It's My Grandmothers Birthday!

Buon Compleanno!

Happy Birthday!

Dogum Gunun Kutlu Olsun!

A Goose!

More like a swan. Mum and I just bought these for my grandmother because she has a thing for swans. Hope you like them nan!

The Green, Green Grass Of Home.

My grandparents house has always felt like home to me.

My mum, brother and I always move around so the one place that has always seemed constant is my grandparents house.. and it's always so cheerful looking.

This photo was taken at the start of winter and it looks just as beautiful in winter as it does at any other time of the year. It's not very often that we see lawn and trees as green as this because Australia is in a drought and on water restrictions.

Luckily for us, my grandparents can pump bore water from the underneath the ground of their property.

This water isn't always a great option though. You can only use it every now and then for the simple reason that if it's too salty it will burn the top of the grass. You also need to make sure that you water the garden and yard when it's not in direct sunlight.

What my grandfather also discovered is that you can shandy it. By "shandy", he means you can mix town water with the bore water to dilute the salt content.

I also love this photo because my car is in the driveway. Well, it's my grandparents car now.

OH HOW I MISS MY BMW :(

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Body Shop - Cranberry Joy Shimmer Lotion.

For Christmas last year my grandparents gave me this amazing shimmer lotion by The Body Shop. I love the effect it gives. Such a subtle but clearly visible shimmer in any light.

I don't wear it as much as I want to because the cranberry scent is honestly overwhelming and I'm not a huge fan of cranberries to begin with!

The scent is it's only real downfall.

The size of the glitter is perfect.
The amount of glitter is perfect.
It washes off easily in the shower.
It applies easily and evenly.
It doesn't leave the inside of your clothes looking like the floor after a new years eve party.
Doesn't leave your skin with a sticky or greasy film.

I give this product an 8/10

Thanks Nana and Grandad!

Please click on the photos to enlarge!

Nostalgia, Mystery And Arty Gardens.

It's 12.46am and I am sitting on the floor in front of my grandparents heater eating a bowl of Smiths crinkle cut chips in 'Original' flavour, a Lindt egg and a bottle of Mt Franklin water.

I love spending time at my grandparents house even though the drive here was a drainer. Instead of it taking us just over an hour, it took us closer to three hours due to Easter traffic, roadworks and rude truck drivers who wouldn't let us merge so we missed our freeway exit.

It's funny. When I was in my early teens it was always sorta like having to do the dishes every time my mum would tell us to get in the car to drive the short ten minutes up the road to their house. I guess that was partly due to the fact that when I was younger, I never felt a real connection with my grandmother. She always seemed to have a stern old-school English exterior, despite how funny and magic she was.

I'm not even sure if her and I would be this close, unless she had of gotten sick.
My grandmother suffered horribly for a year and was strong enough to survive an illness that runs deep in our family - cancer.

It was like being ill and surviving made her blossom. She is the grandmother everyone hopes to have. She can talk to you, be open with you and joke with you about love, sex, friends, pregnancy (or unfortunately in my case, the lack of it), life and although sometimes I'm sure she wants to slap me on the back of the head, I never feel like she is judging me.

We stay up until 3am watching Seven Brides For Seven Brothers. She wants a glass of scotch and coke at 11.30pm even though my grandfather is doing an excellent job of pleading his case about why she should be going to bed instead. She is extremely artistic. She thinks that spending her last $5 on a cappuccino at a nice cafe is living the life and she doesn't take any crap - from anyone.

I guess I'm writing this blog because A) It's what I'm thinking because I'm looking at her right now.. but mostly because of option B) She has started a blog and I want you all to read it.

Click here >> Nostalgia, Mystery And Arty Garden << to read some interesting, hilarious and creative posts from my grandmother.

Don't mind the fact that she hasn't added the photos to her stories yet - she learns how to do that tomorrow.

My Master Plan.

My grandmother is coming to stay with us on Thursday so I'm writing a list of places to go shopping. She is always amazed at how cheap everything is when you shop at the right places in Melbourne. It's been two years since we went shopping together in Melbourne and she still can't believe that she got two pair of shoes for $10. She will be even more amazed when I tell her where she can buy three pair for $5. The factory outlets here have the most amazing deals!

Here is my plan for today.
- Clean my room
- Hang all of my new clothes
- Do my hair
- Plan where we are going with my grandmother
- Organize my makeup
- Record two vlogs

Any Which Way But Loose.

My grandparents have been here since Friday, thus the lack of blog posts. I took photos of my Juicy Couture boots and will be unveiling them tomorrow afternoon.

Found my camera = YAY!
Remembered my Ebay password = Double YAY!
Wallet Thickness = Boo!

Big blog sale coming your way on my other blog including clothes, shoes, jewelery, accessories and makeup - you name it!!

Be sure to keep an eye out. Will be making random blog sale updates on that blog throughout the week. Also advertising it on YouTube so I have no doubt that items wont last very long.

Make Me Happy.

Cherry blossom tree outside my grandparents favourite cafe.

And my grandfather always makes me happy.
This time it was because he let his granddaughter paint his toenails red.

I MISS MY BLOG

I'm vidulant when it comes to my blog. I love to write at least three posts a day and I cant stand when people say "Oh sorry, I've been such a bad blogger. I've just been so busy." It's really not difficult that put a post up once a week. Unless your in my position and are at your grandparents house with no internet and being worked like slave labour to finished a book. Haha. Joking, it's been great - kinda.

I'm praying that I'm gonna be home in the next two days and I thought I'd upload some photos of me over the last week just in case you forgot what I look like =p

Absent.

Hey lovelies. I'm so sorry for the lack of posts over the last few days. I'm at my grandparents house until Friday. I have been recording daily vlogs that I will upload asap but I'm just letting you know that my posts will be few and far between over the next few days.

Hope your all having a great week.

Peace xxx

All Aboard - Grandparents Here I Come.

My mum just surprised me with the fact that we are going to my grandparents this week. Good news is that I have a program called iMovie which lets me record and save my videos so I'll be vlogging the whole time I'm there. I'm gonna have to go to their local library once a day and upload my vlogs and write quick blog entries while I'm there.

I am really looking forward to going there again. My grandmother was sick last time so it'll be nice for her to be well enough to go on outings.

A Very Late Birthday Haul!

I'm 9 days late with this birthday haul but here it is anyway.

All of these items are from my mum unless I say otherwise.

Alice In Wonderland Tshirt

Alice In Wonderland Tshirt

Sparrow Tshirt

Factorie Singlet

Factorie Singlet

Factorie Tshirt

Cropped Top

I Am In Love With This Boob Tube

My Grandparents Bought Me This

And This Metal Rose

Oversized Tshirt

Visiting My Grandparents.

I know I'm a week late with my visit to my grandparents photos but better late than never. Here are some of the photos I got off my camera before it broke.

When I first arrived, my grandmother took me to my great grandmothers house. She gave me a beanie and scarf that she won through Take 5 magazine.

My grandparents heart shaped ice cubes.

The room I stayed in.

Next to the pool.

Their Lygon Street.

The dining room. Notice the new pink chandelier.

The Victorian cafe.

My bubblegum egg.