The Beautiful Life

WTC1 …. on the rise. (Taken during May 2012)

Time Saving…. all about the time and dish saving

At a recent catch up with a friend, she admitted that when it comes to mornings its all about time saving.  I agreed with her as a non-morning person myself, anything to save a minute here or there.  She went on to explain that she froths her milk for her latte in the mug she drinks it from.  I laughed.  She said “I froth the milk in the cup, then let the shot run straight in and wa-lah! only one dish dirtied”  I was fascinated.  I also hate doing dishes and loved that she has been not only time efficient but dish efficient too!

So the other morning while running late for work but deciding to put my health first and have a quick breakfast I thought of my friend and ate my scrambled eggs straight from the pan, no plate needed.  Time efficient and dish saving.  I was so chuffed with myself and my ‘outside-the-box’ thinking that I secretly can’t wait to catch up again and swap more time saving tips.

My latest shoe purchase… Hot pink suede ankle boots! Currently in the process of planning their first outing :)

My mantra for today…. And the rest of the year too;)

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Fabulous in Navy

I simply adore the Duchess of Cambridge’s style.  Classic, simple yet elegant and I love that she wears jeans!  A truly modern Princess.

I’m Back!

Wow…. its been a while.  What can I say, somewhere 3/4 down the road we hit a bend and the wheels really fell right off!  Since March 8 - my last post, I have had a somewhat self imposed, forced sabbatical from the beautiful life.  My own personal beautiful, hectic, amazing and challenging life continued on and it was just not meant to be to get back here.  Between wedding and health challenges it seemed the blog was not a priority and to be honest I lost about 98% of my motivation and inspiration.  On hindsight it seems to me that stress is my number one inspiration killer because I found myself on my honeymoon beginning to relax into life again and feeling so much anticipation to get back to writing again.

So stay tuned becauase there will be more coming, much more and soon too! Lots of adventures and insights to share from the last two months which included my birthday, my hens, my wedding and honeymoon but relax it wasn’t all about me! hehe.

A HUGE thank you to my amazing friends, family and husband for seeing me through the highs and lows of the last few weeks and supporting and encouraging me through it all. And so the journey continues ….stay beautiful people! :) 

Oh how I love a cloudy day at the beach…

The aliens are taking over!

You know, they nearly didn’t get it too wrong when they made Independence Day.  Incase you haven’t noticed our world is being overtaken by another life form.  That life form would be technolog.  Primarily, but not exclusively, of the ‘i’ kind.  As in ipod, iphone, imac.  We should have seen it coming as soon as non Mac related earphones started being produced in white.  I look all around on the tram and almost EVERYone is on their phone!  I mean my 67 year old mother is all over the iphone and facebook and online banking and emailing.  No longer do we get a brightly coloured note in our birthday cards, we get bank transfers electronically!  My 76 year old father is also  on the email and considering the necessity of an iphone. 

Now lately, in the build up to our wedding (I hate to bring it up yet AGAIN!) my fiancé and I have been quite busy.  I have noticed that with less time together the technology we are used to using is not enabling our relationship it is hindering it!  We get home, eat dinner and no sooner have we finished than my fiancé is on his phone, Words with Friends, Angry Birds, Fruit Ninja, checking on the basketball scores for the day on ESPN watching highlight clips and then there is plants vs. zombies – that one really takes the cake.  As soon as that little rectangle piece of technology makes it to the vicinity of the couch I have lost my fiancé for the evening.

Now don’t get me wrong, I love technology as much as the next person and there are times I wish I could make it work better for me but there are also times when I just wish we could go back to the simplicity of life.  When we sent hand written letters, got posted invitations, talked face to face and whilst traveling just admired the view.

This evening I think I noticed someone who may have felt the same.  Here he was, this little old man on his iphone and as I was admiring the aptitude for this very modern day icon he leant over and asked the girl sitting opposite him how to get to the full stop and comma.  I silently chuckled and thought, yep – I need more simple pleasures in my life.  Sometimes the aliens take over just a little too much for this girls liking.

Dying for an event to go where I can go all out on the eye makeup, style up the hair and just feel fabulously glamourous!

I am loving this above look… even with all its OTT-ness.  

Its the make up artist in me:) 

habitualbliss:  Tetyana Piskun for Glamour Magazine photographed by Kenneth Willardt

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So pretty(:

While I have had wedding nightmares before last night marked my first one specifically about my dress.
I went to get fitted all excited to see her, Sloan, my dress again. I had it on and they were marking out slight alterations to be made when I looked down and saw a faint stain on the material. All down the front of my beautiful gown were faint coffee stains!! Initially the sales assistant hesitated trying to say she could not see it but as my bridesmaid pointed out she too could see it the sales assistant agreed, there was coffee spilt all down the front and it had recieved a failed attempt at removing it. I was horrified.
To cut a long story short the assistant then notified me a new one would not be able to completed for another 10 months…. My reaction? ‘But my invites have gone out, I can’t push the date back now’. Yes that’s right, I wanted to reschedule my entire day around the availability of my dress - that’s how much I feel for it!

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Hahaha - made my night.  Just like Natasha’s ‘their’ from SATC only more incriminating ;)

This gave me a good old chuckle which was much needed.  Its mostly wrong but still hilarious.  Nothing like a bit of a belly laugh to get you smiling at life again.

What I would not give to have a long relaxing soak in this tub right now.  

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