Showing posts with label Happenings. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Happenings. Show all posts

Saturday, January 21, 2012

Life is Beautiful

Well, I have just discovered that I have a brain tumour. Hence all the bad blogging due to absolute exhaustion! Go in for an op this upcoming Friday and feel strong, positive and so loved and supported.

Nothing like a big old brain tumour to get the philosophical juices flowing although to be honest I've always taken notes along the way and this is what I've learnt so far...


•Love with all your might. Love is freedom. Love is all that matters. Love yourself first.

•Believe in yourself. You can do anything and you create your own reality. You can change anything at any time.


•You hold so much power. Use it with integrity.


•Let challenges and competition inspire you to rise to your true potential and in so doing, inspire others.


•Simply do what you love.


•We are spiritual beings having a physical experience, and not the other way round.


•It's ok to just be.


•Impermanence is a beautiful thing. It's an open doorway.


•Take each day at a time.


•You have the right to choose.


•Listen to yourself and acknowledge your higher wisdom.


•The world is a miraculous place and a wonderful gift to guide us through.


•You're never given more than you can handle.


•Don't sweat the small stuff. (Even now, I still battle with this one but I know it's true!)


•Be grateful and conscious at, and of every moment.


•Find pleasures in the small things.


•Show others you care.


•Smile from the heart. A big smile can brighten someone's day.


•Be open to receiving love and guidance.


•In the end, a life half lived is a big journey wasted. Go for it! Life is beautiful!










Friday, December 23, 2011

I am Alive! Just.

I've been a bad blogger. I've been a busy blogger. Here's promising to blog more often and regularly next year (I'll try my best), continuing to find awesome little bits of inspiring pieces.

A very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all!




Awesome image from here.x

Deep Dark Africa evolves!

So, where I've been these past two months is...evolving Deep Dark Africa, my online shop,  into a sourcing and styling consultancy!

Deep Dark Africa began as an online shop representing and collaborating with the best of African designers, artists and crafters, with the aim of bringing contemporary hand made design from Africa to the rest of the world.

After great success in a short period of time, with overwhelming local and international response, Deep Dark Africa is further evolving into a sourcing, creative and styling consultancy, offering its distinctive brand and style to a wider retail market.

Deep Dark Africa will also be curating a small selection of the best of African hand made design for wholesale orders.

Retailers, please visit the Deep Dark Africa website to see the services now offered and wholesale product catalogue.

Shoppers, Deep Dark Africa will no longer be running as a shop offering sales directly to the public. A list of Deep Dark Africa stockists will be available shortly!






Friday, September 09, 2011

Take Care Sale & New Collection

A quick catch up with what's going on!

Beautiful Cape Town based label Take Care is having a Winter Sale this weekend at the Old Biscuit Mill Neighbourgoods Market - yay - and are about to launch their new Spring/Summer collection at the Neighbourgoods Market Johannesburg!




Head on over to Braamfontein!


Monday, July 18, 2011

Happy Birthday Madiba!

We ♥ you!



South Africans, do something great for your country today!

Monday, June 13, 2011

Friday, May 27, 2011

Lucky Joburg...

Spense & Missibaba are heading your way this weekend!




If any of you in Jozi & it's surrounds have been snoozing, click here and here to get excited!

Tuesday, May 03, 2011

Wedding Withdrawal

Ok, so I got sucked in and carried away on the fairytale wedding of the year. It was that McQueen dress, the 75 year old diamond tiara & the horse drawn carriage and cavalry that really did it for me. Plus, it was pretty romantic. So here's some more matrimonial inspiration to keep it going just a little bit longer...




Images from BHLDN, The Vamoose & 100 Layer Cake.

Thursday, April 14, 2011

The Imaginarium Easter Show


An intimate evening of illustration, photography, industrial design, ceramics and clothing.
Date: Thursday 14th April 2011
Time: 6 :30 pm
Venue: Keenwa Restaurant
50 Waterkant Street
Cape Town (opposite Free World Design Centre) (Parking in Bree St)

Participating Artists :
Simon Berndt (One Horse Town)
Jade Klara
Cassandra Leigh
Jason De Villiers (Further)
Lauren Fowler
Daniel Orme (Bison)
Padraic O'Meara
Jonx Pillemer
Tanya Laing (Sootcookie Ceramics)
Lyall & Marc (Thingking)
Deborah Polonsky (Iracema Boutique)
Justin Southey clothing

Looks good!

Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Untamed

"Exploring the lost balance between humankind and nature" this incredible collaboration between architect Enrico Daffonchio, sculptor Dylan Lewis & poet Ian McCallum will be up for just another couple of months at the Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden and can really not be missed.













Lewis is a world-renowned South African sculptor pirmarily inspired by the wilderness which makes Kirstenbosch the ideal setting for this exhibition. Be sure to wander through the garden trail to view more of his beautiful bronzes. Joined by Daffonchio, an architect who specialises in sustainable design, the temporary "Untamed" structure "showcases contemporary, sustainable architecture using solar power and natural light". The "living wall" calls attention to the botanical garden's horticultural talents and is an undulating, spiralling green artpiece of its own. McCallum, an author, poet, psychiatrist & psychologist, brings it all together with his haunting, thought provoking words creating a '"powerful narrative...the theme of wilderness and what its loss entails to the human psyche".


Visit here for more images and to watch a timelapse video of the construction of 'Untamed' structure.

Wednesday, March 30, 2011

The Swimmers

By South African photographer & visual artist Carla Liesching

"Liesching uses her swimmers to explore the link between space and identity and how we think of home. The work has grown out of a state of being that is a defining trait of Liesching’s generation: a sense of displacement, an awareness of foreignness and a search for belonging that cannot be tied to one fixed geographical or ideological place." 

These near life-size portraits are part of an ongoing series and will be showing at the iArt Gallery, 71 Loop Street CPT, from this evening through to the 27 April 2011. definitely worth a visit.


Lourika | 2009

Benjamin | 2009

Candice | 2009

Sonja | 2009

Jerry | 2009

Xanthe | 2009

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