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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my new look - avery huia

helloooo, and surprise!

Incase you haven't noticed, I have a new blog banner, made with help from the lovely Rose, from Logic Design. I have twelve new headers, one new colour for each month! Rose has done such an amazing job, and everything has come out amazingly, and so unique. She also helped me put together some stunning business cards, I love these so much, they are so pretty!

I have also changed my title to 'Avery Huia' instead of 'Avery Huia's Blog', I thought it was a little more straightforward and less of a mouthful! My address, email and social media accounts will still remain averyhuiasblog though.

below is an image of January's header which is transparent, for a fresh new start!

here are the images of my business card,
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The process was fun & easy from my point of view, but it took it's time, and Rose worked really hard to make it perfect! We started by sharing the ideas in my head with Rose, and making a moodboard of colours, fonts and inspiration. After that, Rose had created a initial look, and I then found things that I liked and wanted to keep, and then things that I wanted to change, and she kept adjusting them until we had the final products!

The whole thing started in August, and is now finished, so it took a total of four months. I would highly recommend Rose, she did such a great job, and the images that I had in my head came out into the final product exactly, without us two talking, only emailing back and forth!

I hope you enjoy seeing what colours are for each months! I have tried to put the colours to months as the seasons are, so light and bright from summery, and slightly darker toned ones for winter! I have green for December, as it is a Christmas colour, and very summery!


lots of love, from avery huia x

instagram - @averyhuiasblog

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diy mood board! - Avery Huia

helloooo there!

for today's diy post, I found the inspiration to do moodboard from instagram, which I am constantly finding amazing photos and projects on! it's pretty straight forward, but I thought that it would be fun for you to see the pictures and things that I used and I hope you get some inspiration from my one! I am so happy with how it turned out and when I look at it I get lots of ideas, from styling my room to colour schemes and fashion!

you will need:

+ frame (a4 or smaller)

+ scissors 

+ washi tape 

+ glue stick

+ magazines

+ 1 sheet pf a4 paper

start by leafing through the magazines and choosing a colour scheme or theme, and find pages and pictures which you think will match and go together. I chose a bright and colourful theme, with lots of different shades, but I still made sure that they all flowed.

with the backing of your frame, cut the a4 piece of paper to fit it if you need to. once you have found your photos and have cut them all out, place them on the piece of paper and arrange them until you have found a layout that suits you, making sure you have covered the white paper entirely. don't be afraid to overlap pictures and crop parts out of them to make room for other cut outs. 

once you have your perfect arrangement, remember to take a picture of it so you remember how it looks before you glue it all on! after I glued everything on, I added some washi tape on top of the pictures to make them look like they have been stuck on, and I thought that it gave a really cool pop of colour, and added texture to the mood board! 

here is my finished project! I am so happy with how it turned out, and it really gave my room a pop of colour and makes me feel good! I put some room decor and styling, some pillows and blankets, Emma Stone and Taylor Swift, some bold words, and A, H and a B, for Avery Huia's Blog, and some other pictures that I thought were really cool and pretty!

lots of love - avery huia x

email - averyhuiasblog@gmail.com

instagram - @averyhuiasblog

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