spring/summer 16

hello there, i hope your day has been lovely so far! today i am going to show you some of my favourite outfits at the moment for spring/summer this year, i am so excited for summer, i finish school in 2 weeks and i've got camp this week!

top // brandy melville
shorts // glassons

top // huffer
shorts // h&m
sunglasses // h&m


have a great week, love from avery huia x

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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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Fiji

Hello there, I hope you've had a lovely day so far!

Finally I have finished my long awaited Fiji video! I filmed it all on my GoPro Hero+LCD and I used iMovie to edit it, I hope you enjoy it, I had the best time away, it was so much fun and I saw so many amazing things.

             


I hope you enjoyed,
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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Favourite Outfit- Avery Huia

hellooooooo!

I hope you are always having a good day! today I have a post for you about one of my favourite outfits at the moment.

I am SO excited for winter, it is my favourite season ever, and one of the main reasons why is because of the fashion! I love the colours, styles and pieces in winter, and it makes me so happy, layering and being all warm!

The outfit that I have for you today is one that I really like wearing, and is perfect for winter, when it is cold or raining or windy.

When I was shooting this, it started to rain, so we got an umbrella and I really love the way that it turned out, I think it looks really cool and you will definitely be seeing more of this! 

+ jumper = topshop

+ jacket = just jeans

+ jeans = one teaspoon

+ shoes = adidas 

+ umbrella = blunt

+ sunglasses = cotton on

I hope you all like this outfit, it is one that I will definitely be getting lots of wear out of this winter! 

Have a lovely week! 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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The Leibster Award - Avery Huia

hello everyone, oh how I've missed blogging! I have lots of posts planned, and I can't wait to get them up for you! I have had writer's block over the last few weeks, but now I have my inspiration back yay! 

I was nominated for the Leibster Award by Nabeela/Miss Artsy Crafty, definitely go and check her blog out, it's amazing! The award has been made to connect other bloggers, and is given to one by another. I think that it is a really cool award and I am so glad that I have been nominated! 

If you are nominated, you need to 

+ thank the person who nominated you, and link to their blog

+ copy and paste the Leibster Award image above, and put it in your own post

+ nominate 10 new bloggers

+ answer the 10 questions that the person who nominated you asked

+ create 10 new questions to ask the people you nominate 

+ notify all of the people who you nominated by commenting on their blog, or through social media! 

Nabeela's Questions 

1 - Why did you start a blog/

I started this blog about a year and a half ago, and I remember coming home from dance one evening, and deciding that I was going to make a blog, having no clue about how to do it, and with no awareness of how large the blogging community actually is! 

2 - Modern Minimalistic or Colourful Clutter

This is so hard! I think I would have to choose modern minimalistic, because I love the styles and the different types of and it goes with so many different things, although I love colour so much, I couldn't live without 

3 - What quote inspires you and fires you up?

I love this quote so much, I think that it is really inspirational and motivational, and the typography is really pretty! I have this image printed out and put up on my wire mood board, I really like it!

4 - What do you do as a creative hobby? 

I blog, I re-arrange my room, sometimes I try drawing things and using watercolours, like the first image in this post, I go on Pinterest, I sometimes make diys, or I go shopping for inspiration! 

5 - If you had 10,000 of your country's currency, what would you do with it?

I would put half of it away to save for things like travelling or developing my blog, and I would spend some; I wouldn't be able to help myself with winter coming up, it is my favourite season, especially fashion wise!! 

6 - What colour makes your heart sing? 

I know it isn't one colour, but I love the colours in this; it is a free desktop wallpaper from Design Love Fest, and it is currently my wallpaper! I love the blues and pinks and the print is so pretty!

7 - Iced Coffee, or Iced Tea?

Definitely iced tea, I am not a coffee drinker at all, and I don't drink tea too often either, but I'd really like to become a tea person, there are so many cool flavours that you can get! 

8 - Dream Job?

I don't know exactly what, but definitely something to do with design, blogging, styling or fashion! I am for sure a creative, and I will carrying on doing things like this for a very long time! 

9 - Doughnuts or Ice Cream?

100% ice cream! I am not a doughnut person for some reason, I just don't like them, although you can get very cute looking ones. I love ice cream so much, my favourite flavour is feijoa gelato! 

10 - Favourite Blog?

Ahh this is so hard, I can't choose one! I have been following Chloe since the very early days of Avery Huia, but I have met lots of bloggers and found new blogs recently! I love Nabeela's blog (Miss Artsy Crafty), and Chessie's (Freshly Pickked)! 

The blogs that I nominate are - 

+ Chloe 

+ Freshly Pickked

+ The Blank Diary

+ Cloud Mind Blog

+ Picking the Petals 

+ Eye on Isla

+ Just A Bit Beachy

+ Stayzsha 

+ Milky Way Blog 

+ Miss Bella Blog 

My 10 Questions are - 

1 - What do you do to find your inspiration?

2 - What is your favourite season?

3 - If you could travel to anywhere in the world where would you go?

4 - How long have you been blogging?

5 - Sweet or Savoury food?

6 - Favourite quote?

7 - If you had to live without one, which would you choose, Pinterest or Instagram?

8 - Favourite time of the day? 

9 - Latest purchase?

10 - One thing you have learnt from blogging? 

I'm so glad to have been nominated, this is so exciting and is a really good way to connect with other bloggers and grow your own! 

love from 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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stationery flatlays - Avery Huia

hellooooo!

I hope you are all having a lovely weekend!

Recently, I have been obsessing over stationery, with endless amounts of stops in Kikki. K, Typo and other gorgeous stationery stores. I bought a 2016 diary from Kikki. K and I love it so much and it is really helping me stay organised! My mum has a homewares store, and has recently ordered some amazing new notebooks and diaries in, and I couldn't resist taking photos of how gorgeous they look!

I have taken 3 flatlays with different stationery items, I hope you enjoy and set your eyes on some stunning new things, that would be perfect as a gift but great to use on your own.

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+ 'A' notebook = Kikki. K

+ white washi tape = mt 

+ hexagonal peg holder = crave home 

+ coloured pencils = paper scissors rock

+ marble notebook - me & my trend

+ scissors = crave home

+ book covers = here

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+ 'A' notebook = Kikki. K

+ palm printed notebooks and pocket planner on right side = the arty hearts/crave home

+ book covers = here

+ washi tape = mt

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+ marble notebook = me & my trend

+ pencils = whitcoulls

+ scissors = crave home

+ pink notebook = frank stationery/crave home

+ book cover - here

I hope you enjoyed seeing how pretty everything is! I haven't done much flatlays before but i really liked doing these ones so I will definitely be doing more! 

love from avery huia x 

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