Monday, January 9, 2012

Au revoir

Due to creative differences i have decided to say goodbye to this blog. I love blogging but there is a glitch, so i am saying goodbye.

I have started a new blog you can visit at isobellevicky.blogspot.com.

Hope to see you there!


Thursday, January 5, 2012

New Years Adventure

Bringing in the new year is always an exciting event, for me i have never been the party girl and by 12:01 i often feel like nothing has changed. This year we decided to get away, being 22 and just freshly married and working in retail, we are a little.....skint. After trawling stayz for days..(pardon the rhyme) and deciding that the Hunter valley is a bit exxy for us, we settled on Canberra our nations capital.


We Left really early and headed straight to the war memorial. The war memorial is so amazing, very haunting.


The photo below is all the men who died on the death march, thats over a thousand photo's. It makes it so much more real when you see the young faces of the men who died in Borneo.


The memory wall, the poppies are so beautiful.


If i had to recommend one attraction in Canberra, it would be The National Zoo. The enclosures are so open you can get really close to the animals, it wasn't overcrowded, just amazing. Then again i am a sucker for animals, so there you go.

(a little Tamarin so cute, kinda like a gremlin though)


I love Giraffes 


Something we were a little sceptical about was Questacon. We were so wrong though, so much fun! Totally not just for kids.


We also visited The National Gallery. It was a little lost on us......some were amazing though.



KoKo Black Chocolate bar, Kinda like Max Brenner but a lot cheaper and such a cute store.

(this is how all chocolate should be wrapped)


We stayed for one night at the Hotel Realm, all i can say is WOW, nespresso coffee machine in the room with pods, free Madison and Vogue Living.


L'Occitane Bathroom amenities.




Our new years was spent at Charlie Blacks in Manuka, such a cute town, some amazing stores and all tree  lined streets and huge houses.








I love canberra and i cannot wait to go back. My husband being a Town Planner went nuts with the street layout and how well it is planned. There were even discussions on whether to move there.

One this i didnt like is that there is no free parking anywhere! Everything is Metred and even the Canberra Centre doesn't have 3hrs free parking like Syd.




Wednesday, January 4, 2012

Some of my favourite things!

So we thought we would bring in the new year somewhere else......Canberra! i know i know not the beachside cabin i had in mind but.....Canberra is amazing! More on that later.

What do us girls do when we go away? We cull our makeup bags to fit in our overnight bags, this is a new ritual for me as i have not been wearing make-up long GASP! you say at 23 (in a week) i should have been wearing it longer.....eh sue me. But since i have i have finally found my favourite, but being on holiday isn't about looking amazing every day, its about having fun and relaxing. Here are some of my favourites.


Going clockwise: MAC Sheertone blush, Japanese Cherry Blossom Body Butter (travel size), australis Paparazzi Perfect High definition Tinted Moisturiser (has amazing coverage but still light), Moroccan Oil hair treatment, Marc Jacobs Daisy Limited Edition and Mac Lady Gaga Mascara.

They all range from low to mid range pricing, australis tinted moisturiser is under $15!!

Next post: Canberra, highs and lows.