Etsy Love #1

Lately I’ve been spending a lot of time on Etsy. It probably has something to do with the Harry Potter bracelet I bought myself for my birthday a few months ago. Seriously. Love. That. Bracelet. What was even more awesome about that bracelet was the seller could modify it to how you wanted to it, so I got exactly what I wanted!

Anway, I think I like etsy just because of it’s simplicity. I like how the products (some) people sell have heart and soul.

Here are just a few items I’ve grown attached to on Etsy this week…

The co-op shop at my university are actually selling cameras like these at the moment. I just think they are amazing, I love the style of photography, I love the vintage feel and I just love everything about it! I can’t justify purchasing a camera however because I simply don’t do enough or get out enough to take photos; but the desire is there!

I have more cartilage piercings in my ears than an onion has layers. Ok that’s a bit of an exaggeration but I do have quite a few piercings in my ear. I actually stopped wearing earrings for almost 10 years but now that I’ve started wearing them again I’m trying to think of new and creative earrings to wear. When I saw these I knew I had to have one (eventually!)

I know a shop that sells soy candles and there is one there that I can’t get enough of. I spend like half an hour in that shop just smelling this candle (luckily I know the people who own the shop, so it’s not so weird for me to stand in there smelling candles for half an hour). But these candles are super cute and I just had a look at the sellers page and there is such a variety of beautiful candles!

I absolutely adore how dainty and sweet this Hamsa necklace is. That’s all I can really say about it because that’s exactly how I feel. I think it’s perfect because I don’t like over the top jewellery, I just like simplicity and this is just stunning. This seller also sells a variety of really simple but stunning jewellery.

I know I have the deathly hallows on a bracelet, but I need it in necklace form too! This isn’t as dainty and sweet as the previous necklace, but I feel like I could wear this on one of my ‘nerd love’ days. (The days where I don’t care what you think, I’m going to be a nerd and proud of it – which is everyday…). Actually this seller has quite a variety of really nice products; I think I need to look into this a bit more!

 

 

 

 

So, who else is an Etsy Addicted?

*All images link back to the Etsy Seller webpage

Day Thirteen: I heart Favourites

[Day 13]: What are your favourites?

Yeh, Australians spell favourites with a ‘u’. We also spell colour with a ‘u’ and just for shiz and giggles, we spell it “Cheque” and not “Check”. But today’s prompt is all about listing you favourite things.

 

Favourite Cake: Cheesecake

Favourite Movie: August Rush

Favourite Breakfast: Hashbrowns

Favourite Animal: Lions

Favourite Colour/s: Pastel

Favourite Drink: Lemon, Lime & Bitters

Day Twelve: The 6 month plan!

[Day 12]: What are you most looking forward to in the next six months?

Well, lets get started shall we? (In no order in particular)

1. My Birthday (5 & 1/2 days!)
2. Queensland “holiday”
3. Finish my Undergrad
4. Thailand holiday
5. Christmas
6. New Year
7. My mum & sister moving closer to me
8. Melbourne Stampede (if I can find some more motivation)
9. Summer
10. Bikini Weather

Day Eleven: MEmeME!

If you could change one thing about yourself what would it be? Would it be something physically? Would it be a personality trait or something you have a habit of doing?

Today’s prompt tackles just that, except in reverse:

[Day 11]: What's one thing that you would never change about yourself?

I don’t like the question “What would you change about yourself” because it gives room for those insecurities to pop out and eat away at you like some sort of flesh-eating bacteria. People are so quick to focus on all the negative attributes that they never seem to focus on the positive. I am guilt of doing this, all-the-time. My waist line isn’t small enough, my skin isn’t clear enough, my hair isn’t long enough, my nose is too big and so on and so forth, I’m pretty sure you get the gist of it. So often I watch ridiculous TV shows where girls argue why they want plastic surgery and why they aren’t perfect; this is such a negative way to think about things and I for one am trying ridiculously hard to change this, well, I am now.

So if you haven’t taken part in the 15 Day Challenge (or even those who have) I’m setting the challenge that you need to make a list of the top 5 things you like about yourself physically AND 5 things you like about your personality. I suck at lists because I get to point 2 and then have run out of ideas, but as this is the challenge I’m setting, I’m going to do it first. These are the things that I like about myself and therefore would never change about myself.

Personality

1. I have an awesome sense of humour

2. My ridiculous level of empathy for the people around me

3. My ability to care for the world around me

4. My determination to be better at the things I attempt

5. My drive to achieve the goals I set

 

Physically

1. My Eyes

2. My Boobs

3. My Butt (when I’ve been working out)

4. My Calf muscles

5. My Wrists (yep, I like them)

Day Nine: Best day so far…

Day Nine already, I’ve almost caught up entirely! Today’s prompt is:

[Day 9]: Tell us the best day of your life to date.

In all seriousness, how can you pick one? I’m not ever 25 yet and I have so many of the greatest days every! So in honour of my upcoming 25th birthday, I’m going to give you the top 25 days that I’ve had in my whole life, but of course – not in any particular order!

1. Meeting my Boyfriend. I was sitting at a cafe, he brought me a pink gerbera flower, it was beautiful!
2. Graduating High School! At the time it was incredibly stressful and I had to work my ass off to get my grades up.
3. Getting on a plane to fly to Europe. I was alone, it was a long way to travel and it was my first time travelling alone.
4. Being accepted into my University – something I had wanted for so long.
5. Waking up in a beautiful holiday cabin on my first holiday with my boyfriend.
6. The day I got my school captain badge in Primary School.
7. Seeing Cirque Du Soleil for the first time…and the second time.
8. The time I got to ski down a mountain by myself without ski-poles.
9. Going to Philip Island with my Boyfriend
10. Going to Queensland with my Boyfriend
11. Hiking Mount Snowdon in the UK
12. The day I was born  - of course!
13. The day I went bungee jumping twice
14. The day I saw my grandmother for the first time in a ridiculously long time.
15. Going back and seeing my old primary school.
16. The day I got my drivers license.
17. When I got my braces off.
18. When my sister was brought home from the hospital.
19. All the days I spent any my grandmothers house (South Africa).
20. The day I ran my first fun run.
21. The first time I went to Lindale Farm.
22. The day my boyfriend and I went to a drive in movie.
23. The days when I came back from travelling and mum would cook me a REAL meal.
24. The Christmas, when my parents got a long in order to give my sister and I great day.
25. My 15th Birthday.

Day Two: Six-Word Memoirs

Hello, Hello! Well it’s day two of the 15 day challenge and todays prompt is all about writing memoirs, short ones, 6 words to be exact. I didn’t know how I was going to do mine, I mean 6 words is really hard to work with! But then I saw Suze at Suze Blog at I really liked the way she set hers out. She came up with milestones or eras within her life and used them as a starting point to create the 6 word memoir. So because I think it’s such a great idea, I’m going to follow her lead and go with a similar method.

Childhood: Daydream Believing: adventure and magical hideaways.

Teenager: Pain, Anger and Truth with Lies.

20Something: Learning from the past; moving forward.

 

To go one step further, I’m going to explain my choice of words and why I feel they describe those decades in my life. First and foremost, the fun that was my child hood! I was a bit of a dreaming when I was younger, I was the type that believed in magical beings, fairies and other such things. I use to believe the characters in my books were real and there was a world of adventure I was missing out on. When I was living in New Zealand, our area use to flood a lot and I thought that I could be like Christopher Robin (but a girl) and turn an umbrella upside down and sit in it like a boat and it would take me away to some place amazing (clearly didn’t understand the concept of what floats and what sinks!) But my point is, I was one of those creepy kids that live in some imaginative world in their head because that’s just how they are.

As a teenager, I wasn’t exactly the poster child for perfection. I was really angry, I was sad, I was a jumble of emotions and while I realise it was my teen years and I’m not the only one to experience hardship in my life, I’m just well aware that all that pent up frustration I had and the animosity I had toward my parents and my family was part of the reason I made bad choices and basically led a life of self-destruction. I wasn’t a terrible teenager but I did make bad choices and if I could go back again and do it all over again OR if I could go back and tell my 15 year old self what she’s doing wrong, I would make it abundantly clear that I’m stronger than the choices I make, I don’t need to be impressing anyone else or fighting for the attention of my parents, I just need to find my own courage and make the choices I know are right.

 

And clearly my 20something memoir is fairly self-explanatory. I’m smarter these days and I’ve made plenty of mistakes in the past that I know what I need to learn and what I need to change in order to shape the future I want. The past is the past and there isn’t anything I can do about it to change it, I made my mistakes and whether or not the choices I made back then were right or wrong, I can’t change them; all I can do is look to the future and realise that the mistakes of my past are what gave my strength in the present.