The spectrum's a - z

Last week I literally moved two doors down (but same postal address is still ok pen friends!) to a new unit and so I have been cleaning and packing and unpacking and attempting to decorate my new sparse unit (which I have sadly come to realise I do not like for a few reasons so alas, I am already looking for another new place! So yeah I am feeling a bit shit about the whole situation) However tomorrow = thrift store makeover! Here is a fun fact: if it wasn't for my wonderful boyf I would be living back in Perth by now where life is so much easier, wtf Melbourne you are tougher than I can almost handle. Anyway, I've seen this quiz on a few peoples blogs and I am bored enough to do it myself this morning. So, here are interesting things about my new place from A-Z..

A- My AIR CONDITIONER is set on: no air con for Melbourne winters geez! Heater is set to FULL though and it sounds like a very loud purring kitten.

B- My BEDROOM theme is: bits of red, bits of florals, some old maps, lace doilies, a few polaroids, a Kate Nash tea towel hanging on the wall and PILES of things everywhere. I am literally living out of a suitcase still.

C- The CAR in the driveway is: whatever my housemate drives.. no idea. A car of some sort.. a car that goes too fast down the drive way.

D- My DESK looks: cluttered! At the moment I can see my stationary box, some cd's, jewellery scattered all over, my house plant fern and my big beautiful atlas. It is good to have a desk though which is neat because otherwise I would have no furniture but I am gonna get a table cloth for it as it looks a bit high school and beige at the moment.

E- The EXACT time I wake up daily is: it really does vary.. yesterday my boyf and I woke at 5am and today I woke at about 8:30am. I have no real regular schedule.. ahhh the perks of having a (shit) casual/non existent job.

F- The FIRST thing I wash in the shower is: my face!

G- My GARAGE is filled with: I don't have one!

H- My HOME is: a unit! 2 bedroom 1 bathroom in a block of 6 units

I- If you peeked INSIDE my bathroom you'd see: boyish blue shower curtains and not much else as I haven't unpacked yet apart from my toothbrush. But we do have a light heater thingo.. warm! I miss my old elephant bathroom :(

J- My favorite JUICE is: most juices! Raspberry juice if I can find it. There is no juice I don't like really but I don't drink it very often as it ummm it costs more than water and makes my teeth more yellow than I want them to be?

K- The best part of my KITCHEN is: I get a whole cupboard to myself! I love food shopping and filling my little cupboard up.. now I just need to be home enough to eat the food inside it. And my (tiny) mug collection is pretty sweet too.. Bruce Springsteen! Maryland map! Art deco patterns!

L- The LAST person who visited my home was: my boyf two nights ago. We don't get many visitors, which shouldn't surprise me as my housie makes them feel so unwelcome when we do have visitors, good one :(

M- The last piece of MAIL for me was: we all keep getting heaps of lame election candidate mail, boring which should end now but last week I got the travelling journal from Bianca which was very exciting!

N- My NEIGHBORS think I'm: weird as I used to live in the front unit and now I live in the back unit? Musical units!

O- If you OPENED my fridge you'd see: milk, pumpernickel bread, vanilla Coke, baby spinach, natural yogurt etc :)

P- My last house PARTY was: I don't really have house parties, I dunno. At my first house in North Perth like 5 years ago? It was cowboy and indian themed and I dressed up as Pocahontas and it was so much fun!

Q- A QUICK meal I like to fix is: stir fry

R- My favorite ROOM of the house is: My room. FOR SURE.

S- The SHAMPOO brand I use is: Palmolive this week I think?

T- My largest TELEVISION is: we only have one tv in the living room.. it is quite big and housie likes to play Xbox on it. Cool dude :/

U- UNDER my bed you will find: nothing. My mattress is sitting on the floor so I can't put anything under there.

V- The last time I VACUUMED was: I vacuumed last week at work which was actually fun but I we only have floorboards here so sweeping it is.

W- Looking out my WINDOW I see: the drive way and the neighbours bedroom window, awesome.

X- I wish I had X-TRA: money so I could live somewhere else!

Y- My YARD is: concrete, boooo.

Z- ZZZZZZZ My bedtime is: I try to go to bed before 11 but that rarely works out.

Okayyyyy, that was fun! Have a nice week everyone ♥

& beyond

You know what is zero fun.. searching for nice bed sheets and doona covers. Seriously, where are all the nice ones? Not at Myer, David Jones, Target, Kmart or Big W that's for sure. Laaaaaaaaaame. But check out what Anthropologie have.. love letters bed sets for only $264, yikes!
Garrrrrrr, I really shouldn't look at American websites! Also, tonight I am moving house! And I feel like such a wreck for several reasons and I could almost cry and catch a plane back home right now and if it wasn't for my wonderful boyfriend that is where I would be (a plane back home) Fuck, I hope the rest gets better from now on.

I've got nostalgic pavements

As you may know, I recently moved out of my wonderfully decorated room in sunny old Perth and I am now in a lovely unit in Melbourne but alas.. I have not so much of "me" to decorate my room as it all back home still. That was until a lovely lady by the name of Chrissy sent me the goods to make my own doilie garland as part of the Simply Delightful package swap! Awwwww yeah, the one on the right is my room (the left one being the main inspiration)! I have hung it from my ceiling light and attached the string to my curtain rods and I love love love it! It is so pretty when the afternoon sun leaks through them and I realised they actually look like snowflakes at night time.. I love snowflakes! The whole package was just so freaking lovely.. it was from my favourite place, New Zealand so I was stoked to find Pineapple Lumps inside (no chance of a photo, they were in my tummy pretty quickly..) and there was also some sweet as hairclips, an adorable scarf and a cute letter. It really was simply delightful :) Thanks Chrissy & Tillie too for hosting swaps ♥

Strengthen up my little heart

A wise lady once said to me it's good to do a postitive post after a "vent" post so I have a better attitude so here is something that cheered me up on my long walk home today.. down the road in my new neighborhood there is a super cute house all covered in wild trees, plants and flowers and on their gate it says "love SWEET love" and on their letter box it says "love letters for #479" which I think is just the cutest thing, not only that but the letter box is covered in glitter! Glitter! All letters should be love letters and all boxes should be covered in glitter and I am going to put a love letter in their box next week. I would take a sneaky photo of their house but alas, I am still camera less! Here are some cuter than average photos of letter boxes I have come across on the intrawebs..






















L. O. V. E.

P.S Guess who just spent an hour learning how to make photo mosaics instead of sleeping because Blogger is awesome at disfiguring my photo set-outs!

All of these old addresses

Welcome to my room! It occurred to me this morning that when I move to Melbourne in a few weeks that I will not be taking much of anything, especially many of the bits and pieces that are currently in my room so I thought I would document it while I still have it all.
















This is 2 of my 2 old suitcases that I use for storage and a collection which I hope to one day reach the ceiling. Inside it contains all my hiking gear, to the left is my beloved (and dusty) snowboard and to the right are my backpacks. The blue suitcase I found across the road a few months ago for the bulk rubbish collection, I love the colour and shape! The green one is one I got in Melbourne last year that I bought for $2 and I remember when I opened it up.. it was full of snowflake confetti! I remember I even bought a bigger bag to put in because I didn't want it getting damaged on the flight home.
















My beloved bookshelf. I have always wanted a full bookcase and one day, I will have a whole room of books wall to wall! I'm not taking many books at all to Melbourne which is a total bummer. Well, maybe a few will make their way into my luggage. But really, chances are I will have a whole new collection before too long over there any way.

















My Polaroid wall and map of Japan! My friend in Japan sent me this map years ago and all the words on it are in Japanese script so she wrote all over it and translated the special parts for me and therefor, I love it all the more. I remember taking my first ever Polaroid in year 10 when my photography class went on an excursion to a studio and we got the play with them.. the rest is history. These bad boys are most definitely coming to Melbourne with me.

The rest of the photos are on my Flickr. I still really do not understand Blogspot + photo formatting so look there to see more because it's really not working for me here. Plus here is another one of my favourite songs at the moment.. Fyfe Dangerfield singing about rooms ♥

I'm sticking with you

I am pretty fond of using pegs as room decorations and as useful, non permanent wall fixtures. The walls in my room have no hooks at all so my walls are littered with plain wooden pegs with blu tack on the back hanging up concert tickets, necklaces, poems, photos, bus timetables, lists and also somedays not on walls.. to pin my hair up. In my new place I want to have a long line with coloured pegs holding up photos and I think it's a cute way to display pretty dresses and blouses too.














Part of my room!
1 x Tegan & Sara ticket
3 x Gyroscope tickets
3 x Wil Anderson tickets
keyring from Belgium
polaroid.
I would upload more but I simply do not understand Blogspot.
The photo uploading is so hard making it look decent. Any tips?

Here are some other images with pegs for home decorating found on Tumlbr :)