creator of sorts | amateur baker | gamer
While those in the northern hemisphere are rugging up against the winter winds, their southern counterparts are slowly melting into pools of sweat as heat-waves mark the beginning of summer. Now I’m all for a beach day, but sometimes the thought of getting sand in every nook and cranny of your body then dealing with
Being born as a first-generation Australian meant that my childhood was filled with traditions different to my Aussie classmates and my out-of-school activities weren’t your typical sport training and music lessons (although I did learn the piano growing up, with a Polish teacher of course). Instead, I learnt traditional Polish dancing which I would be
Some days you wake up in the morning and all you feel like doing is surviving the day so you can crawl back into bed. Other days seem blissfully happy until an unexpected turn of events forces you to plummet back to reality and your otherwise sunny disposition is destroyed. Either way, it doesn’t feel
Another month down for 2017 and it almost feels as if time is speeding up with Halloween just next door and Christmas around the corner. Those of you who, like me, live in the Southern Hemisphere are now exchanging coats for light cardigans and sweatpants for swimwear as the weather invites you down to the
Growing up, especially through the peer pressure of high school life, we’ve learnt what hobbies are more socially acceptable than others and it’s usually only when we become older that we start embracing our interests without worrying about the judgement of others – or it turns out your friends have similar guilty pleasures and you
Sometimes it can be hard to keep our lifestyles healthy when we’re juggling work, our social lives and an ever-growing list of TV shows to watch on Netflix. It’s the endless cycle of “we’ll start on Monday” that makes one-day of relaxation turn into weeks of procrastination. But some habits just take a few minutes
Whether it’s to lose weight, make some gains or just to keep your body healthy, the clean eating concept is often tossed around although everyone seems to have a different idea of what that means. Now we all love our food to be washed and free of dangerous bacteria, but when it comes to my
Bees are hanging around en masse in the garden, I no longer require three blankets to stay warm at night and I’ve already been swooped by a magpie which can only mean one thing; winter in Australia is officially over. While it’ll still be a couple of months before the sun starts melting us all
Every year the people of Sydney are lucky enough to experience the beautiful site of cherry blossoms blooming under the winter sun. Wanting to see them with my very own eyes, I headed out to the Auburn Botanic Gardens to catch a glimpse of these bright flowers where they also had some Japanese culture on
I’m glad I wasn’t interested enough in my skin as a teenager to scrub my pores raw with exfoliators on a daily basis since that is exactly what many people mistakenly do in an attempt to clear their facial woes. When I did fall into a healthier lifestyle where I finally realised the importance of
