After spending Christmas in Adelaide, we returned to NZ on New Year’s Day to kick off a big year of projects at The Courthouse. Arriving at midnight, we drove through the night to Fairlie, with the Southern Lights giving us a stunning welcome. Once there, we began planning our year, with updating The Courthouse kitchen and bathroom as our top priority, aiming to have both done before winter.
As I look back on 2024, I’m filled with gratitude for the leap we took—moving to a new country, with no guarantees or familiar faces. It’s been both terrifying and exciting, teaching me the power of following a vision, embracing fear, and finding new friendships. I’m forever grateful for the courage to chase our dreams and the support that made it all possible.
Oh what I’d give to pop back to Adelaide and do a ‘Shop with Sarah’ shopping day visiting all my favourite stores like old times. Adelaide really is spoilt for …
Having recently returned from a 5 week European holiday I wanted to share how I did it
effortlessly with just one suitcase and a very thought out capsule wardrobe.
On our recent holiday, I shared my use of ‘packing cubes’ on social media, and well, you all wanted more, so here it is!
I’ll be breaking it down into two blog posts…
1. Packing cubes
2. My capsule wardrobe
Let’s get into my first instalment about packing cubes…
The change of season, particularly Autumn, just feels like the time to let things go. Just as the trees shed their leaves ready for winter so can we with our …
We’ve been here just over two months now and have two rooms painted and somewhat finished, curtains, blinds, carpet and artwork to come, wow it sure has taken some hard, …
Moving countries and trying to find my way. As you know, just over a month ago, we moved to a little town in the south island of New Zealand called …
As you may know, we are renovating a 100 year old courthouse in the little town of Fairlie in The South Island of New Zealand. It needs a lot of …
This year has started with a bang for my husband and I as we have made the big move to New Zealand to renovate a 100-year-old courthouse in Fairlie, South …
