Tuesday mini-break

This afternoon after decorating half my head with silver foil and positioning me under the ufo looking heater that spins around my head radiating heat at bleach and willing it to brighten my dull hair, my hairdresser passed me a cup of tea & said: "Right, you just sit there for 20 minutes."

8 little words that made me instantly relax. 'I have 20 minutes,' I thought to myself. 20 whole minutes. To read my emails and reply to a few long awaited. To read blogs. To scroll through Pinterest for creative inspiration and of course to draft this post. 

It feels like a while since I've had 20 whole minutes - uninterrupted and unplanned where I didn't have to do anything else. Where no one needed me, where nothing was due. It was a little heated holiday inside my hairdresser's salon this afternoon. A much needed break from all the other things that are the busyness of life. Not to mention a well overdue cut and colour! 'Ssooooo much better,' according to said hairdresser. ;)

Of course soon the time was over. Soon it was time to get home, get back in front of the laptop. But for just a short 20 minutes it was nice to enjoy a little break and a little pampering.  

Twenty nine - oh so sublime

Soooo.... I turned 29 last week. I'll admit at first I wasn't thrilled about the whole idea of 29.

The prospect of 30 doesn't seem to fuss me so, but 29 did. I'm not a particularly negative person by any means (generally quite the opposite) but earlier in the year I'd labelled 29 a 'nothing year'. A sort of wasteland between 20s and 30s that didn't quite feel like it fit one or the other. Was. Not. Thrilled.

And then I realised - some pretty fucking fabulous things are happening this year!

Firstly - I'm writing shitloads! Corporate (and getting paid for it - winning!) fictional, factual and theatrical. It seems the last few years I've really started to develop my writing style, really started to feel it. Something they always say you will establish overtime and voila! I can finally feel it coming through! This whole concept of being a writer is actually starting to feel real.

Secondly - I'm getting involved in theatre publicity and over the next 6 months will be assisting on 3 shows. Theatre is something I've always been insanely passionate about but have only rekindled this over the last four years. I'm loving writing short peices and meeting fabulous writers in the Stages Playwriting Group as well.

Thirdly - I'm putting plans in place to start my own business. Something that mixes my creativity and marketing/events experience which is super fabulous! I'm having such a great time harnessing my creativity and being inspired by so many things (Pinterest you devil!). And I'll have more on all of that over the next few months.

Fourthly - (is that a word? Forthly.... hhmmm doesn't sound right, let me check the dictionary....) I'm ticking off some fun things on my Thirty before 30 list, and now less than 12 months to go - it's certainly time to get moving.

And last but most definitely not least - MR and I have recently booked our flights to go to the US for 6 weeks in December! Yahoo!!!! This is a trip we've been planning for some time and while it has changed over time we are super excited for a little adventure. New York for Christmas and New Year, New Orleans, San Francisco, Austin or Chicago or both, Napa Valley, maybe Yosemite National Park. In just a few short months - cannot wait! So there'll be more on that soon too :)

29 is infact, very far from a nothing year! By comparison, it's actually one of the busiest year's of my life and I'm certain over the next 12 months it will only continue to be. I suppose every year is only what you make it. So let's make it pretty damn awesome.

What are you up to this year? I'd love to hear what's on your Thirty before 30 lists.
 

A letter to my neice on her birthday

Dear Miss Lils,

Today you turn two years old. It seems a cliche to say that time has flown but my gosh it certainly has! One year ago we were all in Darwin celebrating your monumental first birthday and the year before that I was absolutely itching to meet you, waiting the four weeks until my visit was almost unbearable. Two year's so far we've been blessed with your unbelievably fantastic personality and I've got to say, our entire family is better for having your input, my little sweet.

But what I really want to say to our little rainbow cherub on her birthday is how important it is for you to always be that outgoing colourful version of yourself that you are. Your outrageousness nature, your creative expression and your individuality may be stifled over time - some people call that 'becoming an adult' but if you can, try to hold on to the wonder you welcome the world with every day right now. Try to continue to find the fun in every situation. Right now there is no peice of furniture, no toy car, no set of stairs, no gym equipment you can't climb and boy do you love to do so. You get to the top and pride beams across your face. Pride and cheekiness. Keep doing that. Keep viewing the world as something you can conquer, something you can experience and appreciate from great heights.

I also want to say to our little rainbow babe, that this week, the week of your turning two, one of our country's greatest allies celebrated an achievement of basic human rights. Gay marriage was finally legalised across America and the world wore a rainbow of colours - just the way you do. I can only hope that by the time you're old enough to understand love and all it's colours, you'll be able to love whomever you want and know that all of your friends and family have the same right to do so in your home country as well. That love of any kind will be the normal expression that it is and not having this right will seem as crazy as women not being allowed to vote. 

Keep showing those colour my darling, always be whatever you want to be and the very best you can and we'll all be here to support you every step of the way.

Until then - just enjoy being your fabulous two year old self and hope you love your new blue suede shoes and the jeans and hoddie Aunty Elle and Uncle Mark picked out for you.

So much love to you, you crazy, fabulous, little human!
xoxo

The last of the sunny days

Winter is slowly creeping up on us over in Perth, we seem to have cold days, rainy days and sunny days all mixed in at the moment. But as June bustles along, it's clear we're heading for the last of the sunny days.

The last weekend in May I took the opportunity to head down to my favourite WA destination with some writing friends for a little R&R. Man was it worth it! The perfect way to farewell autumn and welcome winter with great company, good books, blissful surrounds, tasty food, quality wine, beach appreciation, explorations, realisations, hilarity and silliness and ofcourse a spot of writing.

Lately it's been a mix of creativity, socialising and burying myself under the doona with my favourite Grey (Earl of course) in one hand and a good book in the other - all of which have been an absolute tonic for my soul.

As the darkness of winter mornings make it increasingly more difficult to get out of bed at a productive hour, I'm taking on a training regime for the City to Surf in August to burn off all the extra 'layering' I've done in the lead up to winter. Urrgghhh is all I have to say about that at the moment.

But the thing I love most about the change in seasons isn't just that I can bring out all my favourite cardigans (I am a cardi-lover for sure!) but that it awakens my creative home-body self with writing, knitting, sewing, cooking and other crafty projects all in the works to accompany many a quality glass of winter friendly red wine.

How will you be spending your winter?

Random acts of kindness

This morning I got out of my car in the carpark near my work. It was a normal autumn day in Perth. The sun was shining and there was a chilly morning wind and pulled my jacket tighter around myself, thinking maybe it is time to dig out the tights. I walked to the parking meter and as I got closer I saw something taped to the front of it.

The 'something' was this sweet random act of kindness.

The pouch contained $5.00 - enough for a full day's parking in Osborne Park for an office worker like me. I didn't take it, though, I decided to leave it for someone else who maybe needed it more than I did, but I did stop and say outloud to myself 'that's so nice' and it made me smile. It made me smile all morning infact.
 
And so I looked into it.

Happy Fun Joy Treasures has been doing random acts of kindness and placing them all over the city over the last couple of months. Each random act of kindness includes a card. Once you accept an act of kindness, you email Happy Fun Joy Treasures and share your experience including the card number on the back of you card.  And why wouldn't you? You'd be so tickled pink, your day will be completely made and you'll want to tell someone about it.
 
Then your mission if you choose to accept it, is to do a random act of kindness for someone else and give them your card. As the card and the kindness gets passed along, you can track the stories of the lives the card touches through the blog.
 
Isn't that just an unbelievably cheerful idea?!   

There are five types of kindness cards from Happy Fun Joy Treasures - happy cards, fun cards, joy cards and gold cards. All inspired to make someone's day with an act of kindness between strangers. I mean, is there a better kind?  
 
Want to take part?
If you love the idea as much as I do and don't want to sit around waiting for a random act of kindness to jump up infront of you, you can order a random act of kindness to your door by emailing happyfunjoytreasures@hotmail.com and start spreading the joy!
 
As I mentioned, I didn't take this random act of kindness today - its near a school and I figured, I'd already been touched by the concept, someone else - maybe parking to take their kids to school or pick them up can benefit from the $5.00. But I will be contacting Happy Fun Joy Treasures to order a card and think of my own unique way to share a random act of kindness and see how that card can hopefully make it's way into many other people's hands to make their day too, like this one made mine today.
 
Stay tuned!
 
Has your day been brightened by Happy Fun Joy Treasures? I'd love to hear from you. Put a link to your post if it was shared on their website.

Thirty before 30: two down

A couple of months ago I started a Thirty before 30 list - a count down to my 30th birthday by achieving a few fun things I've thought about over the last 10 or so years.

Two months down and I've achieved two things off the list!

29. Learn to reverse park
Last month I took the leap (and my time, might I add) to reverse park a corporate car in the work carpark. I didn't have a choice really, there wasn't another easy way into the car space. With a little gentle encouragement from a colleague - I did it! And then a few days later, I did it again!

It's still not my favourite thing to do, I don't think I'll be making a habit of it :/ But none the less, ticked off the list. I'll turn 30 finally knowing how to reverse park. You know, if I have to.

18. Visit Tasmania
A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of visiting Hobart for a work conference. Now to be fair, I was only there two days and mostly saw the inside of an office, but I did get to experience some fine Tasmanian wine, some exquisite Tasmanian food and some fun Tasmanian hospitality and entertainment. Hopefully I'll get to see a bit more of it later in the year.



AMAZING food at Frank Restaurant, Hobart.

So that's two down, 28 to go! It's a bit of a slow start but I'm out of the gates and running! 

You can check out the full Thirty before 30 list here.

Is your 30th birthday fast approaching? Start your own Thirty before 30 list and join in the fun! 

Turning 17

Today, my baby brother turns 17. This is too weird. I'm 12 years older than he is (yes easy math, I know) and while 17 probably should seem like so long ago... it really doesn't. 17 years ago should feel like a long time ago too - but that also doesn't. I remember being there the day he was born. He came out with a squished nose and a blue tinge, but it didn't take long for him to be the cutest little thing ever with two teenage sisters to completely dote on him, which we did. From there, it seems it didn't take long for him to become this amazing young man of 17.

But today it made me think. What was I like at 17? What was happening in my life then. In the world (apart from it all revolving around high school dramas).

When I was 17:
I was in year 12 at Kent Street Senior High School.
I played the lead in my high school musical Little Shop of Horrors (bit sad, haven't performed since) - and I remember my brother, the only 5 years old bursting into tears in the audience when I got eaten by the plant. I had to leave straight after to go and calm him down!
I worked at my local supermarket as a check out chick for $6 something an hour.
I had a boyfriend I'd met working at the local supermarket.
I'd just discovered parties.
I wore halter tops and flared jeans.
I didn't have my licence, that took another year.
I lived in Forrestfield.
It was all about the Year 12 Ball. All we could talk about were our ball dresses,
I had lost my virginity (well it wasn't lost, I knew where it went - scandalous!).
I listened to Eminem - The Eminem Show, Milincolin - Pennybridge Pioneers, Red Hot Chilli Peppers - By the Way on high rotation.
I was watching Australian Idol and Sex in the City.
I weighed in at about 50kg... and did no exercise apart from walking to the bus and to work - wish it was that easy now!
I had a Nokia 3330 that you could only play Snake on, text and call.
I was doing 4 subjects at school Maths, English Literature, Drama and History studying for my TEE.
I dreamed of being a writer/actress.
I had a great bunch of loopy friends, a select few I've managed to retain and they are still my most favourite people and it's a joy to be growing up with them... even if some things were more fun at 17! 

Happy birthday little bro!

One of my fave photos of us - circa 2010.

What were you doing when you were 17?

Ten by six DIY: Mini succulent garden

Succulents are some of my favourite plants. It helps that they're hardy and hard to kill which is certainly helpful at certain times of the year when my garden gets a bit neglected. 

But the thing I love about succulents is how floral and colourful they can be. How you can just cut a piece off, plant it and grow another. For some time I've been growing succulents in small pots and old jars which is a look I love. But I've been meaning to do a mini succulent garden with a mixture of those from my garden for quite some time and a couple of weeks ago, I finally did!

It's now sitting pride of place by my front door, brightening my day every time I leave and welcoming me home as I return.

What you'll need for a mini succulent garden:
Making your own mini succulent garden is super easy!

• Variety of succulent cuttings from your garden
• A pot 
• Potting mix
• Gardening gloves

Simply arrange to your liking, make sure everything is securely planted and give it a little water once a week. It's the perfect, low maintenance, all-year-round floral arrangement!

 

 

What do you think?

Long weekend love - this weekend's pearls

I love long weekends! And the four day Easter weekend is the ultimate long weekend on the calendar. It might be a week ago now, but I'm still buzzing from my long weekend and what may have been the last few days of sunshine, it this week's weather is anything to go by.

I decided to abstain from the Easter themed baking pressure this year and instead focussed on a few things that truely made my weekend.

Loading all of my CDs onto my computer (because iTunes deleted everything when I got my new phone dammit!). It was so fun to go through all of my music, I've got a pretty random mix from 90s, through the norties up to last year really. Great reminiscing material that's for sure and can't wait to make up a few new play lists and revisit old favourites.

Baking banana bread. I love banana bread and MR loves it too so it's a cute thing I like to do... baking it for him. (Ofcourse getting to eat it is a welcome outcome.) Add loads of walnuts and blueberries - yummy weekend treat!

Family and friendly gatherings. Oh so many! That's the thing about long weekends, everyone wants to see everyone (and drink loads - eekk!) Lots of fun and laughter certainly had. 

15 minutes of us. Ok so it was more like an hour over breakfast, but in a weekend full of gatherings it was nice to take a short moment to have a wee breakfast out, on a windy day by the beach.

Harvesting and planting. Ok so I didn't do anything too strenuous but I loved getting this tiny chilli haul from our plants in the courtyard and planting a few other things around to bring our garden to life more this Autum.  
 

What did you get up to on your long weekend?

Visitors at the Ten by six

I love having visitors!

Over the last couple of months we've been lucky enough to have to bouts of visitors at the Ten by six.

Ofcourse, one great thing about visitors is that it's really good motivation to get your house looking absolutely spick and span. For instance, while preparing for our most recent lot of visitors, I discovered the grout in our bathroom tiles, is actually in fact white, not brown! See, I might never have know that!

But all jokes aside, the best thing about having visitors from out of town is the opportunity it presents to get out and do things! See your city, experience it as a tourist and show your visitors what's so great about your pretty piece of the world.

Having visitors is a really good reminder for me, exactly why it is that I live in Perth - because it really is beautiful and I love it! Even though my immediates all live in different states and at times I wish we all lived closer, I love Perth, and right now, this is exactly where I want to be. But too often I get caught up in all the day to day stuff - working, housework, writing and when I come up for fresh air I often bury myself in a good book instead. It's easy to forget about all the great places to go and things to do in Perth.

Enter my most recent visitors. My Dad and Step Mum recently spent a few days visiting at the Ten by six before we went to Bali with my sister and her family to celebrate a big birthday for my Dad. It just so happened the weekend they were here was the Araluen's Fremantle Chilli Festival. I always intend to go to all the festivals and then when it comes to it, never end up getting to them. what a treat! We spent a beautiful day in Fremantle and the surrounds, took a drive up the coast road around Cottesloe, drove up and down many beautiful streets in the area 'house watching' as we like to call it.

The other great thing about having family visitors at your house is that they inevitably fix things around the house for you while you're off at work, just to be helpful. Running toilet - fixed! Sticky front door - smooth again. Weeds - gone. Dog bed - assembled.

There is much to be said for having visitors, even if they do have to squish in a Ten by six!

 

What's your favourite place in your city to show off when you have visitors?

One year: A Ten by Six anniversry

One year ago this weekend, MR and I moved into the Ten by Six.

It feels like yesterday and years ago all at the same time. So much happens in a year! So much changes.

We had 3 friends to help us move and Operation One Truck was pretty much a success, with everything packed up by midday. Ofcourse the unpacking took us about 5 months and adjusting and culling to condense our 'stuff' into the Ten by Six, well, that's still an ongoing process.

We've adjusted fairly well to the 'home owner' situation with bills seemingly being paid on time and only recently did we finally decide to do a proper, 'grown up' budget.

So what have we learnt this last year?

How to use a drill - very handy for putting up shelves and pictures and things.

There's nowhere to go when you have a fight - so best just kiss and make up ;) Now that's a good one, in a space this small, you really do need to just air the fight and then let it go. Tension is just too much for the Ten by Six.

How to unblock a toilet - an experience I'd rather not go into, but let's just say it was shitty!

How to change a shower head - oh the sense of accomplishment I felt when I figured this one out... and then realised the shower head we'd bought still didn't fix our pressure problem and we still had to get the plumber in.

Two heads are not always better than one - in a teeny tiny space, sometimes, it's better if one person does this and the other does that. Two people on one job is often just too squishy, let alone stressful.

No matter how much you cull, you still have too much stuff for a Ten by Six - I think I would need to literally throw out everything I own in order for this place to have that chic, minimalistic charm I so wish it would.

Not forwarding your mail correctly results in hefty fines - enough said, I'm still paying them off! I think this counteracts the 'grown up-ness' of the budget by the way.

You can't do it all at once - no matter how many great ideas you have, you can't do all of the amazing things, all at once, there isn't the money and there certainly isn't the time. Some things have to wait... until next year.  

All in all, the important thing is that we have a little piece of the world to call our own. A little piece of security in our busy lives, and a little investment in our futures. And at the end of the day - we love it! 

Thirty before 30

It's official, in just over 17 months, I'm turning 30. That's right, 30 years of prickles and pearls under my belt. 

Now while I'm not having any particular kind of crisis about turning 30, it's just a mark of a decade and seems to be as good a point as any to assess things. 

In my last post, I wrote about the idea of actually making a plan to acheive the things in life that I want to acheive, instead of just letting them fall by the wayside and waking up at 45 crying like Kate Winslet in The Holiday 'I hate my horrible life'.

And thus, the Thirty before 30 list was born.  Really it's just motivation to achieve a few goals, do a few awesome things and have a bit of fun recounting them in this space.

There are several things I figured I'd do before 30 that I've already done - those include: travel to Europe, travel somewhere solo, see the Eifel Tower, buy a home, get a full time job, start a blog, learn to make sushi, experience great love, experience great lovers, learn how to crochet, see a show in London and many more. So these are 30 new things, achievable in 17 months.

1. Master the fine art of poaching an egg.
2. See snow and have a snow fight.
3. Run a half marathon.
4. Have a short story published.
5. Write the first draft of my first novel.
6. Drink some beautiful French champagne.
7. Knit a blanket.
8. Learn to play the ukulele.
9. Travel to New York.
10. Dance with the queen of New Orleans.
11. Grow a fruit/vegetable other than chilli.
12. Refurbish a piece of furniture.
13. Dine in a five star restaurant overseas.
14. Do a trek.
15. Learn to make pasta.
16. Achieve a flat stomach.
17. Start my own small business.
18. Visit Tasmania.
19. Get back onto a stage.
20. Dine at a French restaurant.
21. Paint our bedroom.
22. Go skiing in Canada.
23. Take a scenic flight somewhere majestic.
24. Go ice skating in New York City... outside... on an actual rink!
25. Learn how to make bread.
26. Go bungee jumping or sky diving or something ridiculously thrill seeking of that variety. 
27. Get a tattoo.
28. See a Broadway show - on Broadway!
29. Learn to reverse park.
30. Pay off my credit card and then keep it in a drawer for emergencies only.

Do you have a 30 before 30 list? What do you want to do before you turn 30?

"Where do you want to be?"

Last week I was asked the question.

"Where do you want to be in 5 years?"

It was during a performance development session at my work. I rolled my eyes and first. My body constricted and the very notion of thinking about where I wanted to be in 5 years made me rebel against it, like a 5 year old being hand fed brussel sprouts.

I'm not very good at this stuff.

I know I want to be happy. Is that a response? In 5 years, wherever I am, I want to be happy. Can we go with that?

I remember being asked the '10 year' question in my first or second year of uni.... which funnily enough is actually 10 years ago now. Oh. Dear. Fuck.


Back then it was for an assignment. The whole class was to put together a short presentation/storyboard etc of where they wanted to be in 10 years. It got me into a bit of a panic back then. I felt all this pressure to have a 'plan' and at the time I felt way too naïve, too inexperienced to deal with it. I'd just started uni, I mean, how was I to know where I was going to be in 10 years? I felt like I was still learning. Still needed to learn so much. I mulled over it and it really made me question where I was at in life. In the end, I decided it was ok that I didn't know where I wanted to be in 10 years time. And I embraced that. Instead I focussed on how I wanted to feel in 10 years. What things I wanted in my life in 10 years.

I got a big piece of yellow cardboard and started cutting out words and pictures that represented how I wanted to feel and some of the things I wanted in my life; stuck them on with a glue stick at varying angles. You know, for effect.

I wish I still had that sadly constructed piece of card. I can't remember much of what was on it. But one thing I do remember vividly was a set of judicial scales. They represented my need for balance in life. A balance of work and life, passions, relationships, family and friends, challenge and fun.

It's funny, when I think about it what I really should have had was a juggler. All along I've had all these different balls in the air. Flying around in different directions. Different colours and shapes. In the world of circus performers I'm definitely more the clown with the juggling balls than the stringent tight rope walker balancing life high in the sky.

I am still a firm believer that you never know where you're going to be - life could take you in any matter of directions as soon as tomorrow, therefore, the next 10 years? So much could change in the next 10 years!

However, this most recent line of questioning has got me thinking, where am I now? What have I achieved over the last 10 years? And what do I actually want in the next 10 years? Sure, life could steer me down many different roads in that time, plans could very easily change. But there really are things that I want to do and have in my life, in the next few years and in the next 10. And if I don't set any kind of plan in place to achieve those things - will they ever get done? And how satisfied will I be with what I have or haven't achieved when it dawns on me that another 10 years has ever so quickly flashed by?

Life is too quick to be taken advantage of, but long enough to regret the things you always wanted to do but didn't.

So what's the solution... well that still requires some thinking.

For that you'll have to stay tuned ;)

Do you know where you want to be in 5 or 10 years? What plans do you put in place to achieve your dreams and goals?

My Fringe World 2015 'Must Sees'

Froget Christmas! Fringe World is officially my favourite time of year in Perth. The city comes to life with activity, with people, with performers and with awesome artistic displays, tinselled with strings of pretty lights. It's the time of year you remember that living in Perth is actually pretty awesome!

One week in and Fringe has certainly whisked me away. There are so many amazing things to go and see. Last Friday I saw Big Titty Ha Ha: Hard Time which was a bit of fun and I went to see Mummy on Tuesday night, written by Mick Devine and starring Claire Munday - it was absolutely incredible! A great peice of writing coupled with sensational acting, it was funny, quick witted, morbid and sad all at the same time.

There's still about another 3 weeks of Fringe World and here are a few of my 'Must sees' for this year:

10,000
Great new play by two Perth writer/actors about a couple who get thrown into a video game trying to save their flatlining marriage. Plus I'm doing the publicity so go see it!




Asking For It
This I can't wait to see - Adrienne Truscott's 'One Woman Rape About Comedy - tackling the big issues through comedy dressed from the waist up and the ankles down. Challenging the point of view that certain women's behaviour is asking for it.



600 seconds
Read: 10 minute plays. It's like a buffet - you can get everything and then come back for more. I love short snippets and it's awesome how much can be communicated in 10 minutes.





Impromptunes - Tune your own adventure
Improvisation + music - what could be better? Ok so I was a massive Wayne Brady fan back in the Who's Line Is It Anyway days and humour through improvised song is just awesome to me. 



Those who fall in love like anchors dropped upon the ocean floor
This received rave reviews during it's season at The Blue Room last year... and I missed it! By all accounts it's amazing and I'm so glad it's back, giving me the opportunity to jump aboard.



Metalhead
I saw this in October last year at Victoria Hall in Fremantle. Tiffany Barton is an exceptional Perth playwright and it was a hard hitting, emotional play. It's back with a new cast and a new director and I can't wait to see the transformation. 

23 days in

So I missed the obligatory 'new year' post and 23 days in, I feel I've begun to settle into 2015.

So far, the start to 2015 has been full on. But then again, full on seems to suit me much of the time. I may have started the year with a sinus infection and flu (who the he'll gets that in summer!!!) that's slowed me down some but none-the-less, so far it's been a great start. 

I've started the year with family and loved ones; merriment the bubble in a glass of champagne.

I've started the year with trips to the beach, rewarded with sun bronzed summer skin. 

I've started the year reading The Trouble With Flying and watching Boardwalk Empire; watering my soul with inspiration and relaxation.

I've started the year working hard; another year, another project to sink my teeth into.

I've started the year running again, or should I say jogging? Either way there's movement over kometres driving me to go further and faster each week.

I've started the year planning and saving for an extended trip at the end of the year that I couldn't be more excited about - expect to hear more on that soon!

I've started the year with words swelling in my heart and a keyword at the ready to capture them. 

How have you started yours?

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