Mini Easter Celebration

Rich and I usually take our yearly overseas trip in winter, but this year we've decided to take it in autumn. In fact to save on annual leave (we need to use those four precious weeks so carefully!) we've decided to take our holiday during Easter (also Qantas had a sale on at this time....so....).

I've been excited about the trip for a while, but I recently realised how bummed I was about not being home during Easter as it often feels like the last "holiday" before the months get colder - also bunnies and chocolate are both awesome. So I decided to have a wee get together with friends to celebrate Easter.

We went to the Sweet Cakery and Bakery in Karori - I've wanted to go here for the longest time. This place really works in with my general world view which is "everything cute always".

This place really is solely a cakery and bakery as one of my friends was hoping to get something for breakfast here. You'll only be able to get breakfast if you're ok with cake for breakfast - some people are probably ok with that though.

There were a lot of different sweet treats on offer, but only one gluten free option, which was the salted popcorn cupcake so that's what I went with.

The cupcake may look tiny, but with that much icing on top it was plenty of cupcake for me and the tea was also delicious.

They also make some speciality cakes, my niece would have lost her mind if she saw this Frozen one.

 My sweet friend Joy spoiled us all again with lovely Easter packages, she created all the packaging herself with her crafty magic and filled them with Easter eggs!

I still feel a bit sad about missing out on Easter, but at least I got to eat cupcakes and hang out with some cool people.

Also yes I'm home from overseas and my trip was amazing and full on and I have many photos and stories to share -eventually!

Easter Fun Times

As I said in my previous post I didn't get around to doing as much sewing as I would have liked to over Easter due to fun times with friends. Here's a few of the things I got up to over Easter with some awesome people.

On Saturday a whole bunch of us headed over to Greytown (the photo above was taken in a cafe in Greytown). Rich and I got a ride over to Greytown with Matt - here's a few photos of our journey over. I managed not to feel too car sick along the way.

Greytown is a quaint little town with lots of nice cafe, pretty old buildings and antique stores - here's a few photos I took around town.

We also did part of the Greytown Rail Trail whilst we were there (we couldn't do the whole trail as part of it was closed for grazing). It was a pretty walk which you could do at a leisurely pace - no hills or loose gravel here!

Finally we stopped off for a cute little cafe for lunch which was decorated with all kinds of cute, kitsch and retro things and had free Easter eggs as well.

Later on that evening we headed over to another friends house for an Easter pot luck dinner which was fun but I didn't take any photos. I did however play a rad dancing game (I forget the name) which was really fun and made me feel less guilty about eating Easter chocolate and not going to the gym.

The following day Rich and I headed off to the Games Master Exhibition at Te Papa with Conor and Sue - we got to play HEAPS of games and it was pretty rad. Although I have to say glad we arrived early as it filled up pretty quickly.

There's a brief snapshot of my weekend - except for one other thing, I feed my friend Jaimee's cat Luca whilst she was away. I'm actually allergic to cats, but Luca is such a sweetheart I can't help but give her a hug! Plus she REALLY likes me (perhaps because I feed her when Jaimee is away).

Hope you all had a fun time at Easter xoxo