Madewell Fall 2013 looks like it’s going to be a cracker.

Published on June 20, 2013 in Awesome Things. 2 Comments

All Images/Madewell.

A few days ago I saw Maddy had posted some of her favourite looks from Madewell‘s Fall collection, which is dropping sometime in August/September. What I saw was pretty cute but it wasn’t until just now that I looked at the full lookbook and realised that I would wear two thirds of it, no exaggeration. It’s that good. Or at least I’d like to be able to wear two thirds of it. Madewell doesn’t ship to New Zealand, and bar a trip to New York (which I am working on, but you know – one must make and keep a decent amount of money in order to be able to afford plane tickets and the like), it’s not likely that I’ll be getting my hands on any of it.

But a girl can dream, right? Here are my favourite looks from the lot.

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New week, new things.

Published on June 18, 2013 in Awesome Things, Food, New week new things and Shoes. 1 Comment

Images/via Jess' Underground Kitchen Facebook Page.

  • You know how sometimes (all the time) you’re sitting there and it’s 10:00am and you’re all, ‘what the hell am I going to make/have for dinner?’ and it’s really stressful and you can’t be bothered cook and your boyfriend/girlfriend/flatmate/brother/kid is going to be at work/school/uni/after-school-activity/book-club late and they’re not going to be able to help you in any way (assholes) but they need to be fed and your whole day is spent thinking about what to do? Well, I have recently come across a solution for this. I mean, you could resort to this (which, by the way, is actually kind of a good option) and suck it up and prepare yourself something, OR you could just get Jess’ Underground Kitchen (if you live in Auckland).
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Highs and Low(e)s.

Published on June 17, 2013 in Highs and Low(e)s and Rant. 0 Comments

Photo/Evan Tetreault, evantetreault.com.

Highs:

  1. I had a really motivating week with meetings and a pretty good level of productivity and things in the works, up until about yesterday when it all started to go downhill. So up until yesterday morning, things were pretty good.
  2. I’m doing this thing for Big Little City (Auckland’s CBD area) where I post instagrams of my favourite spots and things to do around the place so if you want to see them, you can check my instagram or if you want to see everyone else pictures (or contribute yourself), you can look up the hashtag #loveyourcityblc.

Low(e)s:

  1. I’m in a bad mood, I can’t deal with writing anymore of this post right now, bye.

Three raincoats I wish I had this Winter.

Published on June 15, 2013 in Awesome Things. 4 Comments

Images/via stutterheim.se.

I am not much for Winter. Hot chocolates by the fire and sleeping in while it thunderstorms outside are fine but won’t sway me – Summer still reigns supreme in my books. With that being said, you can probably gather exactly how I’ve been feeling this past couple of weeks of ‘late Autumn’. The cold is the worst, the rain coming a close second. I’ve always had a thing against umbrellas, since I was really young. I’m not sure what it is exactly, but I would rather shield my eyes with my hands and run across the road in the rain than unleash one of those eyeball-poking death traps. (Side note: This actually happens. Maddy got poked in the eye by a strangers umbrella about a month ago and the stranger didn’t even say sorry. The end.)

So you can see why raincoats are appealing to me. They get you where you need to go in wet weather, keep you dry, and don’t require being held over you. They’re also kind of cute in a Paddington Bear kind of way. I’ve done a bit of research, and these three are a few of the least-offensive waterproof pieces of outerwear I could find:

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New week, new things.

Published on June 11, 2013 in New week new things. 3 Comments

Image/Supplied.

IT’S A WHILE SINCE WE’VE DONE ONE OF THESE HUH. Anyway, I have a few things I’ve come across recently that I feel like sharing:

  • Barkers has collaborated with iconic New Zealand heritage brand, Swanndri for their 100 year anniversary, to create a 12 style capsule collection that went in to store last week. My favourite thing? The above dark green bag. Perfect as carry-on luggage methinks. Also, the scarves. They’re 100% wool and there’s a dark green check one which is great for Winter.

Highs and Low(e)s.

Published on June 9, 2013 in Highs and Low(e)s and Rant. 1 Comment

Emily Smith (Clyne).

Highs:

  1. The person who called me back from the IRD on Friday morning. She was so nice! I have never had nicer on-phone customer service, especially on-phone customer service from the IRD. Happy.
  2. I haven’t really spent too much time with Vine yet, but this is one of the best Vine videos I’ve ever seen. (Turn the sound on!)
  3. I rediscovered that video of Tavi singing Justin Bieber’s ‘Baby’ with her acapella group, ‘No Strings’. I rediscovered it and I liked it. Yeap I did.
  4. This is kind of gross, but when I was in high school I went through this obsession with those deep pore cleansing strips that you get, I think Clearsil or Clean and Clear made them. You basically wet your face and stick them on, and 15 minutes later you rip them off and all the crap from your pores gets stuck to the strip and pulled out. It’s hard to say really whether they do anything good but inspecting the strip afterwards is disgusting and supremely fascinating at the same time. Anyway, whatever brand it was stopped making them, but I just discovered some other brand called Biore still does and I’m back to being obsessed again.
  5. Girls Love Beyonce.
  6. A few weeks ago I was invited to go on set to watch the Randa ‘Frankenstein’ video shoot. I couldn’t make it on the day which is unfortunate because it’s a pretty cool video. Impressive set and props. (Pretty cool song too.)
  7. Giving advice.

Low(e)s:

  1. This is my own fault. I often don’t open my mail because I feel like it’s going to be bad news – bills, etc. Also, when you start a company, you get inundated with emails from people wanting you to open accounts with them and give you business advice and all this stuff along with the ones from the IRD so they kind of sit in a pile. You can imagine my shock when I decided to open one IRD envelope on Wednesday and find a big ‘overdue GST return’ screaming at me. Cue several hours going through receipts and bank statements and invoices. On the bright side, there’s nothing like a growing fine as great motivator. Fastest GST return I’ve ever done.
  2. Post-purchase regret.
  3. Maddy got her laptop stolen out of her car, which was parked on my street kind of outside my house, so I feel kind of guilty about it, especially because someone else I know got their car broken into across the road from the same spot about a month ago, and before that my ex boyfriend got his car broken into in the same spot but that was like, 10 years ago. Anyway, it was pretty rats because they took a heap of her stuff and she had left it in there just because she was only popping in real quick. The moral of the story is BACK UP YOUR LAPTOP! Invest in Dropbox or something. And don’t leave it anywhere, ever.
  4. Too many spam event invites on Facebook.
  5. Taking advice.