Tag: Beauty

Fabric

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I always wondered whether someone is born creative or if it is a skill you can learn. My grandmother was a simple farm wife who never went to big fashion stores, or any type of craft market or creative event, but she was the most creative person I’ve known. She made the most beautiful doillies you can imagine by never even looking at a pattern or design.  After digging deep in her closet I even found the most amaizing dresses she made from scraps of material.

So, to answer my own question I thing you are born creative – I think you either have a creative mind or not, but you only need a little creativity to be inspired by anything beautiful. If you disagree, please feel free to share your point of view.

Hence my love for fabric, colour and patterns. I love making something beautiful out of something totally useless. This year I want to focus more on fabric, not just any fabric, but natural fabric, cotton, linen (made from flax), silk, wool, cashmere and hemp. I want to study and research print and dy methods. And, I want to make beautiful things.

Just have a look at Kelly Fletchers beautiful creations to also give you some inspiration for 2018. There’s also a book – Embroidered Home

 

My newly found passion – Skinny LaMinx

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I’ve reasontly decided to start move over to the ‘sales’ industry and after various considerations I decided to try do something with one of my favorite brands – Skinny LaMinx – I contacted them and they were more than willing to accommodate me with my new adventure.

Watch this space for more information in the new year. In the meantime, feed your soul and start plannning your next make-over.

 

Images: Skinny LaMinx

Slowing down & enjoying the simple life

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I just read that there is a new book on the market that everybody should read. It’s called THE SUBTLE ART OF NOT GIVING A F*CK by Mark Manson. In short, he focuses on the fact that life is hard, and that you must rather learn to deal with it and not just expect everything to be positive, to actually ignore the let’s-all-feel-good mindset that has infected our society. We’re busy spoiling our generation, by rewarding them gold medals just by showing up…and that ain’t on. Life is hard, and the secret is that you must enjoy, appreciate and be grateful for what you have, who you are and where you live.

The simple truth is that we are busy chasing things that aren’t real. Hence, my heading “slowing down & enjoying the simple life”, everybody is searching frantically for the best, most beautiful house, best clothes, fastest car….and if it isn’t working just go and buy a new one. We are teaching our children that everything is replaceable, that money can fix anything, and being the most beautiful, with the best hair due, best make-up and best-manicured nails are the things that make us happy….guess what, that isn’t true.

So…this year I’m pressing pause on a lot of things and rather live out my toolkit gained over the years. I’m sharing it with you, hoping that you will be able to take one of them home and live a better, happier life.

  • Define your goals and share them with family, friends and colleagues so that they can understand you.
  • Plan, plan, plan – set goals and review them. If you don’t have a plan how would you know when you get there?
  • Always be yourself – no-one else is better qualified.
  • Be happy – the purpose of life is happiness and the key to happiness is in your own hands.
  • Always continue to learn – you’re never too old!!
  • Say ‘I’m sorry’
  • Keep demanding excellence for yourself
  • Just be happy!!!

 

 

Magazines

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I absolutely love magazines. You can almost say it is my secret little addiction. Some women have a shoe fetish, and some have a handbag fetish, so why can’t I have a magazine fetish?

I love the feeling when I page through a brand new magazine, the smell of the pages and the sheer feeling of excitement just to see what new thing is on the next page. I sometimes just quickly page through a magazine to quickly see what is all the nice things inside and then I leave it for later…when I can sit back, relax with a glass of wine and slowly absorb every single image, text, and page in the magazine.

I love reading the articles and absorb how the author has chosen his / her words to get her message over. I even love it more to look at each image and analyse each piece of it. I even sometimes see a flaw on the image where the stylist missed something, and it makes me feel good about my own home and life. Just to know that magazines can also sometimes get it wrong.

I take such good care of my magazines my children aren’t even allowed to page through them. Each magazine has a special place on my bookshelf and I often go back to previous additions and relive every single emotion as if it is the first time I’m reading it.

I’ve travelled the world through magazines and I’ve become the skinniest woman, cooked the best meals and have the most beautiful home, by just reading. By reading a magazine my imagination just opens like a beautiful flower in spring. It’s funny how just one small image could start a whole new dream, that leads to a new project, that leads to a new corner in your garden, or new table in your home.

Thank you to all publishers out there for the amazing magazines we have!!