hello there!

I know, I know, I have hardly been posting enough on this blog whatsoever!
My schedule has been jam packed and I have been super stressed and unmotivated and uninspired for weeks on end. I'm making this quick post to give this blog a little nurturing and to tell you; Yes, I am alive.
I am also doing a 30 day health challenge. '30 Days to Healthy.'
I am not treating this like a diet, it is simply to make me feel better inside and out and flush away the toxic waste I have been drowning my body in of late.
There's seriously nothing better than feeling clean, fresh and alive and eating healthy always makes you feel like that.
So here's the link to my 30 day challenge blog .
Feel free to follow, stalk or just peek to see what it's all about. I will be posting every day and keeping you up to date with my food and how I am feeling. Love to you all! xx

Papillionaire Vintage Bikes

 A classic^

 A Sommer ^

 Super Chic Classic ^

Sommer bike in 'Fest' colour. If you gave me this bike I would make you the biggest cake in the world.

That colour and that basket, Squeeee!

 It's a helmet that looks like a watermelon, what more do I have to say!?

 This sunflower bell just makes my heart glow.

A pizza bell. With the Lot!

Papillionaire Vintage Bicycles are a Melbourne based company that design new and absolutely flipping lovely Dutch style vintage bikes.
 I will admit I am not much of a bike rider myself, apart from the occasional trip down my road when I have nothing else to do; However, if I owned one of these babies I think I would be riding it absolutely everywhere!!
There are two stunning timeless designs to choose from, 'Classic' and 'Sommer'.
You can choose which style you want, then choose a colour scheme, and customise it to your liking. Not to mention they stock some super cute accessories (like the few I shared above) on the website. So if  you're into bikes, or just lovely things in general, you should most definitely pay the site a visit!

Personally I do prefer the 'Sommer' style bike, it makes me want to ride around the seaside in the city with bare feet and a straw hat until I am exhausted and then I would stop and rest under a tree and enjoy an ice-cream or lemonade. Gosh, I wish.

Bloggy!

I feel as if I should be punished for neglecting you. You're like a beautiful plant yet I am inconsistent with your nurturing. So many things have happened, yet so little, everything is a hurricane.  I went ahead and aged, turned into an adult. Yes, I am now 18, a legal human being. We sipped and gulped drinks and danced upon tables and skateboards into the wee hours and woke covered in bruises and lumps and infused with some new memories.

I also got a job, which is handy money wise although it's a little too busy for my liking, full days two days a week and I am finding it difficult as hell and the Dragon lady who acts oh-so-nicely sometimes is actually as cold as ice and just expects the world from me in such short amounts of time. There is only so much filing and typing and archiving and doing ALL of the slave duties I can handle. She is already showing her evil side and seems to think I can just dismiss my uni work for her work, which I'm sorry, is not going to happen. I do want to quit, but would that be careless of me? I need to live life.

I am stuck in a rut, and I would very much like to get out.
But this blog is not for my depressing outbursts, so I shall settle this and post some glorious things that will hopefully brighten up your day as much as they do mine.

Milan Street style

For some reason during Fashion Week my favourite street style snaps are nearly always from the streets of Milan.
 Don't get me wrong; There are amazing outfits being paraded around the streets of every Fashion Week. Milan just seems to stand out the most to me.
This post is a little late considering Fashion Week was last month but it's never to late to look at amazing clothes, ever.

 I'm loving the patterns and bold colours of late.

Natuka Karkashadze makes this tartan print look super classy.

 Julia Sarr-Jamois looking fun and fresh mixing patterns/texture. Loving her glasses and hair!

Hanne Gaby Odiele enjoying an ice-cream, and looking quirky but amazing as usual.

So bright and bold! Loving the colour combination here

 Neutral colours teamed with brights and neons. Love.

They were just a few of my favourite snaps from Milan Fashion Week last month. All photographs were taken by Phil Oh and are taken from Vogue.
Sorry this post is rather rushed, I just needed to share these with you and now it's time for me to get some work done and be productive. Much love, xx

Overdosing on literary subjects.

Today I bought a laptop with the scholarship money centrelink gave me for studying at University.
It was rather delightful this-morning, casually tapping my pin number into the atm and pressing a few buttons only to see a figure of one thousand and several hundred dollars staring back it me in shining, white digits.
It would have been more enjoyable if it had have been staying there, but nevertheless I needed a laptop oh-so-badly and now I have one, and I'm most certainly  not complaining. I still have quite a bit left, after purchasing the laptop, and Microsoft office and the warranty doo-dads I ended up spending $920 all up.
And to be perfectly and somewhat embarrassingly honest with you, I was actually shaking after I spent such a large amount of money. I think I went into a little bit of shock, but now I'm here with my newest baby and I'm mighty fine,  apart from the horrendous flu I have and the tiny but insanely irritating pimple I have forming on my chin.

I typed up three study sheets for the next 14 weeks of my uni work. I'm going to print them out tomorrow and stick them on the wall by my bed, just so I can stare at them and use them as a fuel for future anxiety attacks. I kid, I kid. I do need them, and they will help me very much so. I'm enjoying the uni course so far, and what it has to offer although it has taken many hour upon hour to figure everything out, and I think I've nearly figured it all out, I just need to buy one more textbook and a selection of other books I need for one particular unit.
I've even already done task 1 for week 1, which was only a small paragraph but in reality it is a rather large achievement for me. When I was in my senior years at High School I feel into an awful habit of not doing assignments or work because I was scared, and I would become so stressed that no matter how many times I read the assignment sheet, thought about, tried to start it, and so on, I would freeze up and not be able to process anything and I would never finish the task. It was only after the due date was gone, and I didn't have to worry about making up another excuse as to why I hadn't completed it, that I could actually make sense of it all.  So this year, I aim to not do that at all. I most certainly will not do it, because this work involves a rather large debt at the end and could potentially be the beginning of my future life career. I hope so, anyway.

I think I'll stop this nonsensical rambling now and go and make myself a nice hot, milky Chai tea to get me all drowsy and ready for sleep. Tomorrow, I have things to do. Like read my first lot of readings, continue to be involved in my online classes, start drafting Assignment one and all the other jazz I have lined up in my real world, like food shopping, getting film developed and purchasing a new printer to print of my study plans. Goodnight whitechalkandpaper, we will meet again soon.

The Last Hurrah

Tai Snaith, an independant artist, writer, curator and producer paid respect to her ageing horse, Nazif, by directing this super sweet 'fashion shoot' and collaborated with photographer Jo Duck to produce an uber cute collection of dress-up photographs showing Nazif dressed in his creative new attire. The collection is called 'The Last Hurrah' and Tai describes it as a 'celebration of him before he dies.'
Tai created four looks for Nazif that reflect parts of his personality, which she says are fun, mystical, free spirited and relaxed.

You really can't deny that this is cute, guys. Just look at him! Everything about this is so lovely.



Nostalgia.

As the sun was starting to set
I photographed myself outside in the light
I let the mud run between my toes
I let flowers fall into my hair
I stared into the evening sky and I thought of everything
That ever made me happy...
I thought of the Summer nights when I was a child
I thought of sunburn, cicadas, dirty feet
Polka dot skirts, Vegemite sandwhiches
Trampolines with water on them, running nude under sprinklers
Laughing, living, without caring about what tomorrow would bring.