Hello Mowbray!

  

Some of the surveys that I sent out yesterday afternoon; if you live in Mowbray, you just might have found one in your letter box!

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.

Archived lives

I've been doing a lot of research in to the history of Mowbray (a small suburb of Cape Town, where I live). I spent a morning at the National Archives last week and as I was paging through files and files of photos of Mowbray and old Cape Town, I came across these portraits. There were no captions, except for their names, but apart from that, I don't know the dates or anything else. I'm guessing they are pretty old though, maybe from the 1800's or early 1900's?

I just think these are really special.

editorial

Some quick and silly doodles I did in my new magazine that I bought to pass the time this long long weekend! It's nice to be drawing again, even if it's just something basic like this. I know these drawings are weird, don't judge me ok!

CMYBacon's Dog Names for Graphic Designers

So sweet!

Found on CMYKBacon.

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.

mowbray dark

Some photos of my neighbourhood that I've been gathering for my research project. I took these quite a few weeks ago, on a public holiday Wednesday, so the streets were pretty deserted. Not sure why I made them so grainy though!

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!

peachy peach

Some more pictures of peachy-pink-perfect-haired ladies!

All images can be found here.

One last gif for the evening! I just love this.

Found on Present&Correct.

"When I stay in on the weekend to do work, I always just end up like..."

Had to share this!

from #whatshouldwecallme