Hong Kong Part Three - All the markets!

When we arrived back in Hong Kong we ended up in probably my favorite hotel of the whole trip (the room came with a cell phone with free data you could use while you were in Hong Kong - how cool is that?) and like everywhere else we stayed there was an incredible city view!

We decided that when we arrived back in Hong Kong we wanted to check out some of the famous markets that we hadn't visited in the past, especially the flower and goldfish market.

As with everything else in Hong Kong it was a bit of an adventure finding the markets - so much happening, so busy (especially when I compare it to quiet Wellington!).

We arrived at the flower market first, which is so huge and is honestly like an inner city oasis. If I even live in Hong Kong I want to live near the flower markets because the air here feels fresher than the rest of the city.

My favourite plants were the bonsai, I would have loved to have taken one home but with New Zealand's customs that could never happen so I just admired them. The bonsai with this thick moss and wee plastic animals was so cute.

I have to admit I didn't enjoy the goldfish market as much as I thought I would, at lot of the goldfish we in plastic bags rather than tanks and some of them were dead in their bags. It didn't seem to be the best way to keep animals to me and it kind of made me sad. Also at the market there were lots of other animals such as cats, dogs and rabbits. There were windows with these animals on display for purchase, but they didn't look like they really had enough space and I also thought who in Hong Kong has enough room in their apartments for these kinds of animals anyway. The whole thing bummed me out, so that's kind of why there's not photos of the markets.

After the kind of feeling bummed out by the market situation, Rich and I decided we needed to stop for a drink or something and we found this cute rabbit themed cafe that made me feel a lot better.

We didn't do anything too exciting after having our fancy drinks at the rabbit themed cafe, we did a bit of shopping (I was able to pick up some of my favorite Korean cosmetics) and we also had the chance to catch up with Lillian one more time after she finished up at work for the day.

A little dress for Georgia

Your eyes are not deceiving you - I am posting in two days in  a row! Here's another little project I haven't shared with you all yet.

Recently a friend of ours was heading over to Melbourne where my best friend from law school lives so I thought I'd take the opportunity to send over something for her little girl Georgia.

I had limited time so rather than use a brand new pattern, I thought I'd make another dress using this tried a true vintage pattern that I used to make a dress for my niece Sophiia when she was much younger.

This pattern is a very simple girls shift dress, I've also loaned it to another friend who used it to make her niece a dress. It's been very loved since I purchased and who knows how many times it had already been used by the time I bought it.

I chose to make Georgia's dress from this FREAKING ADORABLE bunny fabric I had in my stash. I don't remember where I got this but I'm pretty sure my thought process was something like this - "OMG  BUNNIES!! I LOVE BUNNIES!! SO CUTE!! I  MUST BUY IT!!"

It's for reasons such as this I now own way too much fabric for one human being (although I do console myself in the fact that I have friends that are bigger hoarders than I am).

Here's the finished dress - its pretty cute with all the wee bunnies all over it, I think Georgia is actually too small to wear it now, but hopefully I will get to see here wearing it sometime in the future.

I hope you all have a good week - I'm only working three days this week as we are heading off to see The Cure in Auckland on Thursday! YAH!!