Sunday, March 14, 2010

Week Eleven

The Week in Photographs

Sunday: Weta on Lettuce
Sunday
Over at Trinity for dinner, my darling mother SCREAMED in the kitchen. Turns out it was because THIS (a Weta) was in the lettuce she had picked (from the garden, not the supermarket). There followed a lot of general screeching while Craig collected it, held it while I took photos, then set it free in the garden.
Creepy primordial insect.

Monday: Chatting with Craig
Monday
Sometimes, upon arriving home to Park Place, Craig and I hang out on the bed for a bit and chat before continuing on with dinner & the like. This happens less often since we started driving to and from Wellington. We do the chatting in the car.

Tuesday: Reader Submissions Pages
Tuesday
The day I discovered I was in Post-Modern Ink. So exciting.

Wednesday: Two chairs and a lectern awaiting Richard Dawkins
Wednesday
Two chairs and a lectern awaiting Richard Dawkins. His talk was interesting and lovely and oh, I just adore pop science.

Thursday: Mini Cupcakes
Thursday
A cupcake success!
Mini red velvet cupcakes with cream cheese icing. They were delicious. Seriously. And they looked so cute.
I have a strong feeling this will be my go-to baked good for quite some time.

Friday: Post Tornado rainbow
Friday
A very climatically strange afternoon.
While at the pub a mini tornado tore through Wellington. We walked over in grey sunlight and emerged to rain and trees and minor chaos. Driving home in the rain we arrived to a Pear Massacre in our backyard (approximately 200 pears on the ground) and within a further hour the rain was gone, the sun was setting & lighting up the sky, and there was an impressive rainbow.

Saturday: Petra's Party
Saturday
A busy day - there was the talk by Neil Gaiman, a family barbecue, then celebrating Petra's birthday with a chili chocolate cake (seriously), and a lot of tequila. And vodka. And more tequila.


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Self Portrait in Girl About Town
Self Portrait wearing Girl About Town by MAC.

MAC Lipsticks
Pictured, Right.

People have asked how I can wear such a bright bright fuchsia lipstick and all I do? seriously, is apply it with my finger and use it more like a stain. I mean, unless I'm really committing to being the girl with the hard out lipstick. Which I very rarely am.
But it meant I could wear the same outfit (Jeffrey Campbell wedge ankle boots, jeans, floaty black zip top) to all three events and not be over or under dressed for any. Success!

2 comments:

  1. Anonymous7:08 pm

    Crazy! I own Girl About Town and have never even thought of wearing it this way. Which I now will, especially as I seem to have lost my other, slightly-less-brazen MAC colour, Lovelorn.

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  2. I've been doing this with all my intense lipsticks - makes them so much more wearable.

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