Things I Love Thursday!!!

Yes, yes, ladies and gentlemen, it's that time of the week already... a day to celebrate all the things that made you smile this week! The original idea was launched by the effervescent Gala Darling, my all time favourite female blogging superstar, and it's had such a positive impact on my life that I want to share it with everyone, too!

So: what are you grateful for? What gave you butterflies? What made you want to sing with joy and dance like a maniac?! I had a dream last night that giant parrots were nesting in a hot pink chandelier that I'd hung from my bedroom ceiling. Can we make this happen?

Image courtesy deathbyfur!

 

 

Things I Love Thursday!

• Brand new photo editing apps
• Cuddles on sofas
• seek.com.au
• Miniature fondant owls (!)
• Silver glitter
• Hot pink airbrush makeup
• Seeing my sisters USA photos
• Spicy chicken
• Ignoring bullies
• Dinner-and-a-movie dates with Mama <3
• Face masks
• ANZAC cookies
• Party poppers
• Chuppa Chups
• New makeup bookings
• Planning and prioritising
• Pump class at the gym
• Awesome dreams
• Vitamin B
• Giggling

 

Seriously, are these not the cutest things that you have seen this week? I thought so.

Now, I mentioned 'planning and prioritising' in my TILT list this week. I've realised that I need to take a more active role in planning the content for this blog. I know I don't have many readers and I know that my blog does not have great reach (yet). But I have big hopes and dreams for the Mess, so I really want to start filtering content and constructing each post to have clear and significant purpose. There are so many things that I want to write about that sometimes it's hard to deconstruct my thoughts and categorise them. But, never fear, gorgeous reader: I will get there in the end!

This whole project is about creating new purpose in our lives. It is a hot pink documentation of me coming into my own. It's a record of the things that make my life beautiful, and a working journal of the areas in which I need to improve. My dream is that one day, we can all share in this together, united under a common purpose: We are all worthy. We are all unique. And all our own, worthy, unique Messes are fucking Beautiful.

I'm off to make a coffee. Let's get started!

Perpetual happiness and highly coloured dreams,

M xx

A Note for the New Year

In the final months of 2012, a lot happened. Sorry to say it so abruptly, but it's true. Everything from getting kicked out of my house, to one of my best friends in the world getting married,  to a fiasco of a summer fling to the best New Years Eve I've ever had in my life. It was a showcase of accidental ecstacy, calculated luck and just a hint of misfortunate, all raining down in a shower of hot pink and gold glitter as I strung up my Christmas baubles.

 

 

We never do anything by halves, here at the Beautiful Mess.

 
The best part of the end of last year was the extraordinary re-discovery I made of my own strength. I was finally able, for once in my life, to say 'no'. The immense power and character that spewed from my heart and soul from committing this one simple act absolutely floored me. And it has completely changed my life. I no longer sit in fear of what might happen if I don't take control of my own existence, instead of letting others control it for me. I no longer cower in the shadow of someone I percieved to be exceptionally powerful and far more important than my own beautiful self. I didn't even realise that I had my own character, my own self-worth, my own truth and light and happiness wrapped up in someone else. And when I finally manged to de-tangle myself from the mess of ill-confidence I'd wrapped myself up in... it all just fell away.
 
I can breathe now for the first time in years and years. And I am happy. Truly happy. I learned to apologise- with contrition. I have accepted and acknowledged my part in hurting others (which made me feel like I was riding a unicorn through a field of neon pink and blue daisies <3 ). I see everything in a fresh light, with sparkles and new joy. You might think I sound like I'm stoned off my face, but I don't even care. I walk now with a brand new confidence, and it feels so, so good.

 

 

 
So, with all that out of the way... 2013 has kicked itself off to a flying start! I feel so deeply refreshed and rejuvenated. There is a tantalising array of amazing opportunities unfolding as we speak, with big, big plans on the not-so-distant horizon. I'm doing some research into yoga and meditation, into different philosophies on eating, drinking, loving and learning, looking into homeopathy and other alternative tharapies, getting excited about new music, new writers, new friends, new dreams... and making it all up as I go along. Yikes!

I'm really looking forward to sharing my new adventure with you. What are you looking forward to?

M xxx