Today I attended my cousin’s engagement party. It was a pretty casual affair, and more just like a hang out at a pub, so I didn’t really go all out, but I put in enough effort to ensure my grandparents wouldn’t yell at me!

Dress: Domino Dollhouse | Wedges: Rubi Shoes| Hair Bow: My Little Rockabilly

The Dress from Domino Dollhouse is new from their Dotti Noir Collection. I was lucky enough to snap one up before they sold out of their first run! The Dotti Noir collection is absolutely stunning and the shapes are really beautiful and vintage inspired. I feel like I should have sized up for the top, but it’s not too bad, and the fact that my wings fit SO comfortably in their sleeves is a HUGE plus. 

I’ve been REALLY slack lately with blogging. I promised myself I would but I’ve been caught up with Uni and Work and trying to have a life. I’m in the last few weeks of my degree which is awesome and terrifying all at the same time. I’m feeling a little swamped and overly emotional, but it’s nice knowing that in a few weeks I’ll have accomplished something pretty major in my life. 

I’m terrified of what comes after now. I have no plans. None. But I think I need to stop before I run into a wall and crumble, so I’m just going to spend some time just doing whatever feel right. That sounds awfully hippy of me but I feel it necessary to stop me from going insane.

Anyways, I promise I’ll organise some content for here soon, I have a few ideas!

X Jem

PS. The awesome hair accessory is from rockin’ little Australian company My Little Rockabilly

Today I turned 21. I didn’t really feel like a birthday, except the millions of facebook notifications of people wishing me happy birthday on my wall. We celebrated my birthday on Thursday with my family and a few friends for a low key cocktail party at Porteno in Sydney. Foolishly I left all photo taking duties to my step mum so I don’t actually have any photos to post from the night as yet. 

But today, being my 21st was EXTREMELY low key. I had to work at 7am which meant that I was up bright and early at 4am today in order to get there in time. My work attire is pretty stock standard every day. I’m lucky enough to work in an office that allows it’s employees to dress as casually as they wish. But I thought I’d do a quick outfit post inside this post (even though it’s poorly done).

Excuse the terrible photo and the awkward cut off!

Dress - City Chic. This came with a belt but my cat stole it and I’m yet to get it back.

Cardigan - Target. This also came with a belt but I’m not a fan of the way it sits on my body.

Shoes (which you can’t see) were just a pair of plain black sandals. 

After finishing work, my other half met me at the office and surprised me with 2 boxes of Adriano Zumbo macaroons. This was my alternative to a birthday cake. Which is kind of nice because due to the fact that I’m cutting down on all of that kind of stuff, macaroons are a nice way to portion a treat. I can have one and not feel the need to have more any time immediately afterwards. 

So in 8 days I’m turning 21. Now technically I’ve been an adult for quite awhile, but now it’s finally sunk in that I’m actually ageing. One of my pretty amazing friends gave me my birthday present early today.

The lovely Chelsea got me this really cute little teacup which I think pretty acurately describes my nanna outlook on life. haha. It’s adorable though and goes well on my bookshelf with all of our prints and little bits.

 Last night I caught up with some girlfriends from school and we realised that this time 3 years ago we were prepping for our HSC. It seems the rest of our class have gotten married or are getting married, had children or have just completely lost the plot. I feel kind normal but I still feel stuck in a rut. So I’ve decided to re-kindle my love for list writing and have set my self “goals” to achieve over the next 12 months. I haven’t finished the list but I think it’s nice that I can add to it alittle as time goes by!

I’ve also made a decision to blog on here at least once a week by every Saturday. The content may not necessarily be about my progress through the world of weightloss but I see it as a new hobby and an adventure! 

As promised on my other tumblr, this blog is here to document my journey through weightloss. About a month a go I declared to the world that I had signed up to Weight Watchers and was determined to lose weight. The first 2 weeks were great, I was super careful with what I was eating, watched my portions, made sure I exercised, I was pretty confident in myself.

A week and a half a go I completely fell off the band wagon. I started a new job, I got lazy and I stopped trying. My partner, who is amazing, has been trying to push me back on, but I think I really needed to see how far off I went before I could get back on. 

So here it is. The plan. I’m currently around 115-120kgs (I don’t own my own set of scales so this is an estimate) and I wear an Australian size 20-22. I’m completely monitoring and journalling EVERYTHING I put into my mouth. I’m aiming to make sure I prepare food for work the night before in order to make sure I don’t slip again. 

I’m preparing myself for some struggle as my 21st is just shy of 2 weeks away and Peter and I are going away in 3 weeks. But I can do this.