Sunday afternoons are the best!  An afternoon spent in jogger bottoms and a big old t-shirt is a great way to relax and get ready for the week ahead.  So what did I do this Sunday afternoon?  Well, my to-do list is above and I'm pleased to say that I got most of it done.  The only thing left undone was a visit to my parents which I'll do next weekend.

I haven't had much time this past week to take photo's and I have really missed it, so I made sure that Sunday afternoon was spent clicking away!  These are the new nail polishes that I recently bought for Spring.


I hope that I am not the only one to confess to this but it suddenly dawned on me that my makeup draw was in need of a sort out. Sunday afternoon seemed like the perfect time to wade through my makeup draw and boy did I have a lot more than I thought I did.  The pile at the top left of the picture below is everything that I ended up throwing out - all of which I have had for at least three years, some of them for as long as twelve years!!


Have you heard about Brene Brown and a book of hers called Gifts of Imperfection?  My mom bought me her book for Christmas, and after watching her on Super Soul Sunday with Oprah a few weeks back, I dug out her book and began reading.  Her book is amazing and I will be doing a few separate posts on it over the next few months.  I am a huge lover of books and writing in them is normally a big no no for me, but there is just so much good content in her book that I decided that needs must. That decision is not one that I am going to regret one little bit!


 I hope that your Sunday afternoon was as good as mine.  Have a great week!

Just four days into this months journey and today has been completely off track from what I had planned. Today sort of got away from me, so I wanted to take some time and reflect on what had happened, what had triggered the changes; and I came up with two main things.  The first was a trial and error problem and not enough preparation.What I mean by that is I made a decision to try some new recipes for my lunches at work and while I did make them, I didn't enjoy them. I ate one of the four meals and couldn't face the second one today.  This shouldn't have been enough to derail me, however here I sit and I have no idea what I am going to eat tomorrow. I have no salad in my fridge which makes any sort of  work lunch difficult. I now realise that while its good to try new recipes, I needed to have had a back up plan. A "just in case" dish to prevent carnage.  The second lesson that I realised is that despite very good attempts by myself, I still need much more practise at not letting other peoples comments affect me to the point of self sabotage.  I posted a new picture of myself on Instagram over the weekend, and the other night I got a text message from my ex ( who I haven't seen in months) and he tells me that he thinks I look really old and my skin doesn't look great in that photo. I tried not to let it bother me, I tried for his comments not to affect my mood or my thoughts but I wasn't as successful as I had hoped to be.  So lesson number two is that I need a plan for situations like that. I need to find a way to really not care, to not let it throw me or my value.
Right now I cant change how I decided to behave today, I cant change the fact that I pigged out and ate chocolates to the point of feeling sick and having tummy ache, of missing dinner so that I could instead just eat rubbish. But what I can do, is take those lessons learnt, figure out a back up plan and face tomorrow with a fresh start and positive thoughts and attitudes.
There are going to be bumps along the journey, and I realise that this is just one of many. I want to document the journey, so that I can see how far I have come and I am hoping that at some point, my journey will help someone else with theirs.

1. I've been looking for a way to capture all these awesome things that I am reading and learning and this weekend I finally found it. A pocket size moleskin sketchbook which I have decorated  2. This weekend I started reading a new book. Joyce Meyer's Living beyond your feelings and I am hoping that I will be able to learn a lot from it. 3.  I finally took the plunge and started working on my third assignment for this course.  I think this one looks even worse than the other two! 4. This is what my fridge looked like on Sunday afternoon. After I had gone shopping and unpacked all the lovely healthy food.  Delicious meals to be made through the week - love it. 5. Olivia, my orchard, doesn't seem to like living in my kitchen and because of that she hasn't been flowering as well as she used to. But I guess late is better than never and she really does have some gorgeous flowers on her. 6.  This is a project that I have been working on. It probably wont be finished for another week or so but I thought I would share anyway. 7. Sunday evening I made chili using turkey mince instead of beef mince. I am really enjoying the turkey and you cant even tell the difference. 8. Tuna and red onion are my latest favourite. Tuna, red onion and salad tortilla - yum, yum.