delicious ambiguity

’ .. some stories don’t have
a clear beginning, middle,
and end . life is about not
knowing , having to change,
taking the moment and making
the best of it , without knowing
what’s going to happen next .
delicious ambiguity .. ’


~gilda radner

minx

Jennifer Aniston partners with Glaceau smartwater!

"Before now, the only way to get truly pure water was to catch a raindrop from a cloud."

(!!!)

That statement is extraordinary!
Jen is looking totally minxalicious with her abs on show! Reow!

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angel butter

I found this delicious recipe on Recipe from Taste.

These little delights are perfect for sharing in Winter ~ So delicious, and you can choose what to add... My fave is chocolate chips or raspberry jam. Yum! This wonderful butter cookie recipe will melt in your mouth.

ANGEL BUTTER COOKIES

Makes 30

Ingredients

125g butter softened

1/2 cup caster sugar

1/2 teaspoon vanilla

1 egg, at room temp

2 cups plain flour

1 teaspoon baking powder

1 tablespoon milk

Method

♥ Preheat oven to 180 degrees celsius. Line 2 baking trays with baking paper.

♥ Using an electric mixer beat butter, sugar and vanilla until pale and creamy.

♥ Add egg and mix until well combined.

♥ Sift flour {I didn't sift, I never do} and baking powder over butter mixture.

♥ Add milk and stir until just combined.

♥ Add which ever flavours you like.

♥ Cook until golden brown.

Enjoy kittlings
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positivity

The phrase “Never Say Never” is an awesome rule to follow. Ever notice that when you dread a situation, it happens? Whether you believe in The Universe, Manifestation, or just fate, you can not deny that you are responsible for all the actions in your life. All actions, big or small, have been manifested through thought.

You unconsciously breathe, because there is a thought in your brain sweeping through your respiratory system telling you to breath. Just like your brain consciously tells your eyes to give a cute wink the gorgeous bartender in hopes for a free cocktail. You want to breath, you want to wink. But what about what you don't want?

Positive thinking isn’t some New Age hippie idea. Its something that the most talented and inspiring people live by. Living with a positive mind will take you from the bottom of the ocean to the top of the highest mountain, up to the stars. Learn about any rags to riches story, you’ll find that even at the worst of times, the diamonds in the rough knew that they would make it and knew that they were strong.

Need some help with some positive affirmations? When you find yourself in a “Can’t, Not, Won’t, and Don’t” moment add a “because…” and insert:

• I am smart.
• I am mature.
• I am wise(r).
• I am worth more.
• I deserve more.
• I know what I want.
• I am talented.
• I am amazing.
• I ROCK!

Heres some links to dig a little deeper:

• The Law Of Attraction
• Staying optimistic ‘keeps you healthy’
• How to Be a Positive Person, in Under 300 Words
• The Positivity Blog

Hope you enjoyed my little scribbling from the heart!
Joyous thoughts to you
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pineberry?!

You know a fruit is truly amazing when it appears in a fashion magazine, don't you? So when I spotted the Pineberry in the new Shop Til You Drop magazine, I started searching for it. It's a mix of pineapple and strawberry. Hello? Perfection. I'm sure to find them I'll have to scale a mountain on a remote island off the cape of a small nation, but I'm almost thinking I'd do it. Just for one blissful bite. Have you spotted these little fruits at your local grocer?

Fairytale fruit hunting!
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chanel just got more amazing

CHANEL has always been a brand my heart loves. Well guess what? Chanel just got more amazing... Chanel has expanded their line of sports equipment. The luxury brand now has everything you need to compete in style whether riding a horse, a bike, the snow, or a wave. As expected, they are all beautifully appointed complete with CHANEL logos, cases and the finest details. Classy beautified sporting! Lick!
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buddha pears!

These pears are so gorgeous!! Farmer Gao XianZhang has created a plastic mold that he uses to enclose each pear, and eventually the fruit will assume the shape of that mold. Absolutely incred!!! I can imagine it would be very strange eating Buddha though...(!)
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love is...

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foodie.

eat some cute.

sweet tea.

Sweet tea (and other hot drink) ideas I enjoy:

Delissimo!!!
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mk

queenie!

Happy Birthday to the Queen. I hope she had a weekend filled with loveliness and magic! Much love to her!

I had a very cute weekend in Pauanui with my lover and flatmates, filled with feijoa vodka, new drinking games, bad movies and raindrops...

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Things I am in love with in a million ways:

.lover
.fresh raspberries
.st ives vanilla
.mini road trips
.chocolate tea
.future plans
.stargazing
.mt eden lookout
.cupcakes for brunch
.our kitten's crazed affection
.cutting the negs, always!
.Dave being back for a week! Huge exciteeee!
.my dream book complete but progressing daily
.pillow pits nightly!

~

cute energy!
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time traveller

Urban Abstract from Musuta on Vimeo.

oo lala!
mk
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hearts in my eyes

I love everything about this photo. Passion, suspenders and a cafe called Lipp!

jouir!

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wild winter list

Wild Winter List:

1.Take your crush/lover on a surprise picnic. Make European snacks & lay on big soft blankets under a tree. Share your wildest hopes and dreams.

2. Get a cheap flight somewhere tropical. Sit out by the pool, smother yourself in Hawaiian Tropic oil and do nothing but drink slushie lemonade in bliss.

3. Get a library card and make book list of books you want to read, then get them out.

4. Buy these amazing celebration banners and hang them around the house. Find here:

http://www.banterbanner.com/Banners_s/3.htm

5. Have a fancy tea party with your girlfriends. Dress up in old Victorian dresses and have everybody bring mini sandwiches and drinks. Play movies like Marie Antoinette or The Great Gatsby.

6. Spring clean your home. Organise everything. Give everything you don't need to charity.

7. Adopt a baby pet!

8. Write an amateur children's book for your sister/brother/cousin. Draw little animal characters and give them names and a story.

9. Have a bad movie marathon.

10. Go through all of your old magazines and tear out inspirational pictures, paste them in a scrapbook into sections -- Style, Health, Career, Loves and Home. Write goals for each section and make your dreams into reality!

11. Have a garage sale and use the money for something cute -- *Beware you have to get up at 5am because people are crazy about garage sales....

12. Get a massage and a facial at ME hair and beauty salon. Best ever.

13. Take an unorganised road trip/flight to the snow with your funniest friends, stay at bad motels all along the way, Stop at landmarks and take polaroids. Teach eachother to snowboard when you reach the snow. Meet strangers and turn them into best friends!

14. Make your bed as pretty and as comfortable as you can. Put too many soft pillows on it, surround it with strings of white lights, pictures of your favorite things, songs written out on paper. Your dreams will be prettier.

15. Learn to cook French meals inspired by Julia Child's - especially Beef Bourguignon. Have a dinner party with your friends that's Julia Child's themed. I am obsessed with "themes" ahhhha.

I LOVE WINTER CUTENESS !!!!!

Love,
mk

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as you think so shall you be!

“As you think so shall you be! Since you cannot physically experience another person, you can only experience them in your mind. Conclusion: All of the other people in your life are simply thoughts in your mind. Not physical beings to you, but thoughts. Your relationships are all in how you think about the other people of your life. Your experience of all those people is only in your mind. Your feelings about your lovers come from your thoughts. For example, they may in fact behave in ways that you find offensive. However, your relationship to them when they behave offensively is not determined by their behavior, it is determined only by how you choose to relate to that behavior. Their actions are theirs, you cannot own them, you cannot be them, you can only process them in your mind.”

--Wayne Dyer

it is.

For a kiss to be really good, you want it to mean something. You want it to be with someone you can't get out of your head, so that when your lips finally touch you feel it everywhere. A kiss so hot and so deep you never want to come up for air. You can't cheat your first kiss. Trust me, you don't want to. Cause when you find that right person for a first kiss, it's everything.

--Alex Karev, Greys Anatomy

Veronique

Veronique is an uber talented Parsienne gal who creates the most spontaneous yet incredible photos!
Jádore!
Let me know your favourite photographers/artists by clicking "comment" and I may blog about them! ;-)
Enjoy my lil bunnies!
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beautiful toast!

Is this not the most beautiful piece of toast you’ve seen?
Needing this toast with butter + avocado please! ;-)
Yum.
mk
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marshmallow icecream

Don't be a marshmallow. Walk the street with us into history.
ps; Total heaven = the room above.
I heart helium and sunlight.
Lick
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brick

no dice, soldier
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c'est la vie!

hope is the dream of a soul awake...
~French proverb
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pot hole gardens

"If we planted one of these in every hole," he says, "it would be like a forest in the road."
-Pete Dungey
from Cup Of Jo

This is so wonderful
Cute thoughts I love.
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perhaps they are not stars,

but rather openings in heaven

where the love of our lost ones

pours through and shines down upon us

to let us know they are happy.

Colour me lovely

"We felt the imprisonment of being a girl, the way it made your mind active and dreamy, and how you ended up knowing which colors went together. We knew that the girls were our twins, that we all existed in space like animals with identical skins, and that they knew everything about us though we couldn’t fathom them at all. We knew, finally, that the girls were really women in disguise, that they understood love and even death, and that our job was merely to create the noise that seemed to fascinate them."
— Jeffrey Eugenides (The Virgin Suicides)

Fly a kite

Play with wind, baby!
(these kites are delicious)
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Eco friendly yourself!

All of these tips help just that little bit extra.. Help save the World in a mini way! I don't like writing about negative things but Global Warming is crazy scary and it is happening right now. Global warming is when the Earth heats up -- It happens when greenhouse gases (carbon dioxide, water vapor, nitrous oxide, and methane) trap heat and light from the sun in the Earth's atmosphere which increases the temperature. This effects people, animals, plants, and overall -- the Earth. The smallest things can help and you will feel better for yourself by doing them!

1. Bike, use public transit, carpool to work, drive slower, keep your tires inflated
   One-third of all traffic is commuters. Use alternative transportation when possible. If you must drive, go slower with proper tire inflation. It saves both fuel and tires, and lowers emissions. It also saves lives.
2. Reduce, Reuse, Recycle and Compost
   Reusing packaging material saves more energy than recycling. By avoiding extra packaging, you save both energy and landfill space. Yard and kitchen waste (leaves/grass/vegetable scraps) are 30% of trash. Reduce this amount by composting. Also be sure to re-use plastic bags, or better yet... refuse plastic bags when you really don't need them.
3. Conserve water
   Don't let faucets run. Never water your lawn at midday. Place a brick in old toilets. Take low flow short showers. Run the dishwasher only when it is full. Let grass grow longer. Plant native or drought-tolerant garden plants.
4. Quit smoking
   Second-hand smoke is a major indoor air pollutant and health hazard. When you quit, both you and your family will lead longer and healthier lives.
5. Don't use pesticides/herbicides on your lawn
   Along with nitrogen fertilizer runoff, these are major water pollutants.
6. Keep your cat indoors
   Domestic cats kill over one billion small birds and animals every year (1 outdoor cat averages 40 kills per year). They upset natural predator/prey balances and eliminate ground nesting birds.
7. Eat less meat/eat more local and organic foods
   Feedlots are a major source of organic pollution. Tropical forests are cut to raise beef.
8. Lower your thermostat in the winter. Raise it in the summer
   Wearing a sweater in the winter and short sleeves in the summer saves energy and reduces pollution.
9. Dispose of old paint, chemicals, and oil properly
   Don't put batteries, antifreeze, paint, motor oil, or chemicals in the trash. Use proper toxics disposal sites. Never buy more than you need.
10. Consider the environmental costs of major decisions and purchases
    When relocating or changing jobs try to live close to work. Compare efficiency when purchasing new cars or appliances. Buy fewer things. Choose products with lower energy inputs.
11. Volunteer/Lobby for the Environment
    Work locally and globally to save natural places, reduce urban sprawl, lower pollution and prevent the destruction of wilderness areas for timber and oil.
12. Plant a tree with a child
    Take a walk in the woods, or plant trees which store CO2. Teaching our children to love and care for the planet is the most important thing we can do to insure the future of humankind.
13. Wash dishes by hand in a basin, and then use the dish water for outdoor gardens.

Do it for the LOVE! x

Love!!

On 16 May, me and my precious boy, celebrated our 1 year anniversary. We went to Kelly Tarltons which was the cutest adventure, filled with little slippery tuxedoed darlings - PENGUINS! which I abolutely adore, gargantuan sting rays being fed by a very brave wetsuit covered gal, tropical fishies and lots n lots of kisses!! Then we went on a food testing spree at Sabato -- www.sabato.co.nz, and purchased the most exquisite delicacies EVER! You must go there and try! The best anchovies in town! My must have is the truffle-filled brie.. bliss! Anyway on to our next adventure!! We then went to the Parnell rose gardens and had a picnic with all our Sabato goodies, laughed and loved until the sun went down, then home and made a much loved (and regularly done) PILLOW PIT! Complete with our two gorgeous kitties and a rom com. I then gifted my love with a soil filled box, and a fig seed pod... What is this you may ask? A tree to grow as our loves grows, and yummy figs to eat filled with love. Cheesy much! Hee.

Joyous smiles and the fullest heart!
mk
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Tea, darling?

My fabulous coffee girl, Mini -- now my TEA lady! -- (at Thirsty Dog, Karangahape Road)... has recently purchased a few to-die-for tea's from Tea Culture -- www.teaculture.co.nz -- so now I am a massive coffee addict turned to absolute tea obsessee! You must go there and try the fabulous Chocolate or Vanilla Tea, or if you love all sweet things, try the Stawberry Champagne Green Tea! Wow!

The virtues of Tea are well known: tea heals, quenches and sustains. But it's secret powers reside in it's almost human qualities.Tea tells stories, punctuates journeys and has intrigued poets since time immemorial.

Tea brings cultures together and is a sign of hospitality and conviviality. Over the centuries no other earthly product has called forth such subtle and intricate rituals. Tea brings people together in times of trauma.

The journey through the enchanting and complex world of tea covers the whole globe. From the vast gardens of Assam under the dazzling Sri Lankan sun to the volcanic slopes of Mt Cameroon East Asia, Aotearoa and beyond.

Tea is exacting. Each infusion has its own character, nature and secrets. Poor preparation can ruin leaves even from the best garden. Success is a question of attention to codes and of a certain degree of experience.

Regardless of cultural differences tea gathers people. The most secret of secrets may be shared over a cup of tea. Tea reaches across the generations. The history of tea is inextricably intertwined with the history of humanity.

Tea benefits:

• Achieve a more calm, relaxed state of mind
• Support heart health
• Aid with stomach and digestive problems
• Provide cleansing properties for the body
• Promote energy and wellness

Following are some of the herbs and botanicals found in tisanes.

Allspice is said to help soothe the common cold and relieve upset stomachs

Chamomile is known for its calming attributes said to have a host of anti-inflammatory and anti-spasmodic properties that help relieve and ward off a variety of maladies.

Chrysantemum provides a sweet tasting briew and is supposed to help reduce body heat resulting from fever. It also is known to help protect against liver damage and neutralize toxins in the body.

Cinnamon has a calming effect and is thought to support healthy circulation and digestion.

Fennel has been used for centuries as a digestive aid and to soothe upper respiratory problems.

Ginger is a centuries old herbal remedy used to treat a wide range of health concerns from nausea and colds to indigestion and migraine headaches.

Ginseng is believed to stimulate vitality and help the body stay healthy.

Hawthorne has been used to strengthen the heart and increase blood flow.

Hibiscus has shown to help reduce high blood pressure and soothe menstrual cramps.

Lemongrass is used frequently in teas for its calming properties.

Parsley has a diuretic effect and is purported to help with kidney function.

Peppermint is thought to have greater stress-relieving attributes than chamomile tea and help with stomach and digestive issues. It also helps freshen breath.

Raspberry Leaf helps with colds, sore throats, canker sores and diarrhea. It may also keep nails, bones, teeth and skin healthy.

Sarsaparilla is said to promote energy and healthy skin.

Slippery Elm has properties that help relieve stomach cramps and other gastrointestinal problems. There are a plethora of herbal tea choices available from tea houses and retailers.

Yum!!

Hearts full of joy and unicorns ;-)

mk x

Rainbowssss

This immense, curved spectrum of beautiful light appears only when both the elements of sunshine and rainfall present. As the sunlight enters the falling raindrops, it breaks up into its true colors of red, orange, yellow, blue, and violet. (These colors are always arranged according to their wavelengths, with red being at one end of the spectrum, and violet at the other). Once inside the droplet, the particles of colored light bounce from side to side, reflect off of the far side of the droplet, exit the droplet, and reassemble, according to their wavelengths, to form a rainbow. How magical!!!

Green berry tea.

As the tea infuses, the origami bird unfurls, which is the part I'm really impressed with. Cuteness plus!
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Happiness (rules)

.knowing things can come as quickly as they go

.appreciating everything now

.being 100% aware constantly, practice makes perfect

.knowing emotions are just that;
(they do not define who you are and you are in control of them)

.meditate.write.read.express

.be kinder than necessary

.help others because you want to, don't hold back

.know you are always learning and growing

.know clearly what you want

.do what makes your heart sing and your soul dance
(not by doing what is expected of you, or what is 'easy' or money driven)

.eat healthy and raw and fresh as much as poss

.do not judge or have expectations

.open your mind to allll

.do the right thing

.be honest with yourself and others

.always see the bright side.. aka the right side, the beauty in everything

.know that positive attracts positive

.only keep the positives in your life;
(spring clean your life every now and then.... )

.simplify and de-clutter your life from the negatives and unnecessary... from people to material things..

.give to charity.do volunteer work for people who need it
(www.volunteernow.org)

.stop chasing happiness, enjoy the here and now, appreciate it.
Stop having dillusions that you will be happier....... ïf only....".
You can be happy right now ;)

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Smile like the sun x

Rather than seeking pleasure
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the trick is to be
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and open
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to all the pleasures around you
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Wren.

In Refinery29's newsletter I discovered Wren... a new clothing brand launched by Melissa Coker. The brand's name is derived from "Dickens' Jenny Wren, a crippled doll dressmaker with a pure heart." Melissa says the line is "prone to be a bit of subtle, old-world romanticism, and the name befits that feeling." If you like what you see here, click here for more pieces from the current Wren collection. Classy, I love.

Miss Fortune to be!

I dedicate this post to the precious, inspirational, true and delightful love of Monique Spiers and Steve Fortune. Monique has been my best friend ever since we met and nothing can ever show how much I love this bunny! Her boyfriend has recently proposed to her in the loveliest possible way! And after the big moment, while they were walking along the beach, a RING washed to the shore! Which fit her wedding finger! What a fateful coincidence! This glam couple are completely meant-to-be!

I went to the Stamford Plaza Wedding Expo with Monique in the weekend, so many ideas, love, planning, joy, and then out comes Monique with "Mel, will you be my bridesmaid?" which resulted in me crying the happiest tears ever, and giving her the most love-filled hug in the world! Of course I will be!!

I cant wait to celebrate this beautiful love and be part of this incredible day! X

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Feed your mind, dance if your down and look after your hands! They are a reflection of what you think of yourself. I hope everyone is having a cute day! Coffee and love are my angels at this moment.

I am so joyful for right now. A lot of special things are coming up.

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mellykit.

: k : j : s : illustration & design. Kelly, creates her pieces in mixed media digital form, and the results are simply exquisite! I need all of these. My home is sure to be the better for it! Shown here are: Doe Eyes Limited Edition Print, Terms of Endeerment - Print Set, & The English Rose Limited Edition Print.

Her talent blows my mind! xx

Chic office supplies!

See Jane Work is a fantastic source for fashionable supplies ranging from eco-friendly office goods, chic totes and bags. I especially love their Desk of the Month feature. It's great inspiration and you can find (almost) all the items from the look right on See Jane Work.... Put some love into your office xxx