Todays Adventures

Today was incredibly productive! With storm season well on the way, I wanted to do something homey. So my friend Lauren, my little kitten and I decided to have a baking day! We spent the entire day making cupcakes with sparkles, brownies with choc chips and a cake with pearls all of which were from the Donna Hay Collection. I just love Donna Hay recipes! The day started off rather spontaneous however, you see the brownie mix failed to come with icing, so... we ended up back at the store to pick up extra icing. Not only did we leave with icing, but also an oversized halloween style pumpkin for carving!

After picking up the pumpkin and running a few errands, we finally arrived home and began baking. Through the time periods which we weren't cooking and items were in the oven, we put on disney movies (Toy Story and Aristacats) what a blast from the past! Towards the end of the day we decided to take a crack at this "pumpkin carving thing". So with great difficult, time and confusion we finally got there and surprisingly succeeded at carving our very own, classic halloween pumpkin! Which was so much fun! So all in all the day was full of adventures and all all round success.

You are VICTORIOUS!

It is important to record when you do something victorious that is an accomplishment to you, despite how small, a victory is a factory no matter how big or small. Someone once used the analogy of a staircase to explain to me that the speed of how fast you achieve your victories or how big your victories are in comparison to other people doesn’t matter. You start at the bottom of your long staircase the amount of steps on the staircase varies for each person, as does the size of the steps. But the staircase itself represents the journey your about to take or the change you need to make, even a circumstance your hoping to let go of. So, you take the first step. The first step is always the most difficult to climb up. This is because taking the first step is telling yourself “its okay, im ready to do this and I can do this, I will do this”. This is allowing yourself to move foreword. You have given yourself permission. Now that’s not to say your going to take each step in its stride one by one up the staircase. You will climb a few steps and need to walk down one or two, but walking down those few will help you see that climbing up is truly worth it. As you walk up you will get exhausted and tired, you will question your abilities. But in time you will keep going. Your steps may seem to get bigger and they are harder to climb over and will tale more time and you may even need help. But once your over those big steps, the smaller ones will appear so much easier and the further you go you will stop questioning its worth and look past the struggle and physical and emotional exhaustion. You will see what you were looking for, you will see the end of your difficult circumstance and you will see that each victory you have accomplished, is a victory in itself. Through this you will see how far you have truly come and wont dare look back.

Today's adventures

Today was rather productive! My good friend Kate and I went on a little shopping adventure. When i'm with my friends what starts out to be an average day shopping turn out to be a full blown adventure and completely productive and fun. For example, today Kate and I began having a sward fight with foam swards in the middle of the store until r collected ourselves and realised where we were and what we were doing. There is nothing better than spending the day with good friends who know how to make you feel your best. The best laid plans are always the plans that have not been organised in my opinion, spontaneity is key!

Tour of my bedroom

So this is my bedroom complete after a nice long spring clean, however, these images do seem to make it look a little but cluttered but it truly needed a good clean out. I have located most of my jewellery in a white antique coffee table cabinet which I quite like (I have a habit of keeping most of my belongings with or in their boxes, it just seems more organised. I often do this with my shoes also. I have my coats hung up on an extra clothing rack beside my desk as I ran out of room in my wardrobe funnily enough. I have held onto a few childhood items and kept them as decorations in my room such as a few teddy bears, a collectors edition Barbie and a tea set .

whats in my bag

My handbag today is a Coach (Madison) in cream

1. Mimco wallet
2. kikki k daily organiser in black
3. I always carry a hair brush or comb with me
4. I phone 4
5. small cosmetic bag containing a few of my essentials
6. Napoleon Perdis Auto pilot lip service in cherry
7. Kora Organics daily hand cream treatment
8. my copy of Treasure Youtself by Miranda Kerr
9. Burberry sunglasses
10. my key chain with two heart key rings

I love this!

At my desk

Stationary from http://www.kikki-k.com/

This is where I spend a majority of my time. As a student I often wall off to the world and retreat to my desk in my bedroom. I decided decorate it primarily in a while theme and all stationary and desk items were purchased from Kikki K stationary store (http://www.kikki-k.com/). The white just appears so clean and allows me to maintain focus on the task at hand. Above my desk I have a large antique brass mirror with photos of important people to me and a quote by Orison Swett Marden "Believe with all your heart that you will do what you were made to do". I love it. I also love to keep a vase of flowers on my desk to keep me smiling while i'm working away.