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

State of Love

Hello everyone!

I hope you all had a merry Christmas and a happy New Years Eve! I'm very sorry for not updating my blog in what seems like forever, but I'll promise to try and blog once every week just to stay updated.

I spent my new years and Christmas at home with my family, which was good as I only come home from uni once a year, so it's good to spend some time at my home and sleeping in my old bedroom. I have been working on a drawing since I have come back home, but I have stopped because I find so many other things to do and completely forget all about it! But I will try my best to finish it, maybe by the end of this week. The weather has been so awfully hot this entire week, so I haven't felt like doing much apart from laying motionless by the air con all day, but somehow I have managed to build up the strength to keep up my exercise regime.

One film I am really excited to see this year the The Great Gatsby with Leonardo DiCaprio and Carey Mulligan. I also love Baz Lurhmann's work, especially the Romeo + Juliet film which is one of my favourite movies ever. I hope it will be really good; I don't understand why people say how Leo has become "ugly" with age and he was so much more attractive during the 90's. Given he was very attractive then, I think he is still darn good looking now!

I have done a bit of online shopping and have bought these items:

Ladakh Mississippi Queen Dress, $29.00

Ladakh Russian Doll Blouse, $10.00

Minkpink Marianne Top, $25.00

Finders Keepers State of Love shorts, $25.00

Minkpink Sister of the Moon dress, $29.00

August Street Brohelm bodysuit, $15.00

All in all a good shopping experience for christmas!

I went op-shopping with my mum recently and she found this One Teaspoon Almost Famous Pixie dress, with all tags still attached and happened to be my size! I thought that was lucky. :)

I'll leave you all now with some images that have inspired me recently.

The Beach Boys - Kokomo