baby on board

Baby on Board {baby shower}

Cornelia hosted the stylish affair on their farm, Kalmoesfontein, just outside Malmesbury. A few of us worked together to create the perfect event for this special babyshower. It was very warm and loving with a cosy farm theme, complete with freshly laid fortune eggs as gifts for the guests. Oh, and the food made by my partner, Cara was a mouth full of delight! A very big thank you to Cornelia for letting us be part of this amazing event. Another gigantic thank you to Maree form Natural Light Photography http://naturallightphotography.co.za/for the amazing photos, like always!

DIY headboard

This is one of the easiest & inexpensive items you can make yourself to uplift and change a bedroom! I just love these upholstered headboards and cannot wait to make my own one.

All you need is a sheet of press wood, foam, good quality upholstery material, buttons, staple gun, pair of scissors, paper, pencil and a ruler.

If the room is quite small, it is best to elevate the headboard to create height in the room. It is also a nice feature & showpiece in the room when it is quite high, so do not be scared of playing with it! Use a colour for the headboard that will not overwhelm the space and rather play with colour when choosing bed linen. A nice colour to use for the headboard would be ash grey or ivory white.

TIP: Add some bedside lights that will compliment the high headboard. So one of my favourite ideas is to hang bedside tables from the ceiling above bedside table, instead of using standing bedside lamps. This also creates more space on your bedside table for books, clocks and some flowers! 

DIY mobile

Great styling item for a baby’s room, styling for a special event or as a gift to a friend. You can play with any colour, texture and decorating items such as birds, butterflies and flowers or just keep it simplistic by mixing satin ribbons, cotton ribbon and lace is fantastic!

You will need:

1.     Rope

2.     Hula-hoop

3.     Glue

4.     Gut

5.     Decorating goodies 

Start by wrapping your naked hula-hoop in a pretty ribbon and clueing the ends neatly.

Cut nice long strings of gut and tie the decorating goodies to the gut.

When you have a selection of decorated strings it is best to hang your hula- hoop from the ceiling first and then start adding the strings to get the right balance.

 

ἄνθρωπος μέτρον

 OPA!!! lets celebrate greece and brake some plates

Greece is a country with a particularly rich and ancient history. 

The Classical Period of Greece History (6th -4th centuries BC) was the Golden Age and the most famous world wide; during this period lived the greatest philosophers and mathematicians.

Greeks are particularly proud of their culture and stick to it with particular passion, feeling that their culture is a definition of their national and ethnic belonging. Traditions, religion, music, language, food and wines are the major composants of Greece Culture and constitute.

The cuisine of has influences from Italian, Balkan and Middle Eastern cuisine. Greek cuisine incorporates fresh ingredients into a variety of local dishes such as moussaka, stifado and spanakopita. Throughout people often enjoy eating from small dishes.  Too much elaboration is generally considered to be against the hearty spirit of the Greek cuisine.

Greeks do not brake plates to release their frustration from work. It is a celebration tradition in Greece. Whenever something or someone is celebrated they will have a feast and brake some plates. They normally gather in a circle and brake some plates in a very elegant and subtle way while shouting OPA! 

The food, beautiful people and their inspiring traditions, I just love greece! 

Decorex's Inspirational Theatre 

What a pleasure it was to present at the Decorex show this year! Reworking the Sunday lunch by creating wonderful food with Simonsberg cheese and styling the table in a effortless and affordable manner. I showed the audience how to wow your guests with easy and affordable decor.

Although this was very stressful, as we have never done something like this before, we enjoyed it very much! It was great that the audience came and spoke to us afterwards. It seems like people liked what we did!

Errieda du Tiot wrote a very flattering article about us at Decorex, which was published in Burger. Other than that, here are some beautiful photo's, taking by the very talented Roxy, of our Decorex presentation. The food was beautifully prepared and demonstrated by Cara, while I did the table styling for our Modern Sunday lunch!