Things that make me happy

• Looking at photos of my childhood
• Receiving lovely letters/text messages in my mail box
• Looking at pictures that remind me of a time and a place
• Redecorating my room
• Pretty red things
• A lovely new dress
• Concerts at the Tanks
• Lunch at the Lilipad Cafe
• Sweet dates
• A warm cup of vanilla tea
• A long chat with Ash and the funny things that she says like "Chay" & "true dat!" in context of coarse
• The sun
• A friendly black cat
• Socks on my feet (don't ask)
• Listening to music with sentiment
• Pretty vintage finds
• My envelope necklace from Melbourne
• Late night cuddles
• Campfires with marshmellows

Dear Diary

Indeed it has been a mighty long time, but you see I am at the contemplative stage of my life. I am past grieving over all the things that have exhausted my emotions and am at the point of preparing for the next stage of my life. Of which I hope to expand my circle of friends, build some everlasting memories living the city life, contemplate the world on the train and build a creative and beautiful home to share and furthermore work towards the ultimate goal of 'making it' in the creative world. So at the moment I am content with my humble existence, plus there are plenty of exciting things to look forward to quite regularly.   I think I am getting closer to being comfortable in my own skin and more used to the complications of life, i feel this every so often but this feeling is becoming more frequent, which is a good sign right? xx. 

A New Start

In this current week I have come face to face with all my fears of myself and realized that I have a lot to change and a lot of growing to do if I am to achieve my goal of a happy and creative life for myself. I think one of the major reasons for my all the pieces of the puzzle that is my life not fitting together correctly is that my inner core, that is my passion for art and all that is creative had been suppressed. I had given up on the dream of 'making it', at least for the meantime, despite all arrows pointing in that direction, including winning the national young artist of the year in the painting category and getting my art published in Frankie just last year. It started young too, when I won the best art student of year one at 5! I apologize for tooting my own horn but there is a purpose here. So my desires to build a career out of my creative pursuits has been regained and this blog will track my progress and setbacks, and one day if I am successful (and have admirers- gosh it makes me gasp just to consider the concept) you can read this and know it is possible for you too. It wont be an easy road ahead; I will mould and lay down the golden bricks myself if I have to so I can hike (and skip with my Dorithy shoes along the flat ground) to somewhere nice and hopefully make some new friends along the way xx.