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Hi everyone! Are you all sitting cozy with your coffee / tea / hot chocolate or wine???  Good...  I hope you enjoy my post today.  It's just a little look into my February. Which was CRAAAAAAAZY by the way! I hope you all had an excellent month too and look forward to hearing what exciting things happened to you throughout the month in the comments below!  Favorite Purchases: I found my bikini for Bali and Philippines!!! I fell so in love with this little number I just couldn't resist the splurge... can't wait to pack it in my suitcase and head off for Southeast Asia! Eeeeek! I also FINALLY found my leather backpack that I've been hunting for... and got it at an absolute BARGAIN!!! The money went towards a good cause too. I found this little guy while stumbling around town in a pair of painful heels with no soles! I'd crept into this tiny store called Eye Love to give my feet a break when I spotted a leather backpack jammed into the corner window. It was love at fir...

There's a quote that goes something like this: "You have to love yourself before anyone else can."  This is something I have been trying to practice a lot over the past few months.... to love myself. That's never been an easy thing for me. A lot of things took place in my younger days that drilled thoughts that I wasn't worth loving into my head. See, I've been dangling myself off of the edge of the world for a long time now. Darting from here to there - never able to find peace in my soul.  Something was wrong.  After a heartbreak so intense it very nearly killed me - I scattered my life into a million different pieces.  I wanted everything - and I wanted nothing all at once.  I couldn't choose between left or right, this road or that. So I continually did whatever my heart desired, without often thinking of the consequences. It was selfish, sporadic and staggeringly dangerous.   Through it all, I put myself into some really stupid situations - but I woul...

Have you ever read a book you loved so much that you feel even a glowing book review won't do it any justice? Well, that's what 'A Street Cat Named Bob,' was for me. I found the book in this quirky little bookstore nestled in Kalk Bay, Cape Town and although I could barely afford to scrape enough together for dinner that night, I just couldn't leave the store without it. I'll admit, at first I thought it was hilarious. Over the years I have managed to adopt the nickname, Crazy Cat Lady, among my friends... so when I laid eyes on this book in the store I had to laugh and take a photo of it for my friends. I knew they would find it funny.  But after snapping a quick picture, curiosity got the better of me and I picked the book up to read the blurb on the back: "When James Bowen found an injured, ginger street cat curled up in the hallway of his sheltered accommodation, he had no idea just how much his life was about to change. James was living hand to mouth o...

Hi everyone! I've got some really big news for all of you.  Many of you have been reading my blog for months, if not years and putting up with my countless posts based on travel.  I have one of the worst cases of wanderlust known to man and over the past year I haven't been able to pursue it.  Backpacking and camping my way through Europe in 2013 left me penniless! I've been working my butt off ever since, saving away as much as possible at the end of each month.  What I saved went directly into my travel account and now I can finally say that all of this hard work has paid off!! Yesterday I booked and paid for my flights to the Philippines and to Bali!!!!!!! My first big stop after a twelve-ish hour flight from Johannesburg, South Africa, is Hong Kong. There are no direct flights from South Africa to the Philippines or Bali so you have to catch a connecting flight from another country. I was lucky enough to book my connecting flight to Cebu, Philippines from Hong Ko...

Penny has a secret. Under the alias Girl Online, Penny blogs her hidden feelings about friendship, boys, her crazy family and the panic attacks that have begun to take over her life. When things go from bad to worse, her family whisks her away to New York, where she meets Noah; a gorgeous, guitar-strumming American.  Suddenly Penny is falling in love - and capturing every moment of it on her blog.  But Noah has a secret too. One that threatens to ruin Penny's cover - and her closest friendship - ever. Hi Everyone! So I just closed the book, Girl Online by British Youtuber and Blogger, Zoe Sugg. It took me about a week to read it because not only was it a light, easy read but it was definitely undeniably gripping and addictive! I mean, I literally had the book propped up beside the cooker in the evenings and I'd have my head buried in the pages while my potatoes were softening!  Firstly I should say that I found Zoe, aka ' Zoella's ' blog many years ago when I was on...