#98 Now We're Getting Somewhere!

Things have been moving along of late, & it feels good.

Obviously I still have SO many things to, of which I shall probably STILL have most to do right up until the date?

However! A great many things have been achieved of late!

A recent trip to Adelaide ticked off a great many things from the decor section of the list, including:

1x Couch, 1x Mirror, 1x Typewriter, 1x Door, 1x Desk, 3x Wooden Crates, 7x Wooden Picture Frames, 

As well as yet to be counted vintage china, numerous bottles, jars & pieces of wood...

via vi.sulize.us

An awesome introduction to Gepps Cross Markets (look for a man with a van at a stall that is only china, & barter away!), THE single best antiques & vintage shop in Semaphore - think antique shop with op shop prices?!- I've forgotten the name of that store at the moment... or have I hmm? Maybe subconsciously I'm being awfully selfish because I just don't want people to go & buy all the things I couldn't figure out how to get on the plane home as carry on... 

Also, Adelaide Rural & Salvage. Blew my mind. If I ever build a house in SA, you can bet at least half of it will come from there.

Went to the North Adelaide Vintage & Fashion Fair (here on facebook) with the sublime Ms T my bridesmaid to be, the ever glamorous Ms S my sister to be & her lovely friend who was an absolute scream! It was here that I came perilously close to becoming a collector of teacups... Eeek!

I have booked our make up artist ( by our I mean the bridal party, not Mr N & I ) as well as our hair stylist,

hooray! We were going to attempt doing our own hair but I changed my mind... obviously I am to vain? Ha.

So more on that another time - hair & makeup not my vanity. 

Tapas at Mesa Lunga on Gouger St with Ms T & Ms S. AMAZING. And oh the Sangria!

Went a - shopping with Ms T for her bridesmaids dress... FOUND IT! It. Is. Amazing. Once again I am jealous. Also found her the most fabulous shoes, no luck with mine though. Barefoot anyone?

It was my birthday while away, & I was most amazingly spoilt this year with a trip to Kenji, a modern Japanese restaurant on Hutt St with Mr N, Ms T & Best Man Mr C, simply can not recommend it enough. Heaven in your mouth. 

Mr N & I also 'went away' for the weekend & stayed at the Stamford, dined at our favourite Yum Cha establishment Ding Hao & had drinks at  Dragonfly Bar & Casablabla both of which I would highly recommend!

Mr N gave me the new Julia Stone solo album  'The Memory Machine' which is, as to be expected, brilliant.

He also gave me a perfect solid silver engraved bangle, & the mens CK watch that I've been coveting for some time... my first watch in about 10 years?

As yet I have failed to book a florist, despite trying! I am currently thinking that it's a sign that I should stick to the plan to do my own.

I also received an email in response to my request (*ahem* begging)  to have a couple of photos taken at an unnamed horse riding establishment not far from our wedding venue. This I am taking as a sign to commit an act of horse-napping. Or perhaps more likely, climb a fence in my wedding gown at the first horsed paddock we come across....

Big Loves, 

C x

#77 Musings of a Personal Nature.

I've been feeling a bit like this of late...

by amy neunsinger via under a paper moon

Ok, perhaps a not so glamorous version of that anyhow...

Fine fine. A LOT less glamorous.

I felt flat all week for no particular reason that I could think of. I just ignored the feeling.

Seems that was a mistake as by Friday I was a blubbering mess.

Still none the wiser as to why...

Feeling a little overwhelmed by the size of my to do list? Feeling homesick/dearfriendsick? A bit of anger thrown in there towards a certain someone? Feeling disappointed at myself for still feeling anger towards said someone? Feeling frustrated with myself for not holding it all together?

Bit from column A, bit from column B, & a good whack of mystery reasons too...

You know. One of those days.

I absolutely hate feeling like I am complaining, yet somehow I feel that it is all I do?

I'm an over thinker you see... Hardcore. It doesn't help.

I think I often sound like I'm complaining when I'm not too? I try to be too honest maybe?

Oh wait, what? I'm over thinking this? Why yes. Yes I am.

Thank goodness for amazing friends who know just when to call, who know just what to say to make you dissolve into the tears that need to be shed, who know just what to say to pick you up & show you the sunshine.

Thank goodness for Mr N too, who came home to mess of a house & a very red eyed me & didn't even blink. Just gave me a hug.

I'll confess that I've been avoiding blogging. 

In fact I've been avoiding everything.

Plus, I've misplaced my upload cables.

It's probably with my fabric knife...

I'm hoping I've put them away somewhere silly & that it isn't the little Mr who has squirreled them away?

I do have photos for sharing, so when the cables reappear...

Here is a bunch of random, perhaps largely uninteresting, stuff that to me is exciting & lovely.

It was totally lovely to have my sister & Mr B come to stay, they leave for India in a month! Eek.

I am an aunty again! Welcome to the world beautiful Clara Heather!!!

I bought the boys braces for the wedding, & their ties. I've finished 3 wedding table runners.

I have a new outdoor setting (replacing the one we didn't have) spring just got a whole lot sweeter.

My dear friend C (nope not referring to myself in the third person, another C) will baby any day now... any day...

Hope your weekend was swell...

Here's to a motivated & inspired week!

Cx

#62 Check?

These:

are making me feel like this...

Seriously. I have 'To Do' Lists coming out of my ears right now, & I really can't see them doing anything other than getting a lot longer in the near future.

Lets not even start on spreadsheets. I think it is highly likely that's it's actually illegal to be responsible for the amount of spreadsheets that I currently am?

I was quite productive (or so I thought) on the nuptials front this weekend, so I'll blame the enthusiasm that arose from that for me FINALLY starting my official wedding 'To Do List' ...

Don't get me wrong, I haven't lasted this long without lists, that would be plain crazy, but they've been the kind that are only 3 to 5 deep & that you write on the back of envelopes along with grocery lists, what you want to be when you grown up, name ideas for the horse you don't own, countries you want to visit etc

Tonight I really got my list on... & let me tell you, it hurts.

Especially because I know there are plenty of things that are not on said mother of all lists, because either I've temporarily forgotten them, or they are yet to occur to me.

I also hadn't noticed (somehow???) that I AM DROWNING IN D.I.Y!!!

Someone throw me a life ring? Or better yet, a gigantic sack full of elves???

The only things keeping me feeling kind of calm right now are that a) List-age is in spreadsheet form & so very neat that if I half close my eyes I can't read it anymore & can just enjoy how organised it looks, & b) I'm reminding myself that it is past 1am & that the hysteria I feel is probably pure exhaustion...

Right? Right.

In other news, I got a beeeeauuuuutiful new camera this weekend. Hooray!

So now I can have lots of fun documenting my travels as I hurtle at breakneck speed - hopefully- through these phone calls, appointments, emails, internet orders & countless DIY triumphs & disasters!

Hope your weekend was as, ahem, restful as mine, & a whole lot sunnier?

C x