Brooke you make me feel happy x

Brooke Frasers new album "Flags" comes out Next month, she is so fun. This song makes me want to dance around my house!

I officially love cookies

I am one of those people who goes through obsessive phases of things, mostly food, some phases are longer than others, years even. I also sometimes find it hard to stop once i've started, once or twice i have eaten an entire tray of these cookies by myself, before Brandon got home from work (then he doesn't have to know i made any in the first place). This recipe has evolved over the last few months and transformed into the healthiest version of a peanut butter chocolate chip cookie you can probably imagine, this in part is how i justify having so many. Here is my recipe:

1/2 cup brown sugar (i use organic raw sugar, the closer to the original form of sugar cane the better)

1 egg

180g butter

1 cup flour (i've been using buckwheat, millet, stoneground white, or a combination of these)

80g dark chocolate chopped up

1 tablespoon organic peanut butter

vanilla essence

pinch of salt

Mix brown sugar with butter well, add vanilla. Add flour and salt and continue to mix, add egg and peanut butter and then chocolate. Bake on baking paper on a tray for around 15 mins at 180 C.

This is such a super quick and easy recipe, and completely fail-proof (i like).

Let's go somewhere beautiful

We've had some big changes happening lately, our family here in Wanaka are leaving in a month to go an a huge travel adventure... Brandon and i are trying our best to be so happy for them and not think about how sad it is that they're not going to be around anymore! If i was to be selfish i would like them to stay and live here with us for ever...

So Taryn, Dan, and baby Oscar, we've been thinking... maybe we can come and have Christmas with you in Cape Town, we would love that. In fact i think our whole family should meet in Cape Town this summer, that would make our hearts so happy X

ps here are some pictures from my first time in South Africa last year... i miss you Cape Town.

Click click

I've been eyeing up a new camera lately, whilst learning how to use my Nikon digital SLR i have been missing being able to just snap away any old time and capture things as they happen, i know that sounds really impatient and silly but i guess i want a camera that is small enough and easy enough to use that i can pull it out and take a shot in the moment. I've been thinking about what Chase Jarvis said about the best camera being the one you have with you, i like that. My friend Alex gave me some great advice on what is the best around in the point and shoot department. So now i just have to choose!