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

Panda band music video

So Sam and I had the awesome opportunity of getting to be part of a West Aussie band, Panda band's latest music video clip for the single " 51 swimsuits"
we totally thought we were just going to go along and dance happily in the background :D What we didn't know is that we would end up being a part of the video!! eeep! Loads of fun, got to meet the band and play around on the beach all day. I even got to wear a special crown - bless!

I'll post the clip when we get to see it !

meanwhile here's some shots of the set. This was when it was all over ( for obvious reasons, we weren't allowed to take any photos during the shooting, we were in front of the camera!

All my love, Lily

Priscilla Ahn Dream - Wedding Aisle song

This is the song I'm going to be walking down the aisle to, thought I'd share it with you!

I'd been looking for the right song for ages, then one ordinary day I was sitting in my loungeroom watching Grey's with bestie Sam, when this started playing and all of a sudden - bam- this is it. This is the song I want to walk down the aisle to marry my amazing fiance. This is my story, the little girl who would sit in the garden making food for the fairies out of bottlebrush flowers, and who spent most of her time up in the trees in pretty little dresses, finally marrying the man of her dreams, the man she can't live without.



Now all I have to do is learn how not to cry when I hear it.. don't even speak to me about the vows!!

All my love,
Lily

Googles icecream logo

How cute is this?

the little things!

Suuuuch good weather - I love you March!! It's the little moments that bring me the most happiness. Yesterday I rode down to the lake, just to have some time to myself,sat down by the shore with my toes dipped in, and tiny baby fish - or tadpoles, but I'm pretty sure little fish, started nibbling on me, just like the fish in Phuket that you always see in those big tanks in shopping centres - so cool! I stayed as still as I could and just watched them for what must have been forever, because I stayed there so long that a dragonfly landed on my knee. It made me so happy it turned my whole week around, which was good, cos the day before my bestie and I were VERY nearly in a head on collision - after a 4wd fire truck decided to roar into our lane to overtake.



Also got new glasses - I'm in love - Sam helped me choose them - gorgeous gold colour by Alex Perry.. now if only I could own a few of his dresses! It's funny, I feel like my wedding dress is quite Alex Perryish - very feminine with ah-mazing construction.. I can't wait to show you guys.. I just wish my fiance didn't read my blog so I could share..
but I can tell you the lady making my dress is Seattle designer Luly Yang, and it's a 2011 collection.

Oh and on the way home from my magical lake feet dipping experience, I bought a new plant - her name is Cynthia, she's an indoorsy, and I'm quietly smitten :)


Hope you're all having an amazing time, wherever you are in the world !

While I was gone - February update

- Fiancée set up our hammock..this is pretty much 90% of the reason I have been neglecting my poor little blog, i spent nearly every night swaying in my fiancée's arms, feeling the amazing night breezes dance through my hair under the moonlight, with not a care in the world.




- There was a huge fire in Roleystone - 6th February - my fiancée and I jumped on the roof that night and you could see half the hill was glowing. Creepy just doesn't touch it. So thankful that there were no lives lost and that things didn't get as bad as they could have. For any of you Australian readers, Roleystone is very much like Marysville - the community worst hit in the Black Saturday fires. Literally 3 days before it happened I was up there and said to one of my close friends " I love Roleystone, the only thing that scares me a bit is that it's so much like Marysville, if they had a big fire up here, it could get really bad".








Jumped on my roof and watched the sunset countless times.
This is one of my favourite things in the world to do and I've been doing it since I was a little kid. ( yep, I was that hippy earth child that was always climbing up trees, living in a world of their own, rescuing dragonflies from our patio and from our pool. I even had a pet stick which I called "petstickandI". PetstickandI had some awesome adventures, but his favourite thing was helping me toast marshmallows. Champion. )




Not worn much makeup.
Not a huge thing for a lot of people, but as a blondie, ever since I can remember I've had pale eyelashes, which means as soon as I made the discovery of a magical thing called mascara at 14, I tried never to go a day without the stuff. Now they're tinted, and I'm a happy little munchkin who can get back to being that hippy child I always was, free and au naturel.


Swum to the point that would make people wonder if I thought I would grow gills.

Got a teeny tiny potbelly while my fiancee was away,then lost it in like 2 days of him being home. Another reason why I didn't do any outfit posts ! I blame Connoisseur Cookies and Cream completely.

Caught up with loads of people who I really should have caught up with before Christmas.

Hung out with bestie Sam, started looking for bridesmaid dresses! yayyy!


Had loads of sleepovers with friends while baby was away, which meant lots of Greys, lots of How I met your Mother and lots of Modern Family :D



Met with the Wedding Photographers! eeep! very excited to have such amazing talented and laid back guys covering our big day.


Discovered Little Caesars Pizza.
The fact that no1 had told me just how delicious the pizza from this place was leads me to think that they were afraid if everyone knew, they'd never be able to get a seat there. Caramello Sam pizza was like eating a creme caramel - Caramel, Brown Sugar, macadamias and almonds, icing sugar and custard. In. sane . I may just turn morbidly obese because this place exists. Next time - it's this - Birds of Tokyo teriyaki chicken, yay! Also loving this Birds of Tokyo song, thought I'd share :D





god super late, gtg love u all !