New Year New Me?

So here I am, back again...

Its been so long I know I'm slack but life happened! I started university last year, it was my first year of five, so it was definitely a year of learning new things not only about where I am but where I want to go and what I want to do in my life. Last year was pretty hard for me and I completely lost all motivation and inspiration, I didn't enjoy my degree and it made everyday unenjoyable for me. Over the last 5 months I have had a uni hiatus and in this time I have really taken a step back. I have always always always been the type of person that likes to always keep busy, constantly be doing something. Over the last 5 months I didn't work much, didn't study and took a trip with my family to Europe where I fell in love with London, England. While on this trip I kind of thought about why I picked the course I did and I remembered how hard I worked to get where I am. While in London it reminded me that this is the dream, to live here, work here, have a life here. Even though I was in London for such a short time, it was exactly what I needed. All of a sudden I had this urge to get back to uni and really try my hardest and better my best. And that is what I want to do, and I'm going to write about it here so I have to hold myself accountable. 

I know its already pretty much March but its never too late to set your goals. I set mine at the start of this year and I want to achieve them all by the end of this year! One of my goals was to get a new part time job, which I have done... yay me! I start on Wednesday, I'll be sure to write about how that goes. Its retail, I have never worked in retail. I have been a swim instructor for the past 5 years and I think retail is going to be harder than I anticipate but we will see! 

Its orientation week at Uni this week and I have been so busy preparing. I am apart of my courses student society and I run the social media accounts so I've been under the pump to market the heck out of all of the fun stuff we have planned. I really enjoy writing posts for social media, I even see myself working in that kind of field one day. It is something I am really passionate about and I have fun doing it. 

My most favourite life update is that I have started aerial silks! If you don't know what it is, its basically when you wrap your feet into two sheets hanging from the roof and do all kinds of twists and turns. I didn't explain that very well but I hope you get the idea.. I find it so relaxing, although I am a bit nervous about the class I am in because everyone is so good and I AM NOT! No upper body strength AT ALL!!!! I love it though so I am going to keep at it! Maybe one day I will share some pics.

I think thats pretty much the condensed version of a life update and whats been happening over the past few months. Not all posts will be this boring I promise, I will put some fun outfit posts, some recipes and maybe even some makeupy bits. But mostly this is going to be my place where I can just share my thoughts and keep a record of what I'm feeling like everyday. 

So here we go, 2018 is going to be a good one, I can feeeeeeeel it 

x cc

Ireland Trip 2015

So heres the deal, I am going into my last year of schooling this year and I start next week... A lot of people are saying that its the best year of your life and that I am going to have a whalllle of a time... But I mean, I'm not so sure about that! I have wanted to start a youtube channel for a few years now but I have found that I just don't have the time or space in my life to do it, so I decided 2 hours ago that I would start this blog. This blog is going to be my stress relief tool of 2016, when I feel stressed I will come over here and write a post! I don't have any particular theme in mind for what type of posts I will be putting up but I am sure there will be a bit of everything!

 Now storytime, there was a freak storm last night and I woke up to the lovely surprise of no wifi...brilliant... i was not happy, so what i decided to do instead was look through some of the photos from my recent trip to Ireland over my christmas break and pick a few to put up here! 

I spent the month of December in County Clare with my grandparents and uncle, it was such a great trip and although I have been to Clare a few times this year I really got to see other places around Ireland! Sooooooo here we go my first ever blog post!

On the first few days of our trip we were suuuuuuper tired because we live in Australia so we had spent about 3 days either on a plane or at an airport. However, once the jetlag started to settle dad, mum, my sister and I went on a little trip to go stay with my uncle in another County called Offaly. I looooove Birr! There are so many cute, little shops that were FULL of fun little trinkets, jewellery, candles, homewares and christmas decorations!

One night we went to Bunratty Castle to visit the Folk Village and attend a christmas themed banquet! I had so much fun that night because everything was so christmassy and cheerful! There were singers that sung heaps of christmas carols throughout the meal and the food was delicious. I loved it here because I love love love everything about christmas, as this was basically Santa's irish holiday home!

The next few photos were all taken on one of the best days we had in Ireland. We went to the Burren which was one of the strangest and most incredible things I have ever seen! Kilometers and kilometers of just rock... it was crazy! We also went to the Cliffs of Moher and it was so so so windy we struggled to stand up straight! haha

FUN FACT: in the above photo^ this is where they filmed some scenes from Harry Potter! Can you guess what film???

Galway was one of the prettiest places I have ever been, the main shopping street was so gorgeous and the way they decorated it was just incredible!

This was my first time visiting Dublin and I have to say, Grafton Street was so amazing! It reminded me of a prettier version of Bourke St in Melbourne! haha We went and looked through Trinity College and Dublin Castle which were both gorgeous as well as Kilmainham Jail which was a cool experience.

Obviously I don't enjoy shopping and I am really big into saving money!^ hehe ooops! 

 Cheeky little stop at Laduree, I wish we had a Laduree Store in Melbourne.. they are my absolute favourite treats!

We also met up with some of my family in Limerick and went ice skating and went and got some food at a place called Milano.. they had these appetisers called dough balls and OH MY GOODNESS, they were the most amazingly delicious things I had ever eaten in my whole life! If you live in Ireland, I recommend checking them out! Does anyone know where I could find them in Melbourne???

On Christmas eve, my sister and I did a bit of baking! She made some cupcakes and I decided to make some mince pies and gingerbread! I got the recipe for the mince pies from Zoellas blog and they tasted so so good! I used the Tesco mince meat and no one could tell that it was from a jar ;) 

It snowed on Christmas eve! I was so excited!

Christmas Day last year was one to remember, Santa went to town on the presents and it was so fun because usually its just mum, dad, my sister and I because no other family lives in Melbourne! I loved being able to share my most favourite day with some of my most favourite people and I will cherish the memories we made forever!

So there we go! My first ever blog post! Even if no one ever sees this, I must say I am really enjoying writing them and picking the photos! If you got to the end then heres to you my friend you are fabulous! 

Love C xxxx