mrs. young, broke & fabulous.

Monday hasn’t been the most great. Here are the three main reasons as to why:

1. I spent most of my Morning suffering with a migraine (the shake-y, vomiting kind - yay!)
2. Game of Thrones finale was today and the one thing I was hoping happened didn’t.
3. Tonight is my last night with my Husband before he leaves for work for another 2 weeks.

And you know what?

That’d usually make for a completely ruined day.

But, with perfect timing, on this particular Monday, there is one BIG reason why today is still wonderful. 

We were sent our Wedding photos. If my head could hurt (from the earlier migraine woes, but mainly from happiness) anymore I’d explode, I am beyond grateful for such talented people like Samm Blake to be in this world. 

I can’t wait to start sharing photos from what will forever be one of the most important days of our lives with everyone.

I’m still waiting for our Wedding photos to arrive.

Not, like, “still waiting” as in OMFG I’VE BEEN WAITING THE LONGEST TIME NOW WHERE ARE THEYYYYYYYZZZ! - just, “still waiting” as in it’s only been 8 weeks since we got married this coming Saturday.

My reason for bringing this up is because I really want to start posting entries about our Wedding. Originally I was going to wait until we had the professional photos from the wonderful Samm arrive, but they might be another 4 weeks away still… I can always post some things using IG photos… but what if they don’t give whatever it is I’m talking about justice!? And then a few more weeks later amazing professional photographs arrive? Or I don’t have photos of final products of things from the Big Day? Only the lead up/making of!? And then I’ll either have to edit old blog entries or blog them all again, AGAIN, and then that could be boring for readers and and and!

Sheesh.

…anyway, before I head home to continue to ponder the stressful outcomes to these decisions I need to make, I thought I would include at least SOMETHING Wedding related… big thank you to Perth Photobooth Hire for providing us hours of laughter during our Reception!

The weekend gone was my first weekend home alone since returning from our travels and Rick starting back at work. It… sucked, to be honest.

I didn’t do anything useful. I rarely left the house, and when I did it was only for food. I napped, watched god knows what on the TV and only really functioned for the sake of Rigby. I did, however, spend a lot of time on Pinterest.

I think I mentioned that now the Wedding is over, we are focusing on ’sprucing’ up parts of the house. Unfortunately for my brain (but fortunately for the wallet) we’re not ready to start the purchasing of new furniture or painting walls yet, but I can’t help looking at ideas for things I CAN do now. After browsing at all of these creative, cute and easy projects, I noticed most of the pins I had opened included a succulent of some kind. So when I had the sudden urge to do something, ANYTHING (that wouldn’t take longer than 30minutes), I rolled with it and did what some people refer to as “gardening”.

I went outside, picked some bits to break off from our succulent plants, and re-potted one like this:

I partly liked this idea so much because besides being pretty, succulents don’t die easily. Easy to maintain plants are best for inside, or everywhere really, especially when your green thumb is more of an ‘over-watering-murdering-but-not-on-purpose-I-love-you-really-garden-thumb’… BUT I reallllllllly liked this idea because it’s a way of displaying some of your favourite items in ways you usually wouldn’t. The teacup + saucer I used was a Bridal Shower gift (so very sentimental). It’s an oversized set in a beautiful peach colour that helps the succulent colours stand out perfectly. I knew I wanted to keep the cup out on display and now I can without people wondering why I have an empty teacup on my buffet!

And that’s how Pinterest helped me start the first of many projects around our house, got me off the couch and stopped my boring weekend from being so boring.

Now that we’re home from the Honeymoon, and our Wedding day has come and gone - our paycheques can start going towards fun things again, like house decor + furniture, gadgets, wardrobe goodness and a new set of wheels (instead of straight into a savings account - the Wedding and Honeymoon were of course a huge amount of fun - but a huge amount of fun that took us over a year to save for!).

Still, for now though, big ticket items like our eventual new car and coveted furniture pieces have to wait a few more weeks. Much to my annoyance…

So to tide me over - today I purchased this amazing bulldog statue from Urban Outfitters. I am inlove!

King of Hearts: What do you know about this unfortunate affair?
March Hare: Nothing.
Queen of Hearts: Nothing whatever?
March Hare: Nothing whatever!
Queen of Hearts: [shouts] That’s very important! Jury, write that down!

We’ve been home from our trip for 11 days now. How it is ALL already over and done I’ll never know, but I love looking back at the few photos we’ve edited so far and remembering how much fun we had during those 4 weeks.

I’ll write more about where we went and visisted with photos soon, but just for now - 3 little snaps from the holiday:

1. Husband - Abu Dhabi
2. Me - Nice, France
3. Husband - French Rivieria, Nice, France 

I’m back!

No, really, I am.

After quite a long hiatus - I am back with open arms, little blog.

Too much has happened since I last shared or posted anything here. I have a lot to catch up on - mainly a Wedding and a Honeymoon… Rick and I are married! We became Mr and Mrs Lavers on the 6th April 2013, and spent four weeks travelling around Europe on our Honeymoon to celebrate.

As I write this I am sitting at my desk at Work for the first time in nearly two months, jotting down all of the things I want to write about over the next few weeks. I have been planning on getting back into my blogging for a little while now and am excited to start by sharing bits and pieces from the past seven weeks.

It makes me feel a little sad to think our Wedding has come and gone already, especially when I think about how much time, planning and love went into the big day, but I am ready for a new creative focus.

I have a good feeling about the rest of 2013 - my brain is full of ideas and goals that need completing!   

I look forward to getting reacquainted, blogging world. I’ve missed you, you know. For real.

Samm Blake took our pictures recently.

We are beyond lucky to have the moments she captured for us, forever. This is the second time we’ve had a shoot with Samm, the next time we see her will be when she shoots our Wedding in April. To say I am already impatiently waiting for those (yet to exsist) pictures is an understatement.

I swear I remember thinking “holy crap it’s the first of November this week!” like two days ago, and now it’s nearly December?

Where the time is going lately I don’t know. The many many many birthdays in December are about to start, Christmas is right around the corner along with anniversarys and New Years… and the Wedding is forever getting closer.

Life has been busy, up and down, happy, sad, excited, busy, quiet, sick, tired, stressed, happy, busy and happy. Did I mention busy?

But busy is good, busy is what makes the time go by so fast. And I can’t wait for 2013, so busy I will be.