I am a library lover. I take great pleasure in knowing that if I completely hate a book that I don't even need to finish it I can just return it and hopefully never see it again. I also love that I can browse for anything and easily change my mind once I get home. If I get the feeling for action but get home and decide that honestly now is not the time that's fine (I just end up doing heaps of trips to the library).
There are times that I find an absolute beauty and then I go and buy the whole series and follow the author and every book they publish after. But I also like libraries for the ability to sample things that I haven't tried before.

Every so often (at the moment it is roughly once every second month) I head down/up to one of my local libraries and collect a stack of books. Sometimes it will just be a few if I'm reading a series and other times when I'm in-between big book series it will be quite a large stack as I'm searching for my next read.
I thought that this time I'd share my stack of books with you.

I wasn't actually going to share this seeing it ended up a little more of a disaster than I had hoped, but if it makes at least on person laugh today then I'll be satisfied.
I still, hopefully have a Christmassy crafty project to come (with some of the littler ones) which will hopefully work out better but here is the first.

I'm going to be honest with you (not that I'm not usually). I'm not really one of those bakers who measures out everything first in pretty bowls and cups so that everything can be added nicely. Heck, I don't even sift the flour first when it's required for most cakes (unless I'm entering a competition, which I haven't done since I was eight.) I also always melt my butter for any recipe because then it hand creams better than at room temperature.

That being said, if you enjoy setting up everything first and following instructions flawlessly, I envy you! I feel baking should be something that makes you happy so you do you and have fun baking!

I've been holding off doing this post until I actually have bought a handbag. (Shocked that I don't own a handbag? It's a long story...) When I say proper handbag I mean one that is an everyday handbag and then I wanted to wait to so that the clutter to begin to build up so that a post like this would be interesting.

But can I just say that finding a handbag that I loved was a challenge. Seriously! Blood sweat and tears! (Well maybe not the blood...)

Even though I don't classify it as my handbag, recently I have been carrying around this little calico bag so I figured considering I am a super impatient person and this is my unofficial handbag. Today is the perfect day to tell you what's in my bag.

Since graduating last year I have been spending a lot more time at home. University timetables just don't run the same as school does so there would be some days where I'd be there all day and others where I wouldn't at all. Also, summer holidays are SUPER long! (already on break now... don't go back till March...)

So yeah, a lot more time at home...

Which is absolutely great! I have so much time to do so many different and new things! For example;  My baking skills are so much better and I more confident tackling those harder recipes knowing there is a higher chance that things will turn out ok. (Provided I just have one recipe going at once... B two or three different things at once is not the best idea...). I have had time to begin to teach  myself piano and sew dresses and even had time to seriously rage a war on my room which is going to be amazing really soon!

But it can have a negative effect...

I thought today I'd share with you my latest crafty feat.
My friends and I are planning a murder mystery party which, may I say when it came to adapting a small party so that it would work for 30+ people is not an easy task. I have to confess I didn't have a lot to do with character creation or evidence development so when the opportunity came to making fancy invitations for the fictional characters dinner party to go with their character instructions, I gave myself willingly.

Recently I when I had a spare day and nothing to do I went to the zoo.
Even though I'm not a major animal nut the zoo still seems to be one of my favourite places to go and I always find myself wanting to visit every couple of year. Personally, the zoo is one of the most fascinating places in the world. Every time I go it has changed (although the last gap between visits was about 5 years so change is understandable). It makes me realise how little I know of the animal kingdom.
On the most recent of my trip  to the zoo I took a tonne of photos which i thought I'd share with you here.

Sitting at my desk today I found myself struggling to stick to the task at hand. My focus must have been averaging at the grand total of 5 minutes and I began to wonder why?..

Have you ever dreamed of having a pen pall?
I know I have. Some lovely person on the other side of the world that I could share my day, my thoughts, my exciting adventures with and in return here things from them.

Imagine then if some random account sent you an email then and you replied saying that you thought that email wasn't intended for you.
Then this sparks a conversation and there you have it! A pen pal.

Imagine then if this pen pal turned out to be famous.
Now I wish I could say that that had happened to me, but sadly, it didn't.
It did happen though in one of the latest books I read,

So here I am, sitting on my deck at 7pm no cares in the world...

The sun hasn't set yet and looks as though it has hours left to go...

And I'm struck with how strange a concept daylight saving is...