From our house to yours, Happy New Year! Love from the Drakes (minus our girls who are staying at their Nana & Poppa's for the night!!). ...










It's amazing what fun a simple thing like a clipboard can bring to a space in your home. With our recent Kitchen Renovation, Symon surprised me by adding a few little additions he knew I'd love while I wasn't around - one of these was a simple (and cheap) clipboard on a hook above my kitchen bench. A great idea to...


































At the end of each year I love to look back at what has happened, what has been created, the adventures we've been on and the memories that have been made. It's amazing how you can forget the good stuff - being thankful is so important! Here's a quick look back at some of my favourite moments and creations of 2013... Meeting up...





Yes, it was a good day today to take a road trip. After a night filled with heavy rain that somehow splattered rain drops all over my wooden kitchen bench in the night (eeek), a sunny morning with blue skies gave us the green light to grab the moment and take the kids up north. We ventured up to Opua and crossed over...




















Quite a few months ago we started renovating one of our final rooms to our house - the kitchen. Our house is an old bungalow which has needed a lot of loving to restore (including a lot of time, money and sweat as well!). Let's just say that the kitchen was very small, and really horrible. When we moved in there was hardly...