You always come around too soon! Luckily we crammed lots of work into this weekend, our house is looking and feeling more and more awesome by the day! Loving Friday night drinks. I headed out for a well deserved girls dinner at one of my …
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 of actually reading said articles, I took one for the team and will fill you in.
Lets peruse the headlines shall we?
Reading this rubbish made me realize how completely out of touch with New Zealand women this newspaper really is. Do you even know anyone who owns genuine Louis Vuitton? Does it matter? No.
This is why we read blogs. Our lives are no longer represented by our own national newspaper. Our previously endearing women’s magazines are now glossy celeb look-books with a few token ‘Real Life’ stories in the nether region. The relevance of blogs and their authors are what keeps us reading. Viva and the likes have lost the plot and suffice to cater to the women in a scarce handful of the lofty Auckland suburbs.
Are we all supposed to aspire to want $599 Garden dresses? Is that what modern kiwi society expects? Of course not, you would get laughed right out of kindy if you rocked up looking like that. Let’s not mention the looks at the Rugby club. We have almost been seduced completely by the Kardashians, the It Girls, the fake nails and spray tans of the reality shows, we are perilously close to the edge of our unique Kiwi femme-identity. I think it’s time we reclaim it and celebrate how awesome being ‘Down to Earth’ really is {you LOVE my Swanndri don’t you?!}.
You know that feeling when one second you are walking hand in hand down a gentle slope with your toddler having ‘a moment’, it was sunny, birds were singing perhaps, there could be ice creams involved but there is definitely fun and you are definitely present …
Dave now is able to work from home whenever his onerous schedule of meetings allow; which is great. The dogs are happy, the laundry is happy {it gets hung out} he’s happy as he doesn’t get stuck in rush hour traffic. But, he has used …
This is another little Summer/Winter cross-over dress that I picked up recently. The colour is perfect for layering here in NZ winter, whereas it will also work with some cute jandals and a colorful necklace in Chicago and Florida.
I got inspired by NZ Masterchef recently and decided we needed to add a fish pie to our meal rotation. Not a canned fish pie though, and in terms of dollars and cents, buying a smoked fish is pretty much the cheapest protein you could …
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 …