Wellington walls

 I spent most of last week in Wellington and while I didn't end up taking as many photos as I'd hoped I did snap a few Wellington walls on my way into town.  This exploding pohutukawa mural is in my old stomping ground of Mt Cook; I used to live above it in a house with scenes from Where the Wild Things Are painted all over the walls of the lounge and a cat with a metal leg.  The wild things are long gone but I'm glad the pohutukawa's still there. 

Christmas Eve eve

Just a few snaps from colourful old Wellington...

You've still got a day to enter my giveaway to win some of my cards...I'll draw a winner tomorrow evening. Tonight's going to be all about the Xmas present finishing, the sea swimming...

Leaving town

I'm leaving town bright and early tomorrow, heading to Greytown for Craft Country Wairarapa via Paekakariki where Mr Millicent Crow is playing a show with the lovely Rosy Tin Teacaddy. Don't worry, I'm not really hitching; we're catching the train, which will make for a loooong journey. Plenty of time for catching up on my mending. In fact, the only time I have hitchhiked (from Wellington to Auckland) we got picked up in Himatangi by a couple who were on their first date. I guess the date wasn't going so well...

Whirlwind Wellington Whanganui weekend

Mr Millicent Crow and our friend John White have been on tour, and I decided to go along for the ride for the lower North Island part, so I've just got back from a fleeting trip to Wellington and W(h)anganui (we didn't reach a consensus on the 'h'). I think Whanganui warrants a whole extra trip just to take photos - we arrived at dusk and left in a mad rush the next morning, and we decided it would be a great place for an art residency. As for the rest of the weekend, there was music, there was visiting, there were delicious dinners, there was a trip to Somes Island, there was a present of an unexpected painting (that a friend gave me in Whanganui) and there was driving, driving, driving. And of course some photos...


I'm taking Millicent Crow on the road in December - I'm going to have a stall at Craft Country Wairarapa in Greytown on December 11...watch this space!

Leaving town

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We're leaving town for a few days, heading to Wellington & Whanganui. On the drive down tomorrow I'm hoping to feed some Canada geese, take in the op shopping sights of Putaruru and drink coffee from a thermos. Hopefully it'll be a gold star day!

Colourful houses

I was looking at some photos from summer this morning, and I found all these photos of colourful houses in Aro Valley, Wellington.









A good place for wearing colourful shoes!
And here's the house that I used to live in in Aro Valley. It's boring old cream, but very beautiful. I wonder if my landlord would let me paint my house bright red?

Wellington

We had a very fleeting visit to Wellington this weekend for the Broken Heartbreakers' album launch. It usually takes us about 10 hours each way driving there because there are so many distractions on the way...