It was my birthday the other week, and while I was working during the day, I came home to our camping apartment, being decorated with flowers and pot plants, candles and a delicious dave-made dinner. Exactly what I needed. I namd my new plant "Roger" and promised to look after him well.
Afterwards he took me out to Bondi Beach, where we had tickets for the Flickerfest, a little short film festival by the beach.
And we walked all the way home afterwards. A very nice night out, thanks Dave!
While my birthday week was filled with work and the preparations for the exciting One Fine Day fair,
we decided spontaneously on Friday night to go out for a nice post birthday dinner at The Apollo.
The best dinner I have had in Sydney! Absolutely amazing place, that I recommend anyone checking out. That night really charged me up for this crazy week ahead.
I squeezed in another little break, meeting the lovely Gaby from This Little Port for a green smoothie and a raw mango cake (which I need to find the recipe out for asap!) and went swimming behind the house almost every single day.
Due to the high volume of work and the One Fine Day fair coming up, I won't be able to post next week, but promise to fill you asap afterwards.
Or maybe I even see some of you there?
Our furniture is going to arrive in the midst of everything too, so we will spent some night, putting everything together and unpacking too.

I did expect the start of our life here to me much more relaxed, slow and to have plenty of free time on my hands for exploring the new country, taking photographs and blogging.
But life doesn't always like to be planned, it likes surprises.
It's great to see my freelance taking off so well already and the time is flying by.
It's safe to say we are settling in well. Thanks to  new friends, old friends, family and good coffee places we are on a roll. Hope 2013 is treating you all well! Speak soon. x

The other night when it was a lovely warm clear summer night, we went for a nice walk and had dinner on a Rooftop at a Mexican place, that makes the most fabulous dish,
truffle quesadilla! The place was full of the brightest little decorations, furniture and paintings from Mexico. I would love to go there one day.
Summer nights outdoors, fresh food and cold drinks and a daily swim that's what really makes me happy right now. January you are fabulous! So much more exciting and busy than I ever expected.
And you are my birthday month! One thing we actually don't agree on is Birthdays.
To me birthdays are important and to Dave they are not so much.
And having no family or friends around here just yet the thought of my birthday makes me feel a tiny little bit homesick. Maybe I need some Skype time with my Mum and fabulous friends.

Did I tell you we are camping in our own house right now?
No? Ah well, we are still waiting for our furniture&belongings, which are somewhere on a ship between London and Sydney right now. So we are sleeping on mattresses on the floor, eating from picnic ware and living on a bare minimum of suitcase essentials.It's fun some days, and annoying on others. Somehow cozy and creative but messy at times, we can't wait for our things to arrive.
In the meantime we are going round flea markets, 2nd hand furniture shops and little antique shops trying to find things for the new house that we won't have already and really need.
Other people go to the gym, we go furniture shopping without a car!
Keeping fit, we start to feel like the local gypsies in our rather posh little neighborhood.
David keeps carrying our treasures home. We are so excited to have our own place, and to decorate and renovate the apartment step by step. It feels better than I could have ever imagined, I love our place.
While we are both busy at work, it can feel overwhelming at times to come back to our little camping site, but we know its for limited time only.

Inbetween work and furniture finding we tried and make some room for coffees and dinners together.
Time to focus and talk about our goals and plans for our new life in Sydney.
I noticed how much power there is in focusing. It's easy to get sidetracked, to listen to other peoples opinions and negative beliefs to get caught up in what if's.
But what if I no longer care about what others fear or think I can't do? I focus on what I know I can do and on what I want to achieve and things are starting to fall into place. There are endless opportunities everywhere.
Sending all of you some focus and happiness for this exciting new year.
We will post some pictures of the house, once it's all done ;)

Happy New year to everyone!

Thank you all for reading our little blog.
We are incredible happy to have every single one of you here, and it has been great sharing our adventures with you.

2012 has been good to us.
We had a beautiful holiday in Croatia, we had great work projects, Dave has been traveling around the world for work, we spent a lot of time with our friends in London, sightseeing before we moved on the other side of the world to Sydney, where I had my first summer Christmas.What a year!

I am excited about 2013. I set a few goals for myself for this year in terms of my work.
Mainly that I am giving my best every day.
Being open to all good things, to listen to others and to follow my dreams.
To be patient but never lazy. To be loving and supportive to others.
To be happy and grateful for what I have got. That's it! Especially for my bearded beloved man.
Do you have any resolutions for 2013?
We had a fabulous time watching the fireworks in Sydney, camping out in the park all day to secure a spot. These Australians really love their fireworks and all sights are crowded from mid day already.
So we were waiting and waiting and waiting and... for 12 hours! We made a picnic, played cards and watched the air shows. Sydney, you have great fireworks, but I don't think I will wait a whole day again ;)

2013 started with a bang, and we didn't had a chance of blogging a little earlier, as we had so much work coming up. My freelance makeup work is booming and I am preparing for the amazing creative wedding fair One Fine Day which is very exciting, check out their website here. I am so looking forward to it. Somehow I expected January to be a little more quiet, but I like it this way.

While I was writing this in the first place we were having a serious heat wave in Australia, it is 43 degree Celsius (= 109.4 degree Fahrenheit)
I actually started feeling a little dizzy while I was writing this. And a few hours later I had a heat stroke, with fever, sickness, shivering and completely blurred eyesight. That wasn't fun.
That's the reason this post wasn't long up...I am recovered and the temperature is back to normal.