Day 123: Roast vege and quinoa salad topped with cranberries & a black raspberry vinaigrette drizzle.
Day 124: “A clean house is a life wasted”. Thought I’d draw this nifty phrase up.
Day 125: Vegan choco-beer cupcakes!
Day 126: Brunch with Mel… 3 and a half weeks to go! Bubs due the same day I fly out to London.
Day 127: I love NZ
Day 128: I got some Euros for my trip!
Day 129: Dairy Free AND Gluten Free – Lemon & Chia seed cookies
Day 116: 7am ish, after my first ever ANZAC dawn service
Day 117: I sat in the sunny courtyard and ate my favourite sushi covered in ginger, for lunch.
Day 118: A little bit of stamp-scrounging… got me three full sheets for my Countdown knife set!
Day 119: One day I’ll be a handy housewife… in the meantime, I made Anzac bikkies and finally baked those Hazelnut Friand/muffins.
Day 120: Last year, on two different tripsflying out of Auckland to Brisbane, I met the SAME lady sitting beside and behind me on the two flights. Freaky? Well, she’s from Hamilton… long story short, we caught up the other day and she decided to give me this notebook, complete with sparkly silver duraseal, stickers and a note inside!! It’s to be my “Dream Book”.
Day 121: Almost forgot to take a photo of my little Coconut Creme Brulee’s, nom nom.
Day 122: It’s a photo of a photo… I love my pic of Brooklyn Bridge I took back in 2010. The original is nicer looking and B&W in a frame..
Day 109: Sunny Autumn day, but it’s still chilly – rugged up with slippers
Day 110: Playing “DrawSomething” and i thought this wasn’t a bad attempt at drawing the word TINTIN on my iPhone… it’s so hard to draw tiny!
Day 111: sunset walk/run with Luka
Day 112: Keeping the car clean from it’s valet a while back
Day 113: Hanging out at the old’s with the V8′s on their front door step. Kinda turned into a bit of a block/street party for the residents!
Day 114: My sister gave me this for Xmas… it sits on my desk in it’s airtight jar… perhaps I should make the friand recipe soon!
Day 115: Got the series off my neice … time to read up after watching the movie
Day 102: another late night drawing
Day 103: Soaking up the good stuff and not “freakin”
Day 104: hung some sketches in frames
Day 105: Sunset at Mangakawa hill — with Jeff Cook and Carl Laufer.
Day 106: Recovering from a bit of a hangover, napping on the hill at Raglan
Day 107: Chestnuts are falling everywhere, down at Lake Te Koutu
Day 108: Made up some yummy caramel pecan tarts (they look like a globby mess, but taste yum!)
Day 95: random Wednesday night jamming after a few drinks at Stables
Day 96: whizzed up some Piripiri sauce with homegrown red hot chillies – ready to go for dinner for 8 on Friday night
Day 97: After an epic day of making stuff (caramel pistachio slice, hot cross buns, quince membrillo, dinner for 8…) the caramel macarons top the list.
Day 98: Mum ‘n’ Dad’s neighbour decides to valet my car – he’sa pro, but waterblasting my entire car inside and out is scary! Needless to say it is AMAZINGLY clean.
Day 99: Hanging out with Matt down at Lake Karapiro.
Day 100: down at the lake with lunch and a good book for a couple of hours in the sun by myself.
Day 101: the last of my homemade hot cross buns… toasted to perfection with melted buttery goodness
Day 88: celebrating Jo being a kiwi: fish ‘n’ chips and a bottle of Moet. Yeah that’s how we roll.
Day 89: icy pineapple sunshine
Day 90: yet another night out! In Rotovegas this time and the last few of us ended up at a Karaoke bar….
Day 91: brunch with the stragglers from the night before
Day 92: PB + J: sampling Mark’s homemade plum jam.
Day 93: we have this old baby doll which is a running flat thing to hide it in random places… it has freakish measles…
Day 94: Dinner at my sister’s place. Stella (5yrs) grabs my iPhone, takes 100-odd photos, but i liked this one of a picture she drew of herself
Day 81: felt creative and drew this artwork piece for my flattie who just got her NZ residency
Day 82: nibbles and wine at the local
Day 83: self explanatory!
Day 84: my parkour skills failed when it came to a trampoline and a concrete water tank and 11 + 13 yr old nephews
Day 85: messy bun french braids
Day 86: new shoes for autumn
Day 87: naughty bugs are eating my brassica plants.
