...mannequin madness...

ok...some of you might know that I have a complete obsession with mannequins. I have been begging Wollie to get me a dressmakers mannequin for my birthday. He did buy me one a couple of years back, her name is 'Gretchen' and I will show her to you guys soon...i just have to paint her as she is now going up against my grey wall....I do love her lots!!!

Anyway...I have been looking through my photo album to find some pictures to print for the travel wall and came across these beauties. 

I took these pics last year when JayLow and me went to Paris. Its the window display of the Lanvin shop in Rue du Faubourg Saint Honore, Paris and I totally fell in love. Jaylow was inside admiring the clothes and I was standing outside photographing these beautiful window displays... I would love to go back there and see what the windows currently look like. I would also love to be part of the team that comes up with these amazing ideas...I love the beaks on the male mannequins.

...ideas by heart...

I found this pretty video via eat drink chic and just had to repost it....Its called "Ideas by heart" and is  done by annika bäckström for her school (KY akademien)...Its so pretty!!!!
http://www.vimeo.com/15059917


Ideas by heart from annika bäckström on Vimeo.

...work in progress...

So, we finally had our DIY weekend...and it was so much fun and a lot of hard work...Its still not 100% finished and I have a feeling it will never be, cause once I am done with the current project there is something else that I want to do.

But here are my pretty grey walls (please excuse the mess, its still a work in progress)!!!

This one is the lounge wall. I want to make it our study area. I am planning on hanging some clipboards here and making it a pin board type thing...will update again once its done....

This one is the dining room wall....It desperately needs new lights and a painting or shelf or something.... (and a clean dining room table...hehehe)

And here is me working very very hard....

...more shop inspiration...

Everyone always says that you should visualise your goals as it makes them more achievable. I am using my blog for that visualisation....that is valid isn't it? Someday I will have a little shop space of my own and it will be beautiful!

Look at this pretty boutique shop. Its called Brass Razoo Boutique. It's located in the heart of historic downtown Nampa, Idaho and their motto is restoring worth and value by redesigning and recreating recycled items. I love it. Everything is unique and eclectic and ranges from vintage to retro to modern. I love love love it. They have all sorts of stuff...mirrors, furniture, jewellery and....wait for it....mannequins !!!! All I wanna do now is go to Idaho and shop!

Images from http://brassrazooboutique.com/home.html

They also have a facebook page where they update their stock! Check it out!
http://www.facebook.com/brassrazooboutique

...DIY weekend....

I know its only Tuesday but I am very very excited for this weekend. We had a massive tree taken out in the garden yesterday and that just spurred on some DIY. So, we have big plans for our little housie. I am repainting the grey wall to a darker shade of grey, and the rest of the living room a light shade of grey! Then we wanna replant some plants and buy some other stuffies for our garden. This will be the first as Wollie and me have never done some gardening ever...will post some pictures of our hard work...promise!

I also really want a new TV stand as the one we have currently is one that belonged to the previous owner....its yukky! I stumbled across these beautiful thingies...don't think it will work as a TV cabinet but definitely gonna try and fit it in somewhere else in the house....its so pretty!

Images via pinterest...from http://www.futu.pl/futu,2,367.html?locale=pl_PL

PS: Cash converters and Pule will be very very happy on Monday as we are clearing out the garage and the extra room! Hopefully we will get some monies for some of the things!!!

...looky...

wow wow wow...so much inspiration on the interweb...look at these beautiful spaces!

Images from Country Living

...one day when i am big...

... I am going to open a beautiful shop...I have been wanting to open a little pretty space for ages now, that sells the most amazing stuff...cards, wrapping paper, photography, art, bags, cushions, jewellery, ipad covers and bearded hats (especially for Melinda), clothes, vintage suitcases (if I can find some) and all sorts of cool shiat. You can spend the afternoon at the shop drinking delicious coffee or a nice glass of wine, while relaxing in the sun and reading a good book, chatting with friends or listening to the playlists that jaylow will put together (thanks).

This blog Eat Drink Chic is what my shop looks like in my head...with all sorts of pretty!
Here is some of my inspiration...!

images are all from a combination of blogs i read daily...the list is on the side under ...blogs i love...

Come on people who will come and visit my shop?

...oh what a weekend...

(sorry its a little late but I am still waiting for pics from the hike...Sven?)

Yowzers guys...talk about a hectic weekend. We went hiking and moving and racing and cleaning all in one crazy weekend.
It started off with a hike in the Magaliesburg which Sven organized for us. It was a mission to get there as Kate, the GPS, took us on some serious 4x4 tracking routes. (pictures to follow soon...i hope)

On Sunday, Jess, Debbie, Dave and me did The Citizen race at the Jo burg Zoo. It was one of the prettiest races I have done, through the leafy suburbs of Parkhurst and ending at the Zoo...I highly recommend it....afterwards we cleaned all our garden rubble and then relaxed to the max!!!
wow...we were busy!

...oh so pretty but oh so small...

Guys, look at these BEAUTIFUL shoes that Wollie bought in Chicago. He asked for a size 6 which is my size in SA, but unfortunately in the US its a size 4...SO....they are waaaaaaaaaaaay to small for me (super sad face).
I just had to share with you guys how amazing Wollie's shoe taste is...I have trained him well, now I just need to train him on sizes. He brought back a huge suitcase full of goodies and will share the other stuff with you guys soon!!!

I think I need to start a shoe closet like this one where I can display these beauties and some of my other shoes...seeing that I am running out of space in my cupboards!

...a penny for my thoughts?...

I love unexpected stolen moments and therefore I heart this quote!

Image from: http://leilockheart.net/post/930726929

...2 hours to go....

...and then its the weeeeeekend baaaaaby!
I totally luuuuuuurve this DIOR ad...and thought it's a nice uplifting pic to share!
Happy weekend everyone!

...fashionable friday....

Not such a great week for me. So to cheer me up a little, I did some upliftment pretend online shopping. I love doing that, going onto all sorts of sites, filling up my shopping bag, admiring all the stuff and then closing the window...

Here are some of the things my shopping bag from Zara would have:

All images from ZARA

PS: sometimes it gets a little depressing!

...empty wall...

A while ago my dad came and did a whole lot of stuff at our house, like taking out one of our kitchen cupboard to make space for our fridge. Now our fridge is no longer in our dining room and therefor we have a nice empty wall to do stuff with. When I saw this picture, I thought its such a perfect temporary solution for the wall and it can be constantly updated. Don't you just love the idea. Best of all...once I found a permanent artwork for that empty wall, I can easily move the clipboards to my study area, (which is a work in progress at the moment but will show you guys once its done)!

Images from Smile and Wave
http://racheldenbow.blogspot.com/

...wedding bells...

Thought I would share this with you. The reason we went to the farm this weekend was to celebrate my cousins wedding...and its tradition in farmland for all single girls to throw the bride in the air on a chair and all single men throw the groom in the air to celebrate their holy matrimony. Everyone has to sing "hoch soll'n sie leben" while doing this! So here are the two pics...aren't they classic. Hope they enjoyed it!

Think the bride loved it...

...the groom definitely did...
 

...farmers weekend...

My cousin got married on Saturday, so my entire family met up in Northern Natal to celebrate this occasion. Us 6, my parents, sister & boyfriend and Wollie and me took some extra time off to have a nice relaxing 5day farmers weekend away. It was amazing!

On my Uncle's farm there is a massive mountain and we took it upon ourselves to summit this beauty! It takes about 3 hours to get up and some stages are really really tough. You have to climb up a massive rock face and have to crawl on your hands and knees to get through the jungle!

Stopping for a water break a third of the way!

Half way mark!

Wollie putting his feet up at the top!

Mom and me resting!

...spring time baby...

ITS OFFICIALLY SPRING!!! and I wanna share this pretty pic!
Go out, have a cocktail and celebrate the first day of spring!!!

Images from: http://pinterest.com/pin/480447/