Things I Suck At

I made a nice big carrot cake the other day and it looked so good I thought I would take some photos to share here...man, I did not realise how hard it is to photograph food without making it look awful. I pulled down my cake stand and then I remembered I broke it when we moved, but I placed it in a good natural light and I still only managed to take one reasonably good photo! 

If only my cake stand wasn't broken, this would have looked a lot nicer, but I kind of like the imperfection of it.

I guess food photography is something I need to work on! 

Have a great day

Megan xo

Introducing Amos

When I was a kid we had a German Shepherd (crossed with who knows what!) called Cookie, we had her for a few years before Bella the mixed breed "followed" my brother Paul home from school one day. My Grandma (who lived next door) had a dog called Topsy, and we always had a least one cat and so did my grandma - my point is, I grew up with lots of pets! Cookie passed away in 1998, and Bella lasted until 2010, and this is the longest in my life I have gone without a dog. We were waiting til we got married, then we were waiting til we moved, and then our fence needed to be replaced - but now the stars aligned and we found Amos...

This is the photo of him that I first saw on the Pet Rescue website...and I was in love. His eyes, his ears and that happy grin, I knew he was the dog for us.  The only problem was is the dog rescue that had him was located in Griffith, NSW - which is 6 hours away! I spoke to his carer on the phone for a while and asked a million questions about him. He lived with her and her family, and their 13 cats! So I knew he was good with cats and kids. We decided to take him on a one week trial, but we both know there is no way in hell we could give him up. He is a big goofball 

This kills me - he was rolling around after our walk 

Dying from laughter at this photo 

This was our first photo together. I sat in the back seat with him on our way home and he rested his head on my lap <3 

My sister in law described him as "all legs and face" - which is pretty spot on! 

Are you kidding me with this face? 

So we've only had him since Friday, and we are hoping things go well - he seems to be settling in. I tried to introduce him to the cats however they were a bit scared. He just wanted to play with them, he's around 8months old so he is still a pup! I will keep you updated and I think I will do a post about why I choose to adopt pets too!

Megan xo

Friday Fancies

Hello! Here are my fancies for this week!

MissPoppyDesign on etsy

I love this gold foil map 

MyZoetrope on etsy

Cute sleepy kitty family 

GTRichardson on Society6

Love love love this Hermione silhouette

One Creative Mommy

I saw Frozen the other day and I LOVED IT SO MUCH!! This Valentines idea is so cute

A Beautiful Mess

Mmmm homemade falafel 

ToodlesNoodles on etsy

Cool tote and good advice 

RexLambo on Society6

Haha perfect for your Valentine

Have an amazing weekend, I know I will - we are picking up our dog today! 

Megan xo

Four Goals for February

A Beautiful Mess (one of my favourite blogs!) recently made a post about productivity where they mentioned that telling people your goals may help you to achieve them, as they then become your "accountability partner" ha ha - I thought this was great idea and decided to share my February goals

1. Start training Amos

Amos hasn't had any proper training, his carer tried her best and did a good job, however she is more of a cat person (she has 13!) so I don't think she was too fussed with training him, plus he's only young and very excitable. I want to be able to walk him properly and I would like him to know basic commands so he listens to me!

2.  Organise my office 

Something I really want to do is organise the whole house so that I can find things more easily, and that way the house is easier to keep clean too! I plan to start with my office cupboard which looks like this, plus four draws under all this that are stuffed full of random things that need a home!

3. Read these 3 books 

The Ocean at the End of the Lane is Neil Gaiman's latest book (released in June last year) and I've been wanting to read it since it was released! Piercing I have had for years and I think it's time to read it. As for Vagina, it just sounds like a fascinating biography and I am interested in reading about a part of the body that more than half of the worlds population has, is responsible for bringing life into this world and yet is also a taboo subject that you can't even name on television and if you say it in certain situations you will be silenced! 

4. Hang our wedding canvas and the canvas I got stretched.

Pretty easy thing, but I know people who get these things printed and take forever to actually hang them!

All in all, I think these are 4 very achievable goals. February should be a great month, we are picking up our new baby on Friday! I cannot wait to hang out with Amos and introduce him to everyone. It's also the last month of summer, which means Autumn (my favourite season!) is getting closer.

Have a great day
Megan. 

Instagram Recap January 2014

Little snouty on the left and our road trip on the right! 

Hanging out with someones dog and Violet getting a cuddle from Nathan after being away for two days - he missed her <3

Violet in a bag (how is that comfy, and don't worry I kept an eye on her) and two dogs chilling at my local shopping centre!!

Violets face KILLS me in this photo, and that is Jamie Olivers "Happy Cow" burger - SO GOOD

I love waking up with a cat in the bed! And I went to Pet Barn and bought too many things for Amos haha 

So those are my favourite instagram posts for January. Follow me if you want too!
Megan xo

Friday Fancies

Another Friday is upon us - gosh they show up quickly! 

HouseBrokenClothing on etsy

I hear the other employees have been giving you a ruff time?

Target

Super cute boots! 

scrumptiousdelight on etsy

Look at this tiny cute happy marshmallow!!!

emilymcdowelldraws on etsy

A friend of ours just told us she is pregnant! I might need to buy this for her 

SpottyBox

Spotty Box is a monthly subscription box that send you dog treats and toys each month. 

I did some research and am thinking of getting this for Amos! Stay tuned 

Bayleaf Buttons

Love this Star Trek button, Janeway is my favourite 

Look Humans

I love this Buffy singlet!

That's all for this week! I think my favourite thing is the dog t-shirt - he's so cute! Have a great weekend!

Megan xo

Daily Instax January 15-28

I am still doing my daily instax photo and have been for 28 days now - go me! I am still playing around with how to show them, so I am doing things a little different to last week - it really depends on the light in my house. Let me know what you think! 

Easter eggs are out already, so I bought myself a Cadbury Creme egg! 

Giving Violet a smooch 

I got sunburned whilst driving, check out the colour difference

Belated Christmas present from a friend - cat shaped whiteboard and Lush soaps!! 

I walked into the spare room and Noah was sitting on Nathans amp...?

Trying to work at your desk when you have cats - impossible

My cork board and posters above my desk

The view outside on a rainy day

Using my new oil pastels!

Butthead being a butthead

They WERE sitting back to back, so I went to get the camera and they moved :-(

I realised there were no photos of me and decided to take a selfie

A vegetarians crisper on grocery day - chock-full of green! And corn!!

This clock makes me smile every day!

So these are all of the photos for the last 14 days. It shows how boring I really am, I need to get out more!
Megan xo

Summer Projects

I go back to Uni at the end of February, and there are still so many things I want to do before then!

1. Blog A LOT! Including about some of these projects! I've been getting into a 3 posts a week routine that I want to keep up (although it's hard to think up stuff when I am so boring haha)
2. Print wedding photos and put them in the album we got as a gift
3. Make an album of our honeymoon cruise photos!!
4. Make an album for the printsagram photos I got printed 
5. Paint my house shaped shelves 
6. Clean up backyard 
7. Alphabetise DVDs (it is currently impossible to find what we're looking for!) 
8. Clean out clothes and donate the ones that I don't want/don't fit
9. Organise all of the cupboards in the house (we've only lived here a year and they're a mess?!) 
10. Paint my cork board 
11. Start an art journal
12. Get through a few books that I haven't read (so many aaggghh) 
13. Organise framing of posters we have so we can finally hang stuff up and start making the house ours a bit more!  
14. Organise my office so I can find things! 
15. Hang the huge canvas that we ordered from our wedding photographer (hopefully it's ready soon!) 

So as you can see I've already checked off two things on this list, and I really hope I can finish all of them before I go back to uni. Last semester I was pretty stressed out, I hope if I do all of the things I've been putting off (I got married in 2012 and still have no photos!), then I will have less to worry about and can focus more!

My poster from Blue Dog Posters

Have a good one
Megan xo

Friday Fancies

Hello! I am starting this weeks fancies with my number one favourite thing

This is Amos! Amos will be moving in with us at the beginning of February, we confirmed the adoption yesterday! We are so excited and I will keep you updated on this goof ball for sure! YAY!

Urban Puppy on etsy

Planning on getting Amos one of these once he's settled in, you can get two phone numbers on the back, score!

thetruereaven on redbubble

I love Jurassic Park, and I love the Simpsons and this shirt is just too funny*

SakaraStyle on etsy

Just because I am getting a dog that doesn't mean I'm going to stop buying stuff with cats all over it! 

theprintedsurface on etsy

I love this Beyonce inspired mug, it looks so shiny (just like Beyonce's hair...sigh)

Half Baked Harvest

*heavy breathing* look at this vegetarian burger, it looks like the most amazing burger ever and I am pretty sure you could make it vegan if you just took out the cheese and substituted the egg with another binding ingredient. I am most interested in the beer caramelised onions and sweet potato fries on top and I am printing this recipe so I can make it soon!

So that's all for this week, have a great weekend and a good Australia Day - don't get too drunk or sunburned!

Megan xo

*P.S in case you don't understand the Billy and the Clonesaurus t-shirt, here's a horrible video of the scene from the Simpsons

Daily Instax January 1-14

A project I am doing this year is taking a photo with my instax camera every day. Some days I don't do anything that interesting, so there are a few photos of the cats included - but I don't mind, they are my babies!

My 2014 diary and the view from our front verandah 

Nathan pretending to be asleep and Violet in her usual position 

My PEZ and the first entry in my first ever art journal

Stretchy Peach and me trying to take a self portrait but the flash made this happen - I kinda like it! 

Violet likes this shelf for some reason? And our hotel room in Port Macquarie 

My Dad (he'd had a few!!) and Nathan driving us home from Port Macquaire

Noah cleaning his jellybeans and our backyard on a really nice day

I am still playing around with how to take photos of these photos, the light today was AWFUL so I struggled. I really like the instax, even though it makes the photos look funny sometimes - I really like the way they look!
Have a great day
Megan xo