Christmas In July!

21.07.2014

It's Christmas in July! 

    The thing that I love about Aussie is we get to celebrate two Christmases in a year: one in the winter and one in the summer! 

     Hippo and I were all dressed up in our Christmas jumpers (if you know me, you will know that I like to dress up), got our Polaroid and analog cameras ready and went to Miss Marple's Tea Room in Mt. Dandenong. Love love love the authentic Christmas decorations in this little cozy English cottage. The staffs in Miss Marple's are exceptional friendly and they looked authentic in their black colour English maid uniforms. 

     We were seated in the centre of the tea room. A few friendly guests came to us and praised our festive jumpers! We spent one and a half hours enjoying our Christmas lunch, Christmas pudding and Miss Marple's signature scones, accompanied by Christmas songs in the background. Ahhh what a romantic Monday afternoon, until...

   I saw someone familiar passed by the window and this was my expression :-o  A friend from church! Mona was with a friend from Sydney. They passed by Miss Marple's Tea Room, and her friend said:" Look! Someone dressed up in Christmas jumpers!" And Mona was like:" I know them..."  This sweet lady came in and gave us a big hug. Ahhh what a funny moment!

Happy Christmas in July everyone!

♥

Polaroid Gold frame films were sponsored by FilmNeverDie. 

Spring/Summer Series: Festive Yellow

To my dearest Bethel,

I think of you every time I hear this song:

Santa baby, slip a sable under the tree, for me

I've been an awful good girl

Santa baby, and hurry down the chimney tonight

     Finally we did it! Beth and I have been postponing the photo shoot since July and now we finally did it! You know what, it was certainly God who decides on our steps. I was struggling to generates ideas for Beth’s yellow theme photo shoot. But as soon as we decided on the date before Christmas, bang! God told me: do a festive theme!

     I first met Beth at “Discover You” course ran by our church in May. When it’s my turn to introduce myself, I said:” I know what my gift is but I would like to know how can I use it for God’s will.” Then I saw an African girl nodded her head, as if she was the only one who listened to me. Around that time, I had a little wish in my heart – I wish I can shoot African models.

     Two months later I met Beth again at a church meeting. She saw me crying behind the crowd and she offered to pray for me. She said something to me, something simple but meant a lot to me, it helps me to grow and to gain confident. Beth, although you have forgiven what you've said, but you are right, I am the one who need to remember it and I am so thankful God sent you to talk to me. After that meeting, Beth agreed to be my model! Yes she was my first African model!

     The day of our photo shoot was our first time hanging out, first time together but it was 12 hours in total! Thank you so much for your time! The time I spent with Beth answered why Pastor Sam once said:”There is no other woman like Beth!” Yes I totally agreed with that. She is a very attractive woman. The attractiveness comes from her confidence, her big lips and, trust me, no one would not love her laughs.  She is also full of wisdom, knowledge and she knows what she wants, on top of that, she is a woman of God. Subsequently, this wonderful woman also agreed to be one of my bridesmaids! Wohooo!!!

     Just like any other Aussie/Kiwi, she was afraid if there’s any snake in the forest. Haha! Snake in the forest was something me and May would never think about. 

     Thank God, the photo shoot was smooth, so much so that we managed to came home earlier than what we scheduled.

     May, the sparkling eye lashes you put on for Beth stole the show! Stephani, thank you for helping me to sew the knee length yellow dress. Beth, thank you for agreeing to be a X'mas tree! Well done girls! Thank you so much for doing this with me! Merry Christmas XOXO

Photographer: www.Aweiding.com

Make up/Hair do: May make up

Model: Bethel

Location: Sherbrooke Forest