Life+Style 29th April 2016

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Inside out A personable approach to interior design ‘It’s what’s on the inside that counts’ – for Twill Interiors’ Jacqui Mitchell, that adage couldn’t be more appropriate.

We’re not just talking about what fills your home, making it more than four walls and a roof, but the importance of the individual, bringing out your personality quirks and putting them into décor and furnishings you’ll love.

Today, there are two journalists in the room when Life + Style meets with South Africanborn Jacqui because, despite the fact we’re asking the questions, it’s just as much Jacqui’s role to find the story beneath the surface of her client.

“The art of interior design is capturing the spirit of a client and the essence of the space, so that’s my main focus. When I met with someone I establish what they are about – people fascinate me, so I love figuring out how they tick – and then I explore the environment and make it work to show their personality.

“We love our clients to be understood and heard. It’s about their homes and lives, and we are here to exceed their expectations.”

It’s a misconception that interior design is just for the rich and famous, and Jacqui is passionate about demystifying the process.

The boutique design business can help clients with interior (and exterior) colour consulting; provide overall concepts for new builds and renovations; help complete a ‘look’ with window furnishings and tie

everything together. “It’s important to have fresh eyes on a project,” says Jacqui of her role, “because when you are in it you can get overwhelmed, and can be extremely time consuming for working professionals”.

“I break it down into chunk-sized pieces, making it easy and convenient by knowing what looks best where, where to source materials and furnishings etc.

“Clients generally have an idea of what they would like for their home and it’s my job to help them keep focused to achieve that vision.”

Trained in London, at the Chelsea College of Art and Design, Jacqui has an eye for detail and colour, as well as an extensive knowledge of fabrics. Based in Mount Maunganui, she’s passionate about working with local producers, aiding a smooth completion of the finished look.

Well-travelled, having lived in three countries and making a trip home to South Africa annually, her inspiration come from various locations, but she adds New Zealand is very ahead of the game in terms of looks and styles.

“I love the Kiwi innovation, that can-do attitude and the ingenuity; it’s based on our practicality, and we’re very unique.”

So what’s hot in home design right now?

“I love sticking to raw materials – timbers, metallics, linens, anything with texture – so keep the foundations solid and authentic, then change the rest with the seasonal shifts.”

Jacqui and her team from Twill Interiors will be at the Home Show this month, and invite readers to visit them at stand 800 to discuss what they can do for your home.

Laura Weaser

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A beautiful legacy Mother and daughter celebrate milestone Jamele Skincare Centre has been in the Foster family for 30 years this year, passing down from mother to daughter along the way.

While Shelley is now at the helm, Pat’s visionary philosophy of holistic skincare beats at the heart of everything Jamele does. At 80, Pat still takes care of the Jamele accounts, makes the staff birthday cakes and remains, as always, her daughter’s greatest cheerleader.

Shelley counts herself very fortunate that throughout three decades Pat and her have owned Jamele Skincare Centre on Tauranga’s Cameron Rd they’ve never once had a harsh word between them.

“We think alike and I think that is one of the key elements of our successful business partnership.”

Shelley lives in Pyes Pa and Pat’s a stone’s throw away in a tudor-style cottage on the property. Pat bought Jamele Skincare Centre in 1986. She was 50 and had just returned from studying at the School of Natural Aesthetics under the legendary Janice Sarre Smith of Janesce Skincare in Adelaide, when she spotted the clinic for sale.

It was “a pretty sad and sick little clinic” losing money fast. She took a risk and introduced her holistic philosophy of skin health to the women of Tauranga.

This was long before the world had embraced the clean-eating, sugar-free and slow food movements of today.

“This inside-out approach was not the norm back then.”

Shelley’s friend and beauty industry influencer, Janine Tait, champions what she describes as the Slow Beauty Movement – a move away from invasive treatments to more natural and holistic approaches.

“This really captures well what we are about,” says Shelley. “Mum founded Jamele on this holistic philosophy and the health and wellness movement has blossomed; now these ideas are sought out.”

In the early 1990s, Shelley gave up a successful photography business to join her mother at Jamele, which by then was thriving. “The security of the business appealed to me at first, and the love of holistic skincare came later,” says Shelley.

“When I did my training and realised how much science there was behind skincare I was hooked. Since then, I have never stopped learning.”

The pair say the greatest privilege of their profession is caring for women throughout their lives. “Taking care of someone’s skin is a very hands-on and personal thing,” says Pat. Shelley says people open up to you.

“You get to know their families, their happy moments and their worries. We should have done psychology degrees really.”

They’ve also witnessed massive changes in the beauty industry – not all positive.

“Chemical peels, laser resurfacing, microdermabrasion, and sun beds have come and gone through the industry.

“We are about preserving the integrity of the skin barrier function and building beautiful skin from within.”

Jamele’s signage has been refreshed to celebrate the 30-year milestone, with the words Nature, Science, Beauty. “This sums up our commitment to working with a holistic natural philosophy and marrying that with the best that

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ethical science has to offer,” says Shelley.

With Mother’s Day approaching, Shelley is full of warm words for her mum. ”She’s been incredibly hardworking and forward-thinking all of her life. She’s really passionate about health, music and family. She is incredibly generous.

“If I can grow up to be like her, I’ll be doing well. That’s the goal.”

Kathryn Overall

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Pamper Mum A mother will hold her children’s hands for just a short while, but she will hold their hearts forever.

Mothers’ Day is a celebration of mothers and mother figures worldwide, as well as maternal bonds and the influence of mothers in society. Whether it’s exchanging a simple three words “I love you” or a small pampering gift, show appreciation to your Mum on Sunday, May 8.

View the range of unique Designer NZ jewellery available at www.virginjewels.me

For a fabulous selection of Mothers’ Day gift ideas see Panazz at Fashion Island, Papamoa.

Treat Mum with a gift from nature. The Pure Source thermal mud Pamper Pack, soap and facial products are available from Kiwiana Gifts & Souvenirs.

LaLicious is a delicious all natural body care range, exclusive to Sanctum Beauty Therapy & Spa. With six different scents, you will find the perfect sweet treat for Mum. Team it up with a LiLash or LiBrow for long luscious lashes and perfectly formed brows.

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Rongoā Māori Planting the seed of traditional medicines In a ramshackle shed, Rob McGowan drags his fingertips through a green blanket of totara seedlings that will one day be planted through the Waitao Valley.

Today, these baby giants grow with silent prospect in Rob’s nursery on his small block of land on Waitao Rd. ˜ ere you’ll ÿ nd native New Zealand trees and plants from throughout the country growing side-by-side, leaf-to-leaf.

Rob works for Nga Whenua Rahui, a unit within the Department of Conservation which provides funding for the protection of indigenous ecosystems on M˛ori-owned land. ˜ e former Catholic priest, known to many as ‘E Pa’, is also a leading expert on rongo˛ M˛ori – a traditional M˛ori system of healing which incorporates the use of herbal medicines derived from native ˝ ora.

For decades Rob’s researched and taught rongo˛ M˛ori in a bid to restore the practice in Aotearoa – from running w˛nanga (seminars) throughout the country, serving as an advisor to the Government and tribal authorities and appearing on several M˛ori television programmes.

“When weaving baskets they say the ÿ rst one you make you’ve got to give away, because if you don’t, you won’t hold the knowledge,” says Rob. “So if I make a beautiful basket and I give it to you, I have to make another. ˜ e person who gives away the most baskets becomes the best weaver.”

Rob’s fascination with native plants took root at about age ÿ ve. Just before starting school, Rob and his wh˛nau (family) moved from his birthplace in

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Auckland to Glorit, a tiny place near Kaukapakapa where his Dalmatian grandparents lived. “˜ is old Tarar˛ (Dalmatian) took us for a walk up Atuanui (Mount Auckland) one day and we came to a n˙kau grove,” says Rob. “He went up to a small tree and pulled the branches oˆ , leaving a white stalk in the middle.

He cut it oˆ and gave us a piece each to eat. It was really nice; I never ever got over that.”

Soon after, the wh˛nau travelled south to Whanganui where Rob grew up.

It was east to Greenmeadows in Hawke’s Bay where he entered the seminary, and once ordained, he returned to Whanganui for his ÿ rst appointment as a Marist priest during the 1970s.

“By the time I got back to Whanganui as a priest, I had a knowledge of native plants, some knowledge of the medicine, and a real determination to learn,” says Rob. He was told his ÿ rst job “wasn’t so much the priest thing” but to learn Te Reo M˛ori.

One day Rob heard members of his parish making piupiu – a traditional skirt-like garment made of ˝ ax strands. Figuring that was where the kuia (female elders) were, Rob sought them out so he could listen in on their korero (speech).

One of the kuia needed someone to take her up the Whanganui River to collect ˝ ax for the piupiu.

Because he had a car, that someone was Rob. ˜ e kuia, Rua Henare, was Rob’s ÿ rst rongo˛ teacher. “I only spent a couple of years with her.

“I learned about ˝ ax and piupiu, and she realised I knew a lot about plants. She would show me all sorts of things you don’t expect to learn.” ˜ e bush along the Whanganui is very thick,

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lots of supplejack and the like. On an outing, Rob o˜ ered to cut a path with his machete, eliciting the response: “I’m alright boy, you just ÿ nd your way”.

“Next minute there she was up the hill. I reckon once I learned to keep up with her she started teaching me.

“When I did catch up with her, I watched very carefully. She must’ve thought: ‘Oh well, this fulla’s okay’ I suppose.” ˛ e basis of rongo˝ is not plants but wairua, says Rob. You’ve got to heal a person from the inside ÿ rst so you can heal them on the outside.

Today – as it was in the past – when working with rongo˝, the ÿ rst thing isn’t diagnosis or examination, it’s karakia (prayers).

From there it’s discovering the source of the sickness; why that person is sick but not the person next to them. Rob uses the example of someone who’s been abused as a child.

“People with that hurting in their background are more prone to sicknesses including depression. “˛ e ÿ rst thing with rongo˝, be it hundreds of years ago or today, is to heal the inside.

“From that wholeness, you then deal with the actual conditions.”

It’s not a magic pill, rongo˝ is best used to keep you healthy instead of waiting until you’re so sick doctors can’t help you.

Hand-in-hand with western medicine, Rob believes rongo˝ can be very beneÿ cial, but only if it’s properly understood.

“If you’re on warfarin, which helps people with heart conditions, and take kawakawa as well, it makes the warfarin work much better because it’s a natural blood thinner, so you can’t take too much.

“It can get a bit scary.” Rongo˝ practitioners have profound expertise with plants, but they also rely heavily on local knowledge. If you’re visiting an area where kumarahou, which can be used to soothe burns and wounds, is not present – what other plants can you use in its place?

“People don’t have the knowledge anymore,” says Rob. “We’re at a stage where it’s possible to revive it, another 20 years and it’ll be too late. ˛ e people will be gone.”

Rob remembers asking lots of questions of the kaumatua when he’d go out picking plants with them. ˛ ey would tell Rob all he had to do was get to know the plants and they would tell him everything he needed to know. A lesson he confesses took years to understand.

David Tauranga

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