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home sweet vinyls
I got these pretty vinyls yesterday from Mikado. We put them up the second Dyl got home. I promise to take better pictures of my home soon, but here are my instagrams for now
The Obliteration room
Step one: Paint an entire room white.
Step two: For two weeks give kids 1000′s of brightly coloured stickers to stick anywhere they like!
The result : an amazing explosion of colour that would make me feel like i’m living in a box of Hundreds and Thousands!
by Yayoi Kusama, an installation in the Queensland Gallery of Modern art.
Oh so quiet in 1995
fffinds # 2
Rememeber fffinds # 1? Remember me saying I was going to try do it every friday? ; ) It seems I only do these kinds of posts when I’ve really had a long rampant internet session when I click on every link and just want to pin everything I see, which surprisingly isn’t often. I have to be in the right mood to be curious and patient with the vast internet. I can get quite overwhelmed by it all which is when I just go see if anythings happened on facebook and check my email and close my laptop.
But you are in luck, i’ve been in one of those moods and have been inspired to explore more and be curious more and STAY CURIOUS (watch this video on staying curious)
Without further adieu fffinds # 2
1. Photorealistic paintings by Steve Mills.
These ARE oil paintings if you can believe it.
2. Tim Walker for Mulberry
Shot in Brighton (I went to this exact spot on the beach) I love all the oversized sweets & icecreams
3. Carl Kleiner for IKEA. “homemade is best” campaign
I can never get enough of IKEA’s advertising, and Kleiner is a visual genius!
4. Future Fossils by Bughouse
A concept of Imagining future generations digging up things like joysticks and vintage cameras wondering what the heck we did with them. Vintage now, but positively fossilized in 1000 years.
I know there are lot of things like this out there now but I really like his stuff, especially the first one.
6. This outfit by Atlantic-Pacific
It’s just perfect
Happy Friday and hope you have an AMAZING weekend!
If you haven’t seen Midnight in Paris yet. Book tickets now and go! It’s sooo wonderful.
See you on Monday – I start my first job in Advertising! : )
Doing it myself
On Wednesday I was in a particular home-decorating/improving mood and I have a whole list of things I’d like to do and change in the house. One of them was giving our old garden chairs (adopted from Dylan’s parents garden) a face lift.
They are these retro steel garden chairs which i’ve seen making a come-back in many decor mags but they have been re-made and restyled and most probably not made of steel anymore. But ours were free, still with their original lick of white paint needing a desperate make over.
So this is what I did and how you can do it if you have something similiar.
First step scrub it clean!
Buy some paint (I used Plascon Velvaglo), brushes and turps.
Seen as though it’s gonna be outside I chose this bright summery yellow, it’s called “Crazy Daisy” from Plascon.
and then you paint paint paint.. and let it dry overnight…
In the morning I had a cute garden nook to have my morning tea in!
It’s so cosy and sunshiny! The only thing I need to do now is make little cushions for them. What do you think?
I think i’m going to be spending a bit more time outside. reading. drinking tea for breakfast and wine before supper with Dylan.
Have a sunshiny day friends. Hopefully I’ll do more DIY posts like this in the future : )
the yellow submarine
Since we stayed in “the yellow submarine” trailer at the Old Mac Daddy it only seemed fitting to pay a small tribute to the Beatles.
These are some of LIFE magazine’s best Beatle’s photos, you may have seen some but you may not have seen others. I think they’re awesome! I watched an episode of Pan Am last night when it’s Beatles fever in London, and wondered afterwards how amazing it would be to have concert tickets to seem them live. ahh.
They looks like such cool guys
first year anniversary in a designer trailer park. oh yes. I did say trailer park.
yip. It’s been one year of marriage : ) and Dylan took me to a trailer park. hee. but this was no ordinary trailer park this was one of the coolest hotel concepts in one of the most beautiful settings i’ve ever seen! It’s the Old Mac Daddy in Elgin Valley – the inland cousin of the Grand Daddy Hotel in Long Street, Cape Town.
Like it’s cousin in Long Street it is thoroughly designed from the showers, to the stairs, to the dining room, to the library. It has a distinctly Scandinavian style, made predominantly of wood and aluminium it is clean and beautiful and makes you feel quickly at home and completed relaxed. While the design language is clean and fresh the inside of each trailer is mad and magical! Each with a different theme designed by a SA creative, they are incredibly designed and decorated – the detail is crazy! See more on each trailer here.
Here are some of my snaps of all the things I saw
and OUR airstream trailer - The Yellow Submarine! (these last few nice photos are by Dylan, he had the patience enough to get out a tripod)
We had two amazing nights there, but I recommend going for a week. Once you settle in you just want to STAY! The only thing is it’s not self catering so you have to eat at the restaurant, which is still nice.
bye bye my beautiful trailer. I will miss you.
Get all the details here
twenty twelve
Have you made any resolutions for this year yet? In our last few days of holiday Dylan and I sat down and thought about everything we wanted to do this year, so it wasn’t so much “resolutions” of how we want to change ourselves but more plans and things we’d like to tick off our list. I know people say you mustn’t make resolutions but I think it’s good to look at your empty canvas of a year and put some goals down to fill it up well and wisely : )
I asked a few friends about their 2012 resolutions.. hope they inspire you somewhat. Click on the photos to go to their respective sites.
“I’ve been planning on doing a 365-photo a day project for a whole year
now and I’ve finally started doing it on the 1st of January. It’s been
very exciting and so much fun, it almost forces me to have more fun
and to relax my slax. Which is just what I need.”
She’s done some pretty stunning things so far, see her pics here.
“I’D LIKE TO BE SCARED MORE OFTEN… TO BE UNSURE OF AN OUTCOME YET STILL JUMP IN. I WANT TO LIVE WITHOUT ANY AGENDA OR PLANS FOR A COUPLE OF MONTHS… FOLLOW MY DREAMS AND PASSIONS AND NOT BOW TO POPULAR OPINION OR CONVENTION OF WHAT’S FOOLISH OR WISE.”
Cherish the friends that make me feel happy and good and do just the same to them. Drink more water. Eat at home more. Put every detail into place in new home and hang up all my pictures (I’m super lazy about this kind of stuff)
Back home and back in routine
Hello Friends!
I just got back last night from holiday and it feels SO good to be home! Dyl and I were in and around the Cape area for 3 weeks and had such a good relaxing and fun time exploring places we’ve never been before.. It’s so nice being in my own home again though and reacquainting myself with my little kittens (who i’m grateful to say didn’t grow up TOO much while we were away).
I will however miss this.but it is time to come back to the real world
hee. I’m trying to catch up with all the life admin. my first load of washing is in the machine, the emails are being replied to, I NEED to get some food in this house and slowly the cogs in the wheel will start turning again.
Hope the new year beginnings are treating you well. Will get some pretty posts ready for you this week that might soften the blow of starting work, gym, routines etc.
Happy New Year!
2011 has to have been one of my favorite years so far. I got married, got my degree, became a nominee and a gold winner of two different design awards and I got to see London again and Kenya for the first time. I’ve loved growing and sharing everything with you guys.
I appreciate your comments, your opinions. I’ve loved meeting a lot of you. and I look forward to MUCH much more in 2012.
Thank you so much for the continual support and reading the random things I put up here!
Here’s to an amazing year!