Au revoir, I'll be back

I haven't been posting much lately. Partly because I've been busy, partly because I often find it hard to articulate my thoughts in a blog worthy way, and partly because I don't just want to write a blog post 'for the sake of it.'

I know from my page views I'm getting a few hundred views a day (so humbling for this little blogger!), and the pressure can come on to write more because of this. But, to be cliche, I want to be 'true to myself,' and don't want to write things that I don't really care about, don't want to write when I don't feel committed to it. Hence the sporadic posts.

Anyway, another reason I won't be doing a blog post for a while, is that we're going off on our 6 week trip to EUROPE tomorrow! Wohoo!
For us little Kiwi kids, Europe is so far away, so foreign and so exciting.

So we've packed our bags, printed our boarding passes, and tomorrow we're off :)

Photo of Matt and I by Lavara Photography (Auckland)

I'll see you all on the other side 

x

How to wrap a present

Recently I had to wrap about 30 different presents. I had to think of a way to make them look good that wasn't too complicated

There is a really simple way. Just wrap with brown paper. Find some nice paper and put a thinner strip around. And tie with string

Brown paper packages, tied up with string. These are a few of my favourite things.

Happy wrapping!

Awesome/Awkward

Awesome
1) Bra shopping
2) Brunch/Bacon
3) This
4) Birth Control
5) Mascara
6) Satisfaction of a clean house
7) Sleeping in
8) Saving money on hair dye
9) Refunds from the IRD
10) Planning a flying outfit
11) A long hot shower
12) Handwritten letters in the mail
13) Weights classes


Awkward
1) Bra Shopping
2) Forgetting to buy bacon
3) This
4) Pimples
5) Morning after panda eyes
6) Vacuuming
7) Forgetting work
8) Dying hair too dark
9) Letters from the IRD
10) Planning a flying outfit
11) Getting out into the cold after a long hot shower
12) Forgetting to reply to handwritten letters
13) Being too lazy to go to weights classes


Awesome/Awkward idea from here

A funny to get you through to the weekend

Phew, its all been a bit busy at this end lately! But lest I become one of those people who complain about how 'busy' and 'important' they are, I will now shut up, and provide you with something so awesome you will need to watch it several times.

By the time you check out that he DID IT ALL EXACTLY THE SAME, it will be Friday afternoon - voila weekend! You can thank me later

The Dresses that never were

Since my wedding day was about a million years ago (ok only 18 months), I can share some photos of the dresses that didn't make the cut. 

I was never a one strap kind of girl

Bit too bohemian. Plus about 12 sizes too big

Not too bad- one strap again

not too disimilar to the actual dress

And the winner was.....

Ahh so pretty.... and straps optional ;)