ice-cream woman

When i was little (and i mean very little) i wanted to become an ice-cream woman :)

Yes, you read it well, an ice-cream woman... you know, like the ice-cream man that drives around his ice-cream van in your neighbourhood and plays that stupid melody everybody hates for the sound, but really loves because of what it means, to tell you ice-cream's around... yes, that one! but then, a woman :)

I was going to have a beautiful van, with cool paintings on it and loads of colour, i would have the coolest music, something everybody likes and i would drive around with my Lassie (as at that time, i really wanted a dog and collies were my favourite) and sell ice-cream and eat ice-cream all day long. It was going to be the best job/life ever! :)

Today, i think i can say with ease, 23-25 years later, I find myself thinking about my dream job again and what i really want in life and while looking for a notebook to gather my thoughts in, i found the above one last Sunday... i thought it was perfect :)



And then, yesterday, i found this picture...

Most people that know me, know i DREAM of someday owning a campervan, most preferably an old VW one. I saw this picture and i thought, 'that's it! Ice-cream woman in an old VW campercan! It's PERFECT!' ;)

relaxing weekend :)

Spring in Sydney is perfect! The Sun is getting out, but is still just gentle enough for you to actually be able to enjoy it. Last weekend, we had perfect spring weather and activities, Birthday drinks on Friday evening to finish off the work week with ease, easy Saturday morning at home, doing stuff in the flat, baking for the afternoon, grocery shopping in the neighbourhood with a stop at my favourite local cafe, where a friend joined me for coffee (i love having friends living closeby! :D ) and a boardgame afternoon & dinner at another friend's place with the nice evening Sun shining right into the flat through the balcony, beautiful :)

Then Sunday just continued in the same way, my friend Sandra, who moved 5min away from me a few months back and has been repainting and settling in since then, organised her first little gathering at her place: brunch in her lovely courtyard at her beautiful wooden table she found second hand

came along a few friends and housemates i hadn't met yet

Saul (who just moved into a new place literally 1 street away from me, another neighbour, yeay :) ), Kim and Francesco




Our brunch, savoury first :)




Me and the beautiful host



After a little break, savoury made place for tea and home-made sweets & pastries,
i made cinnamon rolls for the first time, a recipe to repeat for sure! :d



Sandra



After the brunch, I went for a walk around the city and it's beautiful galeries



got myself a nice iced latte, went the top floor of the QVB and sat down, relaxed, wrote down some thoughts and just enjoyed the place, the light and the few people passing by at that time of the day :)