Family visit! A long weekend in northern Germany! Meeting my parents!
A weekend full of fresh homegrown food, fresh air and wind turbines.
Beside freezing 16 degrees and my severe cold that I just got in time for our trip, we had a great time.I was busy translating because Dave doesn't speak German and my Mama's English isn't that fluent either.
They both did extremely well and it made me very happy to see that everyone was getting along.
And I finally saw my little dog Leni again, who stayed with my Mum when I moved to London.
I miss her so much and it was good to her that happy, she is loving the countryside.
Even though the weather wasn't summery I showed Dave around and drove him out to my favorite beach and got him to taste some traditional dishes.
In no time the weekend was over and packed with strawberry jam from Mamas garden we went back to London where it was surprisingly hot and sunny, so that we had dinner on our local rooftop bar.
It's good to be back!

I can't believe it's already July and the last Chap Olympiad was a year ago.
Although the weather has been horrible and we have been hiding underneath an umbrella for several hours, trying to save our food and picnic blankets from the pouring rain, after six o'clock the sun came out and we eventually had a blast. It was such a fun day, also had the pleasure to do my friends vintage hair- and make up.

The move was exhausting.
Our man with a van let us down, so that I ended up lifting a lot of the very heavy things with Dave.
My legs are still covered in blue-purple bruises.
But we made it. I am already in love with the new place!
Nice brick walls, high high ceiling and loads of light and huge windows.
Finally the internet is set up and the place gets better every day.
Today Dave is on a business trip in Amsterdam and I tried my best to give the place some love with new plants and further unpacking.
See above how Dave built up an Ikea wardrobe in middle of the night after a party.

More pictures to come when we are settled in.

We had to move twice!
Our new flat is available 3 weeks later than we need to leave our old flat.
So all our stuff (yes we do have loads!!!) went into storage for three weeks and we lived in a friends house in the beautiful Angel neighborhood for three weeks.
It was almost like a little holiday. I went to Yoga classes in the evenings, and we went out to a lot of nice restaurants in the area.
We even had a little outdoor patio area and 2 cats in the house.
Aw...it's so nice to live with pets.
The pictures above we took on the last morning in Angel, after we packed our all stuff to move back to Dalston.
We were happy and excited. That was before we knew that our man with a van will be letting us down that day...

Finally we have found a great place & potentially great flat mates.
I have a good feeling that the new place is a step closer to my dream home.
News are: Dave's brother and his boyfriend will be moving to London in spring next year!!!
While we were speaking more and more about moving to Sydney.

Probably not so soon anyway. London is an exciting place, but can sometimes also really get on our nerves.
The weather the constant rush and the snobbery...
But then we have great friends here and soon a really nice flat and there is so much to do and to see and it's full of inspiring people.
Lately we have been uber busy with moving planning.
On rainy rubbish days I do miss Australia though and wish I could beam myself there from time to time.
Life is so very different there, different and beautiful.

Our apologies.
We are still happy and alive we just haven't found a minute to breath.
I have been studying and graduated recently from the Jemma Kidd Make Up Academy,
were it happened that I won a scholarship through a talent competition and found myself in a full time professional make up course, which was more than I could have hoped for to start my career.
However it meant having not a single day off in a few months, which brought me to my limits in energy, financially and creatively as well.
On top of that my exhausted body got a hay-fever for the first time in my life and a proper asthmatic one, that stole my voice and breath.
We also needed to look for a new house at the same time.
We were missing Australia and there were days where even me as complete big city girl just wished to be on a lonely island.
I can't thank Dave enough to support me during this crazy busy times.
I wasn't the easiest to deal with as I was very stressed towards the end of my course.
He is the best man in my world.

Last week we finally found a new place, here in Dalston (YAY!)
We can't wait to move and Dave started already (weeks before) to pack boxes.
So we are living in box-land for a few weeks.
Today I am having a day off!!!! And catching up with blogging, emails and sorting my Make Up kit out.
I am excited for my new career and hope for loads interesting projects coming up.
My Make Up Artist website just launched as well, though there not many good photos on just yet.


P.S: Summer is here !

1 year ago we first met.
It's been such an exciting time, full of love and growth.
Funnily enough it's my Mum and Rudi's 10th wedding anniversairy today as well. They are going to celebrate it with a big summer party in July and we are going to be there!
Somehow the 10th of April is a very special day.
Thank you David for making my life so special and wonderful, every day.