Married! And on to new projects...

Here I am. Married!

Props to Kristy R for this photo - it is one of my favs

The past month has gone by way way too quickly. We are still in the process of sorting photos, write thank-you cards, catching up with people, and generally sorting out our house and lives. We are getting there slowly but surely. Post-wedding things that have happened in the past month:

• A fantastic Eastland Honeymoon
• Nana's 80th Birthday
• School camp with my youngest brother in the Urewera National Park
• A mean cold and a stomach bug
• Job quitting, followed by hunting

Now I am trying to mentally prepare myself for Christmas (not really my thing) and putting a good amount of effort into finding a 'proper' job. More about this another day.

Sneak Peeks

In 9 days we will be married. Here's what I did today.

Made pompoms for the hall in these colours,

ate my lunch in the sun,

and practised making vegan cupcakes (it was about taste not presentation at this stage):

Photos aren't great, but today I don't care.

Now I am off to some Architecture week events involving more cupcakes, and creations by 400 Architecture students.

Sometimes things in life don't make sense

My cousin's 17 month old son died. That doesn't make sense. Not at all.

Much love, rest in peace James

Oh happy Friday

Off to Whakatane for the weekend!

Have had a very busy week, working mostly, but have managed to have some fun.

Highlights included:

Book buying (well when I say buying I mean voucher spending)

A Julius Shulman book of course!

And the latest book by Alain de Botton

Film Society Screening of Agnès Varda short films.

The Rita Angus exhibition at the City Art Gallery

A delicious curry dinner last night, a tax return and the first 3 pods on the broad beans (not much luck there so far due to the lack of bees, but things may be improving)

Have a good weekend everyone, till next week...

Photo day no. 2

Here are some more photos:

A strawberry in my garden.

The furiness of the leaves is something I hadn't noticed before.

Nana's amazing orchids 1 (first use of the tripod) and 2

I know this photo is a bit out of focus but I like the graininess of it and all the empty space.

As you can see I am still learning about photography and since I only have a run of the mill digital camera there are limitations. This week I am experimenting with the tripod and programming my own settings.

P.S. Told you my Nana's orchids were amazing. She says the secret is neglect, they don't like attention - who would have thought!

Build mode

I just read that James May from UK's Top Gear is building a LEGO house.

Insight on National Radio yesterday looked at waterfront development in Auckland and Wellington. And they interviewed one of my Planning colleagues from the university.

In NY state they are planning to build a Woodstock Museum. The design competition winner has proposed a building made from sustainable materials including hemp, and with a pattern on the side of the building that will spell out 'peace'. - I kid you not.

I have just started listening to Smart City Radio, it's pretty good.

Hurricane Katrina wiped out New Orleans four years ago (on the 29/8/2005). After watching the Spike Lee doco I was wondering: what has happened since then? Apparently not a lot, if this 4th anniversary round up is anything to go by.

The city has regained only 75% of its pre-storm population, approximately 36% of the houses are empty and the feral chicken population is out of control.

Makes you think about the permanence of our cities. Maybe LEGO houses are the answer...

Source: ArchDaily

Site I like

I was trying to find the site for Build Your Own New York when I stumbled into Coolthings.com.

So many goodies (too many actually) My two favourite items were:

The Frames Wallpaper

and

The Dunk Mug