Porterville

it was so cold on friday night so we moved our bed in front of the fireplace!

climbing up to see the sunset

my love in front of our cabin

gathering firewood

I've just come back from an amazing weekend in Porterville, about 2 hours drive from Cape Town. My boyfriend, Steve, is going to London on Sunday, so this was just kind of a last weekend away. We stayed in a beautiful log cabin on a protea farm, right on the top of the Cedarberg mountains. It was freezing up there, but well worth it!

i'm back! for now...

Hello! It feels weird typing this because I've been away from this little blog for so long. I would love to say that I have some cool plans up my sleeve, but right now, not really. To be honest I've actually been thinking about just deleting this blog and then maybe starting afresh with something new. But right now, I don't know.

In the meantime here is a phone photo that I quickly snapped earlier this week, while on the way home from Muizenberg. The clouds were insane - so much definition. So beautiful.

purple monday

A quick pic from this morning.
I've been feeling very bored with everything lately, so last week I bought a box of cheap(ish) highlights and went all d.i.y on my hair. This morning I took things to the next level... haha!

don't panic...

I think this sweet saying might just have saved my day/week. I've been feeling so stressed out lately, but somehow, reading this, it all makes sense. Thank you so much, Weekday Carnival.

Instacam

Just a few pics from the past few weeks ...

Be excellent to each other

 Just saw this over on Present&Correct - it made me smile and reminded me so much of this one that I saw in London two years ago...

Excellent words, definitely something we should all try and stick to.

fire through the window

Snapped this yesterday on the way to lunch with my parents to celebrate my graduation (!) 

Apparently this was a "controlled burn", which sounds like a pretty crazy thing to do, but I guess it's actually very important. I think all us Capetonians get a little anxious when we see our mountain on fire.

two wheels

Guess what! I finally have a bicycle! It's not new and it needs some love, but I'm still so excited about it. Will post some proper "before and after" pictures when I have a chance, but I thought I would just take one of its sweet logo sticker for now.

this weekend in pictures

This weekend wasn't the happiest, simply because I had all four wisdom teeth removed (see sad swollen face on left side) on Friday morning. Nice. But at least I got some good use out of my phone camera!

pink haze

One crazy dream I've has for long time now is to die my hair a mad colour... but I've always been too scared to go for it. My hair hasn't been dyed that much and so is still relatively "natural". There was this one time about 5 years ago when I had just finished school and I for some reason felt the need for blue hair. I didn't really know how to go about it and was in a very impulsive mood, so I simply grabbed a bottle of blue food colouring and headed to the bathroom sink! Needless to say, it didn't really work out too well.

I'm really loving these pictures of this pretty pink-haired model floating around a big city, you know, all glamorous and stuff. I think this might just be my next move...

hello instagram

I signed up to instagram this week and already I think I might be hooked. It is all still a bit new for me, so not sure how often I'll be using or what kind of shots I'll be sharing, but hey! What's wrong with another little distraction anyway?

No Kak in our Coffee - print elements

Now that the Sustainable Design Showcase is over, I think it should be safe to publish this! These are part of the final submission that Lisa and I sent through to the competition.  These are the printed items, but we also designed a website and created an informative stop-motion animated video.