The Week On Thread Episode 54

The Week On Thread Episode 54 featuring highlights in photos of what I’ve been up to…

QUEENSTOWN 

I took my family to Queenstown and the children got to see snow for their first time!

The Grazier bar, Queenstown. Great interior design and architecture here.

THE SHERWOOD QUEENSTOWN WITH TRILOGY

I was flown to Queenstown to stay at The Sherwood retreat, to discover Trilogy skincare’s latest product releases, and be shown the best of Queenstown from Onsen hot pools, The Skyline Gondola and luge, New Zealand food and wine at a mansion in Jack’s Point, Josh Emmet’s restaurant Rata, an in-room massage with the new trilogy Pure Plant Oil, and the piece de resistance – a helicopter ride to walk on top of The Remarkables. Another highlight for me, which I’ll go into more detail in below, was hearing from Cassandra, the founder of So They Can charity working with poverty in parts of Africa. My hotel is filled with these beautiful toiletries, of Trilogy body and hair products.

The restaurant area in The Sherwood for our welcome dinner.

My room at The Sherwood, complete with woollen blankets, army recycled blanket curtains, metal hanging lamps, art prints, and a contemporary dream catcher. All very Pinterest and very cool.

My cute room by the waterfall at the retreat. This looks pretty tough to take.

SHOWCASING NZ PRODUCTS

The New Zealand products showcasing the best of NZ for international media. they’re showcasing the best of New Zealand to those flown in from Australia and New York and gave us these lovely NZ products: Kowtow, & Icebreaker (to wear for the yoga), Whittaker’s, Yoga Arts NZ, Tolaga Bay cashmere scarf, Blunt umbrellas, Ecoya candle, Karen Murrell lipsticks, and Go Bamboo toothbrushes.

Love the organic cotton Building Block Tee by Kowtow.

ONSEN HOT POOLS

At a mountain Onsen and a tray of bubbles and icecream has arrived. I’m wearing swimsuit by Moontide. I totally recommend this place next time you are here. I think it’s about $61 per person for an hour. 

SKYLINE GONDOLA 

How good is the weather! Beautiful clear day at the Skyline Gondola Queenstown, here with beauty media to ride the luge. Best beauty launch EVER.

JACK’S POINT

Lunch venue at a private architectural mansion out at Jacks Point OMG.

The new Trilogy Rosehip Oil Light Blend, and my fave, Rosapene Radiance Serum.

IN-ROOM MASSAGES

Just had an amazing massage in my room with this brand new Pure Plant Oil I want a masseuse to visit me everyday now please.

RATA RESTAURANT BY JOSH EMMET

My first time at Rata! Everything is super yum.

Chef Josh Emmet talking us through the amazing menu at Rata Queenstown.

HELICOPTER RIDE

Helicopter selfie.

I was the only person mad enough to do snow angels on top of The Remarkables.

SO THEY CAN

As I touched on above, another highlight for me was a talk and photo presentation from Cassandra, the founder of ‘So They Can’ charity, working with childen, teachers, and families living in poverty in parts of Africa. All the beauty media were crying, as we watched photos of the work they are doing, I was particularly touched by Cassandra’s story of cuddling a little boy whose incredibly brave mother had her husband and children murdered, and she was then raped, and she named the resulting child, ‘Miracle.’ Rather than just giving money, Trilogy decided to partner with communities and buy sunflower seed oil from 50 women to support them and their families, and produce Trilogy Jua and Raha natural oil perfumes, which has given back all proceeds of $20,000 last year and $30,000 this year. I also loved their orphanages, in a new style, of having a ‘mother’ commit for life to raising 8 orphaned children in homes with love and a family, rather than in big dormitories. Another great So They Can initiative – and also a great pun- is Sew They Can, helping young women rescued from the sex trade to learn sewing skills, making items to sell and the school uniforms for the schools they have set up to educate the children to help them out of poverty. Another Well done, Trilogy and So They Can. You can read all about them at their website www.sotheycan.org and donate or give your time as a volunteer.

LUNCH AT THE SHERWOOD 

Avocado salmon and vegan bliss balls for lunch at The Sherwood.

CIBO WITH TRILOGY 

Immediately after having the Queenstown media trip with Trilogy, I was lucky enough to be invited to lunch at Cibo in Parnell with Auckland beauty media and bloggers, to hear about the new products, Trilogy Rosehip Oil Light Blend; my fave, Rosapene Radiance Serum; and the amazing Trilogy Pure Plant Body Oil.

Power green salad at Cibo. All the flowers from lunch will be donated to Sweet Louise charity for women living with incurable breast cancer.

Below: I’m with Melissa Jack of The Best Nest, and Vanessa Rehm of The Bubbalino Kitchen.

Gorgeous Trilogy girls Sarah, who’s back from running a marathon in Kenya for Trilogy with charity So They Can, and Lisa, at Cibo for the new product launch today.

Lovers of shoes, rejoice! Dune opened in New Zealand for the first time today, here in 277.

Loved the hydrangea wall at Farmers fashion media showcase today. I’m wearing Levi’s high rise skinny jeans, Ecco boots, and eco-venison leather insert sweatshirt by awesome New Zealand label Woodward.

Thankyou Petal cupcakes for the cupcakes for my daughter’s birthday and the sweet handwritten birthday message inside. Petal are now in Takapuna as well as Newmarket.

Megan Robinson
4th September 2016