The night started with a grocery shop to stock up on juice, chocolate, and cheese. At 6 we sampled some of our purchases.

Followed not too distantly by some terrible fish and chips. Lame.

My sister felt like throwing up at the smell of my ‘Painkiller’ cocktail. It wasn’t amazing, but definitely not spew worthy. I got the straw from Mum in my lunchbox of pink stuff for giftmas. :D

A night with my sis is incomplete without Singstar. She is one of the few people that easily beats me at Singstar. It just made my victory while singing Spice Girls all the sweeter.

One of two kittens – this is Loki. Lots of entertainment but needing a sleep after round one.

Accessories for the night – Harry Potter lightning bolt necklace & Creep brooch
First spillage – sisters wine

The cards came out as a way to try and get some drink in us. I don’t tend to drink while singing.

Entertainment kitten number two is Onyx. He was crazily skittish and hid under the bed the first time I met him and a couple of days later he was all over me, climbing up my face. Yay for kittens, hug the pain away.

Happy New Year! I am notoriously bad at taking self portraits…or portraits of any kind. My hand isn’t steady enough for my camera.

Sister’s attempt was far more in focus!

Poor “bro in law” was rostered to work till 12. :[ He must have gotten off a little early as he was home by 12.05.

Random shot of bro in law's giftmas present.

Little blister makes the best faces and always makes me laugh till my stomach hurts. I got a video of her singing hilariously to Stacie Orrico's More to Life.

3am and time for browsing the net/sleeping in the bed bro in law kindly pumped up for me.

New Years Day and Hamilton continues with the amazing weather.

Found some of my pills on the floor and realised I had taken them out of the bottle the night before, gotten side tracked, and then fallen asleep. Doh.

Breakfast of champions - Camembert and cheese vienna sandwich with orange juice.

I've run out of girly movies I can watch that aren't about getting married or finding love and so resort to Hannah Montana. I manage to split it in to parts when sister tells me they're going to town and I can come. :]

OMG KITTENS

The Tron – Where bogans rule the land. (jkplzdontbeatme)

The Warehouse where everyone gets a bargain. Except for me because when you desperately want to spend money you can never find anything to buy.

Home time – Being chauffeured.

Mum’s gorgeous fluffy cat George claimed the Lego box for his bed.

At 6 little bro is a few years late to the ‘cut your own hair’ party, but good things always take time.

How did you spend New Years?

WTF is this Day in the Life thing?

I’ve been saving up all my photos from the last 6 weeks so I could do an A to Z recap. :D

A is for All In – I had a game of poker with The Boy and a friend and I wooped their asses. I think the shiny shiny cupcakes and hearts we used as chips gave me special powers.

B if for Baking – Chickie Little has been at it again. She’s made a few new things this month, one of them being lemon meringue pie (one of my absolute favourites!).
C is for Cherry Coke – The supermarket closest to us is one of the biggest and best in the country. They have a few UK imports now and cherry coke is one of them. It was my first time trying it. Quite nice but I’m not sure that I’d regularly spend $2 on a can.

D is for Deer – Remember those shoes? The store I bought them from had a big display honouring Babycham and the Babycham deer. Too cool!
E is for Entourage – I watched all 6 seasons this month. 0_0
F is for Flowers – My friend Shonali gave birth to a beautiful little boy. I gave her these flowers on a visit to the hospital.
G is for Grass Car – Spotted when we attended Craft 2.0 at the New Dowse.

H is for Hangover Cure – Whenever I feel sick, hungover or otherwise, I can count on an e2 to get me perky again.
I is for Iceberg – As a publicity stunt an “iceberg” was placed in the Wellington harbour to bring attention to global warming.
J is for Jewellery – Lots of new stuff added this month. My favourite of the moment is the little ghost.
K is for Kitty – That crazy crazy downstairs cat has been stealing our attention all month!

L is for Large Insects – This one being a Weta. The Boy looked over at me from the kitchen and said “Kim, don’t freak out, but there’s a weta”. 0_0 Weta have a reputation for being huge scary insects, thankfully this one was a baby, and The Boy thought it was dead. It was only playing though. I’m so glad I have a boy around to deal with this type of thing (and by deal with I mean put outside, not squish).
M is for Maranui – This much beloved cafe (and surf club) of Wellington caught on fire and was gutted. It will be back in about a year, but until then Wellingtonians mourn. The Boy’s sister is a manager and world class barista at this cafe so we’re hoping for it to be back ASAP.
N is for the New Dowse – I saw it for the first time with the girls this month while attending Craft 2.0.

O is for Oddities of Nature – These funny cluster things are strange looking.
P is for Photographs – Sometimes the blurry shit ones are my favourites.

Q is for Quirky Street Art – While driving to breakfast we noticed another fence that had been covered in art. I love it when installations like this go up. The fence is going to be there regardless because it will soon be turning into a construction site, so you might as well use the space wisely.

R is for Recipes – I’ve been trying out a few new ones. This mushroom and courgette bread was pretty damn delicious.

S is for Spring – I think it’s making a comeback. I’ll just ignore the torrential rain which forced its way under our front door a couple of nights ago.

T is for Tui – These beautiful birds love the kowhai that’s flowering right outside our house.
U is for Urban Wetlands – I took a walk down to Waitangi park after a doctors visit and snapped some photos of the urban wetland they have going. I really love what they did with the area, even if it cost a shitload.
V is for View – This is what I can see from my blogging chair. Usually the blinds are down because I lounge around in my robe all day. But when I take photos inside I pull it up like this to get more light.
W is for WordCamp – I blogged about the fun.

X is for X rays – I had a bone scan about 5 years ago. It checks the density of your bones, and because I had been on steroids for a while my first scan showed I was at the low end of the acceptable scale for bone density at my age. This time around I’ve been off steroids for over a year and my bones are looking a bit stronger and developing as they should be. Yay.

Y is for Year End – Or so The Warehouse would have you believe. Who actually buys christmas wrapping paper on the first of August?!
Z is for Zero – Which is how much I’ll be paying for my next meal at Wagamama. This photo was taken at my last meal at Wagamama. We had received vouchers from the Entertainment Book to say sorry for the crappy meal we had a Cafe Pica. Wagamama then held a competition for the best photo taken while eating at one of their restaturants and I got second prize. :D Another $40 worth of vouchers for me. Sweet.

19.06.09 – It’s terrible to start this off with a bad photo (but don’t you worry, I promise to end with one too) but these things are usually done in chronological order. The photo was taken in the middle of the night near a friends house. Isn’t it the prettiest No Parking sign ever!

23.06.09 – FUCK. Well, this is a little more subtle (and technically more “letters”) but it says it well enough. It still needs a couple of tweaks, particularly need to make the @ smaller. I think it’ll be great as a brooch.

29.06.09 – A big box arrived today full of organic bio-dynamically grown kiwifruit and tamarillos. The kiwifruit are not at all tangy, they’re really sweet. It’s strange. Two weeks later and we’ve got heaps left.
Also, to any US readers, the fuzzy fruit is called a kiwifruit, not a kiwi. A kiwi is New Zealand’s native flightless bird and a colloquial term for a New Zealander.

03.07.09 – Friday night was the Rocky Horror Picture Show party! It was a lot quieter than I thought it would be but the costumes were great and the band were fantastic (the Hardy Ha Has). The host was more cross dresser than drag queen unfortunately, my friends looked camper than her.

Anyway these are two of my friends who came to mine and The Boys house for pre party drinks. We managed to bribe the guy on the left to dress in the cat suit he happened to have with him. After some alcohol he was quite happy to pose like a rock star with my bass. This is also one of the few situations that allows for wearing tights as pants. If I had such amazing legs I’d probably wear tights as pant too.

The guy on the right is dressed as Brad (as if you didn’t already know that :]). Faces have been blurred to protect the not so innocents.

07.07.09 – I finally have my hands on the Gilmore Girls fourth season! I’ve become quite obsessed with watching their lives. A favourite past time of mine is pausing DVDs and laughing at the horrible faces. Zoooommmmbie Emily is coming to get you.

07.07.09 – The Boy helps run a monthly young professionals gathering with a speaker. This month we had Nathan Gray, he is the youngest Westerner to walk the length of the Great Wall of China, it took 2 years. Since then he has written a book and sold over 10,000 copies. You only have to glance at his CV to feel inadequate and inspired. Nathan is a lawyer, speaks eight languages, is trained in ballet, drama, speech and piano, he’s a photographer and has worked in all means of media!
Anyway, this is the wall that greets you as you walk into the Green Man pub where the meetings are held. This pub is very kitschy, it’s awesome.

07.07.09 – This is the outfit I wore to the meeting. Please look beyond the laser eyes, shiny face, and uncooperative fringe.
The lady at the medlab who took my blood spent the time I was there complementing my skirt and scissors necklace and enquiring about my business. I think she thought I was a student selling jewellery on the side, cause real adults don’t do that sort of thing for a living.

The results of the survey are telling me you want more photos. And seeing how the point of the survey is to give you more of what you like…here’s a summary of what I’ve been doing the past month.

Note that all of these photos look better when they’re bigger, if you’re interested. And they haven’t been messed with apart from the occasional crop.

10-17 May 2009 – Had a great trip to the Gold Coast of Australia and enjoyed a repeat of the rides at Dreamworld.

31 May 2009 – Back in New Zealand the weather is shit. It snowed in Wellington! Albeit the kind of snow that lasts only 30 seconds on the ground. But it’s not supposed to snow in Wellington making it a photo worthy occasion. I also kicked a glass right on the only hard surface that was close by causing it to shatter. :[

2-3 June 2009 – My last two days of sucky corporate office work. I was treated to a Tempt cupcake on the second to last day, and a whole bunch of Chickie Little’s cupcakes on my last day after a boozy long lunch.

5 June 2009 – After one day off work it was straight into 6am 8 hour drive to Hamilton. Thankfully I still don’t drive so while I slept and sang at the top of my lungs The Boy drove. I got some pretty sweet photos of the landscape by accidentally leaving the previous nights white balance active on the camera. Everything turned blue.

5 June 2009 – We had headed up to Hamilton for my sister 21st, it was a really short visit. My sister got wasted and I look terrible in all the photos, so instead I’m treating you to a couple of photos of the three eldest siblings when we were littlies. Aren’t my little brother and sister adorable in the left photo!?

7 June 2009 – And just like that it was time to go home again. Thankfully driving long distance in NZ is pretty.

June 2009 – Somewhere along the way I sold my first Cupcakes and Mace jewellery wholesale order. It was just a small one but very exciting to get. I came up with some new designs and took heaps of jewellery photos too.

15-16 June 2009 – Monday was beautiful and sunny, I nearly winded myself walking up the big hill to get to the trees near our house. I’m so unfit. Tuesday it all turned to shit again though, so fucking cold! I wish New Zealanders believed in insulation and central heating, our houses are ridiculous.

1 May 2009 – Resignation letter. I’m pretty sure time slows down when anyone hands in a resignation!

1 May 2009 – The sun is so low in winter that light stream through the window as I arrive at work. It hits my little disco ball splatting dots of light everywhere.

2 May 2009 – We have boobs growing out of the ceiling. Our roof started leaking again, in a different place. But it’s only doing it when it’s not raining!

2 May 2009 – Chickie Little, her Hubby, The Boy, and I spent the afternoon at a park up the road eating iced buns, taking photos and playing with Fez. He was a good boy and didn’t try to run away. He’s SO adorable!

3 May 2009 – I started cooking some noodles but noticed they were well past the best before date. I decided to see what else was past the best before, and I found all of this. One or two things from 2005 most of it from 2007 and 2008.

3 May 2009 – Seize the day. A very cool design ordered by one of my lovely Etsy customers, I love how the little skull turned out.

3 May 2009 – Unicorn brooch. The first one I’ve done! Another custom request. I’m so glad my customers are taking my notices about customisation always being an option to heart. Special requests are fun.

4 May 2009 – Using a bottle or so of the expiring oil we fried some dumplings. This one looked like a cute little monster with peas for eyes, I couldn’t eat him. Plus I was full.

5 May 2009 – Bright pink hummingbird spray painted on the footpath.

22 April 2009 – It’s the boys mums birthday and I think this bracelet I made suits her style a bit more than the cupcake necklaces.

24 April 2009 – The Boy and his friend led me on some crazy tiki tour to get to the I’m On A Boat party. We ended up not lost, and with some good photos. Choice. This is Wellington Harbour.

24 April 2009 – And this is the view of Petone from Oriental Parade.

24 April 2009 – Some crazy hippies spitting fire at the party.

25 April 2009 – The Boy’s dad is in town and takes us to Lone Star for dinner. This steak is absolutely humongous.

25 April 2009 – My plate of Lone Star mussels, and my other plate with potatoes and salad. Too. Much. Food!!

26 April 2009 – And then the weather turned to shit and it’s been raining pretty much ever since.

27 April 2009 – It’s that time of year when everyone remembers that they didn’t fix the leaks from last year, and they still haven’t gotten around to resealing the doors.

15 April 2009 – Amazing clouds!

17 April 2009 – We saw the coolest little run down place amidst the apartments and bars in the parliament area. So random.

19 April 2009 – I was forced (forced I tell you!) to stay in my PJs all weekend. I literally put them on on Friday night and didn’t take them off till Monday morning. My life is not at all glamorous. I was also forced to watch 6 movies and 4 downloaded TV shows while simultaneously surfing the net (forced!).

20 April 2009 – See, not glamorous. Mmm gluggy.

21 April 2009 – Unicorn vs Vulture…who will win? Just wait till we add Narwhal to the fight, dun dun dunnnnn.

8 April 2009 -Interesting textures on a garage door

9 April 2009 – Fields on the way to Hawkes Bay.

12 April 2009
These swampy areas on the outskirts of Hawkes Bay are one of my favourite parts of the drive. It’s like a graveyard for dead and dried up trees. One day I’m going to get in there with waders and photograph it to death.

My camera can be pretty terrible and my hands are shakey, but I was determined to get a good picture of this cicada shell. I took heaps of photos!

Pink petals in the grass

The Boy’s mum keeps a beautiful garden. This secret path down the bottom is especially ethereal.

Dried flax flowers

Unusually beautiful weather for a New Zealand autumn. Although ask The Boy and he’ll tell you that Hawkes Bay is always like this.

Dried leaves in the gutter

14 April 2009 – My new glasses arrived today. I love them! You might not be able to tell but there are two pairs being “modelled” here. One is tortoiseshell Burberry and the other is black Genesis (which I think is a random rebranded name). The black ones make my eyes look huge (well, huger)!

When you fail for the fourth time (twice in one week actually) it’s time to reassess your commitment to the project. Obviously my concentration and memory is pretty shot at the moment so I’m going to relieve the self applied pressure on trying to take a photo every single day and instead just aim to tell the story of my week with photos. You’ll be seeing “The Week in Photos” each week instead of Project 365. :]

1 April 2009 – My sister has been desperate to watch the latest season of Gossip Girl. So she sent me a few DVDs to make a copy for her. DVDs feel so out of date already, I’m used to flash drives!

3 April 2009 – Lunch time on Friday we saw this lady on the corner of one of the busiest shopping streets in Wellington being filmed standing still amongst the bustling crowd. Hopefully I didn’t ruin their shot by stopping to take a photo.

4 April 2009 – A menagerie of twisted chains, charms, and rings on my bedside table.

5 April 2009 – We went to a friends house and ddiscovered an amazing view. Forgot to take a pic until we were leaving so it’s not the best, but you could see a lot from the house.

6 April 2009 – This is exactly the type of thing I hoped people would use my services for. I love my customers! It’s such a delight to be able to provide something I’m proud of.

7 April 2009 – Kroko the Toyvoyager arrived today. He’s the biggest TV I’ve hosted and he arrived just in time for a weekend away in Hawkes Bay.