So Pretty Monday

Willow is a clothing line created by Kit Willow, an Australian designer who favours soft lines with a striking diagonal crocodile skin pattern featured in her Surface Elements collection due instore in September 2012.  I love the pieces she has put together, they are very wearable for every day and individual items can easily be paired with regular items so that they are the main player in an outfit without being too out of place.

Enjoy!

E x



Challenge Update: Day 14

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Day 14... woah, it has been a long 14 days.  I have felt quite tired over the last two weeks and it's taken my body quite a while to get used to the lack of sugar in my diet.  Twice I have felt light headed enough to have to sit down and thought "am I doing myself harm by not eating a diet full of chocolate?!" but alas, I do not think that is the case.

I will keep an eye on myself though just in case I have made myself diabetic and now I am having withdrawals or something....

No more weight lost this last week but I haven't really been exercising *shock horror!* I'd like to think I've been too busy but, to be honest everyone can squeeze a half hour walk into their day and I used to love doing that but I've been so tired lately.

What a catch 22!  Too tired to exercise because I'm not eating sugar!  RIDICULOUS!!

Hope you've all had a great week!

E x

Etsy Crush: Moondog Cottage

My Etsy crush this week is Moondog Cottage.  They offer retro, vintage pieces from estate sales.  If you're into Mad Men style, then this is the place you need to go for your broaches, earrings and necklaces.  Also with every purchase, Moondog Cottage donates a portion of their sales to WSPA - World Society for the Protection of Animals, so you can feel good about yourself before your jewellery even arrives!

I have bought many pieces from them over the years and I have always had fantastic, friendly, quick service from them.  They're even kind enough to post items to me all the way to Australia.  Here are a few of their beautiful offerings:

E x

The Wreck

"The Wreck" is what the locals here call an ancient shipwreck that sits on our shore and has done since the late 1800's.  The fascinating thing about the Wreck in the last few months is that this is the most anyone has ever seen of it since it first crashed upon our beach.  Due to the large storms we've been having recently, the tide has revealed more of the Wreck than I have ever seen in 30 years of living in my little town.

I want to share with you some photos I took of our strange phenomenon today.  If you can see the three tall, rusted posts in the middle of the picture above, that is sometimes all you can see of the Wreck.  Occasionally a few of the old wooden posts jut above the sand, showing all of three to four inches, but that has been the most the Wreck has ever revealed of herself.  It was very interesting wandering around it, walking inside it and getting to inspect it in all her rusty, old wooden glory.

Very skeleton-like

Love the green in this pic

Almost lets me imagine the ship going through the waves in it's former glory

E x

So Pretty Monday

Today's So Pretty Monday post revolves around Australian label Sass and Bide.  These two women, Heidi Middleton and Sarah Jane Clark, have a very successful clothing label which many celebrities love wearing and if I could afford it... I would be as well!  I have nothing but respect for these women and their lives have been as rich with success and heartache as their clothes are with texture and colour.  Please head to their website here to check out their other collections. 

Below, I have included some favourite items from their latest collection Sing, Brother!

E x

Challenge Update: Day 7

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It was a lot harder this week than I was anticipating after pumping myself up to concentrate more on succeeding at this challenge.  I am learning things about myself though, which is always what you want with any challenge so instead of confessions I will tell you what I have learnt:

1. It's almost like my skin is itchy when 3pm-ish comes around and I cannot have anything sugary
2. I immediately want sugar when I have to deal with something hard or I am upset about something (did someone say "emotional eater!")
3. I am shocked at the amount of sugar in a lot of things that I wouldn't consider to be sweet foods and all those low-fat food items I need to stay away from as they have a higher sugar content!
4. I definitely think about sugar way more than I normally do now that it is not available to me.  It's a struggle every day to get through without any sugary foods

I am proud to say I have been very good this week and have lost that pesky kilo again (see my starting weight here) so at least that's one bonus I can easily gain satisfaction from at the very early stages of this challenge.

Is anyone else doing a challenge like this or have done one in the past?  I'd love to hear about it or about any coping techniques you've used to get you through?

I hope you all had a relaxing weekend.

E x

High Five for Friday!

Linking up with Lauren from www.frommygreydeskblog.com

It has been a bit of a slow week but there is always something to be grateful for, so my high five for Friday is:

1. Clark Little Photography.  The above photo and other stunning photos can be found here
2. Enjoying a great coffee and a gossip mag
3. Getting to the beach on perfect days (see here)
4. Seeing family and having a Christmas in July.  FUN!
5. Experiencing fantastic service from Virgin Blue Airline staff when coming back from Perth

Short and sweet this week.

Enjoy your Friday!

E x