meet max

hello, I hope you have had a lovely day so far! yesterday, my family got a new dog! he is 8 weeks old and a lhasa apso crossed with a shitzu. we have called him max and he is the cutest thing! he's black and white with patches over his eyes. I thought that as a quick little post i could share some photos of him. he loves playing on the grass and he's so cheeky and adorable. i hope you enjoy the photos! 

jumper - olivia  

love from avery huia x

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Hawaii Photography - Avery Huia

Alohaaaaaaaaa!

Over the last two weeks, I have been in Hawaii, and I have a photography post for you all! It was so pretty there, and there were so many good photo opportunities. I have some GoPro photos that I have taken as well, I hope you enjoy!

We stayed in Waikiki, so I've got photos from Waikiki Beach, Honolulu and some from the coast of O'ahu from our drive up to North Shore of the island. Hawaii was amazing and one of my favourite places ever!

My photos are mostly taken on my phone (iPhone 6), and there are a few from my GoPro, as mentioned before. The effects that I have used on them is A6, with the saturation up 2 or 3, on VSCO Cam. Enjoy!

above // Waikiki Beach



above // GoPro photos at the beach 

above // other photos including the henna I got done (bottom photo), the Pearl Harbour Memorial (second photo from top), palm trees, surfboards and a boardwalk

above // GoPro photos from our drive up to the North Shore on O'ahu

I hope you all enjoyed this post, I had such a good time in Hawaii and I will hopefully return in the future!

P.S. I am SO sorry for my absence recently, I have been unbelievably busy with school and dance and I have had absolutely no time on my hands recently, but now I am finished with a few things, I have a LOT more time for blogging. You will definitely be seeing a lot more of me on here & Instagram, I have lots of ideas inside my head and I can't wait to get them onto the blog! I've missed blogging so much and I am so happy that I have now got more time to do it!

love from avery huia x

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Happiness @ Kikki. K - Avery Huia

helloooooo!

I hope you are all enjoying your day! Today's post is going to be about a Happiness Workshop that my friend and I attended at Kikki. K a few nights ago! We found out about it through the diary lovers club that they have if you own one of their diaries, and we were really excited to go! 

Kikki. K do lots of amazing workshops that cover a range of topics, like Happiness, Planning and DIY, to name a few! I really enjoyed going to it, and I will definitely be doing another one!

About 8 girls attended, and everyone received a Happiness Journal and a pen, which was part of the cost of the workshop. We worked through most pages in the journal, made lists and came up with ways that we could increase our happiness levels in our everyday lives! 

We talked about things that make us happy, as well as unhappy, and came up with ways that you can avoid being unhappy, and things to make you even happier. We had a really lovely host, and she showed us ways that she expresses her happiness, and things that she does to make her happy, using other books from the store, or making gorgeous mood boards and memory boards. 

The next day, my friend and I made a moodboard of our own in a page inside the journal, (photo below) and it was so much fun, and just looking at it makes me feel so happy. We learnt that happiness wasn't just a feeling, but a state, which made you feel like you were flourishing and growing constantly. There were some really great quotes and facts about happiness as well, one that stuck out to me was 'You can never have too much happy". Quotes like this are dotted all throughout the journal, and are all so cute!

After the workshop was over, we received a 10% off discount, and because I am a student, I got a further 10% off, so I had to go for it! The store is styled so beautifully, it is hard not to stay in there for hours, and even harder to decide what to buy, there are so many cute things!

I ended up buying a set of 12 pens, which we used to write with and I loved, some decoration tape with pretty clouds on it, and a book that I'm really excited about, which is called 'Go offline, be mindful' and I can't wait to use it; it has 135 activities that are all offline, and comes with a 30 day offline challenge, which I will start in May! 

    (my happiness moodboard) 

I had such a good time, they made it a really good experience, and I took a lot away from it! I will definitely be returning, and I highly recommend it!

lots of love, avery huia x

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room tour! - Avery Huia

hellooooo!

I hope you are having a lovely day/evening! I am so sorry about the lack of posts recently, I have been sick, and was off school for a week and I have had lots of school work and after school activities as well, but now I have a post that lots of you have asked me for - room tour yay!

I've been wanting to post an updated room tour for a while now, I've had quite a few changes in my room since my last room tour post. The main colours in my room are light blue, black and white. My room has lots of geometric features in it too, like my duvet, curtains and wardrobe door! I hope you enjoy this post and get some inspiration for your room!

Here is part of my desk and bed area, I love this part of my room and I have recently redone my desk area and I've added a grid hanging mood board which I have decorated with lots of polaroids and  pretty photos and quotes. 

this is above my wire mood board, and it is a hanging shelf which I store things on in pretty storage things like the grid boxes and copper bags. I keep my pens and pencils in the containers on the top shelf, and I keep them organised in hot and cold colours.  I got the boxes from K-mart and the copper bags from The Warehouse. 

this is by my bed looking over to my desk, as I said before, this is my favourite part of my room! my bed linen and the pillow in the middle are from freedom, the big pillows at the back are ones that my mum made, and she also made the small one at the front!

This is my bedside area, and I keep my moodpboard that I made in a previous DIY (here) , my artificial plant, my light from Kmart, and my highlight of the day book from Kikki.K! I really love this book, I think it is really beneficial and it is so much fun looking back on the days of the past few years! It is over a three year span and I have been doing it for just over a year!

this is opposite my bed, and these are my shelves from Kmart. I love them so much because they are really easy to move and they look so cool! I keep my books, polaroid, plants and lots of decorative things on them, and on top is a moodboard that my mum made. 

this is another shot of what is opposite of my bed, and next to the shelves are my drawers and on the top I keep a plant of whatever is growing in my garden, some photos and a storage thing with a candle on top.  Above on the wall are some photos and my plants are friends DIY and the star from my christmas decoration post!

I hope you enjoyed this and got some inspiration from it, if you have any questions about where I got anything, please feel free to add a comment, and I'll get back to you as soon as I can! 

love from avery huia x

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