Acquiesce

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I hope everyone is having a wonderful holiday season and a wonderful New Year! I'm so happy to be here at home with my family celebrating the silly season with our traditional food and lots of corny Christmas music and television specials (including Andre Rieu haha). ♡ I never set new year's resolutions, but instead seek to continue the positive energies I utilised from the previous year and bring that into the new year. However, my one main continual goal will be to keep up my healthy lifestyle, as I've honestly not felt this good in years after taking up running and cutting out a lot of stodgy foods that just leave me feeling heavy. It worked for me in 2013, so I hope it will work for me this year and give me all the energy I'll need for my final year of my Masters!

I've been busy working on some illustrations, which I've included in the portfolio page. It's so good to find time to catch up on personal projects! I've also been reading a lot more, this is basically the only time during the year that I can find the time to do so, sadly enough! Below is some of the illustrations I have been working on during my study break.

And here are my instagram updates of the things that have been going on in my life of late.

1. An illustration I completed of the Australian model Montana Cox, who won Cycle 7 of Australia's Next Top Model.
2. An illustration I completed of Rihanna.
3. I found these Finders Keepers Winter Bird shorts at a sample sale earlier in Adelaide and bought them without realising the zip was faulty! But I had them fixed and now I can weart them - the print and fabric are of such a high quality, I am in love.
4. An illustration of model Nastya Kusakina.
5. Progress shots of an illustration I'm working on, feat. Lana Del Rey.
6. Chili print shorts, purchased from Mombasa Boutique. ❤



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That's all for this post lovelies, see you next time! x

Tea and strawberries

It seems this is my 100th post on this blog! As celebration, I am going to post an illustrated list of 100 things that either I love or that inspire me. I will split this list in half and post the other half in another post. ♡

It was also my 22nd birthday in late November - it feels so weird having birthdays now as I feel so old! It's like, when you were younger your birthday was the one day (apart from Christmas for some) you got so excited about, but now it just feels like "oh, another year older!" It's funny how perceptions shift with time. I decided to buy two new charms for my Pandora bracelet which I received as a gift for my 21st last year - an owl and a mermaid. They're so cute! Now, onto my list!



If you wish, have a listen to this playlist whilst reading this list, it's chock-a-block full of some of my favourite tunes this moment. ♥

♡ #1 from bambisvalentine on 8tracks Radio.