Happiness is.. an unexpected win!..

Hey readers! Sorry I didn't reply earlier I've been busy having too much fun to slow down! and Gosh, I've got so much to tell you!!

Friday was such an awesome day - Spent the day with bestie Sam (www.thatswhatsam-said.blogpsot.com) getting stuff for mummy's day and all round just yayying at all the cool stuff we found at the shops..found a navy blue trench I'm totally in love with at Forever New (OF course it's from FN!) AND discovered they have not only my white patterned tights which I wore to death last winter ( when does a shop ever restock an item the next year? - MAJOR kudos ) but now they have all these other cute patterns too, pretty bows and flowers..

In the afternoon Sam and I went exploring and discovered the bush nearby is actually huge! and there are trees which look perfect for climbing, and secret tunnels! As a kid I was always up a tree reading, did any of you guys climb trees as kids? Cheers to my little sis for the lend of grey cardi :)

Ooh ooh and - I found earmuffs!! Honestly, I have been trying to track down earmuffs since I was in the cloudy heavens of Genting ( Highlands near Kuala Lumpur) last year and missed out on getting a super cute pair of strawberry ones.. Thank you Equip, my year long search is over :D

One thing I should say about Perth - and I'm sure Toots from http://tootsjoy.blogspot.com and Kim from http://fashionnibble.blogspot.com/ - Perth loves the fact that it's a place with such great weather so much so that when we do have crap weather, Perth people live in denial and dress like it's still summer, and we all just freeze our little butts off! Try getting a Perth girl out of short shorts - we'll just throw on a big hoodie and keep our shorts on .. so finding earmuffs, even though Perth is quite windy - is a huge win =D

meeting with my supervisor went awesome ! Always dread my meetings because I'm reallllly not so good on the attention being on me stuff.. I'll let you know how this works out for me going down the aisle - hilarious!

Anyway, we did the normal meeting stuff..and THEN I asked her when she wanted my lit review final copy in.. and she just shrugs and says in a sentence that seemed in my mind to go forever.. " well, as your supervisor, as far as I'm concerned, you've met the only unit outline requirement which mentions the lit review and that's handing in a draft.. So I don't see any reason why you shouldn't just get it to me.. January sometime?"

Cue the fireworks, cos this lit review, was kicking my ass. big time.

And more fireworks, was going through my stuff and found my old Enid Blyton books! Did you guys read Enid Blyton as a kid?? What was your favourite book? what do you remember? I'll always remember the faraway tree, a magic tree which would have a new land at the top every time, and the magic wishing chair! I loved her books so much as a littley, mum would always find me hidden away somewhere, in a tree or under a cubby made of sheets, off in my own little world.. Very excited about rediscovering them = )

Hope that you're enjoying days like this, wherever you are in the world :)

<3 Lily

Sunday nights are made for yummy dinners and great docos

Hey awesome readers, hope you've all had a wonderful weekend and all made the most out of the spectacular sunny days if you're in Perth right now.. I especially enjoyed mine because now I can seeeee! cheers for that Alex Perry ;) champion !



I was saying just a few posts ago to one of my adorablllleee followers Kim - it's so strange how Perth seems to know it's a weekend, and brings out the sunshine especially. My mum would delight in these "perfect washing days".. so any wonder what I did today?

sad to think some of these bright clothes will soon be neatly folded away until next spring..


Went on an adventure/road trip last night with our best neighbours ever to Spud Shed... or rather spudshed as it says on the sign ( fiancée delights in calling it spudshed, like spudged). Yep, this is what my saturday night excitement has now turned into.. someone pass me my knitting needles and my crossword puzzle please :D

To anyone else anywhere else in the world, this wouldn't be so exciting, but Spudshed is the only store I know of in Perth ( barring Mt. Lawley Chemist) which is open 24 hours a day. These places just don't exist in Perth..actually while you're grabbing my crossword, mind getting one for Perth too.. oh never mind, she's sleeping :D no, I really do love the littleness of Perth. ;)

After having a delicious spud shed salad and tuscan chicken dinner, fiancee and I attempted to unwind with a bbc doco.. All I can say is .. oh.. my .. god..




I will never complain about how hard it is to decide what to have for dinner again..


Or about how long it takes to by public transport to get to Uni..




And I will NEVER ever complain about the waves washing away the walls of my sandcastles..


All my love guys!!

Lily


Oh and just quickly, I'm slightly obsessed with what Kate Middleton wore to the wedding dinner.. even more so than her wedding dress.. gorgeous much??? Jeez..

Matt and Kim - Daylight

Heard this on the mars ad, I dare you to listen and not start tapping your toes :D
Thank God for google.. can you imagine how hard it would be to find out what this song was if the internet didn't exist?
Hope you're all well, just thought I'd brighten your day a bit

<3 Lily

Happy Easter Everyone!!

Hope you've all been having a fantastic day, and aren't feeling too sick from the copious amounts of chocolate you munched down, unlike me..oops!

the traditional Easter egg had to be postponed til after lunch today, who would have thought that our first WET day would be on Easter Sunday? Oh well, just as is the way in Perth, we had about 10 minutes of rain before beautiful sunshine started bursting through the clouds once again :)
Such a fantastic day, all over the place spending time with close friends and relatives. One of my close friends who I did photos for a while back gave me a copy of a few of them, yay! Here's just a glimpse






Anyway, I'll post what I wore tomorrow, when I feel like getting out of my new pj's and the lighting's a bit better!

All my love <3 Lily

sooo maybe I do need to grow up..

But I wish I had a onesie.. preferably one as cute as this.. although I very highly doubt I'll look anything as cute as this, dammmn!
Back closer to home, Peter Alexander has a cute " Winter Wonderland" one.. I might need to indulge the little girl in me and get one..



and while I'm there, these Maxwell and Williams teacup and saucer sets wouldn't be too bad either ;) Seriously, they make me want to have people over for tea and scones, with nothing actually in the teacups because we're playing pretend! could u imagine!


Hope you're all doing amazingly well, and having gorgeous weather, wherever you are in the world !

Oh and special shout out to 2 new readers Chateau de lille (can I say Fi?? is that cool?) and Jazzy! soo cool that people actually read my blog, I feel wicked that u guys let me be a part of ur days :)

All my love,
<3 Lily

Adele - and magic music moments with Alexandra Patsavas

Just thought I'd share with you guys, in love with this song at the moment.. some people are just born ridiculously talented!

They used this song on Grey's the other night too, thanks to another ridiclously talented girl: the music supervisor, Alexandra Patsavas: i.e. Music Goddess <3 Ever since the O.C. I've been blown away at her most amazing gift for taking a scene and transforming it with music.. If you've ever had a beautiful tv moment, it may just have been her behind it -

I won't say the bit where this song was used, cos it hasn't aired in Australia yet, but be prepared for goosebumps!

Other Alexandra moments:

A HUGE one for Grey's fans - Chasing Cars - Issy and Denny



Gossip girl fans - That moment we waited almost a whole season for: the moment Chuck says I love you

LINK: http://youtu.be/iYsnBaBqLJ4

The O.C. fans - this time we cried for different reasons - End of Season One - Ryan leaves newport, leaving everyone in pieces

LINK: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyXhxin-7A8

And then, there is this one..



true love - Meredith and Derek.

there are more romantic scenes, but this was the moment I realised that it was true love between them, and that I really HAD found mine in my fiancée, after struggling for so long questioning how I could have found my true love so early in life (we're high school sweethearts). It's not just the times that you are madly into each other which defines true love, but these moments, when things aren't going great, when you're in too deep, where everything gets too much, and the other person pulls you through. The moment I saw the way Derek care for Meredith here, I realised that that's what my fiancée and I have.. and that I wanted to spend the rest of my life with him by my side.

I hope you all find that amazing, heartbeat rushing, tummy falling, meaningful, nothing else matters true love, wherever you are in the world :)


<3 Lily

Things I love about Seattle

2am and I've just got off the phone to Luly Yang.. God I can't wait to get back to Seattle, there are so many things that I love about that beautiful city. Totally surreal experience talking about my wedding dress' progress too. Still can't believe I'm having a one off dress made for me, amazing!

Things I miss about Seattle, somehow they've mostly ended up being about food!


1. my Family - totally worth those hours spent in the air to get there!

2. Cherry pop tarts - you should have seen my little eyes light up when I saw a gigantic box of these bad boys at Costco for 7.49... no wonder I put on 2 and a half inches on my waist while i was there!



3. Chai lattes are just SO much better in America.. my dear Australia - honey is for lemon tea, and people with colds, not for heaping into chai!


4. Seattle library. Middle of Winter and it amazed me how light and airy it seemed in there...perfect for studying while I'm back in the holidays. Probably a lot of the reason why I love Seattle so much too, any city that spends that much money on a library and the arts is okay in my book :)


5.Chinese massages by real chinese people hidden away in older shopping centres and spots you would never even know existed otherwise.

6. Ferry boats. Of course ;) This also might explain why I'm so in love with harbor master !


7. American shops: Bath and Body Works and Victoria's Secret and Nordstrom in particular - should be even better this next time, as the Aussie dollar makes everything even cheaper!


8. Guido's - quite possibly my favourite Italian Restaurant in the world, on par with Phuket's " La Trattoria at Laguna. I could become morbidly obese if I didn't live more than a plane ride away from these places!





9. The nature - The huge pine trees, the snow capped mountains that just pop up out of nowhere, the distance, the hills, the lakes, Seattle is so pretty - oh and North Bend ! This will be my first time going in the Summer, so I'm hoping I get to get my Bear Grylls on and do some hiking!


10. The Space needle! along with Petronas twin towers in KL, one of my favourite looking buildings.


11. Raspberry Iridescent m& m's and Passionfruit Malibu



12. Costco - i know i said American shops, but I think the sheer size of Costco means it deserves it's own special mention - also the huggggge pizza slices make me feel like i'm a little child again they're so big

So many, many things, but I thought I'd better stop myself at 12! Anyway, I'll post some pics of what I've been wearing tomorrow :)

hope you've all been having a fantastic weekend, wherever you are in the world
<3 Lily