Halloween Swap 2015!

Hello All and Happy Halloween!! I hope you all have some kind of creepy fun times planned today. I've going out to lunch with my lovely club friends in theme and then a few of us are heading to Tretham for the Pet Festival, apparently there is a costume competition for pets. I'm pretty excited about that.

Anyways I thought I'd share a post today of the things I received from Vany craft ninja for our Halloween swap this year.

Due to the cost of postage and well, LIFE being busy we decided to cut down our number of swap days from 13 days to a week. Still a week of Halloween is still a pretty great time!

DAY ONE

This is day one's package, which I was really puzzled by, I mean what could be in HERE! One big box and a bunch of pod shaped packages?

The big package was these Hello Kitty kinder surprises - Vany told me about these ages ago. I was so happy to have a box of my own.

But guess what was in all the pod shaped packages? A bunch more Kinder Surprise capsules, fulled with Hello Kitties.

This little dude was  also  in one of the capsules, he's a Natoons character.

This package was so much fun to open, who doesn't love a package made up of a heap of tiny packages.  Also so much Kitty - yah!

DAY TWO

Day two came in its very own box with three wrapped packages inside - two small ones  and one big one. What was in the smaller packages?

 Inside the first small package with this this cute Hello Kitty skeleton patch - I LOVE the wee bow.

The second little package was this ADORABLE My Melody ghost patch - its one of the cutest things ever. I love it.

What was in the big package? My favourite German chocolate - so delicious!

DAY THREE 

On day three I found a note from Vany that I had totally missed previously! This is our third year of swapping at Halloween times, hard to believe!

 Here's the package for day three - what's inside?

Something to reflect my love of lavender and visiting lavender farms! Some really beautiful soap! She also made these two cute scent sachets filled with lavender - skully bird and bunny.

DAY FOUR

 Day four was a day of craft supplies that included a DIY felt bird kit, very cool shark ruler, cross-stitch phone charm and creepy cute patch.

DAY FIVE

Day five was a cross-stitch day and included this awesome "What we do in the Shadows" cross-stitch.

DAY SIX

Day six was a day for all thing tea related! I received a box of tea, complete with a skeleton dressed as a bunny and a little plate for putting used tea bags on. I have a bunch of teas from Germany to try now!

DAY SEVEN

Vany has made me SO MANY amazing things over the year, but this was really next level. I don't know how she got so many things I love into one item (and also how she new my current bunny slippers were totally past it).

 That's right people, she made me zombie bunny slippers and in case you were wondering, the nose is a tiny skull.

The bottom of the slippers says "zombunny"  obviously! So amazing!

Well that's it for my Halloween swap package from Vany - pretty amazing right? I'm excited for next year already!

Instagram week three

First of all, I just wanted to say thanks so much for your lovely comments on my last blog post. It was really nice to receive all of your positive thoughts when I was having such a bad day. You guys rock!

Now onto happier things - week three of instagram - I'm really impressed I'm still using instagram and still finding it fun. I guess it helps that a lot of my other friends use it too and its kind of fun to see what they have been up to. Anyway - here's week three of instagram

This week these creepy cute cameos arrived from esty - I bought them from a shop called PinkyNoodles, if you're in the market for some quirky craft supplies I fully recommend this store. So many awesome things.

I had to do more study this week for my Mauri Ora course, I've now finished the first part of the course. Study is of course always easier with Hello Kitty and Chai Latte.

My latest Avon haul arrived this week - since an old school friend started selling Avon I really can't get enough of it. I especially love the Cherry Blossom body wash, shampoo and condition.

As you all know - I wore two pairs of tights for Wednesday Wardrobe Challenge this week and it was awesome.

This was my pattern from Victory Patterns before I started to stick it all together - just as well I have a huge role of sticking tape.

We've been watching a lot of Community lately - I seriously LOVE this show - I just can't get enough.

Rich an I went to the City Gallery for the first time in ages on Saturday. My favourite exhibition was called Apocalyptic Intuition. The Sui faiga ae tumau fa'avae was also pretty amazing though - especially as someone was being tattooed when we visited the exhibition space.

Another Wellington Waterfront photo - the statue is of Kupe, a legendary voyager and the building you can see in the background is the Whare Waka (Whare = House and Waka = Canoe).

Another photo of the water front - this time of Te Papa (Museum of New Zealand).

We went to Burger Fuel on Cuba Street for lunch on Saturday - I ended up ordering the kiddies burger by mistake! But that's ok, because their kiddies burger is the size of a regular burger anywhere else. Also they have a really rad light - I liked it a lot.

Finally on Saturday night I went to see an incredible play for my friend Matt's birthday - It was the perfect play for a history geek like me.