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I'm not sure if I've ever mentioned on here before but I have a serious shopping addiction. It doesn't matter what, or where I find it, if I have even so much as an inkling it might go with so much as something in my wardrobe, I will buy it, sans the consequences. I'd like to be the kind of person who doesn't have to worry about erratic purchasing, online or otherwise, but alas I am. So, here goes to my new found spend thrift ways! I'm attempting not to buy anything (and I mean anything - clothes wise people come on - for at least a month.)  Wish me luck! I honestly have no idea how I'm going to spend my down time.. if not for online shopping I would be a very bored girl..

Some photos to keep my mind off this:

they're from summer - i miss the sunshine, but i have to admit - i'm definitely a winter girl at heart!

change

exciting news! i've officially applied for journalism at uni. thank god i finally got that over and done with! been too lazy for too long now, my brain's going to take some warming up i think..

feels like everything and everyone's changing (especially my little brother oh my gosh he's so tall now!) i'm especially excited for a new challenge.

some belated pictures from mother's day earlier this month.

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girls i'd like to be friends with

some pictures that are inspiring me at the moment. i'm really digging flat canvas shoes lately!

all photos via the sartorialist

early onset winter symptoms

It's raining fierce outside, and I've been being slack and boring. Here's to a my mid-year resolution! And that is: be more committed, healthy, loving, accepting, exploring, stylish, worldly Bella. I mean come one, this is the year I become who I'm going to be..

Here's to all of this

quote

“I actually attack the concept of happiness. I don’t mind people being happy - but the idea that everything we do is part of the pursuit of happiness seems to me a really dangerous idea and has led to a contemporary disease in Western society, which is fear of sadness. It’s a really odd thing that we’re now seeing people saying 'write down 3 things that made you happy today before you go to sleep', and 'cheer up' and 'happiness is our birthright' and so on. We’re kind of teaching our kids that happiness is the default position - it’s rubbish. Wholeness is what we ought to be striving for and part of that is sadness, disappointment, frustration, failure; all of those things which make us who we are. Happiness and victory and fulfillment are nice little things that also happen to us, but they don’t teach us much. Everyone says we grow through pain and then as soon as they experience pain they say 'Quick! Move on! Cheer up!' I’d like just for a year to have a moratorium on the word 'happiness' and to replace it with the word 'wholeness'. Ask yourself 'is this contributing to my wholeness?' and if you’re having a bad day, it is.” 

Hugh Mackay, psychologist and social researcher

via the wild and wily ways...

Wild Geese

Wild Geese
You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting–
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.
--Mary Oliver, Dream Work

Here come the tears, but like always I let them go

Acquired new Polaroid film the other day. Spectacular! In a bit of a creative rut though, in other news. Can't stop listening to Bon Iver. His old stuff, the depressing stuff.