I rarely have many spare coins for fun times once bills and rent have been seen to each week, but I thought I'd share a couple of things I've treated myself to lately. Above is a little yellow vinyl armchair I spotted on a trip to the Youngtown Mission Shop (my favourite opshop in my city) with my friend Sara. I was pretty pleased with the $30 price tag. I bought it to possibly put in the baby's room for future feeding times, as it is quite comfy, but I'm pretty sure I'll keep it in our lounge room until then, it's so sweet.


I gave our bedroom a much needed tidy earlier in the week and bought this vintage doona cover that reminds me of terrible eighties clothing, at the opshop mentioned above. I kind of love it. Our bedroom is fairly feminine but C gives no complaints, especially considering his favourite colour is purple.


This isn't so much something I spoiled myself with, rather something my mum very generously spoiled me with. While she was staying we were discussing ebook readers and she decided that for Christmas she'd give me her Kindle (no prompting I swear!). I have been really enjoying reading on it before I go to sleep each night (lately only pregnancy books - I think I need some new book recommendations - any takers?). Of course, I love reading a real, live, tangible book, but I'd prefer to just buy hardcovers of books I really love.


While my parents were visiting we went for a big trip to the East Coast and on the way we stopped at a little vintage/antiques store in the middle of nowhere (I think it was called something like The Shop In The Bush) and C found this copy of our local newspaper from the 1st of January 1901. It's quite fascinating!


Who can resist ten dollar solar lanterns? I love it when I see them light up just before dark.

+ What's something new you've treated yourself to recently, big or small?

Ten happy things that happened to me in 2012:
+ We brought a new kitty home.
+ Our friends Isis and Damien opened a very sweet shop and we ate lots of their cakes and sandwiches and coffees and hot chocolates.
+ I really enjoyed my uni subjects and made some things I'm quite proud of.
+ We got married and had a lovely picnic with friends and family to celebrate.
+ C's parents gave us a car and we went on numerous fun day trips.
+ We moved into a really beautiful new house and bought some cute new/old furniture for it.
+ I learned how to make linocuts and woodcuts and now I never want to stop.
+ We had five lots of visitors from interstate.
+ I started going to a new health centre and have felt like I'm making progress in lots of ways.
+ We found out that we're going to have a tiny person join us next year.

What's on your list? :)

Linsey has been kind enough to offer up some of her sweet handmade bows from her Etsy shop Sprinkle's Corner to give away. They're so cute! I'm pretty sure I'd wear one every day of the week.
Linsey sells pretty bows, sweet vintage books and paper goodies in her shop and has also sent me some of the prettiest mail art ever.

+ To enter simply leave your email address.
+ For a bonus entry tell me one of your New Years resolutions.
+ The winner will get to choose FOUR bows from Sprinkle's Corner for the taking!
+ The winner will be drawn randomly on the 27th of December.

Good luck! :)

C and I went to film society tonight to see The Boy With The Bike. It was the last film for the year and there were absolutely no seats left in the theatre. I quite enjoyed it. We had a walk around the city beforehand and went to get dinner at our favourite terrible food court in town and I finally got around to posting out our thank you postcards for our picnic back in July. I feel like I've had things like that sitting on my to-do list for months. I hate writing things in bulk, they feel like form letters! I have about five left over if anyone cares for a cheesy wedding postcard!



Tasmanian Summers are my favourite Summers. Last year was still unbelievably hot, but the nights tend to be cool and you can get relief from the sun easily in the shade. In Newcastle, you just roast all day and all night and have to go about every day stuff in discomfort. My uniform lately has mostly just involved this skirt, a shirt tucked in and sandals. I always feel like maxi dresses and skirts just accentuate my lack of height and roundness, but pregnancy feels like the perfect time not to care about those kinds of things - hopefully my fashion rules apathy will carry over into post-pregnancy too.


I found this little cat ornament at a garage sale a few weeks ago, before Morrissey died and now when I walk past it on the way to the front door I think of my sweet little black cat.


Here is a bonus cheesy self timer picture of C and I. Very few photos of us together exist so I'm trying to make a bit more of an effort these days.

PS. This week the baby/squid is eighteen weeks cooked!