It's February - that time of the year again when Love is in the air, that 4 letter word all women loveSALE ❣️Gabriels Summer Sale has started. I went crazy with the pen, taking tops down to $69 and $75, Linen down 30-50% and many Pants $99 including a wide selection of Vassalli - which I never do… meaning some items are even up to 70% off.So much so that I woke up the morning after marking stock down in a cold sweat.Summer being what it is “we are certainly finding ourselves in strange times". Never before have I had...

We’ve run away for a couple of days, and as husband posted a Facebook photo of me holding a couple of fish the caption came up saying “Vitamin Sea”. Such a perfect little reminder that it's great to take a little time out and suck up the sunshine while we can.While camping here we meet a couple who were counting off the weddings they are attending in the next few weeks… Omgosh Wedding Season is here… The new camping friend was saying she needed to find some girlie things (that's code for stick on bra) for her dress, I know...

It's been fun seeing friends as they’ve passed thru on road trips, and holidays.Catching up the events of the year and having a laugh at the magnitude of some of it.One friend said “man you’ve got great work stories"We’d been sharing the lady dropping her bag of P along with the pants she was trying to steal, even though she managed to take 2 tops, the police informed us her P was worth more, the guy who put a hat down the front of his track pants and the ultimate of all - the guy running out the door with...

Congratulations on another circle of the sun!It's New Years, A time for celebration that's for sure. I'm pretty happy to see the end of 2022. I thought 21 was hard, but that didn’t hold a light to 22.My wish for 2023 is that our goals and dreams come true, and I hope anyone setting New Years goals is blessed with the power to accomplish them. Not normally a thing I'm big on at a specific time, but this year, I'm clear there's some here.It's also summer season and with that comes beach days, lake days and holidays… so what better...

It's a bit funny how this week I've found myself hunting out those comfy undies that hold all the bits in as it's really dress season. (maybe that's the result of a well celebrated birthday week)Christmas day dress, New Years eve dress, Day at the races dress… or that going to a wedding dress… so just in case you are looking for an extra bit of protection or confidence, remember that Midnight Ivy has the best selection of “underwear with special powers” that will keep you under control if your will power isn’t… 😳🤭 on that thought…Enjoy the festive season...

It's birthday week! Time for me to kick up a storm and celebrate another circle of the sun. I don't hide from Birthdays- It's worth celebrating as there's lots of special people that don't make it this far.I'm wondering if husband will plead his “I don't know what to get you it's 2 gifts in 2 weeks" as he normally does… We know he has 52 weeks to prepare for this and after being mine for around 36 years, This year I'm prepared for him… “cook dinner for me” will be my reply, failing that work Sunday for me will...

"There's a rather big list I have right now” I said to husband. “Just do it 1 thing at a time" he replied… "pfft of course, it's just the order in which to attack them is the issue"… insurance claims, police reports, Christmas rosters, getting in food...That was the pillow talk this morning at around 4.30am.What's with the full moon meeting the rising sun and the birds all getting going at that hour?? I'm an early raiser, but that was a bit too early even for me!We decided that we needed to keep the next 3 weeks simple… Nothing extra,...

Oh my, the times are a changing in my house. Once upon a time I loved to decorate the Christmas tree, of course we made family traditions and the children thought they were helping, when in fact I had engineered the tree decorating so they were busy playing guitar with the husband, and singing Christmas songs and while they were distracted I put the decorations just where I wanted… and if they did “help” Id just fix it later. They all had their special thing they did for the tree. Boy kid cut it down, Girl kid put the star...

I've spent this week looking for silver linings- I'm on leave, It was meant to be a work trip supporting Morgan at the Oceanic Wakeboarding comp 5hrs up from Melbourne. 6 days at an event - that got cancelled just as we had checked in at Auckland airport…1. We find ourselves on holiday - not working leave ⛅️ Moments after checking in Brad calls. Point Break just got shop jacked. A guy grabbed a rack of our basketball singlets and bolted out the door...2. No one was hurt, and they didn't come thru the windows in the dark, we have...

It's no secret the husband and I have been pulling the hours lately and as we drove in the drive last Sunday there were no extra cars on our grass… and I saw how long it was… so as he sloped inside, ignoring my exclamation of “my gosh I see our grass", I decided to take action. I mowed the lawns. Now traditionally that's a Blue job in our house, just like cleaning the toilet is a Pink job (Yea I know I got that all wrong 35 years ago) so I was quietly celebrating how nice it looked and...

Well, the blood moon this week has all sorts of crazy going on in our house. The helpers (Lilly dog and Lacey Cat) are completely out of sorts. Which in turn has me up in the wee hours. This time of year often puts the pressure on - last week a client even said “I'm here while my Christmas cake is in the oven” Now I'm the Queen of being organised but that just stopped me silent, and we know that takes some doing!That took the Brownie motto, “Be Prepared” to a whole new level.I've been working with the motto...

How nice is it to watch the sun sparkling on the water first thing in the morning?☀️It certainly filled my cup this morning after all that rain yesterday! I was calling it "a change is as good as a day off” a night in Mangakino after 13 days on is all it takes, with a dash of sparkling lake water. It's sure been busy around here lately with all our beautiful summer stock arriving and getting it all ready for this crazy season that's fast approaching… Our pretty shoes are starting to arrive and our pretty dresses, ready to have...