Pretty Things.

50th Anniversary Gift

I posted HERE about the gift that we planned for my grandparents. To recap it's getting as many friends and family to write a memory they have of them and put them all in separate envelopes. 

When they opened the first envelope and my grandma saw a letter from her sister who lives overseas she started balling her eyes out before she read it. At one point my grandma's best friend burst into tears, then my grandma started laughing at her... then she started laughing too...then my grandma crying...then they were doing both at the same time. 

Took a good hour to get through them all but the pictures are priceless.

50th Wedding Anniversary

On Saturday my cute grandparent's celebrated their 50th Wedding Anniversary with 100 of their close friends, if they had invited everyone they knew they'd probably need a stadium.  The party was almost a second wedding - lots of food, dancing, speeches, food, music, singing, food, love and food.

I will post my grandma's speech as soon as my mum can translate it (it's in Croatian) because it was gorgeous. My grandpa had a stroke 2 years ago and it caused the left side of his body fairly weak and he didn't want to do a speech because his hand would shake while holding the microphone. So my grandma made him start the speech and then took over and joked that she wanted to do the talking because it's what she does best. It was perfectly done without anyone noticing that she read the whole thing.

I hope one day my grandkids will be blogging about our 50th Wedding Anniversary too.

iPhone snaps

• Pudge watching me make dinner from the kitchen window.
• Socks cuddling her foot.
• Socks again.. odd sleeping position.
• OPI Elephantastic Pink.
• Hubby bought home 2 tubs of Ben & Jerry's... ate them both way too quickly.
• Was in a crap mood yesterday and told the hairdresser to do whatever she wanted, she cut a bit off my ends, added layers and side fringe. My hair looks insanely short. And I'm not 100% happy with the distance between the layers but checked on Google and seems to be the right amount for my length. I always have the need to do something drastic to my hair when I'm in a bad mood, thank god the HD didn't take advantage of that.

Weekly Spending

Thank you all for the suggestions for the outfit. I'll let you know what I ended up with tomorrow (haven't bought anything yet - super unsuccessful shopping trip yesterday!)

BOUGHT ($30 Budget)

KIEHL"S ULTRA FACIAL CREAM

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BOUGHT FROM LIST

-nothing -

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DIDN'T BUY

ASOS BAG | PORTMANS STRIPE TOP | DOTTI MINT BLAZER | ALLY TOP

Accessorise me!

I had planned in my head what I was wearing to the party on Saturday... but my necklace (the main piece) doesn't seem like it will arrive by friday so I had to go to plan B. I decided to wear my fuchsia Zara top but cannot figure out how to accessorise it.  Do I go necklace-free and add some yellow or turquoise earrings? Or just small studs and my MJ watch? Then what colour should I do my nails?

I'm checking out Lovisa, Diva, Equip, Sportsgirl and MYER tomorrow as buying online is not an option anymore. Any suggestions would be a huge help!

(THIS IS NOT THE ZARA TOP - PIC OF ACTUAL TOP HERE )

May Empties

I was going to take a photo of my empty stuff but I have a habit of cutting the things in half to get more use out of them. Wouldn't exactly be very photogenic.

Garnier Body Tonic Sugar Scrub

I really love this and I use it every day. I'm already onto my second one so I will definitely keep repurchasing it. More info about it in this post.

Trishave Post Shave Moisturiser

I bought this from the bargain bin for $8 (normally $15ish) because I've been wanting to try it on my dry legs for ages now. It's pretty thick but absorbs really well. I use this daily after my showers and it makes my legs feel really smooth. Not repurchasing as I'm buying a Kiehl's moisturiser next.

Palmer's Aloe Vera Extra Rich Moisturizing Gel

I was really disappointed with this, apart from absorbing well it was really useless. I would have to apply moisturiser over it anyway because it did nothing for me. Definitely no repurchase.

Shick Quattro Razor

I randomly bought this.. just because I was in Priceline with money to spend. I used it once and would never use it again. I never used the cheapo home brand ones but I assume that's what they'd feel like. Obviously no repurchase.

L'oreal Elvive Hair Treatment

I got this so so long ago, it seriously seems like it lasted forever. The first time I used it I left it on for 3 minutes and my hair was pretty oily, second time I left it in for about a minute and it was fine. Leaves your hair really nice and soft, also helps detangle my hair. I think I will try something else instead of buying this again.