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Happiness Engineer at Automattic, lover of knitting, crochet, sci-fi and more

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  1. Welcome!

Welcome!

My name is Kristen, aka Kristarella. I’m currently working as a membership consultant with GKR Karate. I have many interests and hobbies (🥋 📷 🧶 🎨 🎸 🎮), some of which you can read about in my blog posts below. For more frequent updates you can follow me on Instagram.

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  • Bring on 2024

    Bring on 2024

    2 January 2024

    Read about my Bullet Journals and how I’m using the 2024 trifecta for a happier year!

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  • The Voice Referendum

    The Voice Referendum

    13 October 2023

    tl;dr vote yes I have been umming and ahhing over the referendum since before the date was set. When I first started looking into it there was very little information about it (that was easy to find). All I could find initially was the text of the constitution change, i.e., Chapter IX-Recognition of Aboriginal and…

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  • Sistaco Nail Powder Review

    Sistaco Nail Powder Review

    25 November 2022

    Yep! I succumbed to the ads on Facebook and bought some Sistaco mineral bond nail powders. I wanted to see if it was as magic as it seems…

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  • 2020: the year that wasn’t

    2020: the year that wasn’t

    31 March 2020

    I have been reflecting on 2019 and how it set me up for this year. 2019 was wonderful, and at times really difficult. Before 2019 I was not a goal-setter; I had this sense that setting goals was an exercise in futility because there is so much we can’t control that can derail those goals.…

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  • Gossips
  • In the wood

Craft

  • Finished a pair of socks!
  • Sockhead beanies

Karate

  • 100 Kata Challenge
  • 10 point kata practice

Happy New Year! I ended 2023 with a review of my Happy New Year!

I ended 2023 with a review of my goals on the very last page of my journal! Ready to go into the new year with my new journal!

I listened to The Bullet Journal Method by Ryder Carroll late last year and it was so helpful! Not just for learning the ins and outs of bullet journaling (to be honest, while still great, that was the least of it), but for considering how to live an intentional life in which one responds to things instead of only reacting to them.

#bulletjournal #bujo @bulletjournal #bujocoverpage
Meant to post last night! My most liked photos of Meant to post last night! My most liked photos of 2023. Not surprising the #lego group challenges hosted by @habitatchallenge were popular 😆 #topnine #topnine2023
Had a brief opportunity this week to do some water Had a brief opportunity this week to do some watercolour painting. Happy to see my colour mixing and water control skills have not completely disappeared! Very excited to be enrolled in @susiemurphiewatercolours class again this coming term to do more painting!
#watercolour #lightasafeather #watercolor #painting
Christmas lights are go! Thanks for helping @d.sym Christmas lights are go! Thanks for helping @d.symonds
Put up advent calendar… only 5 days late. Hoping Put up advent calendar… only 5 days late. Hoping tomorrow I will flip three top row and catch up on the readings.

Rob Smith preached at our church on Sunday on Isaiah 9, and he said something to the effect of, “they were looking forward to the first advent of the Messaiah, but we look back to his first advent, and look forward to his second.” That added a new dimension to Christmas for me that I don’t often consider.
This Saturday it was so exciting, and humbling, an This Saturday it was so exciting, and humbling, and uplifting (yes, both of those!) to see these—my teachers, training mates, and life mate—achieve their next level of black belt. What a remarkable bunch of humans! 

Thanks Mum & Dad (Nelly & Grampa) for looking after Mark so I could be there!

#gkrkarate
My main reason for cruising the harbour yesterday My main reason for cruising the harbour yesterday was tagging along with @angelashoobert and @dereksamaha on a shoot at Cockatoo Island. So fun! I grabbed a few behind the scenes shots 📷🧡
Getting closer to the main event of my adventures Getting closer to the main event of my adventures yesterday: Cockatoo Island
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