babanangu

August, I've had enough of you

Nevertheless, today was full of plenty to be thankful for:

A super swift meeting with a good review, a Matthew with a half-day off work, a huge plate of biryani, a post-all-nighter nap and Catherine Keener + mid-century furniture.

practice cactus

Damascene

Matthew gave me this precious thing. This weekend marks a year since he came home.

hello, i'm night owling again

Fort Namutoni

pretty new old-looking thing

No need for designs like these to ever change really. Much like Marmite and Mrs Balls.

dear rae

Karin is a talented jewellery designer, Nicole's sister and a dear friend. See how beautiful her designs are

I helped design her dear rae label in time for Design Indaba this year where she launched her range.

I'm the proud owner of these beauties :) Thanks Karin!

Nicole

Nicole is my oldest friend and since she moved to Pretoria after graduation, I've missed her terribly. She has a lovely blog where I keep up with snippets of her life up north; heartwarming thoughts, words and pictures. Coli, this heart misses you!

cold lion

Wow. Cape Town is freezing today.

And in other news; had a call from Ma & Pa earlier who spotted THREE lions at close range on the farm a couple of days ago (this kind of sighting happens once in a blue moon for us). Oh sigh. I'd rather be there.

tree, TV, pies

I've recently rediscovered my love of making collages from readymade circular label stickers. I spent most of May this year playing around with these for an illustration module and am still discovering tiny sticky wedges all over room, in books, in shoes...

More to come.