month of birthdays

Since when has October become the month with that many birthdays???
Maybe the answer lies within having a calendar haha. Anyway happy birthday to Maria, Nikki, Andi, Chris, Jetty, Monica, Thomas, Will, George and Berni.
Feel like I'm in a celebration marathon. The more the merrier right. love having every single one of you in my world. You make it all the more colourful and fun!
Off to celebrate some more. Have a fun evening every one x

fall in all its glory

Had to drive to Zell/See today, one of the most picturesque places you'll ever see if you have time to go there :) I spent almost every summer and winter in that area from when I was about 8 months old! Crazy right! It is a place very close to my heart and I'm loving all the trips there for work.
Wish I brought my camera though... Every single mountain top was covered in snow - not long ski/snowboard people - and in the valley all leaves are changing colour. Stunning, it takes my breath away and just imagine how much more there would be if we wouldn't destroy so much of it with our greed?!

pumpkin soup

How vibrant are these colours!!!! Made some spicy pumpkin soup the other day to warm up :)
I love this season, when the weather turns grey and all you want to do is cuddle up inside and enjoy a book and some tea.

celebrations

We all went out for drinks last night to toast the gorgeous Andi R on becoming a full fledged doctor. Can't believe she's an intern at one of the local hospitals now!! Considering she started out studying economics and could have had an arts scholarship if she wanted to, yet finished her studies in no time... She is one very talented girl. So so proud and excited for this new season in her life :)

awww to have all the lovely people in one place makes me very happy!

London friends and catch ups

There is something I am reminded off every single day, I am blessed with the most amazing people in my life!
Got to chat to so many great people while I was in the big city. Lots of friends from college who all came to conference. Flat mates, church friends and people I consider family :)

Sadly there's only a couple pictures, wish I would have gotten out my camera way more. Thanks guys and girls for the chats over coffee and dinner!!!
Special shout out goes to the amazing Zoe Boomer who took time out from her jet setting life style to come and hang with me :) Instead of a pic of her I'll put up a pic of her latest collection... love love love

(last image by Zoe Boomer)

blog action day: water

Almost a billion people across this planet do not have access to clean drinking water. 

The results are terrible. More than 3.5 million people, most of them children, die of water related diseases every year.

As horrible as this all sounds, there is a solution and we can help! Check out charity:water - who have teamed up with toms shoes!! - and water for water for ways to get involved.

In my part of the world we have an abundance of clean water, but even we could do with a few changes: Reduce your shower times, 

Turn off the tab when you brush your teeth

Collect rain water for watering plants

and next time you boil eggs instead of chucking the water out let it cool down and use it for your plants - it's packed with lots of nutrients from the egg shells - who knew!

Remember the lovely Brooke Fraser... her birthday wish was for people to donate to mycharity:water. The goal is to raise $50.000. The beautiful thing about this girl is that she and her husband are not just choosing to have people donate money for a cause but instead setting an example by being the first to give money themselves! Beautiful people inside and out!! Let's get behind them!

London - day out on the south bank

Maria's mum - Brunni - and one of her friends - Ute - were in town this week as well and after meeting them all at church - and providing the world's worst translation service ever! - I decided to hang out with them on Monday.
They chose the best day, sunny and not a cloud in the sky, so after meeting at Westminster we spent the day walking down the river. Catching up, taking heaps of pictures, having lunch and ice cream, etc it took us forever to walk all the way to Tower Bridge to sit down for coffee :)

Thanks ladies for a fun day!!!