10 Days Of Childhood #3

1. Earliest memory
2. Favourite childhood memory
3. Embarrassing childhood story
4. Primary school stories
5. Favourite children's books
5. Best present you ever received as a child
6. Childhood friends
8. Something you miss
9. Quirky things you did as a child
10. Favourite childhood photos

Day 3: Embarrassing Childhood Story

Okay, I think everyone has some embarrassing stories from their childhood that they like to share with people because they seem so long ago that it couldn't have possibly been you making that embarrassing mistake! Nonetheless here are some embarrassing stories that I am going to pretend didn't happen to me:

1. The & symbol.

Now my sister is a nice person but I think when she was younger she liked scaring me a lot. She used to tell me that it was completely and utterly illegal to use the '&' symbol. ANYWHERE. EVER. So naturally, me being the not so bright 5 year old I was, I believed her. Until one day I was feeling a bit rebelious and drew the symbol. Not 5 seconds later I legitimately go so scared I ripped up the piece of paper and started crying thinking that the police were going to arrive any minute and take me away.

However, whenever I write 'and' these days I always use the & symbol. Just a way of reminding myself it isn't illegal I suppose.

2. Grating wood.

The stairs in my house are made out of wood, so naturally so are the handrails. I think this must have occurred around the ages of 3 or 4? Because I sort of remember this happening but that doesn't make it any less horrifying that I ever did it! So anyway, I guess I was just tall enough to see over the top of the handrail on the 2nd floor because I used to grind my teeth on it. Like actually just grate my teeth up and down on the rail. I think I did this a few times because my mum found the marks one day and was so confused, I think it took me about a week to confess it was actually me. My mum already knew though.

The marks are still there too!

HOW EMBARRASSING!

3. Victory Victory Curtains and Blinds

If you're from Australia you know the ad I'm talking about here. It has a really catchy jingle that goes "Victory Victory Curtains and Blinds one three one three double nine." It is the catchiest thing every I swear to goodness because I knew that phone number off by heart, so one day I decided to call the company. As soon as a lady answered I slammed the phone down so hard and I felt immediately horrible because I thought the lady would know my phone number and then she would send the police to my house to come and get me (is this a recurring theme that I'm petrified of the police???) so anyway I ran to my mum crying and after she had finished laughing her head off she told me it would be our little secret.

It wasn't though! She never fails to tell every single person she meets!

I'm certain I have a bajillion other embarrassing stories but these are the ones that have stuck with me!

Over and out,

Erin.

10 Days of Childhood #2

1. Earliest memory
2. Favourite childhood memory
3. Embarrassing childhood story
4. Primary school stories
5. Favourite children's books
5. Best present you ever received as a child
6. Childhood friends
8. Something you miss
9. Quirky things you did as a child
10. Favourite childhood photos

Day 2: Favourite childhood memory

Oh goodness, why did I put this one second!? I'm going to need a few minutes to think about this.

GOT IT

Okay from when I was really little, until I was a bit older (really descriptive I know, I don't know exact ages!) my dad's friend from work owned this beach house on the Gold Coast and he would rent it out to us for like a week in the summer holidays. It was this tiny little thing with a big grass yard and it was one of those houses that are on stilts so you can walk around underneath them and I thought that was the coolest thing in the whole entire world. I still remember you'd walk up the stairs and on one side was the bathroom and the other side was the house. I just thought it was freaking cool okay. 

The house was right opposite the beach and we'd go there and dad would help us make the biggest sandcastles ever and we'd sit right on the top. Unfortunately I was too young to remember all this but when I got older and we went back I remembered more :)

Maybe the actual reason why I liked this beach house so much was that it was the one time of the year we got to eat froot loops for breakfast! I remember Aimee and I would always get those packs of cereal that have like 8 different kinds and we'd always fight over who got the froot loops, so mum had to buy two packs!

So there you go, here's two pictures from our first time at the beach house:

If you go to the beach house now, it's still there but is fully surrounded by sky rises. It's quite sad really.

Over and out,

Erin.

10 Days of Childhood #1

Hey everyone!
So I thought I'd try something new out on my blog for the next 10 days. In exactly 10 days today, I'm turning 18! Which is a big deal in Australia because it means you are now a legal adult. Excuse me? I'm going to be a child for the rest of my life thanks. But seeing as I only have 10 days left of being known as a child I thought I would post and aspect of my childhood that I love for the days leading up to my birthday! Here they are:

1. Earliest memory
2. Favourite childhood memory
3. Embarrassing childhood story
4. Primary school stories
5. Favourite children's books
5. Best present you ever received as a child
6. Childhood friends
8. Something you miss
9. Quirky things you did as a child
10. Favourite childhood photos

DAY 1: Earliest Memory

So according to some scientists somewhere most people only begin remembering things from the age of 4, which I suppose in my case is sort of true since my earliest memory is from kindergarten, when I was exactly four years old.

I remember we had a swing out the back of the kindy that was basically just a tyre laying flat and some ropes holding it off the ground, I'm not sure quite how it happened but I fell off and grazed up both of my knees really bad. (Bad for a 4 year old that is). So my kindy teacher took me inside and lifted me onto one of the benches in the kitchen, which was quite exciting for me, since we weren't allowed to sit on them normally! Then she rinsed off my knees and put on some weird white powdery stuff to stop them bleeding. That's a pretty random thing to remember but it is honestly my earliest memory!

One of my other memories from kindy is when we used to have nap time and I would never go to sleep, I would just sit up flicking through the pages of a Whinnie The Pooh book, but not reading the words, just looking at the pictures! I also remember dressing up in this cute little outfit for pirate week!

I ran into an old kindy friend at university a few weeks ago and we were sharing stories from it, he sure does remember a lot more than me!

Over and out,

Erin.

Exam Stress.

Hey beautiful people,
Thanks for sticking with me even though I haven't posted in a while, I appreciate it a lot :) So at the moment I'm in the middle of my first ever university final exams! I had one on Saturday and I have three more until I am freeeeee for a whole month! (I already have a list stuck to the back of my door with things I need to do on the holidays)

So I thought I would make a quick post seeing as I am the worst studier you will ever meet. I can't go more than an hour without finding something 50 times more interesting to do. This afternoon that was making these bracelets:

I really like them and I currently have the Carpe Diem one tied around my wrist and I'm going to leave it there as long as possible until I've finally learnt how to better manage the time I am lucky enough to be given each day!

Well I suppose I better go back to my studying soon but I will try to update in the meantime if anything interesting happens. If not, look forward to a post about my 18th birthday which is coming up in 12 days! How crazy! I will be an adult. I think that's probably the scariest thought of all.

Until then, keep breathing and don't forget to smile.

Over and out,

Erin.

The Color Run.

So this weekend was quite possible the most fun I have had in my entire life! On Saturday Ashleigh and I caught the train to the Gold Coast to pick up our packets that was happening on the sunday. Even though the train trip was pretty long (an hour each way) we talked the whole time just about anything and everything. About university and how we're not sure it really suits what either of us want to do with our lives, it was quite an eye opening conversation and I left it more sure with what I want to do with my life, I'm just not sure that university is it.

So after the train trip back Ash had circus training so I went home and sewed up these pants for the 3 of us (Ash, Lee-Ann and I)

I love them so much! The Color Run logo is from the sleeves of our t-shirts which we cut off to make them muscle tanks. They looked so awesome!

So Saturday night Ash and Lee-Ann slept over, and we took some crazy photos on my webcam before hitting our beds at about 11pm in order to not be too dead when we woke up at 5am! So at 5 on Sunday morning Ash and I woke up without a struggle but we literally had to drag Lee-Ann out of bed! She is the worst morning person ever!

After we'd caught the train into the venue there was literally a sea of people in white t-shirts ready to get colourful!

I don't know how much you all know about the color run, but here's a quick overview:

- You run/skip/cartwheel/walk 5km, and every km they spray a different color on you

- At the end of it there is a MASSIVE finishing festival with music and everyone throws their packets of color in the air at the same time.

In the Orange Zone.

 When this happens it literally turns into night because the color is absolutely everywhere, and I would recommend trying to keep it out of your mouth, but everyone is so insanely colorful at the end and everyone is just happy and smiling. It's crazy!

The finish festival.

It was literally the best day of my life and some of the stares we got catching the train back all colorful were hilarious! I definitely would not have wanted to spend the day with anyone else, Ash and Lee-Ann are the best people you could ever hope to be friends with.

Over and out,

Erin.

A Photoshoot.

Hey beautiful people!

If you've been with me a while you might recall a while ago I made this post about a dress that I made. I've never really had any opportunity to wear the dress because I look at it more of a sort of "dress up" piece of clothing. But today, that's exactly what I felt like doing. I did my hair this morning and decided it looked something like a princess/fairy so I thought LET'S DO A PHOTOSHOOT! I had so many photos that I loved that I just couldn't decide which one was my favourite! (Hence I'm posting way too many photos).

I love you all and I'm sorry for not posting very often, Uni is stressing me out x

Over and out,

Erin.