Happy New Year!!!

Welcome to 2012!! How did you all spend your New Year's eve? Hubby and I ventured up to San Francisco to a rather interesting club night called Sea of Dreams, which was a wonderful mix of awesome music, trapeze artists and other performers, and some of the most eye popping outfits I have seen!



I would dearly love to have more pictures to show you, but after my first couple of attempts I realised that I was missing about five other things while trying to capture one, so you're just going to have to take my word for it!




We were told that most people dressed up for this night, so hubby and I went for a vaguely Victorian theme. This is not my finest photo (although it is a particularly fine shot of my nostrils) but I couldn't resist showing you how handsome Hubby looks in a bowler hat! I'm actually really disappointed that we didn't get a decent photo of us in costume as we looked pretty awesome! :-(




A fun night was had by all, and I have to thank Rod, Jami & co for a memorable NYE , and also for giving us somewhere to crash until it was time to get the train home! We had a lovely sunny walk through the city this morning to get to the train station - the streets were all but deserted but the after parties were still raging and as we listened to the music bouncing off the surrounding buildings we were both wishing we had the energy to start again! We managed to tear ourselves away though, and after a few hours sleep this afternoon we are both feeling vaguely human again.

So, i suppose now is the time to talk about those pesky new year resolutions. I have been been mulling them over for a few days now and this is what I have come up with:

1) Obviously the top spot goes to that age old classic - diet and exercise. *sigh* I have gone up a dress size since I moved over here and am really struggling to shift it. Shopping for my NYE outfit was the final straw so I am aiming to have a super motivational January to kick start some healthy habits and get back to my former fabulousness!

2) Blog more!! This was supposed to be a way to say hi and keep you up to date on all the wee things we get up to and I have been a bit negligent of late - sorry! I will try and do better!

3) Work on my guitar and sewing machine skills, or lack thereof!

4) This is a silly one, but I want to make an effort to look after my nails better! They are always dry and cracked, and I can pretty much guarantee that anytime we have somewhere to go my polish is always a mess and I don't have time to fix it :-(

That should be enough to keep me busy for now - and hopefully give me lots of ammo to keep you entertained and/or bore you silly for the foreseeable future!!

As a little reward for getting to the end of this offering, I will leave you with this pretty picture of some cupcakes Hubby and I made on Friday. Yes, I know my icing skills need a lot of work, but how cute are the fondant flowers?!?!?!




Until next time ..... xxx