DAY 16 // Love Is Bold.

Day 16.

Cammie and I have developed some pretty intense boot tans, short tans and glove tans. We also have freakishly dark arms and backs along with permanent dirt under our finger nails. Shit is getting intense.

The weeds were on steroids today..like i'm talking massive (and in abundance) and I felt like The Hulk every time I ripped one out of the ground.. full force, biceps and fore arms bulging. I told Ian that thanks to him and the weeds Cam and I are going to leave this farm absolutely ripped..like she-men. How are we supposed to find hot aussie husbands as she-men huh?

Anyways, C'est la Vie..farm life is tough.

I've decided to channel my hate into loving thoughts. There's no point in feeling angry and frustrated over some stupid plants. For the love of the pumpkins we will get this job done.

Because it's like they say, "Hate is Easy, Love is Bold"

Now to my dumb "creative" graphic.

Goodnight!
xo

DAY 14 // Music Monday

Hello Monday.

Thankfully today went by pretty quick out on the fields because the weeds were out of control and Cam and I kept screwing up. Like accidentally hitting the water hose that runs through the ground to water the pumpkins (the "tape", they call it) with our chippers, puncturing holes in line and causing leaks. Or mistaking a pumpkin plant for weeds and chopping the whole thing off.. oops. Lucky for us Ian never gets mad and he usually laughs at us, making a joke that we're still a sleep or that we're thinking about boys..the problem is usually the sleep bit. Today I felt like a zombie.

I've been listening to music a lot out on the fields and I'm getting pretty bored with my playlists so I spent the afternoon downloading some new music, most of which I've found through 8 tracks (for those who don't know about it..heres the link: http://8tracks.com)

These are some of my favs at the moment. I feel a bit out of the music loop lately..I haven't listened to the radio really in just about 6 months. But that's probably a good thing too because the radio is over played with crap most the time anyways, right? So though these songs might not be "new", they are new to my little ol' ears.

Goodnight!
xo

DAY 13 // This Is Life.

It's Sunday. How sad is that..that the weekend has come and gone so quick. But hey, we had some good fun. Today we paid for it a bit...having last night been our first night out on the town In Biloela.

Ian dropped us off in town at the bar and we started making some friends! Yay friends! There was an interesting mix of folks at this bar...older, younger..mostly dudes, I'd say 80%. There was this one 50-somthing year old lady..short and round, with a slicked ponytail and what looked like a men's collared shirt on, (sounds a little lesbian, but she was just a rough looking farm chick - her daughter was bartending) who was having the best time just dancing in the middle of the bar by herself. Jammin' to the music like no other. Cam and I found this to be super amusing so we started dancing with her. From then on, she was like our mom..watching out for us and keeping the boys away! Haha I wish I could remember her name, she loved us and she was fantastic. We also met two girls who were locals - 22 years old both married with kids! Wow, I guess theres not much else to do in Biloela..my as well get hitched and pop out a couple babies.

All in all. Solid evening..met some cool people and closed down the local nightclub "Bottoms" before heading to the truck stop for some greasy meat pies.

My Creative bit is a sketch and some photos. I spent the afternoon drawing on the patio..feeling a little down and needing some time to clear my head. Being out here in the middle of nowhere you start thinking about the awesome friends you've met throughout your backpacking journey..many who you loose touch with. It's sad continually saying goodbye to great people, knowing you may never see them again. It's like this rotating door of friends coming in and out of your life every couple days or couple weeks. It's an aspect of the nomadic life that sucks and as much as you try and hold onto the relationships you've made, often times its just inevitable that they fizzle. Being isolated on the farm, I feel like I'm loosing touch and missing out on time with these great people but at the end of the day this 88 days is just a stepping stone to gaining loads more time.

 There's always some good in the bad. This is life.

Thanks for reading,
Goodnight!

Until Tomorrow xo

{Cammie Driving the farm truck}

{Our Saturday in town}

DAY 6 // Small Town Thrifting

Hellooo Day 6!

Today Cam and I mostly chilled out, BUT we did motivate ourselves this morning to do a little run around the fields and some ab excersises, YES.  It was a great start to our relaxing sunday lounging by the kiddy pool. Yes we found a kiddy pool.. in a dusty box in the sunroom.. and we built it! It was perfect to read a magazine in and for a little cool off, such a great find.

Now to the creative bit of the post - I styled a shoot today using two thrifted shirts I found at this random second-hand stall at the markets yesterday. There was pretty much just a table with a pile of clothes on it and the bearded man said to us "girls, fill a bag for 5 bucks!" ..what a steal of DEAL. So we rummaged through the stuff, mostly crap..but managed to find a lululemon workout top and these two beauties. He was disappointed we didn't fill a bag, but I was happy paying $5 for my three finds..still a stellar deal.

Since I'm a thrifting freak and half my wardrobe is second-hand, I paired the two shirts with as many other thrifted item's as I could. The teal shoes I bought in noosa for $1 and the shorts I bought back home at value village and cut & distressed them to make shorts. The brown belt is also thrifted from Van and I guess you could say the orange bra-lette is thrifted two because my lovely friend in Noosa gave that to me when we did a clothes swap!

All in all, these looks were super easy to put together, and dirt cheap! I've always said: you don't have to spend heaps of money to look awesome and have great style.

Thanks again to my gorgeous model Camille for letting me dress her up and put her in front of the camera. She rocked it.

Goodnight All! thanks for reading
Until Tomorrow xo

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DAY 4 // Memories In Doodles

Helllo! 4th post comin' atchya.

But first an farm update.

Today we did our third straight day of chipping weeds in the pumpkin fields...and mannn are my arms sore. All I wanted today was new arms to help me make it through the day. But we did it, and Ian was nice enough to let us stay in the house after lunch and do some cleaning rather than heading back to the fields for another hour or two of tackling those damn weeds.

Late afternoon after a little jaunt into town, Reece (Ian's nephew), Ian, Cammie and I went for a drive in the truck around the farm to "chase the moon" (a couple ciders in hand of course). Ian had told us there would be a full moon rising up from the horizon around 6, as the sun set.. so we waited and waited and started doubting this moon business. But by 7, there it was, the brightest yellow, round moon I've ever seen rising from above the trees. And it was fast! I wish I could have gotten a couple snaps of it, but photos just wouldn't do it justice. It was coooool azzz.

Okay so for today's creative "thing" I did a bit of reminiscing on Cam and I's epic month traveling up the northern half of the East Coast. I feel so lucky to have been able to do and see all the awesome things we did in just a few weeks, we covered a lot of ground and everyday was an adventure. I've been journaling quiet a bit throughout my 6 months here and love looking back at what I've wrote, so I feel like this little doodle will bring back those same good memories from our East Coast Journey!

Also, Cammie and I made a Farm Life Countdown Calendar ... satisfying to cross of them dayssss, weoo! 

Until Tomorrow! 

Peace&Love xo

DAY 1, 2 & 3: The Catch Up

OK, so here is post ONE. 

Since Im starting a bit late..(technically we are on day 3..) I will have to play a little catch up and post THREE little creative tid-bits to make up for lost time..the pressure is on now..weooo.

here we GO!

{1} I love quotes and I love typography and apparently I love vintage floral patterns.. I may have been inspired by the shabby chic, country decor in our little farm house at the moment. voila.

{2} Found this rug and this wicker table and married them together for a stylin' country pho'o. I like finding random jems like these in an old place. simply lovely.

{3} A got my camera out and snapped a few shots of the sunset tonight .. so beautiful. I'm pretty much sucking big time with my canon at the moment, but I managed to get a couple descent ones of the sun setting on the wheat fields. So far country life is pretty alright...

Alright, all for now, 6:30 am is going to come quick. Thanks for checking out my first post! 

Until tomorrow my friends... 

peace&love xo

This is a Challenge.

Hey friends and other lovely people that decided to check out this crazy little blog.. Thankyou! I really appreciate it and I hope you find it even just a little bit interesting and worth while.

I guess first I'll explain myself.

Eighty Eight is a creative challenge as well as a way for me to document some of my time living on a farm in rural Australia. Why Eighty Eight? Because that is the number of days I will be spending out here, as a "farm girl", to earn my second year visa in Australia. Those who have backpacked this country know all about this business.. and may or may not have experienced some hard farm times yourself for that extra year of fun in the land down unda. I'm definitely one of hundreds doing it, so this is nothing special or new, I just hope to make the best of my three months here and in the mean time awaken my creative brain once more by posting things online...

one creative "thing" that i've done or made, everyday.

"Thing": A photograph, a DIY project, OP shop find, delicious recipe..anything awesome goes.}

With plenty of down time at night and nothing to distract me like bars, boys or booze..I feel like this is the perfect opportunity to do something meaningful and creative with my time. So we'll see how it goes..

I hope you enjoy and follow along.

peace&love.