LIFESTYLE

Monday, 28 December 2015

TIS THE SEASON

Merry Christmas everyone !! I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas day, got spoilt & are now enjoying your holidays.

I spent my Christmas with my family, we didn't have the whole family round this year, every ones moved & got there own little families now so it was just the immediate family this year, it was still great. I made my legendary seafood salad that was a usual hit, whilst my nan prepared everything else. My nan has an amazing house, she lives in New Lynn about 5 minutes from the mall & the main shops but her back yard looks like your somewhere up north, she has 1 cheeky fat lamb & 3 chickens. It felt like we were on a little vacation in Opononi, its always lovely spending the day there. We all ate a lot of food & watched the younger kids open there presents then ate again then had some dessert. That's what Christmas is to my family, all about good food & a lot of it and of course family. There was even enough for everyone to have a huge plate to take home, I LOVE snacking on Christmas food the next day, & my partner spent the day with his family so we had two different Christmas meals to enjoy. Delicious.

Instead of spending boxing day the usual way getting pushed & pulled around the busy Auckland malls my partner & I decided to spend it in the sun, we went on a amazing bush walk with our best friend Franky. It was beautiful, but we'll definitely be catching up with the New Years sales late this week. I cant say it didn't kill me seeing all the adverts of all the sales on TV.

Also we managed to squeeze in a movie date to watch my partners favourite movie of 2015, Starwars. Ive never been much of a fan myself but we rented all 6 DVDs just so I can get into all the excitement of the new movie that came out. To be honest the first 3 Starwars movies were terribly boring!! The graphics were shocking, & It did NOT make me want to watch anymore let alone pay to go to the cinemas. I actually really enjoyed the new movie, it just shows how much we have up graded with technology from the first movie to now 2015.

I hope your all enjoying the festive season & hope you all get to spend it with people you love. New Years is coming up now, until then, HAPPY NEW YEARS!!

Sunday, 13 December 2015

THE LITTLE THINGS

The "little things in life" are what makes life worth living. Todays life is so busy, all the focus is aimed at work, career & getting a head, more money, more things which usually ends up being more stressful. I use to be like the many people where your life starts to feel a bit like clockwork. Days start to feel exactly the same, your too tired after work to do anything then it becomes a cycle. Ive recently had some time off work & at the start I missed the clockwork routine because it felt normal, everyone else is doing it I should be too. 

I came across a blogger recently who really inspired me to try & most importantly strive to live out side of the normal day to day box. Her name is Mika Francis & her blog is "Wild Daze". She made me realise that life isn't about being normal & doing what everyone else is doing, & wanting what everyone else wants, she talks about doing what you love which is making me question my whole career path. I've been hairdressing since I was 16, I left school early to start my career in hairdressing. Since then I studied for 2 years at one of Aucklands well known hair Academy's, worked at several different mall salons & worked my way up to some of the top salons in New Zealand. I loved what I was doing, it wasn't about the money. At some point I stopped loving it, it was like I woke up one day & the passion had gone, to this day I'm still not sure what happened or what turned me off about what use to be my great love. So I tried to change my career path whilst still using my hair industry experience so I did a bit of product retail, I soon discovered that wasn't for me, I felt way too cheesy greeting customers as they come in. I then moved on to a call centre role, I worked as a Consumer Adviser for the great L'Oreal. At first I thought it was a great job, I knew everything about there hair colours and products from using them all in the past, the money was great and I enjoyed the change from being on my feet all day to sitting in my new comfy chair. I'm now contemplating going back to course & studying fashion. Fashion has always been a passion of mine, & through everything it has never faded or dimmed. 

Ive recently discovered the life of a Fashion Blogger & this is one of the ways I feel I can get my fashion fix, release some of my thoughts & style on to the world. 

ANYWAY

My conclusion is whatever I do in life Ive decided that the small things are what matter the most, they seem to turn into longer lasting memories, like having a little yogurt date, walking through a field full of lights with your partner or close friends whilst Christmas music is blasting (Christmas in the park) walking down Franklin road and taking in all the beautiful houses lit up. Don't take them all for granted, when your life gets hectic try & slow down & do some thing little again.

(I'm wearing a all black outfit, warm fluffy jacket from Wild Pair, shorts and chiffon shirt from Glassons new summer range, limited edition silver Dr Martens & my favourite Kookai hat)