Christmas in Bunbury

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2010!!!!

Christmas Pressies

Got to open presents early this year - 23rd of December to save us from bringing all the presents to Bunbury! We headed to Bunbury on the 24th and there's a new freeway that leads straight to Bunbury so it took around 2 hours.

Master Bedroom

Dining Room/Kitchen

Day 1:

We stayed in an apartment just off Ocean Drive and there's a nice view of the sea!View from apartment

It's just a 1 minute walk to Back Beach and it's gorgeous.

Day 2:
CHRISTMAS DAY!!
We started off the day by touring around the area and went to Tuart walk - which is a nature trail that only had trees, trees and more trees.
Later in the afternoon, we went to Koombana Bay to go try out our new snorkels because there aren't any waves there.

Koombana Bay

Day 3:
Boxing Day!
We actually spent the whole day at the shops!!! Boxing day sales! Bought a new pair of earrings. Swam at Koombana Bay again later in the day.

Day 4:
There is a small wildlife park near the Big Swamp in Bunbury that holds many birds and marsupials that you may feed and watch. We fed kangaroos, ducks, peacocks, swans, rabbits, emus, and the list goes on.

The Big Swamp

Bunny rabbits

CockatooFeeding the pretty bird

Beautiful Peacock Didn't get to see it fan its tail Mr Kangaroo Colourful parrots

Goosey

After the wildlife park we headed to the Gem Stone Museum where a nice German man named Heinz told us about his adventures in collecting various stones and items from around the world. There was lots of sparkly gem stones as wells as insects, shells, vintage guns that was on display.

Next stop, we went to the Busselton jetty which is meant to be the longest wooden jetty in the Southern Hemisphere. It is 1841metres long!

In the afternoon, we broke tradition and swam at Back beach instead of Koombana Bay!

Day 5:
Day was planned out by Rob's sisters and first place we visited was the local chocolate factory called 'Taffys' which is a really small shop that sells chocolates and candies. We bought a few to try and got free salt water taffys to try.

After Taffy's we went to the lookout tower and it had a really nice view of the coast.

Lighthouse

View of Lighthouse from the lookout tower

Lookout tower from afar

Lookout tower

View from the lookout tower

After the lookout tower we went to another jetty but this time in Bunbury and walked on it. Later in the afternoon, we swam at Koombana Bay.

Day 6:
Today was Rob & my day to plan out the programs for the day! Early in the morning we headed to the Dolphin Centre which is on Koombana Bay. It's not worth it, if you're heading to Bunbury, because the 'interactive zone' is just the beach area at the front which is like free access to the public. However the money does go towards some dolphin charity or research. We didn't see any dolphins - dissappointed. Apparently we missed them by ten minutes! Blehh.. they swim right up to the shore!

Next we went on a day trip to Dunsborough which is about an hours drive, bit less. We were going to the Cape Naturaliste Lighthouse which we saw in a brochure. On the way to the lighthouse we stopped at the Dunsborough town for a quick toilet break and refreshments.

After the lighthouse we went to Ngilgi Cave which is one of the highlights of the trip! Ngilgi cave is located in Yallingup right next to Dunsborough. The cave was found in 1899 and is about 45 metres deep!

Ngilgi cave

After the cave we explored Yallingup which is a pretty little place with a nice reef and big houses.

Yallingup trees

Yallingup reefYallingup Houses

From Yallingup we drove down to Margaret river and visted the Chocolate factory. Grabbed a few handfuls of chocolate samples and went to the liqueur place (forgot the name of it). For $2 you could try three liqueurs and one pre-mixed drinks. Didn't really like any of the ones I tried though unfortunately. By 4'oclock we were starving because I forgot to include lunch into our day programme! We had Chooks for lunch and drove to see the coast and the 'margaret river'.

Day 7:
We were worn out by all the activities we squished into a week. We went to the beach in front of dolphin centre and tried our luck at seeing the dolphins and failed miserably. Lounged around all day and swam at Koombana bay later in the day. At night we cleaned and packed up to got ready to head back to Perth!

Board Game night

Ahhh how I miss playing board games, monopoly, guess who, connect four to name a few. Last Friday, a friend was house sitting and decided to call some friends over and we ended up playing board games all night. We played Pictionary and Cluedo and a few card games. It was such a fun night that it inspired me to buy PICTIONARY MAN!! I've been seeing it on the ads recently and another friend also mentioned it to me.

I'm so in love with my Pictionary man, it was a little digital screen at the bottom that tells you what to draw and there's a rectangular and cicular prisms? which you may also use as props! Got to play it the other night and you can get really creative; for example Rob had the word 'thief' and he drew a table with an item and erased the item! (It uses a white board marker and cloth).

Rudolph reindeer car costume

I've been looking everywhere for these damn ears and nose! I tried Kmart, Woolworths & the Reject shop. Nothing! I then saw a lady driving a car with these ears and ran towards her and asked her where she purchased them. From Thingz she told me! Hurrayyy! Have a good Christmas!! Xx

Online Shopping - it's addictive!

When it's too hot to go outside, just shop online...it's damn addictive. Lately I've been purchasing a lot of things from online stores and it kinda sucks because I just put it all on my debit card and not realise how much I've spent!

What I've purchased recently:

A few Threadless shirts because they had a sale the other day.

Hanging Hammock chair with Foot rest from DealsDirect.

Rabbit fence also from DealsDirect.

Peas in a pod (Popping edamame) keychain which can be found on ThinkGeek.com

And today I bought a swing not online but from Bunnings :)

Sportsgirl online store has free shipping from 9th December to the 23rd of December.
Dealextreme another gadget online store also has free shipping.

Subi Street Festival 2009

My first time attending the Subi street Festival, unfortunately I didn't bring my camera, but there were markets and activities along most of Rokeby Road. There was a live band playing, dancing, stilt walkers, umbrella painting and a lot of stores selling all sorts of things! It was pretty festive and entertaining. I bought a pair of earrings which I am absolutely in love with from Neve&Sole!


Some of the other stores of interest (of which websites I've obtained) were:
Champ + Rosie
Pelava,
and Annelia Designs

All I want for Christmas..

..is to eat chocolates at the beach!

It's that time of the year, setting up the Christmas tree! I bought some new rainbow tinsel with stars for my mini Christmas tree and replaced my handmade sequined star with a bright pink star ornament! Used my old blue baubles and bought some new clip-on butterflies to brighten up the tree! I used some jewellery gift boxes as mini presents for my mini tree and santa bear is protecting the presents.

-Edit 8/12/2009 8:41AM

I've added more decorations to the tree and I got a present from Tina! Went to Ikea yesterday and bought a toy rat for Snowflake. There are battery operated candles on the side which are great, it even flickers like a real flame.

My Minnie Mouse costume

Read more about it on my other blog, here.

Fel's Tea Party!

Miniature treats, pretty cups and saucers and beautiful cupcakes for dessert pretty much described the wonderful tea party at Felicia's on Saturday. It was a beautiful sunny Saturday and everyone wore their favourite summer dresses and brought along their favourite teddy bears to celebrate. We spent a lovely afternoon sipping on tea, nibbling on food and chatted & laughed away.

I love the cupcake tower.

Yummy Strawberry&Cream Green tea & Strawberry babycake

These star decors lit up the atmosphere!

Fel's special loveheart shaped tea accessories! Very cute!

Cupcake tower view.

Kobe came along to join the fun

Self-gardening

I bought these orange lilies back in April-May but they wilted away because the weather was getting cooler. They completely disappeared for all of winter and just recently, in the last few weeks I noticed these random plants blooming and then.... MY FLOWERS RETURNED FROM THE DEAD!!!!

Pic 1 was taken when the second plant blossomed and Pic 2 was taken a day after!!!

My beautiful lilies!

The first coloursplash escapade

So this is my first attempt at using the Coloursplash Lomo, pretty happy with the outcome!

Most of the pictures were mainly taken at night and there's heaps of pictures of me =\. Will try more daytime pictures and of structures and stuff later. I must also learn how to use the long exposure function a bit more.

Long exposure with blue filter

Long exposure with pink filter

Fireball!

first loveheart attempt!

I was trying to stand within the loveheart

I can't remember what I did with this picture.

The red filter is overpowering! Red Snowflake

Inbetweeny

I'm so yellow

Dark blue

Me acting like a dork

Have a look at some of the light painting that this guy does on flickr: here. It inspired me and Robbie to create the loveheart and fireball holding piccies!!

I've caught the Lomo-fever!

Read more about Lomovember on my craft blog; here!

Coloursplash Lomo

Coloursplash Lomo Camera

Robbie bought me a coloursplash lomo today! How exciting! I haven't used a film camera for years! I'll get to wind up my film when it finishes! Basically it comes with a colourwheel with different coloured filters which you can use to paint your picture a different colour! It has a normal exposure as well as a long exposure option to create a blurred background with a sharp foreground.

I love the packaging!

The back of the box.

I can't wait to develop my film! The coloursplash lomo also came with a coloursplash chakras book!

Images from Pigeonhole.

Australian Surf Warehouse Sale!

I meant to be saving up for my trip to New Zealand in February, but how could I resist Perth's biggest surf clearance sale with 50-80% off all major surf labels! It was located at the old IKEA place.

Kaftan $35, RRP $69.95

Rainbow boardies $25, RRP $49.95

Big bag $20, RRP $39.95

As you can see, I bought three items; a kaftan dress, boardies and a bag. I wanted to get new bathers but they didn't seem to have very many and they were all very ugly. Pretty happy with my purchases. Robbie bought a shirt, shorts and shoes! I don't have an image of the shorts though.

Zoo York shirt $35, RRP $69.95

DC Shoes $65, RRP $130