Sneaker Freakers

Saturday, 1 June 2013

Call me crazy but I just joined up for the Oxfam Trailwalker 2013! I am incredibly excited about doing the 100km walk again but I also have nervous butterflies tying up crazy knots in my stomach in anticipation of what lies ahead.  June is almost here and the event is late August, which doesn’t leave too much time for training but I am sure we can get there.

The Oxfam Trailwalker is a 100km walk around the Hawkesbury River, Sydney and you’ve got a grand total of 48 hours to complete the walk.  I entered the event in 2011 with my husband, Dad and my mate Simon and had a fabulous pit crew to help us along the way.  We completed the event in 33hours and had a one hour nap just before starting the last leg of the journey.

The Sneaker Freakers team and pit crew

In hindsight I talk about the event with pride and a sense of accomplishment.  But I tell you what- 100km is no easy challenge for the body or the mind.  There were times on the track where we had to overcome:
  • incredible pain (try having swollen feet that have been walked on for about 20 hours and there’s still hours upon hours to go!)
  • loneliness (walking at 1am with a small headlight to see the ground just in front of your feet and no one speaking a word)
  • exhaustion (sleep deprivation and walking for so many hours really wears you out!)
  • loss (my husband got injured at about the 60km mark and couldn’t complete the event- it was surprisingly hard on the team’s spirit).


All that aside though, I’m really excited about training with Jess my gym buddy and two of her friends who I am yet to meet.  I’m looking forward to some focus with my training as I’ve been doing weights for quite some time without a goal.  And mostly I am looking forward to raising much needed money for all the amazing projects that Oxfam funds around the globe.  

I’ll be posting training progress and fundraising updates in the lead up to the event so feel free to post motivationals in the comments section for my teamies and I!

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Lets get this party started!


Well it’s been a whirlwind of a year for me so far and I have soooo much blogging to catch up on!  I have many draft posts that were started but never completed and list upon list of things that have inspired me to blog about.  Lucky for me I’ve got a good mate chasing me up on the daily to see where the posts are up to and today after about a week of daily reminders I am choosing to begin yet again.  

I guess in my time away from blogging I have thought more about the direction of my blog and what I’d like to use it for.  So stay tuned for posts on creative projects that inspire me, involvement in my community and around the world, cooking adventures, how I aim to achieve a healthy lifestyle (for my body, soul and mind) and anything else between!

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It's time for Pinvestment

Tuesday, 5 February 2013

I'm addicted. Ok ok I admit it, I am highly addicted to Pinterest! I am addicted to all the images that fill every nook and cranny of my computer screen and every last bit of space left in my overly stimulated inspired brain. It is not uncommon for my husband to stage pinterventions from time to time to encourage me to not to waste away the hours of the night.  But to me this isn't wasted time, it's a time to absorb new ideas, paint imaginary colour palettes, eat countless treats without consuming a single calorie, live the life of a stylin' fashionista with money to burn, pet Fifi my soft and fluffy bunny and travel to exotic locations around the globe.



*SNAP* Back to reality!  
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Decorating on the home front

Sunday, 27 January 2013

My sister has taken a liking to cake decorating and I like to dream that one day we will own a super sister cake decorating business together and dominate through cake... It would be called 'Suga Sista's' or something to that effect... Well one can dream.

Earlier in the year a cake decorating store opened in town and it just happened to be right after I finished my TAFE beginners course. I started reading a lot of cake decorating books and spending 30 minute plus sessions at Latorta looking at all the equipment and materials I had been learning about. I am incredibly grateful that the store opened this year as it really got me on my way to cake decorating extraordinaire... Ok so it will happen some day I am hoping!

Latorta started running classes and I organised for my sister and I to attend the beginners round class which was taught by the lovely Helena from Luna Cakes. I really encourage you to check out her work, she is finishing up her masters at Planet Cake and her cakes are immaculate, highly detailed and perfect in every way. Yes I think I am in love with her skills and I also hope I can decorate with her skill one day.


This is my gorgeous sister Susie and I with our finished cakes and this was her first ever cake course!  Look how talented she is already!

My favourite part about cake decorating is the actual decorating, but ganaching a cake is right up there!

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Boho espresso

Saturday, 15 December 2012


Why would you eat at any restaurant or cafe twice in Perth?  Every time I walked down town I discovered a new place to eat or drink, a place that inspired me and made me stop to take it all in.

Black, grey, white and yellow are colours loved by graphic designers but to this date I had not come across a cafe that used this colour scheme- Perth changed that.  The discovery of Boho Espresso is a colour palette lovers dream come true!  



Boho Espresso is located near the Esplanade at Scarborough (a.k.a Scabs by the locals).

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