This was the view from the little beach villa we stayed at down in Taranaki before Christmas. Not bad, huh? One of my favourite memories of this trip was eating strawberries and pancakes for breakfast in our room, looking out the window to the ocean... right now I'm eating crackers at my desk and my view is of our overgrown backyard and clothesline. Hah! Can we rewind two weeks?! For Christmas my Mum bought me a few dresses from my Modcloth wishlist that had just gone on sale, including this one. I wore it the night we had our main Christmas dinner and ended up being made fun of by my sister, who thought it looked like a nightie. It kind of went downhill from there and...