Obsessions.

Cereal magazine. A beautiful magical place where travel, lifestyle, photography editorial work and minimalism meet and hang out. Reading this magazine is like eating a decadently rich chocolate truffle. I literally want to eat the pages. But then again no because one issue costs $20NZ and that is far too expensive to be chewing on any of the waxed Bristol-born pages. Elegantly written, cleanly designed and stunningly photographed I’m yet to find a fault with this quarterly travel bible. If this doesn’t make you want to find the cheapest flights to places like London, Sweden, Sicily or Charleston I don’t know what will. So prepare yourself for strong feelings to visit places that you have never heard of and can barely pronounce as well as a desire to throw out all your belongings and live in a white empty room. 

What has brought on this particular obsession? Recently I had a much overdue but very simple epiphany of the importance of being inspired. How is one expected to ever pursue their dreams or live a life they love if they don’t actively spend time surrounding themselves with things they find of great value? Immersing and enriching your life with influences that you are passionate about is often overlooked and forgotten. Constantly in school, university or work we are given books to read, media to watch and art to appreciate, but how often do we take time to spend time around beautiful and insightful things? How often do we take a moment to look at something because it is pleasing, or read about something because it is inspiring? 

So take that time. Indulge in something beautiful. Buy a magazine because its well designed, or write a list of quotes that make you feel inspired. Eat your favorite food or finally get around to reading that book about that thing that you want to know about. Just take the time.

Have a beautiful week everybody xx

Silo Park Markets

Life can be a little crazy sometimes. One day you’re lying in the January sun, soaking up the last of the summer holidays with a weekly schedule that consist of “tan…read…eat…repeat”, the next, 8 weeks of school have passed and you’re driving into school at 7am on a Monday morning with a to do list that has become decidedly less thrilling. Whether its school, university or work it’s easy to become overwhelmed with the to do’s, a list of tasks which supernaturally manages to never shrink no matter how hard you work. By the time you survived to Friday your #TGIF celebration is often dampened by the fact that your ‘crazy weekend’ will probably consist of going between watching procrastinatively and work.

To be honest I had been feeling pretty shit this Friday, un-productive day, plans cancelled last minute and the idea of a free weekend slowly disappearing under a mound of design and photography work. Taking a few hours off get my ass to the gym (my membership was growing cobwebs) then visiting a Silo Park markets in town was the last thing on my mind, yet ended up being just the thing to get me out of my funk. After getting on a sweat at Les Mills, my beautiful mother and I drove to Wynyard and after a couple minutes of scoping out the carpark, managed to steal a park.

I forgot how important it is to take a break every now and then, put life on hold and surround yourself with good music, delicious food, happy vibes and interesting people.

With over 20 food stalls/trucks, an outside movie showing, cute little clothing stalls, fresh air and crowds of people ambling around, Silo park is definitely the place to slow down, grab a seat and indulge in some cheap eats and good old-fashioned people watching.

mmmmm Balsamic and Onion Soft Pretzels 

$12 Beetroot Burger courtesy of The FoodTruck 

A Super Photogenic Very-Berry Natural Fruit Ice-cream 

So get out of your weekend sweat-pants (we all have a pair), step away from the work desk and get out into the big wide world for a few hours. It'll be fun, promise.