Korea Day Date Night

Friday was Korea Day and Rich and I had tickets to go and see a show put on by the Chae Hyang Soon Dance Company who had come from Seoul to perform in Wellington for Korea Day. So we figured we may as well may a night of it and head out and have Korean food for dinner as well!

This frock is a bit of rarity - its not made by me or second hand - its brand spanking new! When I saw it at Cosmic I fell in love with it, its a Hell Bunny dress which is one of my favourite clothing labels (although there is only a handful of clothing labels I actually like!).

OUTFIT DEETS:

Dress - Hell Bunny "Presley" Dress
Cardi - Op Shopped
Tights - Farmers or Glassons? I forget
Shoes - Avon

Before the show we went to our favourite Korean Restaurant - Korean Country House for bibimbap - it was delicious.

The show we watched was at the St James Theatre - we couldn't take photos of the actual performance, but I did take a photo of the theatre. There were a few speeches before the performance, hence the flags and podium.

I hope you've all had a rad weekend so far xoxo

Instagram - Week Five

It's time for another instagram photo dump post -thanks to all of you that have asked about my cold/flu/bug - to tell you the truth, its gotten a little bit better, but not much. I'm finding it hard to concentrate at work and by the time I finish work each day I am totally exhausted. I had a lot of stuff on this weekend - but I decided to cancel pretty much all of it due to my general exhaustion. Perhaps I'll get to see my friends again some day soon? 

Anyway - here's a snap shot of what I've been up to over the past week or so.

The last week has seen me using a lot of these for my sore throat - one of my many ongoing ailments!

Last Saturday Rich and I went out for a walk along the waterfront, despite being sick I was getting a pretty major dose of cabin fever and it was a STUNNER of a spring day. We picked up some hot drinks from "Bernie's" on our walk.

As the saying goes - "You can't beat Wellington on a good day".

Last Sunday Rich and I went out for a late lunch at "Carribean" - I love these giant mirrors they have in this cafe.

Tribal fabric I decided to make a new frock with - if a new frock won't cheer me up, then I doubt anything will!

So this was on Monday, got up, got dressed and then realised I wasn't going anywhere. After this I'm pretty sure I texted to to let them know I wouldn't make it in and then went back to bed.

On Monday afternoon I decided to do some study - but I can't say it was terribly successful.

I found a box to put all my patterns in - it made me realise just how many patterns I have!

I bought this pattern to make a dress for Ross and Shelley's wedding - then I just felt like my skills weren't up to it and chickened out and made a more simple design. I think I'm ready to attempt to make this dress for New Years Eve.

I forgot just how much I loved this pattern - the collar is so amazing, I think I need to make this one very, very soon.

Still feeling crappy - but wearing my new handmade Aztec dress.

We got another postcard this week - our friends Lisa and Aaris are travelling through Europe at the moment and sent us a postcard from Sweden.

We had a national earthquake drill this week in New Zealand - we were handed out these little fliers at work.

My next dress will be made from this fabric in celebration of spring - I am thinking that I will tackle a wrap around dress.

Instagram of this weeks Wednesday wardrobe challenge - modern 1950's.

Rich and I watched this movie this week - its amazing and so beautiful. I really loved it.

My cup went missing at work and I was SO annoyed - thankfully it returned to me the next day.

I bought tickets to Billy Bragg this week for Rich's Birthday present - hurrah!

A few of the DVD's that turned up from fatso this week.

Seen as I've had a pretty crappy week - Rich went out and bought me Korean food for dinner on Friday night. Yah!

I saw these Hello Kitty lollies in the window of a store in town that imports a lot of confectionery from overseas. But I was very restrained and didn't buy anything.

Yesterday we went to the Wellington Botanical Gardens as the tulips are in full bloom - so happy spring is here.

Across the road from the botanical garden there was a lantern festival at the Chinese Anglican Church.

I am clearly colour obsessed with colour co-ordination - I even match these flowers!

Rich went shopping for sneakers yesterday - so I tried on the most crazy I could find. I was tempted to buy these gum boots - they are pretty rad!

Today was a day for even MORE study - I've got an appointment with my kaihautu (teacher) in about three weeks and have so much to do before then.

True movie geekery - Rich and I have matching Alfred Hitchcock mugs!

Here's hoping this week will be better and I'll finally kick this bug!

Happy Birthday to me!

I kind of celebrated my birthday last weekend, but I still had a pretty great "birthday week" this week.

First of all the remains of the cake my co-workers bought me - "We *heart* Teresa".

Here's some of my birthday stash - I told my parents I didn't want a birthday present but they still sent me a little package with a Dr Who DVD (with my favourite Doctor - Tom Baker!), a very patriotic passport cover and luggage tag and a kite (flax bag). The package also came with some chocolate from home. My youngest brother Jake also sent me an awesome package of chocolates.From Rich I recieved a little craft kit, a Kuromi hairclip and an Alice in Wonderland style necklace.Here's a close up of the necklace, it reminds me of Alice in Wonderland but my co-workers said "Oh! Romantic Style!".
From my friend Nilanka back home in New Zealand I recieved these really great cookie cutters - they are kind of hard to see in the picture but one is of New Zealand and one is of a kiwi. I really love them but we don't have an oven - however - I do have plans to make something with them later this week. Stay tuned to find out what.I also recieved some goodies from my friend Dani in Korea - some girly stuff from the Faceshop (I can get enough of these Korean body and beauty stores) and some headbands.
From the 3rd Grade English teacher at my school a box of "bows" and a lip gloss - she knows me so well! (actually I teach her twin sons and they told her that "Teresa Teacher likes hair bows"). I also got some foundation from co-teacher Jiyoun but I couldn't get a good photo of that.Finally, here's all my treats from my students! One of my students even bought me a bottle of Elizabeth Arden green tea perfume - well he actually admitted his mum choose it but still it's a very generous present.




After school on my birthday day Rich and I went out for dinner but it was so hot again we just ended up eating popping su again and having a look around the shops in Uijeongbu.

My Korean Birthday!

My co-teacher Jiyeon got a little confused and thought that today was my birthday and not tomorrow.

So she organised a cake and presents for me today. She used the excuse I had to go to the fifth grade teachers room for a "meeting" about classes and when I got there all the fifth grade teachers were there with cake.

But it actually worked out well - if today was actually my birthday I would have suspected she was up to something but as today is the day before my birthday I had no idea!

Mr Moon, our music teacher and technology lover took some video of my grand entrance into the teachers room! Here it is!

Just another summer day in Uijeongbu

Yesterday, Rich and I went for a walk around the "new town" in Uijeongbu. It was a beautiful day but at the moment the days do tend to get a little bit too hot. It's often 30 degree's during the day which I'm really not used to after living in Wellington for four years.

In the new town in Uijeongbu there are a lot of pet shops, pets here in Korea are a lot more exotic than back in New Zealand. You can have all kinds of pets - squirrels, hamsters, gerbils, hedgehogs, sugar gliders and the list goes on and on. Here's a few photo's I took outside some of the petshops in town. I really want one of these bunnies!


While we were out we decided to get some shaved ice or "Popping Su". Now it's summer it seems everywhere sells popping su from the ice cream shops to the bakeries and even KFC and Lotteria (a Korean fast food place simmilar to McDonalds) .Popping Su would have to be one of my favourite things about the Korean summer - it's shaved ice with fruit, ice cream cereal, red beans and it is kind of milky. It's really refreshing without being heavy like ice cream can be. We bought ours from a popular bakery chain called Paris Baguette but you can really get them everywhere!