Friday afternoon – and my brain has officially shut down for the week. Not quite sure what to do for the next hour or so until I can leave work. Oh wait, let me think … maybe I’ll write a list.
Start your weekend by enjoying a nice glass of chilled PIMMS & Lemonade – CHECK
Make sure to schedule in as many visits as possible to your new gorgeous amazingly cutie pie little niece – CHECK
Think of cool places to buy a fabulous Hens Party Present for this weeked’s Bride-To-Be – CHECK
Find some beautiful wedding inspiration to perve over - CHECK
So in honour of the newest most cutest addition to our family tree – little Kingsley Vivienne Jones – I decided to do some scouting for beautiful baby rooms. The Big Sis hasn’t yet had a chance to do up little Kingsley’s future room, so I think I might have to show her these fabulous examples, found here
Woodland Wonderland
Ribbon Retreat
Crayon Colours
These fabulous pictures from decor8 have inspired me to make my own inspiration board for D-Day. I’ve got all the goodies and tools at home, I just need to pull finger out of my ear hole and actually get it done.
Over-The-Top-Colour-Explosion Of A Wedding Inspiration Board COMING SOON to a Distings near you!
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
Thanks to my floral-crazy friend over at Everything Sammy Hearts, I’ve got my latest colour fix to last a whole month long. Katie Daisy is a young illustrator come artist come tea drinking earth child who makes the most wonderful art. Here are just some examples of the beautiful things he does, but you can check out more of her stuff here.
Below is a speech given by Lewis Pugh - The Human Polar Bear - at a function in Cape Town on Friday night. I've had to google a few things to find out what he refers to in some instances, and I'm glad I have because I've learnt something new today.
As petrol prices increase tonight - and will soon over R10 - even if i have to drive an extra 100 km's and pay extra for a different brand of petrol ... I will NEVER use BP, and l will NEVER use SHELL.
It’s usually when I’m doing cool research for work that I come across the most amazing stuff that I always want to share with you guys. I saw this video early last year and to say that it really moved me, is nothing short of an understatement. It made me cry, it made me hopeful and it made me get involved. Now this is the kind of advert that I want to spend the rest of my life making. The kind that moves you to action. I could watch it a million times over.
My friend the designer and I used to be really involved in AIDS research while we were studying at Vega and we always had these dreams about dedicating our lives to those suffering from the disease. And even though dealing with the pain and suffering of it all made our hearts sore, it also made us feel good to be doing something positive - something we thought could be sustainable. I’ll even go as far as to say that the things we saw and experienced not only created an incredible bond between the two of us, but it changed our lives.
Middle Class Life, however, has persuaded us to get average paying 8 - 5 jobs, cook dinners in the evenings and weed the garden on weekends. It makes me sad and more often than not I feel that by being a normal suburban dweller, I am wasting a perfectly good life that could be put to better use elsewhere. It’s really hard though, you know, when you have to pay taxes and bonds and put petrol in your car and survive from day to day – we get caught up in the whole mess of our own lives that we forget about the bigger picture.
I do know and admit that it’s really tough, but flip man we have to try. We can’t cure HIV AIDS, we can't save everyone, and we can’t even pretend to know enough about it to try. What we can do … is support those people who do, and who are trying to make a difference. We have to start somewhere.
