Happy New Year! Angie at You Look Fabulous encourages us to consider our style goals for 2015. Mine include staying polished (or trying to), quality rather than quantity, and making more out of the clothes I already own. Silk button-down shirts, I’m looking at you.

Nail artist Jessie Mills has some fun with New Zealand’s summer craze by creating a Lewis Road chocolate milk themed manicure. I’ve had two international visitors over the past two months. At first they scoffed at the idea of a national chocolate milk craze – then, when they learned that the milk was barely available due to high demand, they got interested in trying it.

Fabulous interview with 90s rap artist Neneh Cherry about feminism and her current projects.

I’ve been entertaining visitors, spraining my ankle, helping my partner renovate his house, and spraining my ankle again. Miraculously, I tripped departing a hot tub and did such a tumble that I landed without spraining it a third time. Both of my visitors enjoyed partaking of New Zealand and Australian design.