Orthodox Easter 2016 - Egg Dye Trial

I know this is a little (lol VERY) late, but oh well. I'm pregnant, forgetful and slow. Whaddyagunnado..

This year, since becoming pregnant I thought I would make a effort to start becoming a proper domakinka (Macedonian for housewife but it means so much more than just 'wifely duties'. I'll have to do a separate post about it). I figured my first domakinka duty would be Easter egg dying and seeing as though I had never done it myself before I bent the rules slightly.

In my Easter post from last year there's more information about the traditions involved with Orthodox Easter (link here). I wanted to follow the 'rules' but I figured this year could be my test run. I say this mostly because I knew something would stuff up and I didn't want to be disappointed in my efforts. It was all to lesson the blow really haha

I went to a wog deli to scout the things I would need and was half successful. I had wanted to do traditional red eggs as well as some pink eggs. Pink isn't a colour that people dye their eggs because, as I found out, pink dye is so fricking hard to find. The usual colours people use aside from red are blue, green and yellow. They come in the same type of foiled packets as shown above and you can sometimes find them in your local Coles or Woolies depending on how woggy your area is. Some people had suggested to me that food colouring would work if I couldn't find pink dye...

On the left is a pot with the regular red dye colouring the eggs and on the right is the pot with food colouring...

Can you tell which ones are pink and which are red? hahaha 

Needless to say, using food colouring was a big fail. I don't know why the pink dye made the eggs red and I don't know why the eggs had stripes across them, but I guess its ok because lucky this was a test run, right? When Easter passed and people were posting pictured of their eggs I saw some GORGEOUS colours being used. There was baby pink, mint green, hot pink, bright purple, lavender and baby blue. It was like nothing I had ever seen before! I asked around and apparently they were all made through packet dye just like the red colouring but you had to go to the markets at just the right time before easter to be able to find them. At least I know now for next year!

I didn't take photos of the feast because it was making me feel nauseous looking at the mix of food but I was alllllll about the sweets. I could've eaten these two trays by myself. Damnnnnn!

I can't wait to take the little lessons I learnt from this years trial and hopefully I'll have some better coloured eggs next year!

Sydney Tourist

Sam had to go to Sydney for work a few months back so we thought it would be a great opportunity to have a little vacay so I tagged along as well. It was the first time I properly got to visit Sydney and it was absolutely lovely! The first couple of days I spent alone because Sam had to work but then I had the chance to hang out with a friend so she showed me around so I wasn't so much of a lonely loner haha Sam only really got to explore for one full day so we had to make the most of it and tried to see as many things as possible.
I cant wait to visit Sydney again (but this time without it being a working vacay haha).

Have you ever visited Sydney? Whats your fave thing to do/see there?

Phamily Kitchen : Vietnamese Goodness

Back when the weather wasn't so disgusting and you could wear a jacket and still be cold, Sam and I went to Phamily Kitchen, a quirky Vietnamese food place on Smith St in Collingwood. 

Sam and I like to cafe/restaurant hop on and indulge on weekends. I had walked past Phamily Kitchen before and their whole aesthetic sucked me right in! That vibrant blue and baby pink! I hadn't even tried the food there yet and I was already hooked haha

We pretty much chose our clothes so we could match the decor haha

Thats a fricking fried ice cream! DAMNNNN

The food here is so boss! They've just reopened from their Christmas break so I suggest you guys get down there and try it out!

Jacket: ASOS  //  Dress (technically a pyjama dress): Peter Alexander  //  Stockings: Sonsee

Shoes: Vans  //  Scarf: Seed  //  Bag: Fjallraven Kanken

Christmas/Boxing Day Haul & Stories

I figured I should post this before it becomes irrelevant but this is my little recap/haul from Christmas & Boxing day.

This years gifts were particularly badass! In my family we tend to buy a lot of little gifts for each other which just makes it more fun. My husband and I on the other hand buy one more expensive gift for each other because our anniversary is on Boxing day so its kind of like one big Christmas/anniversary present. 

Sam knows whats up! I've wanted this from Louis Vuitton for aaaaageeessss and he got it hot stamped with my initials! I'm so absolutely in love with it!

My family don't usually do anything like this for Christmas because our Wog Christmas is the 7th of Jan, and we feast hard then. Mum was feeling particularly festive though and decided to make us a nice dinner and my Grandma happened to come over which made it all even better. We had the biggest laugh together and it was especially hilarious because my grandma is so wog that christmas bonbons are a foreign concept to her. She was so amazed that it was even a thing and was amazed at the silly toys that come out and the dumb jokes.

I may or may not have worn my pjs the whole day...

My sister got a Instax camera for her birthday so we had a play around with it and again, my grandma was amazed at this 'advanced technology' haha She knew of Polaroid cameras but they never got to experience that sort of stuff so she was pretty intrigued. Needless to say we took a shitload of photos haha

When dinner was over, Sam and I headed into the city to stay a few nights. I was going to have a super early morning for the boxing day sales so it helped that we weren't going to be too far away from it all. I got up at 6am the next day and it was raining (thanks Melbourne. The ONE time I have to be walking around outside in summer, you decided to rain. Cheers bro) and I was without an umbrella... 30 mins later I found one stashed in the house and I was on my way. My first stop was David Jones to see what kind of designer bags they had on sale. As expected. Nothing worth buying. I usually have a bit of a game plan when it comes to the sales. Buy anything I can online Christmas Day when the sale goes live then the rest of the stuff I try and pick up or suss out on Boxing Day. I find that makeup is the main thing worth buying because its the only thing that I wouldn't be able to buy at that price throughout the year. There are sales on clothes a lot throughout the year so why waste time looking at that when you could be buying the stuff you normally couldn't, y'know what I mean? And Lush! Bless them and their 50% off Christmas sets! I did get really pissed off at the Melbourne Central Lush store though. There were legit over 30 people waiting in line to pay and the two cashiers didn't seem to give a shit and just wanted to have a chat with themselves, then try and include the customers and whatever. Now, I get that working retail at this time of the year is hard, but you know what would make your life less hard? Just serving the fucking customers and not making us wait in like for 45 minutes while you 'entertain us' and make me nearly fucking faint from having to stand so long..Just scan the goddamn things, take the cash and move the fuck on. What ticked me off most though was when I was (finally) served, I handed over my cash and the dumbass serving me called out to the whole store 'Excuse me, everyone! Make sure you have your notes unfolded and stretched right out so we can make this all go faster'. I was like, really bitch?... You just wasted my time embarrassing me when in that time the cash could've been in the till and I could've been gone. And what if I had major anxiety? You've just pointed me out in a crowd of now 50 or more people. What if I now just wanted to die? It made me so mad. Again, I get that its a hard time of year working in retail, but if you're that 'bored' working, try 1. working a little fucking harder & 2. conversing politely and quickly with customers instead of making them want to crawl in a hole and die. Cheers. #rantover. Aside from the idiot at Lush, the sales were a success. When you go that early it's as if its a regular shopping day, but once about 10am hits, its an absolute shit storm and you have to start being slightly aggressive when you walk otherwise you will get trampled. Thats why I go so early. I don't want to have to elbow people out of the way and get all stressed and annoyed. 

The only thing I didn't manage to pick up was a Camila & Marc tee that I have been eyeing for weeks. I was hoping I could find it in store to try on because the largest size they had was a 12 but I couldn't find it and bought it online when I got home. It should be arriving in the next few days so I'm prayyyyiiinnggg that it fits.

At about 10.30 I was completely done and ready for breakfast, so I called Sam and he met me at our fave place on Degraves St, The Quarter. I was dying for some eggs and hashbrowns!

You're probably looking at that plate and thinking 'uh, I thought you said you had lapband done, bro? wtf?'. Well heres what I do. I mostly still order a regular meal because when I'm out eating I'm usually with my husband so whatever I cant eat, he eats. So he doesn't have to pay more and order extras because I'm handing him half a plate of food haha. What I had from this meal though was one hashbrown, both poached eggs and the tiniest bite of the bread. I find that bacon isn't worth eating anymore. It just takes too long to chew and doesn't break down enough for me.
The meal hit the spot and it was so nice to finally be able to sit down and chill for a little bit amongst the beginnings of the crazy.

We got back to the apartment and just relaxed until my brother in-laws came over for a LAN.
It was a fantastic Christmas break and hope that next year we'll be able to be celebrating from our own house! That would legit have to to be a Christmas miracle though haha

Hope you guys had a great time this holiday season!