Inspiring Images.

This is the most beautiful little girls room!

Amazing illustration.



~ Rhey.

note: all images are taken from my tumblr with which they are credited.

Eve.

New Year's Eve

I have a countdown on my Iphone which currently states 11 hours, 13 minutes, and 36 seconds until midnight. I'm such a sucker for countdown's and ticker's and timer's, i once had a countdown for my kitten's birthday on my phone... i am fully aware that i am insane.

I've been doing alot of reflecting today. It's kind of like closure for me. I rid myself of worries, regrets and the like, with that kiss at midnight. Zebb does the same. Immediately after he announces 'Whatever happened last year, happened last year!' I think the exact same thing. I swear we were identical twins in another life. No, wait that sounds gross.

I just love that cleansing feeling. Like after you've just finished a hectic workout, or how you feel after a week of eating healthy. When that clock strikes twelve and that countdown hits zero, i will take a deep breath, and face this new year head on.

~ Rhey.


I will surely update you all on what the moment was like tomorrow morning. Along with a slew of photos no doubt.

Christmas.

Christmas is over for another year. This is my poor attempt at creating magic, 2010 style. 2011's tree will be oh so much better, i guarantee it.

Although our tree may be bland and only a foot tall, it still held presents full of love underneath it's branches. It held delicately placed cards with beautiful words written inside, two sleeping kittens whom would chew at the paper (much to my annoyance) just to get a sneak peek inside. It reminded me that i can afford a tree, and a house, and food. Made me thankful, it did.

Christmas day was just as perfect. Breakfast with my mummy, daddy, sister, brother and love. Probably the best breakfast i've had in a while too. We opened presents without hesitation and all felt like it was exactly what we had wanted. Zebb and i received a toaster and kettle set for our new abode (coming early 2011) and gave my mother a new dusty pink purse, my father an armani gift set, my sister a load of dvd's and my brother a video game. We all piled into the dining room and feasted on waffles with ice-cream and 'real' maple syrup (apparently mum searched high and low until she found the exact brand of maple syrup for christmas morning, she was having no substitutes), warm toasty english muffins with crispy bacon and ripened tomatoes. After our stomach's were nearly bursting at the seams we found ourselves in the loungeroom playing xbox kinect and watching dad dance to kylie minogue. 10 o'clock rolled around and with so much food to prepare for lunch, zebb and i left all sleepy eyed but happy.

We spent lunch time at Zebb's father's and stepmother's house. His whole family make it a tradition to spend christmas day together because there are so few of them, and they are so close-knit. Every year they alternate which house we will be celebrating at and it was mentioned at the end of lunch that it should be Zebb and I's turn in 2011. Wow. I remember being a kid and waking up on christmas morning to the excitement of going to a relatives house and seeing all of my aunties and uncles and cousins. Next year that will be us. Zebb's baby sister will remember the christmas that was spent at 'Zebby and Banana's house'. She, along with everyone else, will remember fine detail and if it is to run smoothly i will prepare like i have never prepared before. Our first christmas as adults will be the best they've ever been to. Oh hell yeah it will.

So excited for 2011!

~ Rhey.

New Year.

Tomorrow night is new year's eve. One more night of the year 2010. I can't end my dates with '10, say that 'i've only turned twenty this year, im not old!', tell of stories that happened this year and how i remember when. In a matter of seconds it is a whole new year. A new start.


2011 will be my year. It will be my oyster, my dreams and accomplishments. A twenty-one year old me, an adult.




my mantra

find variations of yourself in literature

meditate on small actions

put tiny moments in special places

immerse yourself in culture

run in the direction of your fears

amplify your desires

hug closer

believe in the magic of the moon

don't contain your love

sleep soundly

dance often, make it genuine

bubblebaths

make art, lot's of it

fall in love with tiny things, everything

sleepy skin

red eyes

no lies

just love



This will most likely mean nothing to any of you but this is who i aspire to be in the new year. The attributes i hope to add to my list of things 'about me'. Oh i cannot wait.

~ Rhey.

Back.

2011

The last time i posted on this blog was over two years ago. Things have happened, life has been lived and i have learnt. I've taken the good with the bad and have come out on top, like i always do.

I have been using another platform for my words and am in need of a change. Tumblr was (and still is) great, but too many people i am familiar with, and not to comfortable with, can read my inner soul and im not sure that i am okay with that.

So, as of today, the 30th of December 2010, i am now back on lush, full time. I will begin the painstaking process and moving every post from tumblr to here and begin the blogging year the way i feel most comfortable.

Reading Kelle Hampton's blog on this platform has definately inspired me to make the change, as well as in other areas of my life which i will fill you all in later. For now, i will be reacquainting myself with blogger and trying to improve the bland layout and header (probably my blog title too!)

~rhey