Chinese New Year | How to enjoy the Auckland Lantern Festival

Chinese New Year | How to enjoy the Auckland Lantern Festival

You haven’t missed out the festival ends Sunday the 24th February!  For more info visit the organisers website http://www.aucklandnz.com/lantern/programme/sunday Attending this event has been on my to-do list for years and yesterday, late afternoon we headed over to town and got amongst the wonderful crowd.  We 

Christmas Shoebox Project Completed!

Christmas Shoebox Project Completed!

We finished picking, packing and wrapping our families contribution to Operation Christmas Child this weekend. I have discovered that I am absolute rubbish at wrapping cardboard shoe boxes {how can it be so hard?}. I thought I would share what we included in our gift 

Christmas Giving | Lets do this!  I dare you

Christmas Giving | Lets do this! I dare you

I am SO excited about this project, I can’t stop thinking about how awesome it is, how easy it is, how absolutely meaningful it is and how much we are going to enjoy putting it together with Ethan. Of course I discovered it on Create 

Blogging and such that it is.  What I really think

Blogging and such that it is. What I really think

You know what?  I have this lovely friend, a freaking little ripper of a friend and she is the only person In Real Life that tells me nice things about my blog, mostly when we’re drunk but that’s neither here nor there.  She tells me 

Denver & Depression

Denver & Depression

This is a post that I started the other night and never finished. Feeling so sad that nothing can change your mood.  Having two sad things combine in your head into a giant mean-sad combo that takes over your being for a while. It makes you feel 

Giveaway {closed } | Peaceful Baby Sleep Book Review

Giveaway {closed } | Peaceful Baby Sleep Book Review

Last month I received a gorgeous wee book in the mail to read and review.  I was excited.  I love books and LOVED this book in particular as it gave me a chance to go back to those precious long days {and short years} of 

Beauty and the Blogger.

Beauty and the Blogger.

I was reading the New Zealand Herald online today {as I do most every day}, when the absolute bullshit articles in the Life & Style section led me to a wondrous ‘AHA’ moment.  Don’t worry peeps, you don’t have to subject yourself to the torment 

Laugh | Loudly | Flight of the Conchords

Laugh | Loudly | Flight of the Conchords

Oh lord.  Last night we ventured into the city to see Flight of the Conchord’s perform their sold out show at Vector Arena.  I swear to god I almost wet my pants…..the entire show.  Arj Barker opened the show, he is brilliant of his own 

The Amazing World of Interwebs

The Amazing World of Interwebs

My god there are some brilliant, creative peeps out there?  Are you one of them?  I am envious of you marvelously talented creative types that can spew art and craft from your little toes ::::::sigh::::::blog::::::: Here is some gorgeousness I found whilst getting lost online;