Sunday | Passionfruit and Pretzels

Sunday | Passionfruit and Pretzels

After pounding through a hilly 8km on Saturday morning (yay me!) and reorganising the family room it was no surprise that Sunday was a little slower and a little lazy. Dave and E headed off to the indoor skatepark due to the rain drizzly-30-minute-mist, so after Mum and I 

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 

Acquisitions | Karen Walker Pendant

Acquisitions | Karen Walker Pendant

Just before Christmas Dave and I celebrated our eighth wedding anniversary. Eight years of married bliss! Haha. Who can honestly say that cheesy line is 100% true? We have done so much in the past 8 years, we have moved 6 times – one of 

2012

2012

For the first time in years I sat on New Years Eve not wishing away the last few hours of the year past, looking eagerly for a fresh start come the first of January. 2012 was different, a very welcome breath of fresh air for 

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 

Sun.Day

Sun.Day

Haha, that is ever so optimistic in the wake of the weather bomb that kept me up last night.  Loud; swirling wind refused to take note of bed time. It’s the last day of the holidays and my little home-body refuses to budge.  He is 

Saturday Love

Saturday Love

Ahhh. I’m writing this on a quick respite from our big trade show. 12 day work stretch…….the hard work will be over tomorrow though! Loving this scene at the viaduct yesterday morning.  Some smart tourist had parked their whopping great camper with it’s back end 

Saturday Love

Saturday Love

Ethan is at a birthday party, there is nothing I HAVE to do right at this moment so I am listening to my favourite music loud {Modest Mouse, Built to Spill & Death Cab for Cutie, The Flaming Lips}, working on posts and trying not 

Online | www.home-heros.co.nz

Online | www.home-heros.co.nz

A couple of weeks ago when many people I know were revelling in their fashion week goody-bag bounty, I received a wee bounty of my own; a Mummy Blogger Bounty.  Cleaning supplies! I was actually very stoked, that stuff is expensive. This lovely surprise was