Amanda | October 24, 2011
It’s been a roller coaster of a month for little old me. My time in Sydney was full of happiness, excitement, rest, anguish, stress, sadness, and joy. Living abroad is such a mad mix of emotions both while you are away from home and when you return. You always feel a little on the outside [...]
Category: Living Abroad, Photography, Sydney, Travel |
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Tags: Australia, Beaches, Family, Living Abroad, Sydney
Amanda | May 6, 2011
Happy Mother’s Day from across the sea to the best mum in the world. I miss you dearly. Love Amanda xxx p.s. Happy Mother’s Day to all the mums out there for Sunday! p.p.s. This beautiful shot of my mumma somewhere out in the Australian bush was taken by my late father when they were [...]
Category: Sydney |
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Tags: Family, mum
Amanda | May 5, 2011
Hello all, I’m currently working away on new things that I hope to tell you about soon. Of course, instead of just working on one new project, I’ve given myself a second to make things even more complicated. As I work away at these two projects, my mind tends to drift off into daydream land [...]
Category: Living Abroad, Sydney |
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Tags: Family, Missing Home
Amanda | July 7, 2010
Happy 19th Birthday to my beautiful sister Kelly Bell. Kel is the sweetest, kind hearted girl I know and my heart aches without her giggles, dimples and smile in my everyday. I would never have imagined that receiving a sister at the age of 15 could have been such a miracle in my life. I [...]
Category: Photography |
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Tags: Birthdays, Family, Kelly, Sister
Amanda | June 10, 2010
Sydney beaches are white sand, blue waters, surfing and sun light sparkling like crystals across the ocean. We are extremely blessed to have this as our playground and the more that I am away from home, the more I realise how lucky we really are. The cliché is true. The little sis and I spent [...]
Category: Cafe Life, Sydney, Wandering Neighbh'ds |
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Tags: Australia, Beaches, Family
Amanda | May 30, 2010
Here’s a Polaroid tip: when shooting a selfie in full sun, look at the location of your arm/camera before shooting. Adjust accordingly. So I am back in Vancouver and despite my big plans for blogging from Sydney, life turned out to be far too hectic and far too emotional. I spent lots of time with [...]
Category: Photography, Sydney |
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Tags: Catching Up, Family, Sydney
Amanda | April 6, 2010
This morning I had the most happy of happy news that made all my concerns instantly disappear. Isn’t it amazing how one little sentence can make everything else fall into a heap of nothingness? All the petty worries of an everyday life can be squashed with one teeny word. Today I found out that there [...]
Category: News, Vancouver |
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Tags: Baby News, Family, Perspective, Thankful
Amanda | January 19, 2010
Oahu is always jam packed with tourists, always busy and always ready to put on a show. Lots of people may hate this about Hawaii but for me the islands are about so much more. My family has a long history with Hawaii with my grandparents leading the pack on something like 14 separate occasions [...]
Category: Photography, Travel |
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Tags: Dad, Family, Hawaii, Holidays, Oahu