Hello! So glad you made it to my blog! I hope this is the start of something special. Like Nutella, that’s special.
Part 1: Growing Up
My family grew up in a small town (like really small) where my Dad worked at a dairy factory and my Mum was a full time Mumma!
As a little girl you could often find me painting, drawing, sewing, playing with my Barbies or digging through the ‘junk box’ with my two younger sisters and younger brother. From early on, I always knew that if my job included things where I got to make stuff, I would be a happy chappy!
Just to get an idea of how cool I was: here’s my sister Jorja and I. I’m the blonde one.
During my teenage years we shifted to Southland’s only ‘city’ Invercargill. My favourite subjects were art and fashion design. In my spare time you can find me at youth group or scanning groceries! KIDS LISTEN HERE! I can’t say it was the most glamorous job but it meant that I was able to save up a large amount of money so that I could pursue fashion design even further in Dunedin at Otago Polytechnic. If I summed up my year in Dunedin in word one it would be this: INTERESTING. Big workload, living in a residential college, watching seven seasons of McLeod’s Daughters, learning how to knit and ultimately not really enjoying it which leads me to Part 2.
Part 2: Adulthood
I ended up coming back to the Promised Land (Southland, incase you didn’t realise), to pursue teaching! I am currently finishing up my degree and cannot wait for this study season to be over. Let’s be real, writing an endless amount of essays was never going to be fun right? I would just like to thank Cadbury Chocolate for making this degree possible. Without you I would forever be stuck in second year.
Part 3: Married, Moving, and Moo.
When I first came back to Invercargill I started going to a different church where a nutty farmer with bleached hair wanted to hang out with me. Little did I know, this was the start of something special, like Nutella as I mentioned earlier. I went through all the stages: ignorance, denial, and avoidance until I caved. Aaron and I became an item. And then an engaged item. AND THEN a married item! What began with a bad jetski ride has turned into being married to my best friend. He’s the man I prayed for and hoped for.
This is the earliest ‘couple photo’ I could find of us. Aaron hates it as he has just got surgery on his broken wrist so wasn’t feeling the best!
Here’s a nicer one! My favourite photo from our wedding. I think it’s because it sums up our relationship well. We don’t take things too seriously and love to be silly and have a good laugh.
You’re probably wondering why I included the word ‘moo’ right? Well once we got married, I shifted out to the family dairy farm. Aaron manages the dairy side of this and works alongside his parents who live across the road from us. This is what our house looks like:
Jokes! But not really. That’s what a third of it looked like when it arrived, but since then it has been reunited with the other two thirds and looks a lot more like a house now. A few years back Christchurch had a bad earthquake leaving a lot of good houses on bad land. This house was one of those. Aaron’s parents shifted this house down and now it’s ours to live in. We are so blessed!
Part 4: Blogging
Back in my teenage years I discovered a blog called A Beautiful Mess and fan-girled. I checked it daily, bought all their books and downloaded all their apps. Note: I still do all this BTW but now with even more blogs. Fangirl level: 300. I decided that if I could have a dream job, blogging would be it. However, I had zero knowledge of how to do that so it was put on the back burner. Then I found an awesome eBook called Building a Framework and decided to step out of the boat and go for it. My goal is to inspire other woman through sharing fun DIYs, recipes, snippets of my life and random thoughts. Cheers to giving things a go!
