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10 Major Health Changes I've Made Which Drastically Improved My Life

First of all, I need to apologise to my body for not taking good care of it during my university years after leaving home. I was probably one of the bad ones; from eating bad, to drinking too often, to...

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Getting Personal At The O2 With J. Cole

It has been three days since I saw J. Cole live and it is still taking some time to sink in!I never expected to see my favourite artist in real life but I was lucky enough to catch his Forest Hills...

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Eurovision, Courgette Cake Recipe, & Canary Wharf

Over the bank holiday weekend my friend Lisa and I went to our friend Pravin's new apartment which he recently settled, just around the corner from Canary Wharf with a great view over looking the area....

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Inspiring Company

You become like the 5 people you spend the most time with.This is true; and I feel like more so as we get older. As we mature, the type of time we spend with friends change. Instead of seeing each...

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8 InDesign Tips That Will Save Your Time & Print Jobs

IMG via erinlancasterDespite having used InDesign so much in the last 5 years that sometimes when I close I eyes I see the canvas, and sometimes want to press Ctrl+Z in real life to undo something, I'm...

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New Collab: Les Femmes Collectives

Two of my closest friends J & A; smart, motivated, career driven (so driven one has been taken all over the world on business class at 22 for work, and the other, billboard girl at AUT) and ones I...

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INSPIRED: Super Foods Volume 2

As a trilogy to my 10 Major Health Changes & Korean Skincare post, I have some additional findings to add!Please don't ask why I am currently (and maybe from now) obsessed and interested in the...

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Men With Ideas: Simpleton & Re-fold

One year after graduation and the diversion begins to grow between graduates on their respective design pursuits. I have utter respect and envy towards two groups of guys especially, who I graduated...

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Special Edition 'Inspiration Finder' Print

I have always dreamt of turning 24, ever since I was young. I'm unsure why this is, maybe the number is pretty! So as a designer as I turn 24 this September, I thought I would create something special,...

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The Grill & Glow Diet

IMG via honestlyyum.comIt's barely a diet, but I literally just came up with the title as I wrote this post. It's a very simple diet inspired by my flatmate (who is currently suffering through Ramadan)...

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10 Most Inspiring Brands & Designers

From editorial to art direction, menswear, illustration and photography, here is a list of my 10 personal favourites that have lightly or heavily influenced and inspired my creative directions for the...

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GLOSSIER & Glycerin

Two things I have been loving lately is US skincare brand Glossier, and the sugar alcohol ingredient, Glycerin. The two go hand in hand though, as it was Glossier talking about their brand's skin focal...

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The Influence of Strangers While One Travels Solo

For people who have experienced the hostel life, or a working holiday life, they will know what it’s like to make, meet and have new friends on a daily basis with who you’re sharing a room with for the...

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10 Things to Know and Love about Paris

Paris is and was many things to many people, and especially to me in terms of creative inspiration! The city really is as magic and charming as everyone makes it out to be, and here are some things I...

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How Commitment Shapes Your Life

'Nothing shapes your life more than the commitments you chose to make. Your commitments can develop you or they can destroy you. Either way, they will define you.'What commitments do you chose to...

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JULY reads: Mentors & Inspiration

I am a firm believer that reading about success breeds it, or it is the beginning of the road anyway.Two books of the moment which I recommend: From Failure to Fearless, and Getting There: A Book of...

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NEW SS16 Prints - A Reflection Of The Last Season

'It's all about the hustle' - an inspirational print for an even harder worker year to come.Hustle is a print I've created to reflect our 20's, a decade in which I along with many of my acquaintances...

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On Wanderlust

Painting by Federico Saenz RecioSo at the end of 23, and the end of my year abroad and away from real life, I have found some pretty wonderful things in life. Things that make me see normal things...

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My First Boss, Mentor, and Inspiration

On the week of my graduation ceremony at the end of my undergrad studies, I did not know that my work would attract and be spotted by an ex Art Director of Saatchi and Saatchi.Mr Belt felt strongly...

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Meeting New York

I am forever glad and grateful that I chose Europe, chose London for my OE; the harvest I reaped from that is irreplaceable and extremely valuable to me this lifetime. However, after returning for just...

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Mayors of London and New York Say Fashion Means Business

via Business of FashionSnapshots from NYFW As fashion month began in New York this week, the CFDA and the BFC pulled in political heavyweights Bill de Blasio, mayor of New York, and Boris Johnson,...

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A List of Spring Inspiration

Here are a few things that have inspired me greatly this Spring:2016 Fashion WeekHeath Ledgers death & his acting process during The Dark Knight (see his diary he kept here)Graphic Design for...

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Museum of Four in the Morning

A memorable and light-hearted TED talk, and one of my favourites! By Rives. Visit the museum here, you can watch his talk below:

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In Vogue: The Editor's Eye

"Fashion to me is a reflection of culture and of the world now. A fashion editor senses what is going on around the world and translates that into a fashion story.""(A fashion editorial) attempts to...

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The China Edit: Alibaba Singles' Day Record

I am unsure how being single has to do with shopping, I guess being reminded of it on China's popular un-valentine's day of 11:11 (November 11th) makes peope want to shop their misery away.via Business...

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For the Dreamers, Wanderers, & Lovers

"I am one of those searchers. There are, I believe, millions of us. We are not unhappy, but neither are we completely content. We continue to explore ourselves, hoping to understand. We like to walk...

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Happy 2016

Top of the Cable Car, Wellington. January 2016.Life is about happiness, dreams, passion & creativity. And most of all, endless fireworks and shooting stars ❤ happy Twenty Sixteen and may your year...

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Why Traveling Matters

Traveling matter because it's hard to evolve when your surroundings never change and if you are looking to become a better human, you have to lose yourself in new surroundings in order to find another...

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Things One Does at 24

Coming home and being surrounded by a mass bunch of my early 20's friends, here are the things myself and others around me are doing, at twenty four.Falling in love, falling out of love, making plans,...

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On Inspiration

via Pinterest.When I went to Paris, I experienced my first ever hit, or jolt, of inspiration. This is a thing, which I have been reading about in 'Big Magic' and when experienced (if lucky), one feels...

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For the Girls with Wildfires in their Hearts

I never imagined myself to be one with a heart so hungry to see the world, to be inspired, get lost out there and crave difference, newness, and the adrenaline of a completely unrecognisable place,...

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The One

This isn't a post about meeting a very special guy, but one dedicated to the one man up above. Something about walking into Chapter Four of my 'new beginning' back in Wellington, I felt God just say,...

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Fashion & 2016

Studying fashion in 2016 was a dream come true for me. I've always been interested and dreamt of being a fashion designer and after being exposed to so much art, fashion and architecture in Europe, I...

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Wellington, The City of Romance

I'm a romantic, for sure. The typical girl who loves surprises, romantic gifts and dates, flowers etc. (even asking her boyfriends to buy her flowers!) That being said, I fell in love with Paris when I...

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A Sure Thing

I'm in a great environment right now where I am surrounded by so many amazing people on fire, and in love with God. Influencing and contagious, yet I am on my own personal journey of growth and...

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My Love for People

I have always been an extrovert, a typical ENFP. When I was a child, I used to go with my dad to dinners and gatherings with his colleagues and friends. We would go to karaoke, and they all called me...

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Not A Fan 

"Most of us don’t mind Jesus making some minor change in our lives but Jesus wants to turn our lives upside down. Fans don’t mind him doing a little touch-up work, but Jesus wants to complete...

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A Dreamer, An Artist, A Creative

What a great time it is when one still has the ability and heart to dream. They say that most people die inside by 25, yet I feel like I am just starting to live!As the end of my Fashion Diploma draws...

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The Waiting Room

So often in life, we pass through mediocre, still and silent periods. Times when we are leaving one island or chapter in life, and moving forwards onto the next. But I have found that it is during...

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少女时代 // 25 Things About Turning 25

Only in the beginning of this year I was writing about all the things I was doing at 24, but suddenly I'm 25, and life is definitely a whole lot different, in a good way. I used to be so afraid of...

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Love Letters

My journey of falling in love with GOD this year has been beautiful. In many ways, like a painting, a love story.I always feel that as a girl/female who develops a relationship with God, it is...

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Experience Desire

Perhaps growing up in the YOLO/FOMO generation, I am a typical young person who has a fear of missing out. Fear or no fear, I can say I am someone who loves, desires, and craves experience, in most...

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City of Dreams // New Beginnings

A week ago I had put my foot down to leave Wellington, for good. After the earthquake, my family wanted to move to Australia, and especially with my mum being so dead worried for my safety and future...

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Everything Moves With You

This year, I have experienced the revelation of how quickly things can change, and how quickly a person can change. In my spiritual perspective, I see it in the way that how God changes people, does...

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Eccentric Influences of an Artist

Recently, I renovated my bathroom. Not going to lie, but with all the silverware, art, roses, marble bench and perfume, the dingy, dark bathroom I moved into at the beginning of the year now looks like...

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Hey! Content Marketing is the New Age

So my Christmas break has been spent sleeping 12 hours per night, plus an addition 2 hour nap daily, painting portraits till midnight, getting into my gym routine and lifting a lot of weights.. not...

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Bullet Journalling Might Change Your Life

IMG via The Wall Street Journal Starting my 2017 with Bullet Journalling is making quite an impact. It's only been 10 days, and I feel the semi ADD, OCD, and creative thoughts racing inner me is...

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With 500 Million Active Daily Users, Why Isn't Your Business On Instagram?...

According to recent statistics, 500 million users engage on Instagram daily. 80% of users are from outside the United States and 95 million images and videos are uploaded every day! That's a huge...

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Explosive 2017

This is a breakthrough year.As I find myself constantly being burnt through the furnace and pushed to my limits of pressure, I come out of every trial, shinier.I truly feel one of my favorite song...

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The 4 Colors of Successful Branding & Marketing

Green Brain, Blue Oceans, The Purple Cow, and the Red Lovemark. Most people in the design, marketing, or sales industry would have heard a few of these. What do they mean? And how can you condense...

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