Polyvore

When I was a kid one of my favourite games of pretend was to imagine I was a millionaire going on a whirlwind shopping spree through Franklin Mint. (I think it's been established that I was a very strange child. No? Well keep reading.)

I remember eagerly awaiting the plastic wrapped bundle of catalogues and booklets we'd get each week, tearing through and rejecting each one until the glorious month I would spy its heavenly form.

I'd sit myself down in the lounge with my paper and pen, then set myself an exorbitant budget and start scouring through the many glossy pages packed full of artworks and gilded treasures, jotting down my shopping list all the while imagining how wonderful each item would look in my dream house.
Once every few months I would give myself the task of redecorating that too - I was revoltingly wealthy in my mind of coarse ;)

You know I really can not ever understand how kids in this day and age while surrounded by their ipods, ipads, gameboys, playstation's, x-box 360's, dolls, action figures, internet connection, cable TV and DVD's can still look a person straight in the face and whinge away "I'm Boooooooored!!!"
That's not really fair, even I remember being bored.
The difference though is while I may have been deprived of "stuff" I was never lacking imagination and ingenuity.
Anyway my point today was not to come on here and sound like a 90yr old battle axe, bah-humbug-ing on the youth of today…. actually what was my point?
Oh yea, Polyvore!

So yes, when I finally understood the backstory to this game and how similar to my adventures of old it was it brought back all sorts of fond memories of some of the crazy little made up games I'd play...
Making dolls out of pencils wrapped in tissue, doll houses out of tissue and shoe boxes, toboggans out of cardboard.
I even lived under the dining table and inside a spray painted cardboard box at one stage - I was deprived I tell you, deprived!

Thankfully today I've moved on from my weird Franklin Mint fantasy but can relive a bit of my wacky childhood each Thur with Danimezza's Polly Dolly challenge instead.

The Heiress lives on, and it seems her name is Ms Polyvore…

Introducing… Ms Polly by katsicles featuring a crewneck sweater

Le Mont St Michel crewneck sweater, $355
Blue legging, €20
Ganni wool scarve, €94
Black ruffle edge umbrella, £15
MICHAEL Michael Kors plastic sunglasses, $98
Dior Five-Color Designer Eyeshadow, $59
Bobbi Brown Long-Wear Gel Eyeliner, $21
Lip Gloss Wand, $15
little flirt lash, $15
Chloe Chloe Eau de Parfum Spray 2.5 oz., $110

This Could Go On Forever...

I realise I could harp on about my Queensland trip every day of the year with the amount of photos I took!
So instead of boring you endlessly, I'm trying to narrow it down to some of my favourite shots now & then, and leave the rest to flikr.

If you're interested in seeing more of my trip pop in either here or here but keep in mind I'll be adding more as I get the time to play around with the shots.

They really are so hard to narrow down - I love them all so much!

Sigh… if only I were rich enough to holiday all year round...

Monster Mash

Today I'm meshing Thea's Sunday Sesh and Anna's Much Love Monday with the spirit of Halloween.

Lets start with my (belated) Sunday Session.

No Halloween line up is complete without Thriller,

but this year my theme would have been the moon:

I was going for the paranormal activity look here…
nailed or failed?

It's pretty obvious what I'm loving today but here they are:
❥ Halloween! I'm such a sucker for dress ups and it's the only time I can get away with exploring my inner Goth.
❥ Sales at Spotlight & Lombards - Time to stock up on creepy paraphernalia for next year. (See that, planning ahead)
❥ The long weekend and all the socialising this entails.
❥ Drinks tonight at LuWOW to celebrate Miss Amberlee's end of studies.
❥ And finally, The knowledge that I still have 2 more days of freedom ahead of me. Woop Woop!

Hope you all have a

Spooktacular Halloween
Mwah-ha-ha-ha!
xox

Just A Minute… in October

❧ Reading… Sweet Poison, Why Sugar Makes Us Fat by David Gillespie.
"There may be a drier and more incomprehensible area of science than biochemistry, but so far I haven't come across it" His words, not mine but I find myself agreeing wholeheartedly. Most of the time I feel like I'm studying unsuccessfully to be an endocrinologist (despite it being written in layman's terms) although now and then I do have the respective Ah-Ha! moments so at least the overall message is coming through loud and clear, even to my dull little brain cells.
I'm trying really hard to absorb the technical info fully but I've always been hopelessly dense when it comes to retaining anything maths or science related.
Ambs, my hats off to you mate! Compared to me, those girls in the back row look like experts…

❧ Making… Sugar Free Meals.

It's basically like being diabetic only stricter.

Since I already have a predisposition to developing the condition thanks to my family history and my PCOS (yet another happy side effect), I figured reading the book above was timely.

You'd be amazed at how much of the sweet stuff is sneakily hiding behind fat free labels and synthetic replicas.

❧ Watching… my tan slowly fade and peel away.
Haven't had much time for TV of late but I do miss LA & NY Ink. Kat Von D is dopier than she looks which was a surprise.
It was nice having cable up in Cairns.


❧ Craving… a tattoo or a new piercing.
Maybe I just got carried away with all the "Ink shows but I definitely want to get my first one very soon.


❧ Listening to... my Beach Side Playlist and trying to extend the holiday feeling for as long as I can.

❧ Planning… Next years Halloween Party.

Sadly I missed the boat this year by being too disorganised but as soon as this years event is over I'm set to clean up at the clearance sales.

No more excuses - I will have my time in the sun or in this case moonlight.

❧ Loving… The prospect of a long weekend.
The Melbourne Cup is set to strike this Tuesday so after my hectic lead up (waxing, spray tans and manicures up to the eyeballs) it'll be nice to have a few days of nothingness lined up.

See Ya Later Aligator

Not even in a while crocodile!

What a shit week - Can't wait to see the back of ya!

Let Me Count The Ways

I love photo editing far too much for my own good...

Sharing my madness with WWW.

(Wordless Wednesday World)

Happy Hump Day peepsicles xx

The 100 Blowout

There was a time when my workout looked much like this 

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Lately it's been a lot more like this:

THe 100 BLoWouT:

100 THouGHTS aBouT FooD

90 TRiPS To THe FRiDGe/CuPBoaRD

80 TRiPS DoWN GuiLT LaNe

70 PRoMiSeS To STaRT a DieT ToMoRRoW

60 THouGHTS aBouT FooD

50 TRiPS To THe FRiDGe/CuPBoaRD

40 EXCuSSeS To TReaT YouRSeLF

30 TRiPS DoWN GuiLT LaNe

20 PRoMiSeS To WoRK ouT ToMoRRoW

10 MiNuTeS oF aCTuaL eXeRCiSe

Well after a few months of that kind of behaviour here I am 5kgs heavier and missing periods unexplainably. Enough's Enough - With TWO capital E's!

Yes, it feels like I'm walking through setting concrete after attempting my old workout and yes, I'm having cravings the like of which you've never seen while trying to cut sugar but I know these side effects wont last, they're just signs that I'm back on the road to good health again and THaT feels great!