James and I went out to dinner with Celete and Kev one night and beforehand we stopped in at a cake shop called Burch and Purchese.

It was freaking freeeeeezing and rainy and miserable that night so the cake shop was very warm and welcome! I spent most of the night wrapped up in my scarf to avoid the rain.

They have this gigantic wall of scents there so you can mix and match them into a custom cake. Such a cool idea and I felt a bit like I was in a Victorian mad scientist’s lair 😀

Also they had bacon cake… bacon and maple syrup in cake form *_*

The little descriptions were so cute too:

I ended up buying some rose and strawberry jam and gold covered chocolate and salted caramel bars. I had never tasted salted caramel before this but now I’m addicted!

Even the paintings were apparently edible, seriously mad cake scientist!

Because we were early to get there before it was closed we went back to the car to eat desert before dinner XD

This was the little cake I had, so cute that I kept the little test tubes and took it home.

While we were eating Celeste and I decided we liked it all so much that we went back for seconds haha! I told you salted caramel was my new obsession, I bought a whole jar of it! Now I just need to think of some new ways to eat it 😀

Afterwards through out steak dinner all I could think about was cake! Hmm now that I think about it, I should go back there…

Also I was lucky enough to attend a fantastically fancy Estee Lauder/Tom Ford lunch with the MBBE girls.

You know you’re somewhere fancy when the menu is hand written and they have your name in calligraphy!

I was really happy because I finally got to meet Alice and Angela from Estee Lauder who I’d been chatting to via email for quite a while. I love putting faces to names!

Delicious dessert of the day was creme brulee:

We watched a little video on the brands as well as short talks from Alice and Angela.

Of course with that many bloggers in one room there was plenty of cam-whoring…

All of our photos together look like wedding photos because we got to take the flower center pieces home hahaha!

I took one for my hair too ^_^ Funnily enough those flowers were the longest lasting flowers I’ve ever had, they didn’t die for like 3 weeks in our lounge room 😀

Toasting!

As usual I’m more obsessed with the little things like monogrammed napkins!

With the lovely Emily from Emily’s Anthology!

Val, Tine and Jess!

Myself, Akisa and Alice.

Would a meet up be complete without a photo of taking a photo? No I don’t think it would.

The beautiful flowers.

We were gifted with a lovely bag of products to test out, I haven’t been able to use a lot of the skin care products because of my allergies but I am loving the make up so reviews to follow. It’s actually inspired a couple of looks for a new series I’m filming so something to look forward to!

This was the sun rise the morning we went to Adelaide, I don’t remember the last time I was awake enough to see the sunrise >_< So pretty though, from the train station it looked like the street was on fire.

My Dad and his wife came to visit for a few days so we went out to dinner with them last night. Their hotel was very pretty but none of my photos turned out so I’ll have to wait to get the ones I took with his camera.

My Dad has a Panasonic GF1 as his point and shoot which is one of the cameras I’ve been looking into upgrading to (though I want the GF3) so I spent a lot of the night comparing my TZ10 to his and then weeping silently into my drink at the difference ;_; It was difficult to give it back, I tried to trick him into taking mine home instead but I think the bright pink deco tipped him off 😉

I also met up randomly with some adorable readers in the mall while we were looking for a coffee shop! They were so sweet to come and say hello and compliment my outfit, I’m so lucky that such wonderful people read my blog 😀

I didn’t get your names girls so say hello in the comments and let me know if you have blogs too that I can check out! They are Estee and Reena! Go have a look at Estee’s blog, so cute!

What else has happened recently? I think there’s been some kind of anti-Violet conspiracy going on, all of my favorite things are being discontinued or closing down 🙁 Seriously in the space of a week like 5 of my favorite hair products have been discontinued! Even James’ favorite Asian grocery store shut up shop! Speaking of which, if you guys know anywhere other than Priceline that stocks Wakk Stain pink dye let me know, I really hate the new one I’ve been trying out and want to switch back but I can’t find any other suppliers online other than dodgy looking ebay auctions.

It’s been super misty and rainy the last week, it makes the architecture here look even more beautiful when the sky looks like it’s eating it.

We visited a cafe/art gallery for a business meeting and James tried an organic version of Coke which he didn’t hate XD The story behind this is that James looooves Coke, his Dad used to work for them so he grew up drinking it… a lot. So whenever we go out that’s his drink of choice, here in Melbourne we were surprised how many places didn’t have it. Definitely different from Brisbane in that regard XD

That same place actually had very cool mugs, the black parts were covered in velvet!

When I get those photos off my Dad I’ll show you guys a new little cafe we found in the mall too, it was super cute and had really yummy macarons. I’ve got recipes I’ve been meaning to post too, maybe I should start doing food related Fridays or something. *so behind on things I want to do*

We spent ages looking around for little wrist gloves for a video I’m making next time I do my hair, and when we found them I couldn’t resist playing with them on the way home XD

Hmm what else? Not a huge amount has been going on, I’ve been stuck at home working as per usual. I was thinking maybe once a week I should make myself get out of the house and do something interesting. Melbourne has so much to offer and so many interesting activities and places and I don’t feel like I’m seeing any of them >_<

Comedy for the day, I was taking a photo of this pretty door and James and I had this conversation:

James: Do a pose!

Violet: What kind of pose?

James: I don’t know, something door themed?

And this was what came out… yeah I don’t know either.

And because I’m waiting for my photos/vlog from Adelaide here’s the only one I have so far… it’s some kind of art sculpture in Rundel Mall of a pig looting a rubbish bin XD

And I’ll leave you with a photo of my make up from ABC that I took while I was trying and failing at napping beforehand.

What have you all been up to?

This month started off with eating donuts from Walkers and pretty much only involved eating donuts from Walkers… a lot of donuts.

I love it there because they play swing music and James loves it because they sell America soft drinks and have $1 jam donuts XD

Before anyone asks: don’t worry it’s just a wig 🙂

There was a bit of shopping, well not real shopping more like walking through shops on the way to get to more boring destinations…

But even that resulted in this -_-‘

James spotted a blue version of the Valliant he just sold and was nostalgic.

I giggled inappropriately at the suggestive instructive pictures on these kitchen kitchen sponges.

I almost bought this cake decorating toy on sale but changed my mind last minute because the cupcake version looked so much cooler but wasn’t available. Completely pointless but so cute! I want to bake tiny cakes!

I discovered how awesome the idea of heat up slippers is and then realised our apartment is so warm we never turn the heading on anyway so it’s probably overkill.

I also stopped myself from buying pretty stickers because even though I love stickers I have no idea what to do with them…

I also didn’t buy this cute rainbow yarn, this snapshots sure seems to be full of a lot of things I didn’t buy XD That can be this week’s theme!

I thought about buying a bonsai tree and then remembered that between James and I we have killed several of them.

We ate a lot of delicious food court food on the way to other boring places.

Architecture break:

Random photo where we’re both actually in shot break:

Pretty floral break:

Some poor guy’s bicycle break… literally…

One more architecture break because I really like this clock!

We were invited to Games Night at Kim’s place. The rule is that new people have to win before they are allowed to be regular members of the group, I was paranoid but I won first time YAY! That’s an achievement because I really suck at games. And in case you saw the Pictionary post and were wondering, I didn’t beat James with a notebook at all this time so fun was had by all.

Speaking of Pictionary, now that the competition is over and the winners have been announced I can tel you all that James’ drawing was A SNAKE CHARMER! Good on the 3 of you that actually got that right! Though some of the other responses were much funnier than anything I thought of so I suggest you guys go back and read the other comments for a good giggle!

Kim has an awesome wall painted to be a white board so this was the night’s menu:

The reason it was pending a taste test was because we didn’t know how it was going to taste. So if it came out well it was mine and if it tasted terrible it’s was james’.

Celeste tested making curly fries with her new machine too 😀

The first game we played was Monopoly Deal which is basically a card game version of Monopoly but very confusing.

As always, I was a very classy winner. And I definitely did NOT throw my cards in the air and bathe in the game money I collected.

Too late guys, I won the first game, you can’t un-invite me now!!

After that we played chocolate Monopoly which was basically just an excuse to eat chocolate.

And then it was dinner time! We had cheese fondue which was a first for me. Very yummy!

Though towards the end the burner wasn’t working properly and we were pretty much just eating lumps of cheese and making suggestive comments about how it looked… my friends are all super mature just like me 😉

Awesome dinner spread!

So it was a wonderful night 😀

And I’ll leave you with our rules board which may be slightly biased to a certain member who is much better at strategising than everyone else XD

Hope you all had a great weekend, I can’t wait to show you all the stuff I got up to in Adelaide as soon as I can sift through all the video/footage!