Soothing aromas

Step aside frangipan, lavender and rose - in with the new. These basic floral flavours are fading into the last decade's most-wanted scents. If your anything like me, I'm more enthralled to aromatic flavours using atypical combinations of fruits with plants, vegetables with sugar-smells, woods with herbs - list goes on. I once came across a soy wax candle scented with chamomile and sweet peas; an unheard of pair of scents that unassumingly, had managed to flood a 40 meter-square house quite abundantly. On a day to day basis I regularly like to do my homework overseeing a small flame on these soy wax candles giving off an infusion of smell throughout my room. It relaxes me whilst studiously homeworking and knowing that they're soy wax - rather than chemical-dense wax - gives me a piece of mind that I'm in a safe, non-toxicated room. After my wearying studies, I lather le main in lychee/kiehl's hand cream. Fantastic absorbance subtracted by a greasy aftermath. 

Basil and grape candle - MOR

Ultimate strength hand salve - Kiehl's

Lychee flower hand cream - MOR

Sandalwood and orange peel soy wax candle - BlackMILK candles

Coco vanilla

It completely crossed my mind, I’d forgotten to present you with my birthday cake I had for my family barbecue at home. I was opting for something completely different and opposing to what my grandmother would prefer. After all, it is her recipe and I have had this amazing vanilla sponge chocolate cream cake ever since my first birthday as tradition – So I guess I really didn’t pay her any homage. Just so you don't assume this cake to be completely irrelevant to my 16th birthday, I did happen to have the numbers 1 and 6 in sparkler candle form to complete the cake whilst they sung 'happy birthday' to me. It is a delicious recipe which explains why we made such a sumptuous cake this year! (all goes too fast) I’m too diligent to give out the recipe so this post may even be slightly pointless or even a tease but I just wanted to prove a point that you can in fact have a cake that is not decorated is such a baroque looking way to impress a Queen or someone such majestic.

Sweet 16

I'm over a week delayed on putting my birthday post up. But after all it's 'better late than never'. Over the duration of my birthday week I had a pretty packed schedual. Had 3 'festive' day/nights which is 3 more than I usually entertain. It sequentially went like this; First day of year 11 schooling then straight to VicRoads where I fortunately received my Learner's Permit, Dinner at 'Mosq' in South Yarra with my family and best friend, dinner with a big group of girls at a warehouse converted restaurant/diner/bar called 'TRUNK' (their food was great) and a massive family barbecue catered for about 40 people at my tiny little rental house on Sunday afternoon. I'm going to have to share all my gifts with you as well I got some pretty swell stuff. But that will be a few post into the future.

"Telling a teenager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath"

Opening my gifts from mum, dad and Jacinta. Unwraveling my Elna sewing machine covered in draft sheets. Getting my hopes high on winning the lotto. Zimmermann fabrics from Tessuti fabric store on Flinders Ln.

Thrilled to finally claim my Learner's. I managed to successfully drive 2.5 hours in a week with an estimated calculation of having to drive 1 hour per week to make the 120 hour mark by the time I'm 18. 

White sheer patch shirt - General Pants Co.

Blue stretch jean - Gap 1969

Boots - All Saints Spitalfields