Setting trends and all that jazz

The Documentary Edge Festival is currently on in Auckland and there are heaps of great films to see. I've only nabbed tickets for a couple, one of which was Trend Beacons. This film looked at people who worked as trend forecasters, taking what they see happening around them now and then predicting how that translates to fashion two years down the track. The other one we plan to see is Sweet Micky for President on Thursday. There are heaps more that sound really good, like Deli Man and Actress for example, so if you're in Auckland you should grab a programme and check them all out. You gotta be quick though, it finishes on the first of June.

Loving it - week one

Hi. It's my first ever post here, so I thought I might as well make it about things I'm loving right now. If you want to know why I have decided to start blogging (pretty sure the reasons mimic thousands of other 35 year old women...) then click here to read a bit about me.

This will be the first of many Loving it posts so hopefully I'll see you back here in 52 weeks time to see what I'm loving in a year.

And yes, the end of May is a completely random time to suddenly start having New Year's-esque resolutions, but that's when I had mine, so there you have it....Week one is now!

First up, I'm currently loving our brand new vege garden, which my dad helped me plant a fortnight ago when he came up to stay. This is the first of hopefully three plots we will have so that we can pretty much sustain ourselves vegetable wise (over the summer months, anyway). We have planted pak choy, spring onions, broccoli and one lonely silverbeet plant, which June-bug grew from a seed at kindy.

Secondly I'm loving new shoes, of which I have recently acquired two pairs! The first pair are boots from Topshop, which are little pieces of clunky perfection at the end of my jeans (also a convenient waterproof option in these wetter months, which heaps of my shoes are not) and the others are a present from Ben; Nikes he picked up while he was in the States. These are super comfy and another exciting addition to my ever-growing sneaker collection. He also bought the girls a pair each too, so now we are the most stylishly shod crew in Avondale (maybe...?).

Last but not least, this week I'm loving hot chocolates, ones made with extra dark cocoa powder from La Noisette to be exact.  Since I've tried to cut refined sugar from my diet, I've basically eaten no chocolate, which actually kind of sucks for me because I love chocolate more than pretty much anything! I also love baking and eating cakes, muffins, donuts, slices, biscuits.... you get the idea. Anyway, sometimes, usually at work in the afternoon, my desire for sweetness takes over and no amount of raw almonds in the world are ever going to cut it.  At times like these I head over the road and get a hot chocolate.  It's made with really dark chocolate so it's not exactly sweet, but there's something really comforting about about the drink.... I'm kinda addicted.