Vivid Sydney!

I go to Vivid Sydney every year because it's just beautiful.  I think I have an appreciation for this city/country and tend to do more touristy things because I grew up in a third-world country.  It makes you appreciate the little things like being able to walk down the street without being chauffered by a driver who's carrying a gun for protection.

Anyway I digress.  Last year I was hugely disappointed by the Opera House show - they just had a chick 'dancing' on the Opera House and that was about it.  I prefer more colour/shapes/geometry and this year they delivered!

PS - my blog now comes with watermarks to prevent photo stealing.

NYE at Opera Bar!

I'm really not going to talk much in this post, as the pictures speak for themselves really.  Great night, great food, great company, and great view of the most amazing fireworks show in the world.

Sydney skyline at dusk

Sydney Opera House

9pm Fireworks

Furnace and the Fundamentals

Happy New Year Sydney!

27 days til Christmas

I'm being organised for Christmas this year as Christmas snuck up on me last year (not sure how that happened.... pretty sure Christmas is on the same date every year and pretty sure after 26 Christmas' I should know, but nonetheless).  I ended up staying up til 3am one night making gingerbread cookies for Tom's grandparents.  They were delicious, but this Christmas I would like some sleep.

To give myself some inspiration I looked back at last Christmas and the stuff I did.

Fibre optic tree my flatmate got from Kmart for I think $20

Snowflakes I made from paper

Christmas coloured Hersheys kisses in a jar which I wrapped with Christmas ribbon

Making gingerbread for Tom's grandparents

Every year for the extended family Christmas Eve we have a colour theme and everyone has to come dressed in the colour theme.  A few years ago it was red & white, last year was green, and this year will be blue and silver so I've decided to adopt this blue and silver theme with other Christmas-y things this year.

Have you started thinking about Christmas yet?