Meri Kirihimete!

 Well it feels like only yesterday I was running a quiz at the company Christmas party as we celebrated a good year.

And now I am theoretically unemployed*, along with 11% of my city's workforce, over 20,000 people. WOW. I don't want to talk about our current government as they don't deserve my time or mental effort.

It's been a good year as well as a bad one - nothing is every simple in reality is it. Worked with some amazing clients, Emceed some amazing shows, made some beautiful costumes, and embarked upon a bunch of hacks to insulate our flat in a 130 year old building.

I can't talk about my mahi with clients but I can talk about the other things!

My last gig for 2024 was early December, hosting a quiz for an amazing organisation who do impactful research into a range of diseases, and are a bunch of absolute gems. 

Me at the event, which had a vintage circus vibe, so I was the Ringmaster!

 Straight after, I had a photoshoot - in spite of not being very happy with my makeup - but decided to just lean in anyway and I'm SO glad I did!

Love this look, there are other more "arch" ones but I went for camp as my first edited one

I love this pic SO SO much. And Haley worked so hard repairing my sweaty makeup digitally!

I spent a lot of this photo shoot with the most adorable doggo looking up at me adoringly. So cute.

House hacks:

As well as having our enormous curtains relined, we had our single glazed skylight "skinned" with a glass house product called twinwall, kind of like super boojie corflute. Also the totally annoying cat door is now blocked up once and for all!

Tiles make great cat door insulators! Also, Sir Robert has been joined by two more brass rubbings. James my hanging guy has banned me from buying any more He's probably right...

 

 

And that's me for now - I've left it so long there's so much to catch up on, but I have four weeks off then only working three days a week!

*What this means is, I have contract work instead of a permy job and that goes through a chunk of this year. I'm very lucky, And it means I can work three days a week which I am looking forward to!