Hey there all my old Nickel Pickel followers - just a quick message to say I'm up and blogging again, now over at my new home BRA...

Well peeps, after much thought and consideration, I have decided to take an extended blogging holiday. Nickel Pickel is feeling like it ...

    'Vintage Seaside' pencil on vintage cotton

Good vibes for a Tuesday!

     'Girls in Galoshes' - Pencil on board and linen

I am the sort of person that, when seen entering a kitchen, will often send an oven running in the opposite     direction. I can't cook...

I was never really aware of how essential sloppy weekend breakfast food was, until we lived in Canada. Things like 'Breakfast Sandwic...

  I was so completely stuck for ideas at my last silversmith class this week - I needed to come up with something I could c...

This was me on Sunday, hiding out under my cardigan, draped over my laptop to protect from the glare of the sun... oh, and some more new...

A friend noted briefly to me not so long ago, that sometimes if you want to put together a really great outfit, you need to dig deep i...

One of my favourites for this new Monday morning. Enjoy!

It's been pretty quiet in my world this week; the constant rain we've had lately has made me hunker down and semi hibernate. ...

Belgian Biscuits Mix together 1 1/2 cups brown sugar with 250g softened butter and 1 egg. Add 2 1/2 tsp mixed spice, 1 1/2 tsp cinnam...

Let's have some lovin' on this lovely Saturday morning, by watching this. Dare you to not shed a little tear, it't so unbeliev...

It's Friday! Hooray! And Wellington has well and truely turned it ON today, summer is coming... I think for the first day ...

  Little bat earrings for a lovely blogging friend!

Trying my hand at colour blocking today - this outfit would be 100 times better if I owned a mustard colour cardi like this one!...

Last night's creation - little sterling silver star earrings!

Some musical goodness for the day. Enjoy!

I'm covering a fair bit of ground in this post - first up - a little about my outfit today. This post should probably be title...

I've been doing some design work for my lovely fiance this weekend, and it involves drawing sharks. Lots and lots of sharks... [i...

 Last night I finished my druzy ring. It's a monster! I ended up setting it quite deep in the bezel as the stone itself is a real...

  I went to the New Zealand Jewellery Show this weekend, and to be honest... I was kind of underwhelmed. The big glitzy jewelle...

Absolutely loving this new song from Annah Mac, woooo!

It was exactly 12 months ago that I was in New York, enjoying some beautiful late summer weather with both old fr...