Clean Eating Watermelon, Lime & Mint Sorbet

This stuff is the bomb. when the weather is hot and sticky, and your boyfriend has an aversion to using aircon, I see no other option than to cool down with a bowl of this sorbet. Watermelon is in season and super cheap at the moment ($1.50 a kilo) and this is yummy, easy and healthy.

Remove the skin and roughly chop your watermelon into cubes and freeze for at least a few hours.
Wipe the sweat out your eyes and crawl to the kitchen, where you will put the melon, a few sprigs of mint and a squeeze of lime juice into a food processor or high powered blender and blend until you have the consistency of sorbet. Feel free to add a dash of coconut oil or some stevia if you like, then kick back, put your feet up and enjoy!

The Best Routes in Perth, pun intended....

What a magnificent and wonderful place Perth is. How lucky are we to live somewhere with some of the most stunning beaches in the world, (mostly) beautiful weather and an ever-changing landscape? There’s a minority of people who love to diss old P-Town for being over-priced and behind the times, among other things; however it will only ever be what you make of it, so stop whining and get amongst it!

One of my favourite things to do on the weekend when the weather is spectacular is catch up with a girlfriend for a walk, some goss and a coffee, so I have put together a list of my favourite running/walking tracks and the best places nearby to stop for a well-deserved long mach.

CENTRAL

Start/finish: Resort Drive, Burswood
Total Distance: 7km
Café Suggestion: Toast
(mid-point of the route),
60 Royal Street East Perth

Start/Finish: Cnr of Mount/Cliff St, Kings Park (alternating between Mount St & Jacobs ladder a few times on each)
Or do a lap of the inside of the park, as per the yellow track on the map
Total Distance: varies, but I aim to do both at least 3 times each
Café Suggestion: Gordon Street Garage, 16 Gordon Street West Perth

Splurge vs Save: Cleansing

Since graduating as a Beauty Therapist and Makeup Artist over 10 years ago, along with two of my besties, Eli & Lisa, the 3 of us have gone down very different paths within the industry. Along the way we have waxed, peeled, injected, applied, sprayed and tested a ridiculous amount of products and treatments. We have learned best through trial and error, and can definitely look back and laugh (and cringe) at many of our mishaps along the way. Notable mentions include:

• One of us volunteering to be the model for one of our waxing classes and ending up losing her pants, her pubic hair and her dignity whilst kneeling on all fours on a table in front of a class of 15 students
• Accidentally piercing a rubber glove to one of our ears 
• Applying a chemical peel that produced Freddy Kruger-like results for the week following
• Deciding on a whim to have our lips injected with filler the night before my 21st party
• Spending hundreds of dollars and the better part of a Saturday applying hair extensions that were to last months, only for them to start falling out after one wash

I love to share my tips and tricks with my friends, and don’t believe you have to spend a fortune to look good. In this ongoing series, I want to share the products that won’t cost the earth, and why you should use some of those savings to invest in better quality products in other areas of your routine.

DIYIYD (Do it Yourself if You Dare): Chevron Canvas

My obsession for all things chevron continues…I was inspired by a canvas of messy chevron lines in an interesting colour palette that I saw on Etsy, until I spotted the price. $1,600. 

Say it with me now: HELL TO THE NO! 

The Inspiration

I thought it would be ridiculously easy to recreate, especially because the lines are purposely messy, and I already had everything I needed to make it.

Woo Hoo! Over 1,000 Views!

No one is more surprised than me that Grazie Bella cracked over 1,000 views in its first week of sharing it with people! To say thanks, here's a photo of me in my birthday suit...

Happy Birthday To The Pres!

 

Some of you know him as Link, Linkle, Linky Dink, Fraggers, The Pres. I know him as my love, my bestie and a walking contradiction - a guy who loves big cities, but the country will always have his heart. a guy who has to have the latest apple product, but refuses to use a microwave, dishwasher or heater. A guy who drives a Mercedes, but also looks damn fine driving a tractor. He turns 29 today, so show him some love!

They say opposites attract, and you intrigue me to no end baby. Hope you have a wonderful day xx

Flawsome: Learning to Accept the Good, the Bad & the Fugly

I have a fivehead. That’s not a typo. Demonstrated above, a fivehead is when you have a forehead so big you can fit five fingers on it. Both my parents have big foreheads, so I didn’t even stand a chance. A high school boyfriend once told me I had a forehead “like a skateboard ramp”. True story. Soul=Destroyed.