The theme today is favorite (or favourite) food…. We serve a robust continental breakfast here at Hosking House with home made breads with spreads ranging from peanut butter to vegemite, greek yogurt, cereals, juices, fresh fruit and coffee and tea. We also give guests the choice of a cooked breakfast to start their day. Late […]
The task today is to tell our daily story in pictures. Hosking House today was polished, and primed, awaiting a bride and groom to stay here the night before their wedding. After my run, I popped into my favorite local florist Petal & Prickle to pick up some stems for the entryway. It turns out […]
This is the first official day of the 30-day blog challenge. The assignment today is to “Choose five songs that mean something to you and tell us why.” Music is definitely something that is important to the vibe here at Hosking House. I was raised in a house filled with music and there is nothing else […]
We were approached by Venture Taranaki to tell our story of why we chose to live in New Plymouth, Taranaki, and why we like living here. From London to Taranaki and their own slice of paradise http://www.taranaki.info/jobs/casestudy_detail.php/id/46/from/117 Venture Taranaki in their own words, “exists to help Taranaki reach its potential. As Taranaki’s Regional Development agency […]
Over the weekend, I attended The NZ Creativity Challenge. It was two days filled with Creative people, ideas, plans and energy. One of the most significant plans of action that I took away from this fabulous conference was a 30 day blogging challenge laid down by Bridget Roper and Sonya Cole from Cue Social Media. […]
I am woefully behind on posts. The fabulous news is that it’s because we’ve opened our doors and have had a busy few weeks at Hosking House. We are actually DOING IT and we are truly flat out! The house has been full of guests, (and not just once =) Now we we are buckling […]
The New Plymouth Coast walkway was originally opened in 2003, with the latest construction opening the full length in 2010. It stretches 11k from Bell Block to the Port of Taranaki. There is by far no place that I’ve spent more time over the past year than on this walkway. We began living in New […]
Back to the story of the “Making of Hosking House”….. When we last left off, we were finishing the construction and starting to get our heads around budgets and for me the next stage was – DECORATING. This has been an amazing journey. I have never undertaken construction in a home I’ve lived in, nor […]
Our second area that we started on immediately was choosing an agency to help us create the Hosking House brand and website. We met with a few companies, all creative, passionate people and again it was a tough decision – but some how we just knew the team at Smokey Lemon was the right partner […]
When the real-estate dust had settled, and we knew our offer had been accepted, we immediately began planning. We started the first of our many “formal meetings” over a cold bottle of Sauvignon Blanc at Frederics and got to work on our first to-do list. There was one thing we were sure of, that we’d […]