Destinations:-  Kustom 9; Anthem; 8f8; Vespertine

Summer is a time for enhanced smells, senses of warmth, and where your body feels more alive and strong after it's winter hiatis.

Everyone has their favourite summer moments and I wanted to share my top 22 summer senses.
Tell me what are yours?..

November to me is just one step away from Christmas, and Christmas being like a storm. As the clouds turn grey and dark so do my stress levels. Well for once I am saying enough!!. I will not have a stressful Christmas this year and everyone can help out.. so i say puffing up my chest and screaming at the top of my lungs. So be it I say.. (oh help!!).

Maybe I am on a nature rant at the moment, but I so miss camping. Having not done it since Christmas, I am starting to feel the urge once again. Feels like a travel bug when you get it, but instead it is exciting exploring a new place, pitching a tent, starting a fire, and then chatting with friends and love ones and being away from everything except for yourselves.

Here are five reasons why camping is so much fun: -

Camping makes me realise the things I need to exist and be happy are actually very simple. All you need are these five things to make camping so much fun.

1) Shelter: - In my case I have ‘Aggie’ the tent. I bought her last year for a camping holiday in France. She was given this name as no matter what how I put her up she is always a bit saggy. She provides us with adequate space for sleeping and storage and is even big enough for me to stand up in (sometimes being small has it’s advantages). 

2) Food: - I have a brilliant 2 ring camping stove with a grill, so we can pretty much cook anything we’d normally cook at home. A billy available, firewood a plenty and matches to light the way. No mods and cons, just a simple get away with what the earth supplies. (Maybe the occasion firelighter just in case the earth gives too much rain ;).

3) Bed: - To be honest this is far from simple and usually consists of an air bed, double sleeping bag, duvet and pillows, but everyone is allowed a bit of comfort aren’t they? I really enjoy just having the things I need around me. In some ways it’s similar to travelling, with all my belongings packed into one backpack. It feels so liberating!

4) Peace: - Camping is just so quiet and peaceful. As I sit here on my verandah typing this, I can hear the birds tweeting, but this is overpowed by the noise of cars driving along the road further down adjacent to my house. When you are camping, its the sounds of nature that become the soundtrack to your day. There is nothing better than being treated to a rather chatty owl at night to send me off to my sleep to be woken up by a beautiful dawn chorus of cockatoos. Bliss!



These are the reasons why I love camping, and of course finding the new Bedouin Tent created by an awesome designer  - Zerkalo, this reminded me of 'Aggie'. The Bedouin tent is available now at the Fantasy Collective.

Don't you agree, sometimes we all need to get back to nature to appreciate the simple things in life. <3

So what are you waiting for come take a walk to our destination for today: - 


Destinations: - The Fantasy Collective

Tent: -  Bedouin Tent  - Sands - (New) @ The Fantasy Collective
Campfire: - Bedouin Campfire (New) @ The Fantasy Collective
Rugs:- Persian Rugs - Sands - (New) @ The Fantasy Collective
Clothes Line: - Vagabond Rusty's Clothes Line - (New) @ Uber
Gulls: - Ohmai Ivory Gull and Pacific Gull - (New) @ Uber
Picnic Basket: - What Next Picnic Basket
Pot: - Sunnany Post Pot
Clock: - Floorplan Lantern Clock

I had to write a letter the other day for an article that was going into a magazine. I was pretty excited. I was asked that it had to be completed the old way, "How to write a letter". I said to the publisher, What I can't email the article? I was told that this piece had to be about how to write a letter the old fashioned way, and they expected to receive it the old fashioned way. I thought to myself the days of the letter seems to be dying. I had to think, when was the last time that I had picked up a pen and had to write a letter. I honestly couldn't tell you. It would be years. My handwriting is atrocious, computer typing is so much better, easier and quicker. Xmas cards would be online and animated, and i never give out Xmas cards anymore.

I do remember a long time back that my mother without fail would have an up to date listing of all her friends and relatives that she would write too for Easter, and Christmas. The listing was so old, that the paper had so many lines through it from when people moved and changed addresses.

I went to see her at Easter, and apart from walking around the premises with her, doing laps,  as she has what is called 'Sunset Dementia' and wanders around at Sunset. I wondered to myself if she misses writing like she used to. When I arrived she was sitting in a lounge, surprise, surprise.
I approached her and she didn't know me, I couldn't kiss her to wish her a Happy Easter as then I would be given a healthy slap on the face. I have to wait till she gets a glimmer of remembrance before I can give her a kiss on the cheek.  I approached her, bent down and passed her the Easter Card from all the family with a small gift, wishing her a Happy Easter, and she picked up the card, looked at the envelope, smiled and then put it back down only to stand and walk away.  I wondered where she thought she was going, but the Easter Card was left on the chair in the envelope and forgotten.  I opened the card, put it on her dresser, and then found her and continued to do the copious laps of the premises, until it was time to say goodbye. Maybe 15 laps achieved. Only so much chatter you can do, when walking and when the person doesn't answer it gets a bit hard.

It made me wonder in the future whether people will continue to write letters. The day of the postman is slowly ending and the future of the letter will be not pen to paper but the annoying emails that seem to fill your inbox. Is this what we want?

Wearing the cute and casual outfit from Eyelure, I bring to you our destinations for today: -