, and almost resorted to throwing water, he gets up a little bit after me ;)

UNDERWEAR - Am I wearing any? That would be yes.

VEGETABLE I HATE - I don't know that I hate any vegetables, but there are ones that I certainly don't eat as much, such as asparagus.

WHAT MAKES ME RUN LATE - The hubby! Usually because my tickling (etc) to get him out of bed hasn't worked and then he dawdles around. Haha.
X-RAYS - Abdomen at some point (can't remember when but I've got the Xrays!) and teeth when I got my wisdom teeth out.

YUMMY FOOD THAT I MAKE - Well, I am fairly good at making desserts (if I do say so myself) but can't really eat all that much of it myself. Yes, the hubby has got it pretty good!
ZOO ANIMAL - Cheetah. Just always been fascinated by them.

Pinterest Pretties

Are you addicted to this site too? I've seriously had to put measures in place to prevent me from wasting HOURS on this site! So bad!
I've decided I might start a little regular feature of "Pinterest Pretties" (a bit like Etsy inspiration!) showing some of the beautiful things I see on there (and I might add, some things on there are just rubbish, but I guess having different tastes is what makes everyone unique).
So here goes.....

A beautiful painting that looks like a quilt!

 ~ Link from here ~

Funky turquoise door on a rustic cabin.

~ Link from unknown original source ~

Love all this glass and sunlight!

~ Link from here ~

Beautiful mexican colours in this outfit.

~ Link from here ~

Lovely burnt, autumn colours, reminding me that our colder months are almost over!

~ Link from here ~

Hope you have a great weekend!

Blog Love

A little bit of blog love today for you all. I stumbled over A Merry Mishap, by Jennifer Hagler, a little while ago and promptly forgot about it. Silly me, because it's full of stunning (and I mean, stunning!) interiors, vibrant colours, and pictures of her life with her husband and son. I've been looking at so many "crafty" blogs lately (not a bad thing) that I'd almost forgotten how much I love looking at beautiful interiors. If you have an afternoon, browse through this blog for awhile - you'll lose yourself for awhile!

~ Original images from/via Merry Mishap. ~

Wednesday

Just a few little things I've found wandering around lately...

1. A beautiful floral studio in Salt Lake City, Utah. Check out the studio makeover at design*sponge and Sarah's blog.
2. A cute little print shop. (via Making It Lovely)
3. A stunning dress, belt and bag combo (via Mr & Mrs Globetrot)
4. Grilled Soft Cheese with Thyme Honey and Fresh Figs.... wow! Need I say any more?
5. One of my favourite blogs from South Africa has posted pictures of her new home in Obs.
6. A funky painted benchseat from Christina Diaz which I am very tempted to try myself!! (via Melissa Anderson)

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

~ image from Flickr ~

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!

~ image from Flickr ~

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....

~ image from here via Pinterest ~