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This is just a quick blog to show you the awesomeness that is KITTENS!!!!
Meet Barry
and Sushi
On Christmas
Not so happy after a bath..
The end
Happy Holidays everyone!!!!
I leave you with my favourite video at the moment, that I found the other day. The people who made it definately understand me, Tarion and PunkSkunk
Meet Barry
and Sushi
On Christmas
Not so happy after a bath..
The end
Happy Holidays everyone!!!!
I leave you with my favourite video at the moment, that I found the other day. The people who made it definately understand me, Tarion and PunkSkunk
This year is almost over! I have to admit, I am a total Christmas-zilla, I have already wrapped all my Christmas presents.
Hello Kitty Advent Calender (I finished it already
)
Gingerbread cupcakes with cream cheese and cinnamon icing
Even Coco is getting in the spirit and making it snow in the lounge!
I've been baking a lot too. I find it kind of therapeutic. The last week has been a bit of a cluster-fuck. We got robbed (luckily we got our stuff back) but the man they caught had said he was hungry, and it all just felt really terrible. I also found out my best friend is sick with something called aplastic anaemia which is a dis-functioning in the bone marrow's cell production as far as I know, so the last few days have been full of hospitals and tears. I heard this morning that he is responding really well to treatment which is amazing news
In other rather lame news, I did a hair show and they chopped ALL my hair off, I totally hate it so I'm going to wear a hat for the next 2 years until it grows back. haha
I woke up on Friday morning to a rainy day and discovered the gardener had made my dogs rain coats out of bubble wrap so they could still help him in the garden . They love him so much and follow him everywhere. He said they had refused to go inside even though it was raining. It made my week
Hello Kitty Advent Calender (I finished it already
)Gingerbread cupcakes with cream cheese and cinnamon icing
Even Coco is getting in the spirit and making it snow in the lounge!
I've been baking a lot too. I find it kind of therapeutic. The last week has been a bit of a cluster-fuck. We got robbed (luckily we got our stuff back) but the man they caught had said he was hungry, and it all just felt really terrible. I also found out my best friend is sick with something called aplastic anaemia which is a dis-functioning in the bone marrow's cell production as far as I know, so the last few days have been full of hospitals and tears. I heard this morning that he is responding really well to treatment which is amazing news
In other rather lame news, I did a hair show and they chopped ALL my hair off, I totally hate it so I'm going to wear a hat for the next 2 years until it grows back. haha
I woke up on Friday morning to a rainy day and discovered the gardener had made my dogs rain coats out of bubble wrap so they could still help him in the garden . They love him so much and follow him everywhere. He said they had refused to go inside even though it was raining. It made my week
This past week I went to the beach.
The drive down is always very pretty, especially in the Summer. Everything is green.
Can you spot the dassie?
Things seem to be going in slow-motion since I finished university, so I don't have much to write about right now.. instead I will leave you with the hotness of Lumo
and Pyke
The drive down is always very pretty, especially in the Summer. Everything is green.
Can you spot the dassie?
Things seem to be going in slow-motion since I finished university, so I don't have much to write about right now.. instead I will leave you with the hotness of Lumo
and Pyke
Thank you for all the comments on my new set, it is really lovely to read through them.
For anyone who is interested, the set was shot on a picturesque beach on the West Coast of South Africa, in Pearl Bay at a dreamy place called The White House
(I stole this off their website)
Thank you talamia for helping me brave the cold and losing your shoe in the process and Tarion for being an awesome super-ninja look-out
My own home, in Johannesburg is at it's prettiest, as Summer is now in full bloom.
The streets in my suburb are lined with purple Jacaranda's. I have very bad eye sight, so when I take my glasses off all I can see is a magnificent purple blur above me.
This is complimented with scatterings of Bougainvillaea's
My house is in a prime location, I am not far from the city centre and my my University. (About a 5min drive) Along the back and side of my house -separated by one road- are the Melville Koppies. A nature reserve and Heritage site. I think this is why my garden is home to so much birdlife. Every year the weavers make their nests in the big trees outside my window, I can hear them talking when I wake up. Sometimes, if I am lucky, when I come home at night, I can catch an owl sitting in one of the trees.
The little hills overlook the Joburg skyline, so I guess I have the best of both worlds.
On the other side of my house, about 3km down is the Emmarentia Dam and Rose gardens, this is a man-made dam (about 100 years old) and park and my dogs' favourite place.
For anyone who is interested, the set was shot on a picturesque beach on the West Coast of South Africa, in Pearl Bay at a dreamy place called The White House
(I stole this off their website
)Thank you talamia for helping me brave the cold and losing your shoe in the process and Tarion for being an awesome super-ninja look-out
My own home, in Johannesburg is at it's prettiest, as Summer is now in full bloom.
The streets in my suburb are lined with purple Jacaranda's. I have very bad eye sight, so when I take my glasses off all I can see is a magnificent purple blur above me.
This is complimented with scatterings of Bougainvillaea's
My house is in a prime location, I am not far from the city centre and my my University. (About a 5min drive) Along the back and side of my house -separated by one road- are the Melville Koppies. A nature reserve and Heritage site. I think this is why my garden is home to so much birdlife. Every year the weavers make their nests in the big trees outside my window, I can hear them talking when I wake up. Sometimes, if I am lucky, when I come home at night, I can catch an owl sitting in one of the trees.
The little hills overlook the Joburg skyline, so I guess I have the best of both worlds.
On the other side of my house, about 3km down is the Emmarentia Dam and Rose gardens, this is a man-made dam (about 100 years old) and park and my dogs' favourite place.
Considering I have just finished my final week of University, I decided to make a blog in summation of my 4 years there:
In first year I was an eager little blond girl..
On top of my art subjects I took Psychology and hated it.
I made this sculpture out of cardboard:
In second year, I was slightly less excited about art and became a brunette
Although I stopped enjoying art, I did find a new passion in Art Criticism and Linguistics.
One of the most interesting parts to that year, was an essay I wrote about 'Ere Ibeji.' The word 'ere' meaning: image and 'ibeji' meaning: twins.the Yoruba group has an exceptionally high rate of twin births and twins are regarded as very special spiritual beings in the community. If one or both twins should die the mother must commission a sculptor to carve a twin commemorative figure (usually out of wood) known as ere ibeji. The underlying belief for this tradition is that although the twins are physically double, they are one spiritually.
From the essay:
“M ba bejire (If I had twins)
M ba jo (I would dance)
M ba bejire (If I had twins)
M ba yo (I would rejoice)
O wole alakisa (They entered a household full of poverty)
O salakisa dalaso (Transformed it into one full of wealth)” (Okedigi: p. 180)
Third year was a blur, I knew already that I didn't want a job in the art world but I decided to stick the degree out as I was over half way. I dabbled in animation and some photography but I didn't commit to creating anything worthwhile.
This year began and I changed my major to Digital Arts and changed my hair to red.
My final Animation is handed in, my thesis is completed and it's over just like that.
In first year I was an eager little blond girl..
On top of my art subjects I took Psychology and hated it.
I made this sculpture out of cardboard:
In second year, I was slightly less excited about art and became a brunette
Although I stopped enjoying art, I did find a new passion in Art Criticism and Linguistics.
One of the most interesting parts to that year, was an essay I wrote about 'Ere Ibeji.' The word 'ere' meaning: image and 'ibeji' meaning: twins.the Yoruba group has an exceptionally high rate of twin births and twins are regarded as very special spiritual beings in the community. If one or both twins should die the mother must commission a sculptor to carve a twin commemorative figure (usually out of wood) known as ere ibeji. The underlying belief for this tradition is that although the twins are physically double, they are one spiritually.
From the essay:
“M ba bejire (If I had twins)
M ba jo (I would dance)
M ba bejire (If I had twins)
M ba yo (I would rejoice)
O wole alakisa (They entered a household full of poverty)
O salakisa dalaso (Transformed it into one full of wealth)” (Okedigi: p. 180)
Third year was a blur, I knew already that I didn't want a job in the art world but I decided to stick the degree out as I was over half way. I dabbled in animation and some photography but I didn't commit to creating anything worthwhile.
This year began and I changed my major to Digital Arts and changed my hair to red.
My final Animation is handed in, my thesis is completed and it's over just like that.
Hello SG land! It's been a totally insane week for me, I finished the first draft of my thesis (I'll post an excerpt for anyone who wants to read some of it.) My deadlines are drawing closer and so is my impending graduation, this is all coupled with mixed feelings of excitement and terror, I'm glad I stuck out my degree but I know totally and wholly that studying Fine Art was a mistake and is not what I want to do.. so I'm not entirely sure what next year holds for me.
Anyway.. I cut all my hair off! With Summer almost in full swing I decided it was time for a shorter change
I also wanted to thank everyone for the love about my cat - it really did help.
and I shall leave you with bits and bobs from my thesis here:
Anyway.. I cut all my hair off! With Summer almost in full swing I decided it was time for a shorter change
I also wanted to thank everyone for the love about my cat - it really did help.
and I shall leave you with bits and bobs from my thesis here:
P.S I came second in the pole competition and will post some pictures as soon as I get them
South African Suicide Girls Shoot Fest
It went down here:
and it was AMAZE-BALLS!!!!!! Thank you guys
Me and Hadess cooked up some clove-tastic meals, seriously it was the only spice they had, and it was GROSS!
Hadess did let me spoon her for warmth
and we shared a delightful moment in the bath..
I finally got to meet Lumo and she is so SUPER genuinely nice, and adorable and she made my toenails all nice and painted Best Evs!
Tarion and Lumo being adoreable
We had some fun in a forest..
Outdoorsy Pyke sitting in a scary porn nest we found in the forest!
Even talamia got into the mood, but she kind of lost her nose in this picture?
The last night there we set off lanterns into the pitch black sky
(P.S lanterns are all fun and games until someone starts a forest fire, just saying!)
Tarion, Hadess and myself got to play Project Runway.
Here are some sneaky peeks for some SA sexiness:
It went down here:
and it was AMAZE-BALLS!!!!!! Thank you guys
Me and Hadess cooked up some clove-tastic meals, seriously it was the only spice they had, and it was GROSS!
Hadess did let me spoon her for warmth
and we shared a delightful moment in the bath.. I finally got to meet Lumo and she is so SUPER genuinely nice, and adorable and she made my toenails all nice and painted
Best Evs!Tarion and Lumo being adoreable
We had some fun in a forest..
Outdoorsy Pyke sitting in a scary porn nest we found in the forest!
Even talamia got into the mood, but she kind of lost her nose in this picture?
The last night there we set off lanterns into the pitch black sky
(P.S lanterns are all fun and games until someone starts a forest fire, just saying!)
Tarion, Hadess and myself got to play Project Runway.
Here are some sneaky peeks for some SA sexiness:
All in all I feel totally lucky that I have such a nice group of ladies to hang with.
I let Lola read all your lovely comments on my
set so..
I got back on Sunday from my whirlwind first-time visit to Mozambique. Quite an exciting adventure we had.. I went with to watch a friends band play at a music festival there. We got up at 4am on Friday, piled into a stuffed van and so began the 12 hour drive into the sunrise.
We stopped for a leg stretch at the most amazing and vast dam just outside the border, I didn't even know it existed until now, sadly none of my pictures do justice to the epic size.
I saw a rainbow which always makes me smile
The border post was quite a shock for me, I walked straight through to Mozambique to sit at their 'border bar' and no one batted an eyelid or attempted to stamp my passport, after having a drink I started to feel bad so I walked back across in search of someone who wanted to stamp it, the man seemed pretty upset that I wanted him to move even.
I found an amazing. huge moth in the bathroom. It was about as big as my hand, reminds me that I haven't seen a moth in ages!
We had to leave the van at the border because the roads were too bad to drive on, then we all climbed on to the back of a bakkie with the sun setting behind us.
I will fast forward through the part where we arrive at our accommodation (an empty campsite, with no tents) right to where I am sleeping in a cabin, listening to the ocean. I could feel the wind gently rocking the room which at that point was strangely comforting.
I woke up to the ocean looking me right in the face and we ate breakfast looking back at it
That day we had the beach all to ourselves, there was not another soul in sight, nor a bird for that matter. It made me very sad that the whole trip I did not see a single bird, animal, even spider - I'm told that during the war most of the wildlife was wiped out and used for bush meat.
That evening we went to the show, the vibe was really nice, just a bunch of people who loved music regardless of the style and everyone was dressed like superheroes, I had a good time and the band let me throw their giant balloons to the crowd
We woke up the next day and set off and eventually in the distance, I could see the familiar Joburg skyline
I was greeted by a flurry of tail wagging which always makes me glad to be back.
Me and my furry friend are still in Member Review if you would like to have a look here
We stopped for a leg stretch at the most amazing and vast dam just outside the border, I didn't even know it existed until now, sadly none of my pictures do justice to the epic size.
I saw a rainbow which always makes me smile
The border post was quite a shock for me, I walked straight through to Mozambique to sit at their 'border bar' and no one batted an eyelid or attempted to stamp my passport, after having a drink I started to feel bad so I walked back across in search of someone who wanted to stamp it, the man seemed pretty upset that I wanted him to move even.
I found an amazing. huge moth in the bathroom. It was about as big as my hand, reminds me that I haven't seen a moth in ages!
We had to leave the van at the border because the roads were too bad to drive on, then we all climbed on to the back of a bakkie with the sun setting behind us.
I will fast forward through the part where we arrive at our accommodation (an empty campsite, with no tents) right to where I am sleeping in a cabin, listening to the ocean. I could feel the wind gently rocking the room which at that point was strangely comforting.
I woke up to the ocean looking me right in the face and we ate breakfast looking back at it
That day we had the beach all to ourselves, there was not another soul in sight, nor a bird for that matter. It made me very sad that the whole trip I did not see a single bird, animal, even spider - I'm told that during the war most of the wildlife was wiped out and used for bush meat.
That evening we went to the show, the vibe was really nice, just a bunch of people who loved music regardless of the style and everyone was dressed like superheroes, I had a good time and the band let me throw their giant balloons to the crowd
We woke up the next day and set off and eventually in the distance, I could see the familiar Joburg skyline
I was greeted by a flurry of tail wagging which always makes me glad to be back.
Me and my furry friend are still in Member Review if you would like to have a look here
