I'm over colds and flus!

The last day of august already, isn't winter offcially finished tomorrow??? Or is that later on in september? The last couple of days have been quite mild here in Melbourne, there was definitely a whiff of spring in the air.. Smiling, I tucked my cold-and-flu tablets deeply into the bathroom drawer, surely I wouldn't need them again before next year... last night I got them out again as my nose is completely blocked, my whole body is aching, I'm coughing and there is this general under-the-weather-feeling. I'm spending my Sunday at home on the couch.
And I wanted to go to the Melbourne Etsy seller meet-up today!! Not much point, coughing and sneezing at everyone. I hope I can make it to the next one!
Some things have been happening in my Etsy-store, I've had four sales so far! I'm very proud *beaming with pride* That's definitely a start.
Apart from listing new cup candles and shopping for more cups (there haven't been many tea cups around lately, I must have bought them all!;-)) I'm also working on some new products. I'm currently experimenting with oil burner melts and hey, they are turning out nicely so far. They will be made with pure essential oils. That is going to be my little aromatherapy line.:-) I can't wait to put them up in my shop, just have to do some more testing etc.
I would also like to do some more mosaics, I love making mosaics! Just the process of cutting up glass is so annoying (one day I have to put up a photo of me in my protective gear cutting up glass, looks like I'm going to perform surgery!) and it really makes my wrist and hand hurt. I know there are tools to make the whole thing a bit easier, but they also cost quite a bit. Eventually, eventually..Rome hasn't been built in a day after all.
I'm off now, I will try to kill this cold. First I'm going to drown it in tea and then burn it with hot steam. And if that fails I get the herbal tablets out! That might scare it to death.. well, you can always hope.
Hope you are all well and healthy, see you soon!

it's been a while

Hello everyone (hope I have a few readers)

It’s been a while since i have posted on my blog. Don't know what happened to the month of July, but it's gone. I've been busy working on my Etsy store and I’m now offering custom-made teacup candles where you can choose your favourite fragrance. I have heaps of fragrances available, and they are SO GOOD! Who would have thought that you could put the lovely scents of coffee, chocolate or blueberry cheesecake into fragrance oil. YUM! Now I’m waiting for my first sale, still. Just made my shipping costs a bit lower since they must be a bit of a turn-off, shipping from Australia is so expensive! I guess we are a long way away from everywhere...

My fiancé Luke and I have just been away last weekend to visit his crazy, lovely family up in Newcastle near Sydney. It's been a big weekend with a 70th birthday, a massive family breakfast, lunch with both grandparents, playing with his little cousins and so on.
I also have a cousin of mine currently living in Sydney which is nice. I'm not the only one of my family on the other side of the world.
I went to visit her for a day and we took her two little boys to Balmoral Beach in Sydney, built a big sandcastle that should be able to withstand all sorts of attacks, had fish and chips for lunch (Balmoral seagulls had their fair share too) and enjoyed a lovely day. The Kids must have liked it too, when i was about to leave her three-year-old old looked at me like he couldn't believe it and shouted out in German: "Willst Du etwa sson dehn?!?" Translated and under consideration of his three-year-old slang/dialect it would sound like "Do you leally wanna do home aleady?!?"
Now I’m back in Melbourne, soon back to my nannying work. Yep, can't escape the Kids. But where else would all that great inspiration come from...? :-)
Saying that I better make my way to bed for some inspirational sleep, spent all afternoon sorting my tax stuff out, YUK! But I’m almost over and done with it now.

See you soon, dear readers and have a good night...