pretty please

The boots god has finally answered my prayers and made flat boots in style for this winter.

Now the money god just needs to respond so I can afford these Country Road boots in black.

I L O V E them but I do not L O V E their $329 price tag.

christchurch

Yesterday me and the parentals came to Christchurch with Pocket Edward and Pocket Edward Junior- here they are, ready for the 5 hour drive.We've done the laps of the malls (cause unlike Dunedin, they have real ones and more than one!), went to Cupcake Parlour (had a really good cupcake that had sparkles) and went into the city.

At the Westfield mall I had the best restaurant meal EVER- fettuccine pesto pasta- at La Porchetta is was sooooo so good I think I want to marry it.The main reason I wanted to come here was to see Avatar 3D and it totally did not disappoint. I'm not normally one for those types of movies but I loved it and I think I now love Sam Worthington who plays Jake Sully, I've always been a fan of the Australian accent and he just proves why!

*swoon*On the way back to my aunty's house I spied this house that made me lol, it's in a gated street and doesn't seem to realise it's been built in New Zealand. What the heck were they thinking?!?!

garden beauty

My garden is now growing proper plants!

Apparently randomly throwing seeds at soil works! And has some fairly pretty results.

The strawberries are also surprisingly thriving, are edible and not even poison.

Lets try again next year and see if this year was just a fluke.

Yay for my epic gardening skills!

remote beauty

For such a small place Dunedin seems to have its fair share I places I did not know existed.

It all started from driving out to Mosgiel and Outram see if there were any good places to go thrifting (by the way, there's not!) which turned into randomly driving down roads that didn't look familiar. This lead us to a 10km winding gravel up hill road which was actually way better than it sounds, there were streams, parrots, beehives and some pretty epic views that somehow very conveniently lead us back home!

I wonder if there's any other places like this left to discover here? hmmm.......

returned to normal

Leak fixed? check

Carpet tacked down? check

Room returned to normal? BIG happy check!

With the new addition of some paper pom poms.

It's a great feeling to have a normal bedroom again!

not impressed

I came home from the supermarket two hours ago and noticed a dark patch on the carpet near my door, then realised it was water. It was then discovered there was water along my skirting board too.

So long story short my shower has apparently been leaking into my poor wee bedroom *uber sad face*.

Dad ripped the carpet up so it can dry before a plumber is called tomorrow, everything had to be moved for this!

My room now looks like a complete bomb site and I'm am definitely not a happy camper!

The house is not even two years old yet and I'm super skilled and stood on the carpet nails, I feel the need to sue someone!

new years

For new years eve last night we started off with a BBQ at the gardens near my friends flat, even though very minimal barbecuing was performed!

Then when it was finally dark (like 11pm) we went back to Tim's to celebrate the countdown! Me and Sam. Taylor, Anna and Anna's awful glasses. Me and Taylor looking mighty attractive. With Sophie when my camera decided not to use the flash, And with Richard.
It was one of the better new years I've had in the recent years and had a fairly good time.

I didn't get home until 4:30am and decided it really wasn't worth going to sleep, so I'm a wee bit sleepy right about now.
I apparently find a bush walk in the heat a good way to overcome tiredness (really doesn't work).
Me and dad went down the end of the street to Fraser's Gully for this epically non epic trek.
This hill is like 40m down the road from my house and takes us to our own wee entrance to the gully. Since it's been raining on and off the past few days the creek you have to cross was a bit stronger and higher than usual but made for refreshingly cool start to the walk. We veered of the gravel track a bit but found these trees which supplied something different from the pine (or what I'm pretending is pine) trees that line the track, And this really cute Alice in Wonderland-erish mushroom! For the majority of the track you're above the creek but about 3/4 of the way down there is a clearing where you can see it in all it's glory without risking falling of a bank which is always a bonus.

It's fairly cool that this place is just across from my house!

Happy new years everyone!!!