I won’t miss Winter but I do love this!

Essie’s “Smokin’ Hot”, which I bought at Dischem today … love it!

Other things I love about Winter:

  • Staying in on Friday nights. And Saturdays … hell, EVERY night!
  • Woolies’ amazing soups … perfect on chilly winter nights. 
  • Mika in his fluffy bear Winter clothes :)  
  • Dark-coloured clothing … I had a bit of a quarter-life-crisis after Mika was born, feeling out-of-place and like I was dressed totally age-inappropriately in bright clothes. I googled “Spring 2012″ and this came up … I’m scared. I’m not saying that I HAVE to follow fashion, because I don’t! But you know how the shops are? If the fashionistas/trendsetters say “BRIGHT”, then by g-d, the shops will stock nothing other than “BRIGHT”.
  • Not shaving my legs … whoops! Did I say that out loud? *ashamed*

That’s it really … as much as the idea of luminous clothing scares me, I am a Summer gal through and through. I LOOOOOVE sitting out in the sun, soaking up the warmth and seeing my naturally olive skin darken. I love driving with the windows open, glasses of white wine filled with ice and daylight stretching into the evening hours.

I know that Hayley and Roz both love Winter … do you? What will you miss about it?

Another note on the owl obsession …

I completely forgot to mention that Dave’s late mom was also a collector of owl ornaments … and I only found this out after she had passed away. She even had many of the same owls in her collection that my mom did!

You know something is just meant to be a part of your life when you come across it so often …

More owl tattoo inspiration:

Also, just in case you hadn’t read this previous post on the gorgeous owl illustrations I bought from an exhibition at Wolves a while ago.

AND … I just found My Owl Barnfor all owlovers. Love!

AAAAAAAND I just downloaded this cute owl calendar.

Okay, that’s enough!