Saturday, April 23, 2011
Wading through wedding photos, narrowing the field of possible enlargements!?
Each of the many million professional wedding images seem to vary by a millimetre. This one and the top one vary by a smidge of difference!
Going over the light and detail of each one is exhausting and quite hard on my eyes! I love every one of them, each for different reasons.
Writing beside a vase of Easter Daisies
The image above is of the vases of flowers that were on the tables at our wedding.
When I went shopping yesterday I bought a bunch of white, lacey, Easter Daisies to put in a vase at home, perhaps not wanting to let go of the essence of April and Easter and our wedding.
Honeymooning at home and inspired to write again...
Wrote ooooooooooooooodles today. Back to the memoir that I love. xo
Thursday, April 14, 2011
Married life and the honeymoon.......wedding photos below. U may have to scroll to older posts.
Every morning I have woken up to Paul rolling over and saying "Good morning my sexy wife!"
After plunger coffee and breaky I have been going for a jog on the beach (okay, I can't jog - it's a shuffle. The Cliff Young, potato farmer variety). Paul surfs while I shuffle...
We return from the beach and I select one of my many herbal teas that I packed for the honeymoon - and I sip, slowly in the sun.
If I'm not booked in for a treatment at the Day Spa - I will read. I have had treatments 2 x days consecutively. Day 1, my treatment at Endota was called "Never, Never Land". This treatment lasts a glorious 3 hours... I was entombed in clay, wrapped in a cocoon of hot towels, lavished with a pedicure, a facial, a 1 hour massage and then a 20 minute soak in the spa surrounded by candle light. At the end of the treatment I was levitating...
I backed Day 2 up with a 1 hour massage for good measure.
Prior to my 3 hour journey into "Never, Never Land", I was asked to choose an essential oil for my treatment. I was asked to smell 3 different oils. Amy, my therapist, told me that I would sub-consciously "choose what my body needed". Amy made a point of not telling me what each fragrance was until I had chosen the scent that most appealed to me.
I chose "Breathe" - a combination of peppermint, lavender, eucalyptus and lemon. Amy thought it unusual but very positive that I chose "Breathe" over the more "sedate" scents, because so often after a wedding, women choose "Dream" or "Calm" because their bodies are begging to shut down, sleep, hibernate and recuperate...
I don't feel tired at all but rather fresh, alive and invigorated -like I want to inhale all that life and love has to offer! I know, I sound crazy!!! Crazy happy maybe....???!!!
At 5 o'clock each evening Paul and I make our way down to the 'The 3 Nippers Restaurant' at the resort and enjoy happy hour!
Being a creature of habit I have ordered the same thing every evening for dinner -scallops served on cauliflower puree for entree and then an entree serve of king prawns with avocado and tomato bruschetta for main. If I find a good thing, I like to stick to it. Paul has tried everything on the menu, be it duck or pork belly etc... I have completed every evening meal with a rich and creamy soy cappucino...
Australis Diamond Beach is half an hour from Wingham and is a secret, little patch of heaven! Our apartment is on the beach. It is tranquil, secluded and totally glassed in on one side of our bedroom - creating a spectacular wall of stars at night.
We keep ringing Lily at Nanny and Poppy's but with her cousins there, her Pony Sarah and the puppies, Lucy and Frody, she won't have a bar of us!?!
I am now off to apply some of my new "skin drink" - Bush Honey and Macadamia moisturiser and then time for a tipple of Moet and Chandon (thanks Simon & Lynelle - classy gift, I have never tried it before)! xo xo
Don't hope to poke my eyes out just yet - aaaah ..... have to go home tomorrow !!! I don't ever want to wash up or cook again!
After plunger coffee and breaky I have been going for a jog on the beach (okay, I can't jog - it's a shuffle. The Cliff Young, potato farmer variety). Paul surfs while I shuffle...
We return from the beach and I select one of my many herbal teas that I packed for the honeymoon - and I sip, slowly in the sun.
If I'm not booked in for a treatment at the Day Spa - I will read. I have had treatments 2 x days consecutively. Day 1, my treatment at Endota was called "Never, Never Land". This treatment lasts a glorious 3 hours... I was entombed in clay, wrapped in a cocoon of hot towels, lavished with a pedicure, a facial, a 1 hour massage and then a 20 minute soak in the spa surrounded by candle light. At the end of the treatment I was levitating...
I backed Day 2 up with a 1 hour massage for good measure.
Prior to my 3 hour journey into "Never, Never Land", I was asked to choose an essential oil for my treatment. I was asked to smell 3 different oils. Amy, my therapist, told me that I would sub-consciously "choose what my body needed". Amy made a point of not telling me what each fragrance was until I had chosen the scent that most appealed to me.
I chose "Breathe" - a combination of peppermint, lavender, eucalyptus and lemon. Amy thought it unusual but very positive that I chose "Breathe" over the more "sedate" scents, because so often after a wedding, women choose "Dream" or "Calm" because their bodies are begging to shut down, sleep, hibernate and recuperate...
I don't feel tired at all but rather fresh, alive and invigorated -like I want to inhale all that life and love has to offer! I know, I sound crazy!!! Crazy happy maybe....???!!!
At 5 o'clock each evening Paul and I make our way down to the 'The 3 Nippers Restaurant' at the resort and enjoy happy hour!
Being a creature of habit I have ordered the same thing every evening for dinner -scallops served on cauliflower puree for entree and then an entree serve of king prawns with avocado and tomato bruschetta for main. If I find a good thing, I like to stick to it. Paul has tried everything on the menu, be it duck or pork belly etc... I have completed every evening meal with a rich and creamy soy cappucino...
Australis Diamond Beach is half an hour from Wingham and is a secret, little patch of heaven! Our apartment is on the beach. It is tranquil, secluded and totally glassed in on one side of our bedroom - creating a spectacular wall of stars at night.
We keep ringing Lily at Nanny and Poppy's but with her cousins there, her Pony Sarah and the puppies, Lucy and Frody, she won't have a bar of us!?!
I am now off to apply some of my new "skin drink" - Bush Honey and Macadamia moisturiser and then time for a tipple of Moet and Chandon (thanks Simon & Lynelle - classy gift, I have never tried it before)! xo xo
Don't hope to poke my eyes out just yet - aaaah ..... have to go home tomorrow !!! I don't ever want to wash up or cook again!
Sunday, April 3, 2011
Dear girls from work,
No one has ever written me a song and sung it loud and proud in a restaurant full of people! Tatham - hilarious, hats off to you. I learnt a few things about myself! I never knew my derriere caused such speculation at work - particularly from other women! xo
I had the most fun, funny and perfect Hen's night!!!! Thank you little Marie for organising 35 wonderful women to come together and celebrate 'love'. Everyone was so relaxed and happy!
I was positively spoilt! My flowers, champagne, champagne flute and pink and black lingerie, boxed in tissue paper and tied with a ribbon - ahh - so romantic, sexy and beautiful!!!
I love u guys - thank you so much! This time next week I will be married! Watch this space!xo
Tracey
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