The Smell Of My New Jumper

I bought a new bonds sloppy joe.

It looks like this only blue.

& only I don't look like that.

:-O

Anyhow. It smells sooo nice. After a year of only buying second hand clothes, I have really come to appreciate the smell of newness. (But am sticking to secondhand as much as I can.)

I am wearing it now with Ugg boots cos it is rainy and cold, and I wanted a snuggly jumper.

10 Things I'm Thankful for:

So I this is what the first half of my Monday (Queens Birthday Holiday) has looked like :-)

Here are a few things I am thankful for today:

1. Getting up at 4am to watch the Socceroos lose to Germany.

(Not thankful for the losing part, but the fun-ness of watching early games with friends.)

2. My Cosy Bed.

3. 11:30 brekky of crumpets with strawberries and honey, and a cup of English brekky tea.

4. Listening to Mumford & Sons, Imogen Heap, Jose Gonzalez & KT Tunstall and everyone else I love with my ipod on random.

5. My big comfy chair. It is very good for reading books & newspapers. And for facebooking. hehe

6. Knowing that Coldplay are in the studio again. ooh my heart is singing.

7. It isn't raining. After weeks of raining, it does me good to see the sun shining.

8. Clothes drying on the clothesline. (Yep I am thankful for these little things.)

9. Yummy new shampoo that makes my hair smell delicious

10. I am making Pad Thai for Dinner. Mmm.

What is in my bag?

Ok so it has been yonks since i blogged. Sometimes life is too busy eh? So I am taking the easy option to get back into the swing. Here are the contents of my handbag today:

Apple

Keys

Chanel Lipstick sampler :-) thanks lil old chanel lady.

Business cards

Blush

ipod nano

watch (from an op shop)

Lucas' Pawpaw lip balm

Owl Brooch

Phone

Maybelline lipgloss

wallet

kikki k pens

polaroid and instax pics

Alice Diary

Camera

Extra mints

earphones

re-useable shopping bag

CO Bigelow merlot mint gloss

Clinique Baby Kiss lip stick

Sunnies

Tin of bobby-pins and elastics

hanky

moleskine notebook

other notebook (I can never have too many books in my hand bag.)

There we go. Doneskies.

I'm off.

Today I am going interstate for work for a week to train new staff.

Here are 2 things I am taking with me:

My "Keep Cup" - so I don't have to use paper cups when I get a takeaway coffee.

I like having the time to read when I travel! I am taking this new book.

I also write when I am on the plane. So I thought that today I would share something that I wrote while at an airport a year ago. There was an elderly man sitting near me at the cafe. He was the inspiration for this.

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"You're supposed to think before you open your mouth.

You're supposed to think before you open your bloody mouth.

Don't you know?

Did nobody teach you that you can't open your mouth

and say any stupid thing?"

He repeats this over and over.

He doesn't appear to have any companions.

He sits alone at the airport cafeteria drinking a coffee.

So I sit here and wonder.

Does he have Tourette's syndrome - is this a tic?

Or does he have dementia?

Were these spoken to him in his childhood by his mother or father or teacher perhaps?

I wonder if they would have spoken differently if they knew their words would bury themselves

so deeply in his brain that he'd spend the last years of his life repeating them.

Do you think he got the point?

_________

Hmmm I hope it doesn't seem depressing. I was just really impacted by the compulsiveness with which he repeated this phrase, and it made me sad that these words were the ones so planted in his brain. We can all have the power to encourage people and bring life to them with our words don't we?

Well I am off for the week. Ciao.

I saw:

So there are a few music peeps on my list to see live. Last year I ticked off coldplay. To be honest, I don't think they can be beat. They were incredible. Last Friday I ticked off Mr Johnny Mayer. I really do love his music. But he didn't play a few of my fav songs which made me a bid of a sad. (Belief, and Clarity for starters.) But he was still good. His back up vocalists had some great moves that I am hoping to bring out some time at a party, and there was a sick drum solo.

Still on my "To See Live" list are Adele and Mumford & Sons.

I Want to Make A Patchwork Quilt

Mmhm It is true. I have been eyeing off cute ones on blog pictures for ages.

Here are some pics of cute patchwork quilts. (Mmm 2/3 have babies in them... I think that adds to the cuteness of these quilts.)

This one comes from Ruby at Cakies. How cute is baby Soul?

This one is from the bedroom of Kara Haupt of "I Just Might Explode" I love it's jaggedness.

I can't remember where this one is from... maybe You Are My Fave or A Cup Of Jo?

I have been looking for one on ebay and in op-shops, but have had no luck. THEN i thought to myself.... why don't I make one? Yeow! So I am going to be hunting and thrifting 2nd hand material for a while. I already have a nice creamy yellow bit that was an old curtain I think. NB. I cannot sew. So this is a bit of a mission for me. My sister has a sewing machine, so I am hoping to be able to borrow it to get a feel for it.

Today I spoke to at the meeting of a bunch of old ladies at "Prime Time" (hehe cute name)... they are all knitters, crocheters and patchworkers and are making blankets for local and international use in refuges, orphanages and other places where people might be cold and need a blanket to cuddle. I want to be like that when I am old. So I figure I had better start practicing now.

I Saw:

I went and saw "The Blind Side" on Saturday with a friend. It was a really incredible movie. I knew it was going to be... I cried watching the trailer on my computer.. eek. Not really a movie tears person. The fact that it is based on a true story makes it sooo much better. I love movies that inspire us to be more generous, open and trusting.

You should definitely see it.