♥ Lililly

Saturday, February 26, 2011

Christchurch - ways you can help

Lots of people have been asking how they can help out, so here you go, here is a list. If you can give, even if it is just a small amount - please do.

Cash donations:
Donate to the Rangiora Earthquake Express - they are getting as much help as they can to Christchurch residents by chopper. Go here to their fund raising page or here to see their website.

A Mayoral fund has been set up for donations to the citizens of Christchurch using the following BNZ bank account: 02-0800-084958-000.

Donate to the Red Cross or alternatively text a message of hope to 4419 to donate $3 (text works with all mobile network providers in NZ.

Donate to the Salvation Army.

Dontate to the Canterbury SPCA via this form right here.

To help all of the pets and animals affected by the earthquake you can text 'FOOD' to 4662 to donate $3 to the Paw Justice animal food bank.

Volunteers:
The University of Canterbury Students Association is inviting people to join the student volunteer army once again (they are freaking awesome!).
Volunteers should arrive at the UCSA car park on Ilam Road between 9am and 10am and bring shovels, wheelbarrows, gloves, raincoats, sunblock, drink bottles. Find out more about the StudentVolunteerArmy on Facebook.

Phones:
Telecom is collecting corded phones to distribute to those who need them. The phones can be dropped in to any Telecom store during retail opening hours.

Accommodation:
If you have a spare room and can host Christchurch residents traveling to Auckland to escape the disaster for a while you can call 0800 AUCKLAND to register for billeting. The service will match your facilities with a deserving Cantabrian. Welcoming someone to your home is a very human way to help.

Wellingtonians who can offer accommodation to displaced ChCh peeps by calling 04 801 4205 or emailing CD.Welfare@wcc.govt.nz with details.

Habitat for Humanity is appealing people in Canterbury with space to place listings on www.shelter.org.nz.
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If you have other ways you can help, please add them in the comment section below and please please pass this on to others.

xoxo to all our friends and family in Christchurch right now.

Week 8

BYS - 'Bottle Blonde'

I wanted to love this colour. I really really really truly did. Yellow tends to always make me happy and I had high hopes for this one. The application was so so, I dunno if it wa sa slightly different formula to the other BYS colours I've used so far, if my nails are jsut becoming too crap after repeated coatings of crap or whether I was just doing a crap job that day but it didnt seem as easy as previous times.

The colour really needed at least 2 coats to even really look like the lovely yellow the bottle promises, 3-4 would of been better. It also kinda had a bit of sparkle to it which I'm not sure I like and I think I prefer it now, after 6 days of wear and tear, chipped t buggery because the sparkle is less noticeable. The lady from the shop next door said it kinda reminded her of Karitane yellow, which is not really a compliment as 'karitane yellow' is the colour of poop from formula fed babies.

At least, I can't imagine that being a compliment.

Maybe being teamed with a purple or orangy red would set it off well.

All in all, 3/5 stars.

Sunday, February 20, 2011

week 7

So behind..
This was last weeks colour - OPI's 'Yoga-ta get this blue'. (erggh.)

I gotta say - I was kinda impressed at how easy the OPI stuff went on. One to two strokes each nail and it was perfect. On top of that it dried super fast so I didn't screw it up and have to redo it like I have in previous weeks. It looked good after one coat but I ended up putting another one on just to really darken it up as I was wanting a really moody deep dark colour.

Needless to say, I might of been feeling a bit emo.

It chipped off a bit on two nails on the first day of work. However it was a particularly hard day so thats fairly forgivable. It lasted alright during the week but I wouldn't say it was the top contender for staying power.

Also - points off for the crap name - 3.5/5.

Previous weeks...

Saturday, February 19, 2011

♥ list

There is just something about these fabric colours and patterns I love.

I want to put something like awesome Nesting Birds Tree Decal
in ZJ's (soon to be ZJ's AND Evie's) bedroom.

Harvest garland by Jaime Mancilla

Love this very cute hanging owl plush from CarrotFever on Etsy!

This is a fantastic idea. Want want!

Vintage Owl Grey Green Teal Playful Magnetic Board.

Friday, February 18, 2011

Beautiful girl

She always catches me with one of her big smiles at just the right time.

Yesterday this beautiful loved up couple came into the library, looking fresh yet like they just rolled out of bed after having sex all day. They had that look about them.. you know? Like they had just gotten dressed so they can get some coffee and supplies and had nothing planned except perhaps watching a movie or two, reading a bit before having an uninterrupted meal and going to bed again.
'You want a dvd or something to read baby?' he had said as he passed the desk. They wandered around the library, hand in hand, pointing out books on crafting and the new best sellers. 'I hate you' I grumbled under my breath.

I never get to read, and if I do its usually when i should be doing something else and I'm racked with guilt. I never get to stroll through anywhere hand in hand with my love, since one of us is generally chasing after a toddler dead set on destruction and the other is holding a baby who probably just puked all over her self.

I was thinking about those two this morning, mumbling to myself as I rolled out of bed at 6am for the 8th time since going to 'sleep' (ha!) at 11pm the night before. Evie had thought 10pm was a good time to play and be AWAKE! ...and also 1am, 2:30ish am, between 4-5am and now at 6am she was back at it, squee-ing and bouncing around in her cot. 6am, by all means was a sleep in for us, but I could help but think those two arty gorgeous creatures who didn't look tired AT ALL were probably cuddled up happily in slumber-land.

But then she smiled up at me as I look down into her cot, shes always such a happy baby and always in a good mood. It contagious, it makes everything ok again.

I think about when I feed her a bottle, its so special considering I hardly get a chance to do it. I love the night time bottle the most when I can hear the chaos outside and ZJ banging some toy against the coffee table. But we are sitting in the dark and cool. I have her in my arms and she looks up at me and catches me looking, she will smile and her eyes do this light up thing which makes my heart skip. Her little tiny fingers will curl around my finger and everything seems right, and in its place and that the 5am wakeup calls, the misery of working my arse off... its all worth it.

One of her smiles fixes everything.

Monday, February 14, 2011

Week 6

Thought I repost this with the review of this nail polish I figured I would write but never got round to it. I mean, if I'm going to wear 52 different nail polishes this year I might as well talk about them right?

Smurf blood blue. Thats not actually what it was called -Avon would never call it something like that. Could you imagine the Avon lady trying to sell that?
It should of been though, it was the perfect mushed up smurf colour. I loved it! I'm not entirely sold that blue hues suit my skin colouring, or the hordes of bright pink clothes I seem to have (?? Where did these come from?) bt I still enjoyed it for the week.

It went on ok. I seemed to screw up the first try though. For some reason this always happens to me and I end up taking it off and redoing it. seeming t strip my nails with nail polish remover makes the next load go on better? I don't know.
It was a bit thin and because its fairly fast drying you have to have your wits about you while doing it (i.e not doing it on your cofee table at 10pm when you are meant to be in bed because you have been up since 4 and have had 5904375943 coffees). I got good comments about it though sot he second coat I put on must of hid the crappy application/streakiness.

I was mildly surprised at its staying on power too. I'm as librarian so I'm constantly bumping my nails against books and desks as I check in, shelve and whatnot, so nail polishes (especially considering I never use any sort of top coat, i don't have time for that sort of carry on) has to be pretty good to last more than a day without chipping, and this lasted about 3 days before I saw a real noticeable chunk missing - so it gets ticks for that (honestly, my life is brutal on my nails).

Avon Nailwear Pro in Misty Blue - 3/5 stars.