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Self Care Saturday: Goddess by Lush

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Goddess by Lush

Heavenly scent, jasmine absolute seduces you into lilac and silver waters, while the darkness of oudh and the richness of sandalwood keep you there, lingering a little longer. Precious ingredients for a true goddess, lifting your mind to a higher plane.

As each layer unfolds and sodium bicarbonate sends colours swirling, something divine happens to your body. Feel your muscles warming, feel your blood pumping, feel your strength.

Legend says Cleopatra bathed in milk, but a true goddess bathes in butters. Fair Trade Colombian cocoa butter and shea butter melt into creamy waters, then a skin-softening slick of liquid gold argan oil, a holy trinity of moisturisation. Behind the shea and argan, are stories of empowered women’s groups in Ghana and Morocco. Not age-old legends of celestial beings, but real stories from Planet Earth of building communities and defending the natural world.

Do you believe God is a woman?

Taken from the Lush Australia site.

If you only ever buy one Lush bath bomb, make it this one!

Goddess by Lush is such a beautiful and luxurious experience. The water was an amazing and rich purple colour with a surprising depth – Submerging my hand only a tiny bit, I could no longer see my hand beneath the colour and glitter.

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Sixth Blogaversary

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Oh wow, so the time has flown since I started this blog. I will admit that I did abandon this site for about two years while I was working at a troublesome job which just sucked the life out of me 🧛‍♀️

But I’m back and 2018 was a year of pretty much constant and scheduled posts! So surprised and proud of myself. Here’s hoping 2019 sees me continue down this path 😁

Magic Kingdom To Do List

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In the next few months I’m making my way to Florida and will be checking out Disney World! Needless to say I am incredibly excited. In preparation for my trip, I have been researching like mad and have been making an insane amount of lists. Since all this research has made me incredibly excited, I thought I would share some of the things I am most looking forward to, park by park.

For all the people who have visited Disney World before, feel free to let me know if I have missed anything or if there are things I absolutely must do 😀

The below are some of the things that I have put on my to do list for Magic Kingdom in Disney World.

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The Haunted Mansion

I should probably start off by saying I am not a thrill ride person, as soon as I hit any G-force, I feel sick.

Violently so…

So with this in mind, most of my Disney experiences will be ones that shy away from the big thrill rides, which is why I am looking forward to the Haunted Mansion so much!

Over 10 years ago I made my way over to Anaheim’s Disneyland and fell in love with the ride there. So being able to revisit and share the experience with my friends and partner is an exciting one.

UPDATE: Really enjoyed this ride, was just as fun and kitsch as I remembered it.

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Pride Month!

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Hey everybody, it’s June!

Those of you in the know, will know that it is Pride Month! And those of you who didn’t know, now know 😀

Every year in June the history, politics, culture, and people of the LGBTI community are celebrated. Marking the occasion of the Stonewall riots, the month long celebration is one that looks to empower and educate people, to embolden those to feel pride in themselves and their sexuality.

Gay Pride GIF by Bustle-downsized_large(1)To mark this month long occasion, I will be focusing my posts on LGBTI popular culture. Keep an eye out for posts about how I feel about the term LGBTI, what I’m currently interacting with, what I’m looking forward to, some of my queer favourites and other general recommendations.

So no matter who you are, I hope you enjoy your Pride Month and have a lovely June!

I’m back!

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Boom Baby –

I’m back!

I’ve been gone for almost two years but I’m back. The blog has recently undergone some major work; a few touch ups here, some major reconstructions there.

You may have noticed:

  • The blogs name has changed. This has been something I have wanted to do for a while but couldn’t think of anything better. The idea was to have something that addressed the fact that I don’t tend to review things so much as talk about how I am experiencing them or just enjoy them. I hope you like the new name and that Ally’s Appraisals fits the blog content more.
  • I have changed the blog theme and am working those feature images and slider bar.
  • The Currently Consuming and Small Snippet headers have been reworked into something smaller and I what I think looks better.

I have no promised on the types of content or the frequency of the posts but I will be making an effort to keep this blog updated and relevant (if only for resume purposes). I look forward to writing more posts and getting back to engaging with the blogging community again.

 

Small Snippet of April

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Once again we find ourselves with a large gap in between posts, and once again I offer the same excuse. I’m just so tired. Due to this posts often get put so way behind on my priorities, but fret not you’ll get random posts.

Last month was a bit of a blur for me but there were some stand outs amongst the noise.

Sia – This is Actingsia

I have always been aware of Sia, especially her early work within Australia, however her last album and this new one have grabbed my attention. Where 1,000 Forms of Fear was a evolution of her personal style, This is Acting is Sia hitting her mark. The album is solid from start to end, I can say that I am a fan of every song on the album and often find myself sneaking a headphone in and listening to it at work.

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Apologies (I have a reason this time)

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My recent Book Bingo post was the first one in a while, the first in three months to be exact. Of all of the excuses I could possibly give you, I find that my actual reason is the best: I recently made the transition from casual to full time work and I have just found myself so exhausted. So once again I find myself offering so many apologies for neglecting the blog but I am afraid my desire to veg and watch Netflix once I get home will probably continue.roses

However I will strike while the iron is hot, that is to say I am feeling inspired, and try and set up a backlog of posts. I am even going to take my notebook on the train now and try and get some posts written that way. So I look forward to posting in the fortnights to come!

Updates

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Over the last month I have been having a little break, but you can look forward to a few changes in the upcoming months. I mentioned in January that I wanted to change the name of the blog and at the moment I am giving this serious thought. Hopefully in the future you will see an unveiling of a new name and all the fun of the changing logos.

To make my life easier I am also cutting back on the Currently Consuming posts, ideally I would do one every week but the new plan is for one every fortnight. I feel that a more structured posting schedule will make it a tad easier to stay up to date.

I hope you have as much fun reading my posts as I have writing them.

Open2Study: Financial Literacy

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o2s-logo-facebookFinancial Literacy is a MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) that is run by Open2Study and contributed by Macquarie University. The free to take class is one that explores what it means to be financially literate. The course starts on the 9th of February (2015)* and explores a number of topics that include, saving money, debt, and investments.

The course is broken up into four weeks with each week containing twelve of activities. The way in which the class is conducted is via short video lectures that are released in a tiered fashion. The course is structured with roughly ten video lectures each week, followed by a one question quiz. At the end of the lectures is a small five question assessment.

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