One Sparkly Life

It's coming up to a year since moved house back into an area that I feel more represents who I am, who I want to be and the things in life I like and want. It is also coming up to another Birthday and like almost every year in the last 5 or so years, I ponder a little and spend some time reflecting.  Like most people, I do the goal setting and looking back on my achievements around New Year but I also seem to do a lot of self reflection around my birthday. I think it is has something to do with being another year older. While New Year is a chance for new beginnings and new habits, my Birthday brings along a reminder that I am not quite where I want to be in life yet. I bit of slap in the face some times as to the dreams and hopes i have and the distance I still have to go to achieve them. I hate to utter the words life crisis but the melancholy i approach my impending special day with lately seems to fit in this category. Go...

One of my favourite things to do is dream about other places - cities, cultures, countries. Foreign places have always been exciting to me. I love reading and growing up my favourite books were always ones where they experienced new places. Whether it be New York, Paris, or Rome. They sounded so much more exotic then country South Australia. To me the city was the place to be and preferably overseas. So it was so amazing for me to finally take a step and start travelling in 2004. China was my first step for a Challenge Trek on the Great Wall. Amazing. I loved it. The culture, the people but mostly the history. Standing on The Wall and realising just how long it had been around and how many people had walked along it before me, not to mention the people who had died building many years before. To me, that was mind-blowing. The Forbidden City -  Oct 2004 I made me realise just how little h...

Just a short note to say usual transmission will resume shortly. This week has been a busy one with my Mum, work events, dinner with a girlfriend, Rugby and another few dinners before an event on Saturday still to go. Phew I am exhausted already and I am just over half way through. I have been loving the time with family and friends and catching up on life with great food and wine! My idea of heaven. So here are a few lovely pics for today of things that have sparked some interest for me. Hope you enjoy. xxx

Apologies up front that this post is full of amazing pictures of all things Black & White that I am loving at the moment. Enjoy. Interiors Animals Food    Views    Dresses

  So I am feeling Like this today..... And wishing I was here.... xxx