Julz from NZ

06/04/2026

Book, coffee, tunes & walk to the beach. My favorite way to relax. 💖📖☕️🏖

After a busy weekend Performing, its my favorite thing to relax with a good book and sink into someone else's life for a while. Where I read really depends on the weather, but if the sun is out then so am I.

Today I made a coffee at home (Bless Nespresso machines), grabbed my current story "Third Person by Dime Sheppard"*, put my headphones on with some soft tunes and headed to Titahi Bay beach.

I could feel myself unwinding as the minutes ticked by and now some of that life weight no longer feels so big again. So its time to head home to get back to the waiting housework. Despite everything on the to do list, I'm glad I took this time out. I really needed it.

*on a side note this book is the final in a truly great detective romance trilogy written by an Aussie lady and you should totally get your hands on it. I'm almost sad to be nearly finished. Except that I need to know what happens and how it ends. Haha.

04/04/2026

Thanks & Questbook for an amazing day! 😈🎶🎲🐲💖

My princess castle was host to a dragon and some fun players. It was great to be Rumi again and sing songs with many wide-eyed excited kids. And I got to see many friends as we hugged, laughed and bought all the books. I love these days.

21/03/2026

14/03/2026

I was to be married today, but life had other plans. I wore the dress anyway 👗💖

This might be a little bit insane. But this dress is too pretty to be kept in a bag forever. I should really sell it on to someone who can make use of it but I just wanted to know what it would have looked like.

I'm ok, by the way. Not insane. Haha. Not even sad. I'm happy and healthy and have awesome plans on the horizon. While I am figuring out that love doesn't really follow the Disney rules in real life, that doesn't mean its not out there for me one day.

In the meantime, I think I will wear the dress for myself instead!

14/03/2026

Day 5 Melbourne: Goodbye to a sweet little holiday.

We spent the last day meeting with Hasbro and doing a LOT of repacking to fit everything we were bringing home into our suitcases.

I feel cute as hell looking like an Airport Barbie and we spent our wait with wine and petite tarts like fancy ladies.

Thanks again for a lovely time.
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07/03/2026

Playing Constable St Stage at the Newtown Festival with the Bendy B's of Bogan Yoga today at 2.20pm. Be there to see the comeback!

05/03/2026

Day 4 Melbourne: Rest & Relax 📖 🛏☺️

After spending a few days at absolute hectic pace, Nikki and I decided to spend today at a much lazier pace.

Maybe just a little bit also because of the small twist to the ankle Nikki did the night before. It was certainly a good excuse to read our books around Melbourne with zero guilt about ignoring the ongoing Toy Fair.

05/03/2026

Day 3 Melbourne Evening: Let's Play Games PARTY! 🎲🎳🚗💖

With an invite to THE gamestore party of the entire Toy Fair, we dressed up and stepped out into the evening again.

There were speeches and industry news, there were new games to playtest and new friends from other gamestores to meet and there was a LOT of Prosecco.

Which lead to a night walk, discovery of new bars and Soju with MORE friends and an escorted walk home by a couple of absolute gentlemen. I had a great night. Thanks to the team at you throw an epic party. 💖🍾🥂

04/03/2026

04/03/2026

Day 3 Melbourne: Toy Fair Take 2 - All of the Meetings! 😍🎲✨️

So today we had a bunch of scheduled meetings with various supplier who all want us to up our orders and sell more variety of what they have to offer. Its a lot to take in with only an hour to do so. You barely get around the store before we had to run to the next one.

Got given more free things to pack somehow, learnt about some incredible games, have a shopping list a mile long and made loads more new friends.

Loving this trip! 💖🎲✨️

03/03/2026

Day 2 Melbourne. Evening Cocktails and Catch Ups. 🍸✨️

We decided to treat ourselves to a night out on the riverfront. Zero regrets on that decision as we admired the gorgeous views and drank truly delicious drinks.

We visited Ponyfish Island first which sits on the foot of a pendestrian bridge support and then wandered down to board the moored vessel Botanica Yarra.

Ok maybe one regret, the Kangaroo Sausage rolls were not great. Haha.

03/03/2026

Day Two Melbourne: Toy Fair! So many toys and not enough time! 🧸🛍

I had no idea what the Toy Fair was going to be like and I was way too excited to be there. I ran around every stall with the energy of a kid in a candy store, marvelling over every new thing discovered. Nikki was laughing at me a lot but it was so much fun!

My first relaisation was that you can't buy anything that you see, because its not THAT kind of expo. Lucky really because I wanted it all.

And also immediately fixed by people thrusting bags brimming with free giveaway samples of their products to encourage future purchases. Nikki was laughing even harder at my dropped jaw on that fact.

Essentially it is a giant expo of vendors displaying new and upcoming stock that their customers could arrange to purchase in bulk deals for the coming year. Some of the stalls you can only get in if you are a licenced vendor for that product and some require NDAs to be signed before you go in. The sadness of being so close to what's coming for Lego in 2026 but not being able to get inside was real. But I bravely rallied.

Cannot WAIT for Day Two of the Toy Fair!