Keeping me awake.
Trying to catch up with life is rather time consuming and tiring…
My to-do list seems to be getting bigger and bigger, and my ideas for things I want to do for myself are expanding as well. Oh dear. I need to somehow pause time so I can catch up on everything and then press play again.
I’m just about to get stuck into some new projects which I’m excited to work on…
- Mother’s day cards and gifts (for my own mother and step-mother that is), which I will post about once they’re done!
- Surf/beach themed 40th birthday invitation
- A possibly lace themed wedding invitation suite
- A record themed wedding invitation suite
So now I just need to get my head back in the game. Aaaaaaand go…
These are some wonderful white gerberas I got a few weeks ago (yes, late posting, as usual) and one of them had cute little pink tips! These flowers made me decide that I need a white vase. I just haven’t found any good ones yet…
Looking forward to the Katy Perry concert this Saturday! I’ve heard nothing but good things about her tour so far so I’m pretty excited! Minus the fact that my best friend Brit couldn’t make it up from Christchurch for it. Booooooo.
We didn’t get to go to Tree Adventures last weekend. It was too windy so they closed all the high courses since the trees were swaying too much. Booooo again. We will try again probably not this weekend because the weather has taken a turn for the worse (re: the tornado that popped up in Albany, Auckland), so maybe the weekend after that. I’m excited! Even though I’m sore from just going ten-pin bowling. WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME! I’m so unfit!
Alright, enough blabbing on for me. I need to get onto that list of things to do! Ciao!
When the flowers bloom.
I am far too slow at blogging. Really need to get on top of that…
Especially since these flowers (below) died a few days ago and have since been thrown out! And I have a new bunch of flowers (compliments of my boyfriend on Valentines Day) sitting on my desk. But look at how pretty they were when they were at their prime!
I believe they are pink and white tulips. When I got them home and put them in the vase I realised that one of them had a little baby growing on it. So cute!
I intend to do more blogging tonight, or at least get the ball rolling because I have a heap of fun things to blog that I’ve been so slack at posting. Just need to do a bit of photo editing, then do the write-ups.
I’ve got a travel/journey inspired wedding invitation, a beach themed wedding invitation and a baby shower invitation to show you, all of which I designed! Hope you like them!
Also got some heart cookie pops I made for Valentines Day and my second attempt at macarons to post about! Very excited to show you guys those. I just need my boyfriend to return home so I can borrow his flash to get some better photos. 
I sent off my third wedding invitation artwork to the letterpress place today. Can’t wait to see it finished! It had some stunning calligraphy on it, all of which I will blog about when I get my final printed copy back.
As well as finishing that invite up today, I got a grommet put in my ear. A bit random, I know. Adults don’t usually get glue ear but my health is so ridiculous that it decided to block my ear up. Since I will be going to Australia in 11 days I needed to get a grommet put in before the flight so that I won’t be in a ludicrous amount of pain.
The entire procedure was horrible. My ENT specialist is great, but man, I was not prepared for that pain/discomfort. He said that putting the first injection of anesthetic would be the worst part, but it wasn’t. When he made the incision in my ear drum it was awful. It was so hard to tell if I was in pain or if it was just major discomfort from the pressure. He tried to put the grommet in but the incision was too small so that hurt like crazy! He made the incision bigger and then got the grommet in fine. But boy, was that an ordeal. I cried. Yep. Bit of a baby… haha.
Fingers crossed it feels fine in the morning and actually helps with the equalizing on the flight. Wish me luck!
P.S. I’ve added a labels list down the right hand side of my blog to make it easier for people to look through particular things, like just cupcakes, or just graphic design, etc.
Flowers!
One of my favourite bloggers, Rachel of Heart of Light, does a Friday Flowers post every week and it inspired me to do something similar. I’m a little to crap at keeping up to date with things so my flowers posts won’t be on any particular days, just randomly, when I feel like it, when I’ve got some flowers to show.
For Christmas I got two awesome vases (because I asked for them haha!) so I plan on utilising them as much as I can.
The first flowers I decided to get were of course, my favourite flower, the gerbera. I went with some pretty pink ones and they were super cute!
I did however make the mistake of trimming the stems after a few days, which led them to droop and the stems seemed to disintegrate. Not sure why but I won’t be trimming stems ever again. Lesson learnt!
So glad I got some vases. Flowers make me cheerful!
