Now I know that it is already 12 days into November, and I had planned on posting this at the beginning of the month, but time ran away from me, as it so ofter does. So here is me November inspiration board. 

This is a series of blog posts that I really want to start doing every month, so I figured now was as good a time as any. I have done one of these in the past (May Inspiration Board), and I really enjoyed posting it, so I was hoping to begin making it a monthly thing here.

Top to bottom, left to right.

- Fresh Juice: As the weather is heating up here in Australia, as we are heading towards summer, I have really been getting into fresh juices. 

- The Beach: I am super excited about beach season and can't wait to spend all my time there after work.

- Taylor Swift: November brings the Australian section of the 1989 tour, and I am getting excited about seeing her live for the second time with one of my closest friends.

- Pinkish Hair: I am really loving this hair trend right now, I absolutely adore the colour.

- Fox Prints: Being a fox fan I am loving all of the fox prints that have been hitting the shelves recently.

- Spring: Although the season is nearly over, I have enjoyed seeing all of the colours that come with spring.

What are some things that Inspire you this month?

xx Kat

I have been doing some soul searching

The summer break is a great time to find ones self and figure out things. It's a couple of months where you don't have to worry about uni and study and quite a few other things. 

It is a much needed break from life for me. Whilst on holidays I will be having fun and working on myself and seeing what I can discover. 

I have been struggling to write, not only on here but in other places and in other forms, but I plan on changing that and working on becoming a better me.

Expect to see a few changes here on the blog over the summer. 

I want to try out a couple of new things, not only on here, but also in life in general. To see how I can broaden my horizons. I had a major opportunity fall through and it took me some time to get over that, so now I have a months worth of extra time that will need to be willed with something else. 

This summer I will be finding out who I really and and seeing what I can discover about myself. Changing what needs to be changed and fixing what is broken within myself (which is quite a bit). And this blog will accompany me on this journey. 

I hope everyone is doing well. If you have just had end of year exams I hope you did well and are looking forward to your holiday, like myself. 

xx Kat

Going Round the Twist.

Growing up as a kid, here in Australia, in the 90s, I had the pleasure of watching some weird and wonderful Australian made kids TV. 

One show, and still one of my personal favourites, was Round the Twist. A show that followed a family that lived in a lighthouse and the weird things that happened to them. It is hard to explain exactly what happens to people who haven't seen it as it just gets too weird sometimes.

But with the awesomeness of it being an Australian show, means that it was filmed here and that you can go and visit the lighthouse they used in the show. Which is something that I have wanted to do since I was little. 

So one weekend we decided to just do it. To pack up the car and venture out to the coast to see the lighthouse itself. My friend Erin and I had been meaning to make this trip for a while, but hadn't found a good weekend to do so.

Firstly the drive to Aireys Inlet, where the lighthouse is, follows the Great Ocean Road. A coastal road that goes around the bottom end of Victoria. This gave us spectacular views, and a chance to walk along the beach later on in the day. 

It was kind of unbelievable seeing the lighthouse and actually recognising it from my childhood, considering the show played such a big part in my life as I was growing up, as it was always on TV. But being here was a childhood dream come true for both of us.

Also the views from around the lighthouse itself were pretty breathtaking and beautiful. With amazing coastline stretching out as far as the eye could see. 

Can't you just see how excited we were.

Afterwards we headed back to Anglesea, a town near by and have coffee, lunch and a walk on the beach before heading off.

It was an awesome day being able to see something from my childhood in real life. It was also just one being amazing adventure of a day, considering neither of us had been there, and had always wanted to go.

What is one place that you wish you could go from your childhood?

xx Kat

Healesville Sanctuary

Over the weekend I took a much needed break from all of my work and headed out for an adventure on Sunday. One of my roommates had asked me earlier on in the week if I wanted to go to Healesville Sanctuary with her and one of her friends.

Being an animal lover, I instantly agreed.

Healesville sanctuary is a wildlife park that specialises in Australian native animal. Since my roommate and her friend are both international students, they wanted to go and check it out and even take part in one of the up close encounters with some of the animals.

Having picked a surprisingly sunny day, we headed out early as it would take us about an hour to reach the park. Upon arrival, we got a tad lost (having relied on google maps) and were sent in the right direction by one of the keepers.

Once there we roamed the sanctuary and took in as many of the animals as we could. With the occasional fun fact from me about the animals, the the others girls didn't know. I think by the end of the day they were glad that they weren't from Australia, with our dangerous animals that hide around every corner. Especially after seeing the worlds most venomous snake, and one that we kinda proudly call our own here down under.  

 

The encounter that we got was with some of the dingo's they have at the sanctuary. I, being a dog person, was very excited about that. They were two of the sweetest animals in the world and were happy (as you can see above) to give you kisses. Something that I miss from my work back home.

It was a nice adventure and an enjoyable day. I really love being able to see the native animals and never get tired of being able to spend time around them. 

I would like to thank my roommate Leonie for suggesting the idea and also letting me use some of the awesome photos she took of the day. I was so honoured to be able to share this day with her and her friend, and to see their amazement of the weird and wonderful animals we have here.

xx Kat

Nothing much going on right now.

My life has seemed to slow down right now. Nothing much is going on. 

Whilst I have been doing work and uni stuff, I haven't been doing much else outside of that.

My adventures have been put on hold, for now at least, for a while as I come towards the end of semester and towards a production unit for my major. Which is taking up all of my spare time. 

I will be attempting to come up with some content that won't take up to much of the little free time I currently have. 

So just hold on a bit longer.

xx Kat

June/July photo round up

Now that August is almost over I find it almost pointless for me to blog about things that happened in June/July and give them their own blog. I know I have been kinda slack. 

So I thought that I would put some of the photos I took up on the blog, even though they are not getting their own post. Just because they are getting in the way, and if I don't post them now I probably won't ever.

Here is a quick round up of things that I did in June/ July that would have had their own posts at the time, but don't now because I have forgotten what happened most days.

Enjoy!

Taco Tuesday

My all time favourite Mexican restaurant opened up an establishment here in Melbourne, and I was super excited about it. So we headed out to The Beached Burrito Company in Fitzroy and enjoyed some marvellous tacos.

The 10 hour drive

Heading back to Sydney by car takes a hell of a lot of time. Luckily I had a good friend with me and we passed the time by having a massive singalong to Taylor Swift (our personal queen) for the entire trip.

Some pretty skies

Early morning winter skies on my drive to work.

Return to Melbourne

Once again the long drive, accompanied by my wonderful uncle and aunt.

Can you tell I like nature shots.

Footscray Community Arts Centre

Visiting my cousin at work and stumbling upon their current (at the time) exhibition called What Lies Buried Rises. Which was a beautiful collection for NAIDOC week at the centre. 

Gertrude Street Projection Festival

A festival that celebrates projection art. Using familiar buildings of the street and projecting art pieces on them. 

Hopefully from this point on I will be more up to date with my posts and won't log a large collection of picture meant to go up, but not actually going up when intended.

xx Kat