Like millions of Aucklanders {ok thousands?} we left town and headed north for the first long weekend since winter began. The winter of The Newborn has now passed, we all survived and enjoyed the days inside sheltering from the rain and cold and getting to …
So I have been fortunate enough to have enjoyed two fab baby showers and received {and given} many lovely gifts to many beautiful bubbas over the years, however I never considered adding a nappy disposal bin to my wish list or gifting one either. For …
Oh my lord. This was one of those finds that I have hoped for, imagined in my home and finally scored! Waipu has quite the plethora of second hand shops, so I was really looking forward to some lazy browsing last week. As it turns out the shops in Waipu operate on Waipu-time, meaning they either don’t open at all on Mondays or Tuesdays or if they open at 11am this really means they don’t open before 11am but it may be some time after 11am (like 12pm) before anyone arrives! So, sitting in your truck outside to wait may be a lengthy exercise in exasperation.
I didn’t even have to go into any shops to find my beautiful new/old chair – it was sitting on the side of the road like a woe-begone hitchhiker! So Sad. We were on our way to the beach and I pulled over to have a look, fell in love immediately but it was all a bit hard to manhandle a large armchair then and there. I promised that if it was still there the next day I would buy it. I thought of little else until the next morning, which was a sign that this wasn’t just an impulse buy. You definitely have to be sure about a loud and proud piece such as this, and at $150 it was still within my realms of a “good buy” considering the chair’s mint condition, but it certainly wasn’t a trivial amount of money to spend.
This guy is super comfy, sturdy and fits in with my mid-century sensibilities just perfectly. I’m in love.
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We finished off the school holidays with the best kind of Sunday. Sun, food, touch rugby, friends, picnic blankets, beers, children and laughs. Lots of laughs. I manage Ethan’s touch team and we had a practice and shared lunch scheduled for Sunday; the kids trained and then …
So, so loving the amazing holiday my Big has had with his Nana and her partner up north. I drove him up and stayed Monday and Tuesday and he is coming home today! He is quite the wild man so has been thrilled no end …
I sucked at art when I was younger, but, I have School Cert Graphic Design {that is a wee giveaway as to how old I am!} so I figured if my very first painting had heaps of lines on it I might actually be able to complete it to an acceptable standard!
I wanted a bright canvas for the top of our TV buffet in the family room and I had a feeling I could replicate a geometric print I saw online – enter my Pinterest rip off!
I ruled the pattern onto the canvas using pencil then simply painted between the lines, mixing colours as I went. I purchased a very basic set of acrylic paints from Spotlight for $20 so had to get creative in expanding my limited palette. I wasn’t quite sure that I had pulled it off until I busted out the extra-fine Sharpie and ruled the black lines over the paint.
I don’t know where these post-natal creative tendencies have come from {I suspect boredom?} but I’m enjoying being brave enough to try my hand at new things. Next up is sewing!
