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1. Melie’s Kitchen I remember when I was five and ‘cake time’ was a regularity, even an expectation of birthday parties. A fan or not, we all anticipated the moment for what it entailed. This, of course, was a multitude of things. In addition to a birthday wish, granted was permission for guests to a) leave, b) dive into the more appealing sausage rolls and fairy bread, or c) eat a slice so sizeable that on any other occasion, it would call for judgement. At about 11 years old, the cake tradition died out. It was for the best, too. Cakes…
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World of Fashion (not so Fashion-y)
BEING THANKFUL MATTERS
When is it okay to shut off?
Breakfast at Knuefermann’s
On Thursday last week, I stood outside the Knuefermann store at 9am. I lifted my glasses at the window, peering with a quiet admiration. I was Holly Golightly outside Tiffany’s in New York, 1943. In the background, Moon River was playing, and I could almost make out the very water flowing through Savannah, Georgia. Mancini wrote about it with a yearning, a nostalgia I think I understand. Knuefermann’s collection is like looking out at the night sky. Darkness lit only by reflection: it falls into the shimmering water below. She captures the grey days that follow. They are marked with…
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A 70s Summer
It’s Official: We’re Off-duty, MBFW.
NZFW Day 3 // So is it all that glamorous?
Christmas Top Five
Last Tuesday, my siblings and I sat down with ginger nuts and green teas (in envy of the British Christmas) for the first screening of Elf. If one thing is promised in our household, it’s that many more screenings are to come. Failure to attend movie nights in December is like skipping granola on an all-day breakfast menu: you just don’t do it. 5 minutes late, and you can expect to be criticised by the masses for having poor Christmas spirit. The truth is, nothing starts the silly season on a more joyful note than the escapades of Will Ferrell in…
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FORGET WHAT YOU KNOW ABOUT HOTELS: THIS IS THE COLLECTIONIST.
The Makings of Motivation: 3 Ways to Ready Your Home for Work/Study
First Year Uni: What I really learnt.
How to Get a Man
Wearing: Jeanswest jeans, Missguided Bomber Jacket, Converse Seven Letters from Paris by Samantha Vérant is the book that unashamedly brought me into 2015. It is almost exactly as it sounds: soppy, sentimental and annoyingly delightful. It’s description, despite charming, would typically lead it from mine, into the hands of my friend. She’s a girl who dreams of bumping into a guy in Central Park whilst running her own flower shop. It’s a lovely dream, she’s a lovely girl, but both need to be brought down to earth on the odd occasion. This book floats in fantasy skies, the same ones…
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Things I’m Grateful for This Week
How to attend NZFW // A First Timer’s Guide
The Day I Wore A Short Skirt to Work
What You Missed
We as humans have never been afraid to ask the big questions. We’ve pondered the meaning of life, the purpose of existence, the guy up there and the dreaded place below, for centuries. It’s become tea-and-biscuit conversation for us, a chat over berries and seeds for our ancestors. If anything the 21st century proves the questions we’re asking are only getting more in-depth. “If you didn’t Instagram it, did it even happen?” Not only do we ask the big questions these days, we also answer them – this one being easy: no. The same answer can be used to respond…
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January: Delays resolutions.
Breakfast at Knuefermann’s
The First Entry
