All Things Lovely

Europe Magic

Wow! It's been a while! In all honesty - it's really hard to keep up a blog. What do I ever write about? Ha. I'm sure many other bloggers feel the same - like seriously, what do we chat about? Anyway, I thought I'd just share some pictures of a trip I took to Europe last year.

I've been DYING to go to Europe for forever! But living in Australia makes it a pretty pricey adventure. Even the customs guy was surprised when I was leaving France and trying to get back into England - all his questions kept revolving around how much it cost. I wanted to tell him to calm down, but really. Whatever it costs, travel is always worth it.

I was already in love with London before I even got there. Have you ever had one of those places where you just have to go, and you think you'll be in love with it? That's me and London. I just felt we'd fall in love the second we met. And then you freak out. What if it's not all it's cracked up to be? What if you HATE it?! Well. I didn't. I'm in love. And now I want to move there. All rainy and grey and everything.

On top of London, I got to go to PARIS!! Aaaahhhh! And ROME!!!! Dreams coming true right now. Both cities so incredibly different. And so lovely, mind blowing, awe inspiring and incredible. I need to go back.

Thanks for letting me re-live one of the most magical times in my life. And maybe I'll find something more to write about. 

May Photo A Day

Here's how my May Photo A Day looked. Sadly...I didn't love with all my heart a lot of these photos but you can't win them all! You can check out the rest of the year here, here and here. You can follow along with me on Instagram as well!

April Photo A Day

Here's how my April Photo A Day looked. For Autumn...a surprising amount of time at the beach and a mini holiday! You can check out the rest of the year here and here. You can follow along with me on Instagram as well!

Weekend Happenings

Happy Monday! Hope you had a lovely and relaxing weekend. Mine was busy but all together lovely. I got to spend a lot of time with some of my favourite people, and lovely Sydney hasn't quite figured out we're halfway through autumn. The weather was so warm and sunny.

I spent Saturday with a friend in the city, starting with brunch at The Grounds of Alexandria. If you're around Sydney and you've never been I really recommend it. The wait is usually about 45 minutes, but they have a great takeaway area, and then beautiful gardens to sit or wander through. We managed to find a table in an old greenhouse where we sat for ages drinking coffee and fresh lemonade and eating delicious bacon and egg rolls.

Sunday was so warm and sunny, so there's no other option but to hit the beach. I headed down to Bondi with one of my besties for brunch. We then just wandered around and enjoyed the views, and the water. There is nothing more beautiful than Sydney beaches.

Aren't the Bondi Icebergs pools just gorgeous. The colours are spectacular!

On the way home we popped in at Gelato Messina. Oh.My.Goodness. This stuff is sooo good! I was a piggy and got three flavours (I defy you to narrow it down to less!)

How was your weekend? Hope you got to do, eat and see lovely things!

Meet Lady Berkeley

Happy Monday! How was your weekend? Hope it was lovely and relaxing.

If you follow me on Instagram, you would have already seen a little puppy has come to share my home. My flatmate desperately wanted a puppy and so Lady Berkeley moved in about two months ago.

Isn't she adorable?! I promise I won't continually flood my blog with puppy pictures, but she's just so cute! Being a labrador, she's definitely a challenge but she's going well at puppy pre school. I'm expecting big things!

March Photo A Day

I shared earlier that this year I had committed to do Fat Mum Slim's wonderful Photo A Day Challenge. I'm pretty happy to say that three months down and I'm still on board. It's so easy, all you do is get the list and take a photo every day that relates to the prompt given. I love the challenge to my creativity every day. Here's what I shared on Instagram for March.

Beautiful New Zealand

Happy Monday!! I've just arrived back from two blissful weeks travelling around New Zealand's south island. This place has to be one of the most scenic in the world. I won't bore you with al the details but my friend and I hired a campervan and off we set to see a bit more of the world.

I've never seen it actually snow in my life, here it snowed on our second day in Queenstown, was just magical!

Lake Wanaka. I loved this town. Walking down the main shopping street and this is pretty much the view.

On top of the Franz Josef glacier, we were helicoptered to the top.

The breathtaking Marlborough Sounds. Words cannot exaplin how beautiful this place is, and we were blessed with the perfect weather for our day there.

And the hills outside Kaikoura. This view is all over the south island.

It was the best holiday!! And the two weeks without PInterest nearly killed me!

Pepper Design Blog Interview

Happy weekend! I don't normally post on weekends, but this was so exciting for me, I had to. The lovely Morgan from Pepper Design Blog contacted me a few weeks ago to ask if I'd be interested in being part of her Friday Guest Blog Interviews. I felt completely unworthy considering some of the other bloggers who'd been involved, but I thought, why not?

So, go and have a little look see. And while you're at it, just check out all the amazing posts on decorating, entertaining, craft and heaps more. You'll be lost for hours.

A Question For You...

This is certainly not what I would normally post about on here, and is quite personal. However, I have a dilemma and I figure this may be a good way to get lots of feedback. So... here goes.

A year ago. now almost to the day my fiance and I broke up. It wasn't pretty. Far from it. I have kept the ring, which was my absolute dream ring. I'm including a photo so you can see why i would love it.

Now, here comes my question. This ring now means nothing to me, except a whole lot of money tied up in diamonds and gold. I have tried and tried to sell it (obviously without giving it away, cancelling a wedding costs a lot of money and I need to recoup! LOL). I hate the thought of if just sitting at the bottom of a drawer where it's resided for the past 12 months.

Do you think I can ever wear it again? What's the etiquette on this? I love it, it means nothing and it's so dam pretty! Has anyone else been through this? What have you done with the ring? Do you wear it - not on the left hand but as a dress ring?

Hmmm.... I have things to ponder. Would love all your thoughts.

Meet Indiana

I'd like you to meet my dog, Indiana. He's 9, so certainly not new, but I adore him! I named him after Indiana Jones, and his adventuring spirit has certainly had him live up to his name. My parents gave him to me for my 21st birthday present. I had so badly wanted a dog, and thought there was no way I could, until they surprised me with this wriggling little bundle of joy and love. He is still to this day the best present EVER!

He is a beautiful handsome golden labrador, and the best puppy I could ever ask for. Aren't pets the best? Unconditional love.

Unfortunately, when I moved out of home I couldn't take him with me. A number of reasons; my backyard has no shelter for him, the backyard is quite small and he is a bit of a diva and doesn't cope well when away from his 'home'. The first two problems could have been overcome reasonably easily, but taking him away from my dad would have been too hard on him. So, he does come for visits and I visit him a lot, but for now his home is sadly not with me.

The Beauty Of The Orchid

I adore orchids, and I've wanted one of these phalaenopsis orchids for quite a while. My lovely Mum decided to buy me one for Mother's Day and I've finally gotten around to potting it. Isn't it so elegant and beautiful?

Speaking of Mum, I had to write this post today. She phoned me yesterday 'Kylie, we're not very impressed with your blog.' At 30, I'm still getting in trouble for bad words! So, the main point of this post is to push the brilliant 'You broke my ♥' card below down just a smidge.

Where Was This 8 Months Ago?

I've stumbled upon this card today, man this would have been perfect! From Made By Girl, seriously check out her shop, there are some gorgeous cards, posters and other wonderful things. Oh, I added the little asterix because, well... my Dad reads this blog. :) Love you Dad!