Bastille Yumminess

At work this week one of our team was lucky enough to attend a Bastille Day breakfast and boy did he get brownie points with all the women for bringing this back to the office! It was impossible to get a photo of this thing before everyone tucked in! Cocoa butter and coconut coated chocolate Eiffel tower... mmmmm

Somewhere miles from here

We managed to escape for a few days over the weekend to take a winter break. Nothing like getting out of your environment to give you some perspective. It was blissful. Aside from missing the pups to no end, I didn't want to come back!

Outlook from where we were staying

Our little cottage

(mostly) Local gourmet treats eaten while watching sunsets (excuse bin in background ha)

Colourful and quirky peacocks from a kitsch local boutique ;-)

Comfy gear

Btw- loving my new parka. Reached for it most days as it was super chilly!

Parka: Country Road / Knit Dress: op shop / Tights: Ambra / Boots: ebay / Bracelet: Tiffany & Co

Parka & Jaffa

A couple of Country Road purchases from the Myer Stocktake sale, though I did pay full price for the dress..... hmmm. But I did compensate with the jacket, $249 reduced to $99! It's comfortable and snuggy, has lots of pockets and the shearling collar is removable for when Winter passes. :D

And I just can't help but think about jaffas when I see this dress.... crazy much?

Eye Catcher

This has caught my eye on my way to/from work the last few weeks!

Road Trip Day Two: Citrus, Sugar Cane & Railway tracks

Top - Junk / Skirt - French Connection (ha same combo again.. didn't realise that til now!) / Handbag - Vintage / Circle Scarf - Bonds / Sunglasses - Ray Ban / Bracelets - A little boutique & Tiffany & Co / Ring - (two finger) YTBA / Tights - Avanti / Shoes - Topshop

Road Trip Day One: Mountains & Sea

We decided on Thursday that we were going to go on a spontaneous road trip to Yeppoon on Saturday.. and this was the road trip of road trips for a standard 2 day weekend, that's for sure. We're talking 8 hours each way plus time for exploring = a whole lot of driving! The trip was for Mr B to see another potential 'project car' in the flesh, but we were trying to avoid making this weekend about 'doing things'.. rather we tried to see it as a mini getaway. Really wished we had planned better and had a couple of days off to explore more.. but since we are planning another little getaway next month, we decided to save our leave :)

Car trip essentials

Yeppoon coastline

Top - Junk / Pants - French Connection / Sunglasses - Ray Ban

A distinct reminder we were in North Qld

1770 - An absolutely pristine place and somewhere I have wanted to visit since seeing it on Getaway forever ago!

Yeppoon sunset

Play it again

For some time I have been wanting to start a record collection however, I haven't had anything to play them on. Usually every visit to an op shop I see them, at ridiculously cheap prices and think how great it would be to be able to play them, crackling and all. This weekend on discovery of a few vinyl classics, I decided to just do it. I figure if we owned records, it would push us to invest in a record player. We found a little one (for not much) which will do the job. We figure if we find we do regularly use it, we'll invest in a better one. At the moment it is sitting on the floor of our living room, until I can find a little display unit at an op shop for it! Looking forward to hunting out some more records now! And keen to get some modern music on vinyl also... :-)