Facing fears: learning to sail

  I went on holiday last week to go up north to the Bay of Islands and learn sailing! It was an amazing experience and I can really recommend it. However, it’s not for everyone and scaredy cats should think twice about it. While the teaching was great and...

Happy new year! And free feel good prints!

  Happy new 2014! I started to like the beginning of a new year in New Zealand even more as it is warm and summery and everything seems so much more positive and promising. I am not a huge fan of new years resolutions, but I do set myself goals and make some...

Merry Christmas

Wishing everyone a wonderful Christmas and whole festive season!   I always have trouble getting into the festive mood in New Zealand, all this barbecuing is just not really “Christmas” to me, but baking cookies in the heat is also not quite helping....

Crafty: Clutch purse

Over the festive season I had some extra time, so I spent some of it on crafty things! I had some awesome fabric I bought a while ago and haven’t done anything with. On the internets I had seen this instructable by Flamingo Toes and thought it would make the...

Happy Halloweeeeeen!

For me Halloween is not so much about all the dressing up and partying (although I did that this year, I was “Buffy” – no I won’t show a photo, but yes, people did recognize me, yay! ) but more about all the fun crafty stuff you can do! This...

Animation time!

Ahhh animation… my favourite past time on a sunday and my favourite elective class in Uni. I even took a paper in Animation and Graphic Novel theory and analysis! (It was awesome btw. Lots of thought goes into high end animation and comics, I can tell you.) So I...