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How akward is only having 9 items to choose from for a story line?...but here goes!

Pictured above are a few of my favourite things that inspire, awaken and protect me everyday and/or just making life more enjoyable.

Starting from bottom right is my my Adidas cap that protects me from the elements, why Adidas and Die Drei Streifen? - because I am German born? No because in this world you are either Adidas or Nike and I've always preferred it. Next is my iPod which fills my heart and mind with all of the different sounds I love including Gospel, Classical , Jazz and Rock on my treadmill or getting my daily vitamin D dose weather permitting. Next is my beautiful, beaded, Cross book mark from Koorong bookstore in Brisbane, that most recently and oh so briefly held my page of The Narnia Code about C. S. (...which stand for Clive Staples by the way), Lewis which I read in under a week.

My musical key covered pencil for making important changes at choir or on sheet music that I am trying to learn and decipher, my Jurlique skin balancing face oil that like most of their products makes me glow and stirs my senses first thing in the morning, a pot of Monk's Pear tea that is made with Black tea (to kickstart my day) consisting of; Bergamot, Lavender, Dried Pear and Jasmine Flowers - it's crazy but I like tea in the morning but Decafinated, Organic coffee in the afternoon, my incredibly practical tea-one-cup strainer of which I bought 2 of, for my sister Birgitta and I years ago also in Brisbane (where I lived for most of my life until 4 years ago).

Sweetened by my no calorie, Organic, Austalian made Stevia which is a plant extract that I have a supply stash of every where, and last but not least a unique seashell (this one from Seven Mile Beach) of my many hundreds seashells, collected whilst walking along beautiful Australian beaches with my husband Paul or dear friends in God's Creation. It's those moments that I relive when I see it/them and choose to remember and surround myself with daily all of which make me who I am and that I am Blessed.

Have great day,

Sylvia :-)

My Name is...

These are the sketches of the ideas I came up with after reading the brief, I had fun creating them and it took me back to my childhood, I hope you like them. Sylvia

Australia Day Festivities

Well Hello there Twenty Thirteen!

After old and new years celebrations were over January - known as "The Birthday Month" in my immediate family because my Mother's, mine and a dear friends' are - whose special day falls on the 26th - Australia Day!

I was reading the Clarence City council News and came across the - 'What's on in Clarence' and was ecstatic to discover 2 activities of interest. The first being Saturday 26 January - Australia Day Breakfast On The Bellerive Boardwalk including one of the many Australian Citizenship ceremonies (link) around the country and community awards, and the second Vote for your favourite Aussie song and hear it live!



 

Paul queing for our coffee

We arrived at 9.30 approximately and my husband Paul gladly joined the others for their morning caffeine fix...meanwhile I located the Big Breakfast stall to grab ours that included the freshest bread roll which was naughty as I am gluten intolerant...ssh don't tell.



We were then entertained with the song nominations - the top 5 included the ones I nominated online...YAY! That really made my day! I had in years gone by worked in the retail music industry (it was nice to know I hadn't lost my touch), during which we had worked up an appetite vigorously singing along with our song choices and decided to share a decadent Nutella crepe during the Australian Citizenship proceeding...mmm so good.



The musical proceedings were hosted by MC Brian Ritchie of the Violent Femmes whose songs such as Blister in the Sun (link) featured on various albums over the decades and sold like hotcakes when I sold music for the music chain Brashs in the 90's and probably still do! I wanted to thank him for livening up that part of ceremony and whilst doing so shared with he and his wife Verinda that I was the daughter of an immigrant accepted the offer to come to Australia on a work exchange program to address a skills shortage at the time as he is a Coppersmith.

 

After the proceedings were over we decided to drive to a beach we had never visited and walk off our little food fest' on Cremorne Beach and having lived and been overseas agreed that no matter how far we roam...

 

 

 We still gladly call Australia home! We are so Blessed!



New Years Eve Events

Hello Everyone!

Thought I'd start at the end of the exhausting, nomadic whirlwind of a year that 2012 was eg. moving etc, and the unexpected fun and fantastic beginning of excitement of 2013.

Let's start with New years Eve, Mon 31st Dec wasn't particularly eventlful just the ususal Calisthenics, BLD, a trip to the local Bunnings store, keyboard practise and a brilliant descision on my behalf as it turned out for my husband Paul and I to attend the NYE Festivities!

Naughts & Crosses?

The evening began with desperately tying to find parking close to the Mecure...which we didn't but passed the Moscow Circus before it opened in January for school holidays (iphone shot of it taken out of car window), - but after several laps managed to find one on the Domain to experience both the 9:30pm family fireworks from the Domain (I loved to imagine that the Pirotechnicians had purposefully created naughts & crosses especially for me LOL), & the beautiful cruise ship as a backdrop (read this) and make our way to the Hobart Mecure, have a NYE drink and maybe a bowl of hot chips and Aoili and then stroll across to the Midnight fireworks in Hobart from Kings Pier Marina; where we earlier that week encountered the Hobart winner of the 68th Rolex Sydney Hobart Wild Oats XI.


As it happened the kitchen staff of the Mecure unbeknown to the wait staff had closed after we placed and paid for our order, he then reappeared to announce that the kitchen had CLOSED!

...Surprisingly & thankfully we were offered a $22 cheese platter in lieu of the $7 bowl of hot chips and Aoili which we had already paid for WooHoo!

...By the way Paul is Beer & I am Red wine - which we seldomly do  :-D ...Small isn't it? Ba Ha Ha!

The Midnight fireworks were special too as was the whole night.

Welcome 2013 - "May your latter days be better than your former ones" Amen!