Its labour day in New Zealand. I am sitting on my sofa cuddled up in a knitted hooded jacket I found in a second hand shop, (made in Nepal and it is the warmest pinkest thing I own) with a cute cat on my lap.
Just about to put the laptop aside and start on [...]

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I went in on some gorgeous carded merino with a friend and my mum (mum by the way has a blog in the works..) I was a bit woosey to start dying by myself so Jessicah offered for us to have a dye day at her house. The results is some blue yarn for me [...]

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Find artists work on lovely notebooks at Modofly

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Well its been a long hard road, but we have launched our first ecommerce shop at LeftClick. Many things we will be doing differently next time and thanks to Tantek and the microformats (a review coming soon, still writing it!) workshop I think the programmer guru is converted to helping create nicer HTML markup… ALSO [...]

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This will probably be posted everywhere today, it deserves it! This guy HAND PAINTED the wallpaper for his kitchen. The paper pattern found in an old 1950’s wallpaper sample book. So beautiful. Posted in Apartment Therapy

The jugs and containers make me squirm in delight! The colours shapes and patterns just wonderful.

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I have been sewing up and knitting a wee bit lately. I have one photo of the hat I knitted for winter from yarn leftovers. A few more to come.. so stay tuned.

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A friends birthday was celebrated in true outdoorsy adventure styles by hiring out a house and meeting up in the middle of nowhere to take ourselves off for walks, biking and whatever else takes your fancy is the idyllic mecca. As for myself and Kylie we took our time driving and stopped at numerous places [...]

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Last weekend I went into photo and video with Kylie to buy him a new lens. He got one, then the salesman showed me a few lenses I would have fun with on my camera. OOoo and am I. (Lets just say spare cash from selling car is bad… it stayed in savings account for [...]

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I have recently developed a website for a local Apaca Farm, I got this job because my mum saw an alpaca farm sign on a main road outside of christchurch saying “Styx River Farm, Alpacas and Alpaca Products” so she took me along with her to investigate. We found a fabulous couple, had a cuppa [...]

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I have sold the car! Made the move because I was trying to save and with todays fuel costs, it wasn’t happening fast enough (just call me impatient). I have also been ‘fueled’ with a new found confidence after recently training and finishing (WOOO HOOO) the Le Race.

Thats me with my boss behind me… he [...]

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