Author: Amanda Viviers

Place: My Office

Poison: Diet coke

Favourite Things: Salad

Today I recieved a package in the mail, that made my day zing. I am not a huge fan of business cards, personally I think they are so pretentious.

But

I found a type of business card that is personal, creative, cheap and fun.

(Sounds a bit like me actually)

 

Anyway check them out, they are called moo cards, and they were so quick to arrive in my hot little hands, and I am sure one day my personalised business cards will be found on ebay. Not.

Anyways, check it out.

http://www.moo.com/readymade/minicards

AMPS

Place: My Office

Poison: Sassy chewing gum

Favourite Things: the message rolle and polly just left on my phone.

Kym rolle. The amazing. Sent me this website to check out some great work. Love the design, love the vibe and love her.

check it out

http://www.zebby.net/works/works.html

A

Place: My Office

Poison: water

Favourite Things: the sunflower given to me from polly this morning.

I cant believe its the 5th of june already. So much to tell so little time.

Check out this amazing painting though.

A

Place: Qantas club

Poison: savigion blanc

Favourite things: my boarding pass back to Perth.

The last few days in Melbourne have been amazing but also stretching. I have missed my own bed, my friends, my collegues, my work, my green tea cups and mostly my flatmate.

No big reason, except that I am a home body who is in love with her own bed and hanging her clothes in her own cupboard.

This morning I read every Melbourne newspaper in search of some more information about Burma. I am so moved by the plight of those who cant help themselves and frustrated by governments who are full of pride in their blocking of common sense in the midst of tragedy.

Although Thailand has my heart, Burma is its sister country and the photos being published currently about the diaster, are making me take a deep breath.

Imagine what it would be like to be surrounded by abject poverty, submitting yourself to a government who is controlling and short sighted, then to be dealt the blow of a natural disaster that has ripped open the already wounded.

I am so frustrated at our lack of ability to do anything to help.

As I write this I am reprimanding myself, knowing that I can help. I can go to the border this October when I go to Thailand and give, I can pray and give money to Aid agencies like World Vision who are at the moment doing anything they can to get in, I can make a commitment to watching how I spend my money on items in my everyday, so I can save and give when the borders are open.

100,000 dead.

sobering.

perspective is gained.

A

Place: Royce Hotel Melbourne

Poison: Long Black

Favourite Things: this hotel, has been converted from a rolls royce showroom back in the day to a funky hotel, stanbby for some photos…

 

The last few weeks at home have been so beautiful, there is such a high level of connection between my friends and their hearts and purpose at the moment.

So here I am in melbourne, I love melbourne, but am so missing the people I do my everyday life with.

Its so bizarre, that I find myself in a lovely hotel, surrounded by amazing people, yet so missing my fridge at home covered in photos and momentos of the people I so love.

My fridge is a place of pleasure and pain, its a place where I go to get food, sometimes too often, yet as I do I love to create a memory board of those who are so special and important too me.

Memory boards and inspiration boards are amazing opportunities to visually remind you and inspire you to live a life dedicated to people.

There is a photo on my fridge of a party we had once only 8 people but it still goes down as one of the most memorable nights ever! We talk about it often, full of great food, amazing people, a sense of life and fun, dancing to hey hey you you get into my car, the cleaning at the end of the night even became an event.

I love people and hate people, just as I love my fridge sometimes and hate it.

Despite the pleasure and pain, create a place where memories are sustained. Bring life to them, they create the fabric of a beautiful life.

Missing much

A