We're seventeen. It's our last year of school and we're all so inexplicably excited to get out into the big, bad world. Everyone's applied for uni, jumped into a full-time job, or taken a gap year and are already busy showing off their European summer photos. "What about you, Racquel? "What do you want to do when you grow up?" Write? Be a photographer? A classic creative, I think to myself. Then again, we are always told that they're unrealistic careers. I can't make a livi

I was reading a book the other day, Love x Style x Life by photographer, illustrator and blogger Garence Dore' (if you haven't had the pleasure of reading this pretty little book I HIGHLY recommend it!) while feeling reasonably unmotivated and particularly unstylish, I turned to the chapter about her ‘10 steps’ and It was all so very chic that even her tales of struggle sounded like something I could only wish for! However in the midst of this seemly unachievable success stor

Hello fellow bloggers or bloggers-to-be, welcome to the online world! As a blogger, I not only struggled at the start, but have ups and downs day-to-day in the blogging industry. These days it's hard to stay well-read and well-written so I have put together a list of my favourite tips for blogging. Here's my top tips for making blogging your career: 1. Find your niche – This way your blog will grow quicker as you have a narrowed audience (target audience), once you have maste

Whether you’re off to uni, going on an overseas trip or just bursting your hometown bubble to begin your own life in the ‘real world’, it’s an exciting but scary time. If you were like me and have never been away from home for more than 2 weeks, it can be an event more daunting process. Once I turned 18 and finished the gruelling HSC, I saw different perspectives of what my peer’s ambitions were. Some were sick of the area and saw no opportunities, others wanted to travel an