Look! A lookbook
I spent most of August styling & snapping the shots, and with the help of my one-time ELLE Decoration colleague – the fab Charl Edwards – we put together a mini magazine, showing how versatile...
View ArticleInspiration: Yellow jackets
I was in Sea Point yesterday, killing some time before yoga, and popped into the CAFDA bookshop, where I spotted this entire shelf of yellow-jacketed books. I can’t believe I hesitated for even a...
View ArticleHot tip: Succulents are cool
I do like a good succulent plant, which must be why my studio roof garden is getting bigger, and also why my camera seems to be full of succulents pics.
View ArticlePolyvore
Have excellent taste? Ever fancied yourself as a magazine art director? Do you have a near-obsessive belief in the importance of ‘curating’ your life? And (most importantly), do you have a heck of a...
View ArticleA visit to Milnerton Market
I used to be very, very predictable in my Sunday morning habits, all dressed up with a hat, a bag, loose bills in my wallet, setting off to Milnerton Market! I haven’t visiting for a while, but was...
View ArticleBlack Gold
For quite some time, I’ve been buying and stashing brass animals in a cupboard at home, waiting for the day that I had enough to send off to the foundry. No, not to melt down for pocket money! I was...
View ArticleMaking Friday: Book Rainbow!
If you read my Best Things post from last week, you’ll see that I’m pretty colour crazed at the moment, probably because I’ve been working pretty non-stop on the Skinny laMinx Colour Book, which I’m...
View ArticleOut and About: Junk shop finds
Sometimes I wander down from the shop through Cape Town, just stretching my legs. One place I like to stop in at is the St George’s Bric-a-brac shop next to the Cathedral. I’m trying to not buy things,...
View ArticleBest Things: @breezeblockhead
Call them ‘air bricks’, ‘ventilation blocks’, ‘breeze bricks’, ‘breeze blocks’, whatever you like, I just love it that Aussie architect Sam Marshall (aka @breezeblockhead) has taken it upon himself to...
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