check(mate)

• Go to bank to get new access password for internet banking
• Update blog
• Get new gym attire
• Go to gym
• Get wrapping paper to wrap X'mas gift for office party
• Sign new lease
• Drop-off new lease
• Phone Claire and arrange to get funding for and buying X'mas gifts for Guguletu orphans
• Design new portfolio - digital, live and hard copy
• Update CV
• Design new business card
• Apply for new job
• Finish freelance work
• E-mail client re: freelance work
• Organise bakkie / trailer for big move
• Get friends together to help move
• Buy pots and pans
• Make X'mas gifts for family
• Find out about photography courses
• Call that guy about kayaking
• Back-up design files and photos to DVD
• Pack
• E-mail Dad
• Call Granny
• Pay bills

I felt inspired by the gift I got for X'mas from Pienk Zuit to share my to do list with you. It doubles as my excuse for not posting interestingly.

Merry X'mas, fellow bloggers, and God bless. (Check)

oil and water okay?

Earlier today one of my colleagues asked a very profound question: "Does anyone know what the petrol price is?" Not a single person in the studio could answer him. Guesses ranged from R6,50 to R7,50. Some tried to Google it. One girl offered: "I know it's going down again soon." Turns out, non of the above mentioned colleague's "digs mates" knew the answer either. Nor did the people he spoke to on the phone last night. Incredible. Engen and friends could be cheating us out of our money a cent at a time, and we wouldn't even know.

Does anyone know what the petrol price is?

arty farty...

The good people from What if the world..., a gallery I've mentioned before, has come up with the most delightful idea: A Neighbour Goods Market, held every Saturday at the Old Biscuit Mill in Woodstock, Cape Town. Fast becoming a trendy hangout in a previously dodgy area, the revamped mill is host to some very artsy (and touristy at times) shops. The market is held in a big ol' shed. PERFECT for X'mas shopping, if you're so inclined. (I won't be doing any X'mas shopping this year. I'm making all my own gifts. I say I do this because I want to boycott commercial overspending, but I'm just really broke.)

...featuring over 50 vendors selling 'all things nice.'

The weekly Saturday market will be housed in a beautiful old sky lit warehouse at the newly refurbished Old Biscuit Mill, Woodstock.

Neighbour Goods is as much a source for organic foods and locally produced goods, as it is a meeting point to enjoy community, swap ideas and stories, and become educated about what we buy and eat by going directly to the source. The market has been created along ethical, eco-friendly and organic lines, to offer a wide range of wholesome delicious foods and products from the community of Cape Town.

A friend and I went last Saturday. All things really were very nice... So nice, in fact, that she went home to fetch her husband, so they could spend his money. :)

Some lovely collage pieces for sale at the What if the world... gallery's second space at the Old Biscuit Mill too.

A weekend in De Kelders

The girls and I spent this past weekend in De Kelders, a dorpie just outside Hermanus. It's about 250 km from Cape Town... and it's heaven!



That's a whale in the middle of the photograph. :)

Some recent photographs

Kids from an orphanage in Guguletu




Hiking at Slivermine, Noordhoek




My gorgeous friend, Mari-Lise, at Summerville, Camps Bay



More street art

Emotion Part 1:

Why do we take for granted the time we have, but when it has run out, we crave it so deeply that we cannot think of anything else and it gives us physical pain?

Today I will tell you of my experience with the greatest muse I know: Emotion. Real, physical emotion. The kind that makes you dream strange dreams and leaves you in the middle of the night to deal with anxiety by yourself in the morning. The kind that makes your heart beat so fast, you're afraid the people around you might hear it. The kind that sends eerie shivers down your spine, taking the blood from your head with it, until it has all drained, and you feel light headed. The kind that makes your heart contract so quickly that it stops and freezes for a moment too long. The kind that makes you pull at your clothes, or keeps you swaying from the one foot to the other. The kind that gets you so angry that you abuse the objects coming in your way as you hurry to nowhere in particular. The kind that makes you stare at something you do not see.

The polls

This is a logo I designed for a shop that sells children's stationery and educational toys. We (at the studio) can't decide which one to go with. They're all pretty much the same, except for the shadows. We also need some help with the colour palette. Please crit!