Grand Design

I would have to say that my all time favourite program is Grand Designs. I could watch it for hours on end. I have.
I love seeing how people lay out their houses and the process involved in building a home from scratch. But I have to say I enjoy most of all to see the finished product: To see how people furnish their homes and how their fantasies of a space come to fruition. It is hard to deny that Kevin McCloud is not a major draw factor as well. Always doubtful and forever impressed.

For almost one year now I have been designing my 'Grand Design' in my head, and it is almost finished. I know exactly how I want my home to look and if I close my eyes, I can imagine walking through the house. I know where every corner of a wall ends and where the furniture will sit. Maybe I am crazy, but I know that one day I will build and live in my dream home.

I suppose one of the biggest parts of designing my home is how it should look on the inside. I want there to be colour, light and art and bookshelves that run to the ceiling.
I have thought a lot about what art I want in the house. Sometimes I think I want a few large paintings but then I go to Art.com and all that changes. I want my walls to be covered in framed prints and canvases from this website. It has EVERYTHING. If I would allow myself, I could spend a week sifting through the pictures. I spent a little while on the website this afternoon between episodes of GD and I am particularly smitten with the animal prints at the moment.

 I love 'Sketch' art - This one reminded me of my Grandpa, who owned a race horse called Billy Blue Jeans.

 I would love to see a large print of this, so much detail in all the sea creatures.

 I am totally in love with this fish print - I love the vintage 'anatomy' style prints.

 JELLYFISH - Just jellyfish. I could have a whole room dedicated to these prints. So rad!

 The only decent print I could find of a Ladybug! Gorgeous colours.

 I am not exactly sure what my fascination is with Flamingos but I think they are so ...cool. They are pink birds! and they stand on one leg. What could be better.

I love how you can click to the artists other work, if you see a print you like - There could be so many more amazing prints to discover! Good gift ideas too! I could be so stoked with anything from this website. Dear God. Can I just become a print hoarder now? I think I would be one happy lady in a home filled with these images.

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Fun Fact

King Frederick IX of Denmark had tattoos.

Image from an article in Life Magazine 1951

That just makes this place so much cooler.

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Solo

My man left yesterday. Three months goes to quickly.
All week I was holding protests in the form of ....looking grumpy. I'm quite certain I asked him at least 5 times a day to ask me to come home. But I know that I am not finished here.

It is strange not having him here. I'm used to rushing home to find him lying in bed or playing games on his laptop. Who is going to buy me chocolate now? (I can't even afford my rent!)

He left me just over 24 hours ago. He should almost be home in Brisbane now.
Out of necessity I have already found substitutes for him.

My Boyfriends for the next few months:

Seth, Michael, Paul (I never realised how attractive he was), Jason, Jeff, Kevin (Grand Designs is my porn) and of course, Ryan

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Sunday

This is what my Sunday is looking like. Although, the last two weeks have looked exactly the same. I've watched a years worth of reality TV and sitcoms in the last 12 days. I think I've forgotten how to walk.

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Home sick

I’m having a really hard time at the moment. Ever since I got back from Rome I have been thinking about home and home for me will always and forever be Brisbane. I’ve been constantly in my head about this and really trying to think what I want and what I should do next. I might just be feeling this way because I miss my man (He is in London for the next few days) but I think it is more than that.

I came to Denmark because I didn’t really know what I wanted my life to be about. I am still unsure for the most part but I know I want a huge part of my life to be about my relationships with my family and my friends. I want to have better relationships with the people I love and I want to be closer to them.

Basically, I can think of a million and one reasons to go home but I can only think of one reason to stay here in Denmark: I want to learn Danish!. I hate myself for doing this to myself but I am mentally not here in Copenhagen anymore. I want to want to stay here and make it work but ultimately I don’t think I can enjoy being here much longer when I know all the comfort and love I ever need in my life is in Brisbane.

I know this is a decision I have to make for myself. I just don’t want to end up regretting it – I think I am also secretly afraid that people will judge me for giving up so easily. The Viking in me wants to stay and prove to myself I can do it, but that wimpy fucking goddess in me says “follow your heart” … and my heart is in Brisbane. FUCK.

I’ve thought a little about what (if anything) I will do differently if and when I get back to Brisbane and to tell you the truth, I don’t think a lot will change. And that I am worried about. I don’t want to be home for 3 months and think to myself ‘I should have tried harder to stay in Denmark’.

Sometimes it just takes extracting yourself from your usual influences to discover what it is that really matters to you. Fuck, that was expensive.

I still haven’t made up my mind.

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Rome

McHandsomepants and I spent Easter in Rome. The most religious holiday of the year in one of the most religious city's in the world. Good choice.
We are not religious at all! I just liked the idea of eating pizza for a week and getting some sun.

The weather was a welcome change. I was so overjoyed to be walking around outside wearing a T-shirt and sandals. I even have a criss-cross tan on my feet - It makes me happy to look down and see it.

To be honest, the pizza and pasta that we ate in Rome isn't worth reporting on. We have eaten better pizza here in Copenhagen! We mostly ended up finding cheap restaurants selling Margherita pizza's for 5 Euro and drinking water we had in our backpack.

We did all the touristy things. It took up the week quite well really. We even had a day spare to re-visit our favourite places. Colosseum, Trevi fountain, Spanish Steps, Pantheon, Villa Borghese, Vatican City and we even went to the zoo.

It was such a nice week, even though the bed at the hostel was hard as a rock and my man got sick from McDonald's (of all places) - But it's nothing Gelato can't fix.

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Get In

The GIOGO Show. Get in or Get out.



Convoy and Street Etiquette

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