Did I tell you I love Florence + the Machine?

Yes I know, I'm annoying. But I went to her Auckland gig!
& Mike is maxed out on brownie points for coming with me.

She was SO DAMN GOOD! You know when you see someone live who sounds just as good as the album... she twirled around the stage barefoot, her super cute black dress streaming behind her, lit up in floods of light. She has such a strong voice and can carry a range... and I love the power of her lyrics.
...she came, she sang and she conquered my heart.



PS: No no, seriously, my album of the year... Lungs - Florence + the Machine

Imagination spree

Dear Lotto,
I would be awesome at winning you...
I could fill my life with such beautiful things...



just saying.
love,

New again

It's finally (sorta - one or two more little unsorted boxes of bits) tidy - again.
This time did that thing where you go in to tidy and decide to change it all around - yeah... it took a while!

ahhhh my happy place :)

Feeling the mojo flowing. Goes well with M&Ms and zero. Happy sunday peeps!

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My new dress and other boring things

Some days you just have to celebrate...
So I brought a dress...
on specail from $120 to $60 woo hoo.
and not size 20... but size 14.
woo hoo again... it's super cute and from my favourite local store Ruby Rose I've never been able to shop in cos of the size 18-20 situation but thanks to Coke Zero haha I could be emptying my wallet there more often.

So that photo is clearly not of me... and honestly not very interesting, but hey it fills the space between now and the weekend when I can get in and tidy my creative room (honestly who messes it up all the time - I swear I have like the bad cousins of the elves who fixed shoes for that other guy).

Also I saw Eclipse. Don't get me wrong I'm not a Twihard at all - in fact I didn't even finish this book... let alone even start Breaking Dawn.. but HELLO!

Yeah - I could be a cougar for that kid. Meow.

Well - I'm outty... book to read... dress to hang in wardrobe... :)

Yeah!

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Sundae driver.

Yip it's just cold enough for chocolate sundaes before we set off on the last leg of our epic adventure. About to leave Taupo for the finishline in Auckland! Here we go.

Boudoir

Ha ha thought that title would get you reading.
I've been trying (really really trying - it's harder than you think) to clean out the skeletons (read that - cr*p) in our closets and general just declutter.

Especially the bedroom. I have a dream of a bedroom that is perfect for just that... dreaming, relaxing, sleeping... peaceful. Our home is quietly chaotic...

But you have to start somewhere right. And as no wall in my house goes unplastered with SOME sort of artwork...
who says art is expensive...

canvas + black paint + scrap stash + online translator for love in different languages =

Or you can head on over to here... The Free Art Project and print yourself off some gorgeous pieces... there are heaps I love.

and of course no cozy bedroom is complete without...

Possibilities

Bless warehouse guys who pack stuff badly... I now have a few of these to play with...
I'm hoping to use them to organise a bit more of my scrappy room. So many ideas....

Plus have brought some more pockets and gonna try the book ring thing to get some of these pages sorted rather than sitting in a box.

That is once I can get in there - time to pack up after the mayhem of the last few weeks and put away the dressup boxes ;)

Snowball Run 2010

So for the last 2 months Mike and I have been spending every spare minute in thrift shops and at signwriters getting organised for the weekend that just passed.
We joined in with 89 other cars and over 200 people for Auckland Motorsports Snowball Run.

Basically put it's a 'race' from Auckland to Taupo (340km - 211miles) & back the next day, collecting points from challenges along the way. We stayed in Taupo, had a theme dinner and Ewen Gilmour the comedian did a stand up set for us there.

You had to have a theme for your car so we went "Westies" styles, the Tool Guy & the Missus taking off of Outrageous Fortune (FYI - It's SO hard to find leopard print clothes out there).

Here's a photo montage of our crazy, sometime stressful (maps!) but so super fun weekend.