YellyElly

Our little side project has turned into a bit of an obsession, and hopefully a bit of an additional income. We’ve had some success so far by word of mouth and have sold several sets of glasses and a few vases. Unfortunately we didn’t make it to the market, but when we return from our [...]

New Zealand just doesn’t do turkey. After a first attempt at Thanksgiving, Steve was determined to have a Christmas turkey, so I asked around at work (ask a chef where to find turkey…) and got some suggestions. But, when I asked about getting just a turkey breast rather than a whole bird everyone looked at [...]

It doesn’t feel like Thanksgiving here, as we are finally getting some lovely sunny, warm weather, but I couldn’t just skip it. This time around I made a little mini Thanksgiving with some chicken breasts and roasted veggies and some sautéed apples to go with. It was pretty tasty, but I think there will have [...]

Yup, it’s true. I’m the luckiest girl ever. We’ve been missing good European bread and finding it quite expensive to get anything decent here. So, one day Steve decided that it couldn’t be that hard to make his own tasty bread and did just that. He got himself some wholemeal flour, some yeast, and a [...]

As I mentioned previously, we have started making water glasses from wine bottles again. After making a bunch in California we considered possibly trying to sell them at some stage. Thanks to some encouragement from the housemates, we decided to give it a go as a little business here in NZ. This time around we’ve [...]

While we had to say goodbye to the lovely Ulli last week, Ricky has joined the fun of life at Military Road. To celebrate his arrival and the awesome weather we’ve been having, we held the first BBQ of the season on Sunday.
The guys did the shopping and managed to come back with loads of [...]

The longer we are in this house, the more we realize how lucky we were to stumble into it. Everyone here is passionate about something, with the talent to achieve great things. There are just enough of us so that it’s always social without ever feeling crowded, and it’s possible to attempt projects that need [...]

Inspired by the tangible progress of the dream recording studio and the arrival of some new microphones, the guys had a little recording session amongst the rubble. Steve was on acoustic guitar while Ricky was on a drum and later a nose flute. It was pretty exciting to hear Steve’s guitar recorded properly, and see [...]

The architecture firms of Wellington may not have discovered Steve’s talent yet, but our housemate Benni has. He’s got a vision of a super recording studio, affectionately called “the box” and has enlisted Steve as chief architect on the project. Basically the guys have been spending most weekends hard at work transforming Benni’s room into [...]

It’s warming up here and the bugs are coming out to play – oh joy! thankfully this one had expired but the photo does not do it justice, this thing was huge. Like some sort of cockroach/cricket hybrid monster, perhaps we’ll start checking the dark corners of the bedroom before settling in at night.