A Saturday in Spring

Today my dear friend Megan and I decided to spend some quality time together seeing as though I have just arrived home from my three month stay in Australia.
I am also fresh on the driving scene and passed my driver's license this last wednesday, so I am using any and all excuses to zip around town in my little car.
We started the day off at Essenwood Flea Market and then ambled down to Churchill House Antique Cafe on Churchill Road in Morningside for some lunch , a browse, and a little photoshoot.
Below are some of the pics we took as we walked around the cafe/shop, which is one of my favourite antique havens in Durban, by far.

18 Candles On The Cake

There's something about birthdays that make me feel like twirling around in a summer dress whilst confetti is thrown at me.
It's one day of the year when I can get away with just about anything because hey 'it's my party and I'll cry if I want to.'
The candles, the cake, the opening of obscene amounts of gifts, the cards that come in the mail and all the birthday wishes just make me want to put the day on replay and relive it over and over again. Who doesn't love feeling like the most special person in the world, even if only for 24 hours?
This year, I happened to turn 18. It's quite a landmark of a day in a person's life. Being officially considered a legal citizen, being able to obtain a driver's license and not to mention being able to flash that I.D at a bouncer. I have been awaiting this day for quite some time now, and had the absolute pleasure of being able to 'come-of-age' in another country, Australia.
Spending my birthday here was nothing short of deeevine, I was spoilt rotten by new and old friends, ate cupcakes, and hit the dancefloor like any birthday girl should.
18 pink tulips were also delivered to my door from a special someone putting the cherry on the top of the lovliest of days.
So here's a toast to birthdays and birthday girls around the world!


 

Paddington Markets

This morning I caught the bus with my friend to explore Paddinton Market on upper Oxford Street, held every Saturday.
If there's one thing about me, it's that I could never dream of turning down a trip to a market. I thrive on them. Back in Durban however, they are pretty scarce, a sad reality for an avid thrifter like myself.
When I got wind of their being a stunning weekend Market in Paddington, I just had to visit, and I wasn't disappointed.
The market is held in the courtyard of an exquisitely built church, and boasts some 200 stalls selling a wide variety of Australian-made goods as well as ornaments, clothing, accessories, vintage items, artwork, and antiques.
I personally fell in love with all the hand-made jewellery and clothing items as well as the antique tea-cups which I seem to be developing a slight fetish for.
I bought myself a pair cute of pyjama shorts from a store called 'Frou Frou' which I'm sure I will make much use of this summer.
So if you're in Sydney, love thrifting and browsing market stalls, head down to Paddington Market, it won't disappoint

The Market 'back in the day'

'F' is for Fashion

Me browsing through the stalls

(Click on photos for source)

Her Words

Today I was engaging in a little bit of retail therapy at Bondi Beach and I stumbled across a quaint little store jammed wall-to-wall with the most stunning little things.
They had an array of gifts, ornaments, stationery, and pretty much something that any girl would love.
I also happened to find a collection of notebooks called "Her Words" journals and they each have their own poetic message on their front cover.
They were so gorgeous that I just had to jump on the net, grab some pics of them and add them to my blog for all to see.

Visit the Live Inspired website for more images and product

I Wish...

I wish I was more patient

I wish that oceans didn’t have to keep people apart

I wish everyone felt free to be who they really are

I wish everyone felt free

I wish summer didn’t have to turn into winter

I wish the world was as innocent as it used to be

I wish the world cared and loved

I wish dreams would come true

I wish I still owned a trampoline

I wish I could save the world

I wish getting old wasn’t a fact of life

I wish everyone believed in something

I wish I could be a kid forever

I wish I didn’t fear failure

I wish all the pain in the world was replaced with comfort

I wish nobody had to worry about a thing

I wish children didn’t have to have their innocence taken away from them

I wish people wouldn’t argue

I wish some good things didn’t have to come to an end

I wish people couldn’t fall out of love

I wish every day was Christmas

I wish we all had more fun

I wish I could laugh every day and only cry tears of happiness

I wish I owned a little white house on the beach with blue shutters

I wish I could watch the sun rise and set every day

I wish I could sing and make music

I wish everybody believed in heaven and lived in heaven on earth

I wish people didn’t have to struggle to make ends meet

I wish friends stayed friends forever

I wish everybody would find their soul mate

I wish I didn’t care what people thought

I wish life wasn’t always so busy, so serious, so ‘grown-up’

I wish I could travel the whole world in my lifetime

I wish I could surf an endless wave

I wish all the oceans were clean and people cared enough not to pollute them

I wish everyone was treated like a special human being like they deserve to be

I wish I didn’t take the little things for granted so often

I wish I remembered all the compliments instead of the insults

I wish some people didn’t have be reduced to a memory in my mind

I wish all girls knew how beautiful they are and didn’t have to ever doubt it

I wish chivalry wasn’t dead

I wish I wasn’t bound by time, and I wish I had more of it

I wish all boys were romantic

I wish food could be enjoyed without the consequences of weight gain

I wish everybody knew the feeling like a surfer does

I wish I had a pet tiger

I wish nobody had to grow old alone

I wish I could wear a flower in my hair everyday

I wish I had fruit trees growing in my back yard

I wish chocolate really could dissolve all life’s problems like it does on movies

I wish fairytales existed outside of stories I heard as a child

I wish I fought harder for the things and the people I believed in

I wish people lived in light instead of darkness

I wish people could know who they really are, not what they’re told they are

I wish it was impossible to hold a grudge

I wish people smiled

I wish to find my other half

I wish I could speak my mind

I wish people didn’t try to conform when they were born to stand out

I wish parents couldn’t get divorced and children didn’t have to experience it

I wish all boys could play guitars

I wish he had a chance to walk in each others shoes for a day or two

I wish we didn’t ever outgrow jumping castles, hide-and-seek and jungle gyms

I wish everybody felt complete

I wish could fly

I wish I owned a retro car

I wish sometimes that I lived in the days when the only way to stay in touch was a letter in the mail

I wish I could take a trip into the minds of some people

I wish people didn’t value money over happiness and I wish it grew on trees

I wish we all turned the world into the place it should be. Heaven.

I wish what I wish. What do you wish? 

A Tribute To Creativity On The WWW (Part 1)

Some people in this world are so talented that sometimes I think they must be from another planet or something because how can somebody of the same human species as me be so incredibly creative making my talents look so, uh, average. 

Anyway, I get a huge thrill out of anything creative, I love to make and draw and paint and D.I.Y as much as possible, although my creations are vastly mediocre compared to the greater scope of creative people in this world. 

But to give credit where credit is absolutely due, I hereby declare this as my first official 'creativity' post of my blog thus far and will without a doubt not be the last. 

As I stumble across the creative talents of different people splashed across the world wide web, I pinky promise that I will post their creations onto my blog with the appropriate links and whatnot so that you can get a shot of inspiration for yourself.

So, to kickstart the display of artistic talent, here are some of my favourite finds so far:

Flapper Doodle

A lady that goes by the name of Kate Gabrielle has come up with the cutest doodles that she has named 'Flapper Doodle', and it is basically a collection of doodle-ish drawings of 1940's flapper girls doing a bunch of different activities. She has her own blog (click here to go there) and her own Etsy shop (click here to go there), and by the looks of things her collection has become so popular that she has even started adding her own Flapper Doodle merchandise which I would just love to own.

Visit Kate's Flickr here for more Flapper Doodle creations

Ps: Don't you just love these pictures? If only I could be so clever as to draw like this. 

Notebook Doodles

Then of course, we have the ever talented, creative mastermind behind The Notebook Doodles Blog, which is one of my favourite blogs just based on the fact that it wins the prize for originality of content plus it is bursting at the seems with inspiration. So if you haven't already visited The Notebook Doodles, then why are you just standing here? Go on, click this link.

This girl basically takes all her own photographs, then either doodles over them or writes quotes/messages on them in her own handwriting (which is stunning by the way. She also makes journals and includes tons of her own creative projects on her blog. Below is some of her work. 

You belong among the wildflowers

You belong in a boat out at sea

You belong with your love on your arm

You belong somewhere you feel free

- Tom Petty