Over the next week or two while I'm away I'll be having a couple of my favourite blogger ladies posting their interpretations of one of Keri Smith's 100 Ideas on Goodnight Little Spoon.

First up is lovely miss Kate from Scathingly Brilliant, she picked:

40. Draw all of the things in your purse/bag

Well folks, this will be my last post before I go away for two weeks. Thankfully, you'll be in good hands with some lovely guests. The next time I'll post here I'll be a married person.

I've been a bit coy about what I've shared here about getting married, but for no reason really except that I didn't know what to say/how to word it.

I am not a wedding kind of person and have refrained from using the words 'fiance' or 'wedding' since we decided we were going to get married because they kind of make me cringe. I don't really know why, they just don't sit comfortably in my mouth, haha. I also jokingly say that C is going to be my wife (he has long hair and does most of the cooking and cleaning and sometimes wears an apron).

There was never any question of me changing my surname - C has always insisted that he wanted to change his surname to mine, which I love - because he has a very boring colour surname, I like my name and I think it's fun to break tradition, even if telling my Nanna about it almost gave her a heart attack (lots of things almost give her a heart attack).

Having a big white wedding was never something we were going to do and a lot of the associated conventions and traditions of weddings I find a bit unnecessary and sometimes I think they detract from what the whole thing is about. People keep saying things to me like "oh, but if you don't wear a garter/have an engagement ring/throw the bouquet/wear something blue/go on an elaborate honeymoon/if he's seen the dress you'll have bad luck and get divorced!". Some things just aren't my style.

Despite my reservations about weddings (and the language associated with them), I am frankly very excited about being married to this lovely man. He is very special and treats me better than I deserve (he frequently quotes the playful/mean things I say to him, on Facebook, haha). He makes me so happy.



We are getting married officially at the registry office on the busy cafe street one over from where we first lived together, with just our close family in attendance, then going to have coffee at our old favourite cafe. Two days later we'll be having a small picnic with some of our favourite people at the house where I grew up (think ramshackle bush house with an acre of garden, a life-size treehouse, secret paths). A lovely photographer will be taking some pictures and I have been having fun making some little decorations and planning pies and cakes to make. Apparently my Nanna has made 100 pompoms!

Thankfully I've not had to stress very much about the whole thing because in reality I'm not planning a wedding, I'm just having a picnic. I am so looking forward to it. I am so excited about seeing our friends and family. I want to give my sister a big smooch on the face and hug my mum for ages and squeeze my nieces' cheeks and tickle my nephew. We decided that travelling back home to be married kind of counts as a little honeymoon for us too, but we'd like to go somewhere else later in the year as well.

Anyway, I just wanted to fill you in.

Sometimes I don't share as much on my blog as I could. I guess I'm afraid of what people might say sometimes (even though I've never had a comment on my blog that has been even close to mean), but more often I'm just awkward and don't know how to say things.

I look forward to returning here in two weeks!

C and I have a terrible sleeping pattern. Very late nights and late mornings are our style, but I'd like to change that. Even though I love sleep, I have trouble winding down and I feel like going to bed is like admitting defeat at not having achieved enough during the day. We usually only sleep 7 or 8 hours, but going to bed so late means the day is half over by the time we've gotten up, had breakfast and gotten ready and having the sun start setting at 3.30pm, when you only got up 3 hours ago is depressing! We work at night so we usually get home pretty late and then have dinner, then watch something, then do some internetting, then it's 3am! It's a terrible cycle. Hopefully our two weeks away will shake us into a better, more practical routine.

Earlier in the week I had one last assignment to finish for a subject (due the following morning) and after finishing it at about 3am C and I decided to just stay up all night. We played some music together (he plays bass, I play guitar), dawdled on the internet and then went for an early morning bike ride along the water before dropping off the assignment. I love riding in the early mornings, I don't know why I don't get to sleep earlier so that I can make this happen more often. I thought I'd share some photos of our early morning, absolutely freezing, extremely foggy morning taken on my iPhone.








+ I was pretty impressed at the ice forming on my coat as I rode. For anyone living in a place where it snows, I know this is totally lame and not impressive, ha. It snows about an hour from us in the mountains and I'd love to go visit it after the brunt of Winter is gone.

+ image cred (added to my list of things to make C do)

+ Some great tips for beginner bikers by Dianapantz.
+ Bri wrote a great little happy list.
+ I only just came across this great Summer Stitch School by The Floss Box from last year. Would love to try some new stitches.
+ I'm dying to try Anu's smoky parmesan roasted potatoes and Amanda's cheesy quinoa dippers.
+ I can't resist a peek inside the journals of some famous people.
+ 100 things to do instead of procrastinating on the internet - wise!
+ Pretty keen to try this hair bow
+ Sally's lessons from internet dating may make you laugh (and cringe)
+ I really need this check list stamp
+ I loved In Space's Between's list titled The Best Thing You Can Do To Make More Friends, Grow Your Community & Be Generally Awesome