Art Deco

You may remember the post last year re Art Deco weekend, see here.

Well, we did it all again this year. We all dressed up in our Art Deco inspired clothing, loaded the vehicles with chairs; our finest china and silver, bunting, beautiful table cloths, yummy food and a marquee to set it up in and off we went!

It was a beautiful, (windy) Hawkes Bay day. We were very happy to have shelter from the intense summers sun!

We got ourselves an amazing spot on the seas edge, right out from the main festivities and right in the middle of the foot traffic. It was awesome! We felt like celebrities as we were constantly having our photos taken! We even made it in the paper! We loved it ;p

Here are some of our fav photos from the day.

If you wanna know more about Art Deco Weekend, go here.

Much love

Kate and Mim

Art Deco Sneak Peek

We just got back from art deco & had a blast! Heres a sneak peek from our awesome day. 

More pics to come

love kate and mim

Just saying hi

Just popping on to say hi and hope everyone on this side of the world is enjoying the heat!!!! Got up to 32 yesterday here in Waipukurau (which is 89.6 fahrenheit for all of you over the other side of the world).

This photo is one from a wedding Kate and I went to a couple of weeks back.

Its Art Deco this weekend whoop whoop!!!! We can't wait and have been busy getting outfits sorted and creating accessories. We went last year and had a blast, so we are really looking forward to it again.

We will make sure we take lots of pics and pop them up for you all to enjoy.

Does anyone else do the art deco thing? We would love to hear about it.

Arohanui Mim

Art Deco Summer

So for this year Tamas birthday fell on Art Deco day. For those of you not in New Zealand i will explain a little bit about the day. In 1931 New Zealand suffered it's biggest earthquake (since christchurch that may have changed?) centered in the Hawkes Bay, Napier. 256 people were killed and nearlly all the buildings in the central city of Hastings and Napier were destroyed. A massive rebuild began and due to the style of the time, art deco, Napier boasts the mosts art deco building in the world!!!

Many people travel to Napier from all over the world to visit this historic city.

Each year Napier holds art deco weekend. Remembering the tradegy the earthquake brought, and celebrates the rebuild of this beautfiul city.

Thousands of people gather for the weekend and everyone dresses up and has the best time ever. Marching bands old style music and dancing, cars, planes, steam engines, and of course the clothes.

So a group of us headed up for lunch, dressed in style and joined the crowds.

My family, thanks my charming nearlly 16 year old :) 

It was such a great day and we will do it all again next year, woohoo!!!