i use tumblr to keep up with a bunch of great art blogs, and this is how i discovered Fly Art. “a homage to the finer things in life: Art and Hip Hop.” you should go and trawl through the pieces, because the new names of the artworks are almost as great as the quotes themselves.
Abby Seymour is an Australian jewellery designer slash nice things maker (she also makes prints and other objects) whose earrings i REALLY have a thing for. specifically these little tassels!
when a professional photographer gets on Instagram, you know you’re in for a good time. today’s Double Tap features Juanel de la Forêt, a photographer from Cape Town currently working in Paris / London with her partner Jesse-Leigh Elford – you can see their portfolio here. she takes wonderful snaps in her day to day …
July things! you can just click on the sweet little icons to be taken to the items. [show_ms_widget id=”556878″ image_id=”641410″ width=”1320″ height=”5010″]
here’s an update from the Elizabeth Suzann (previously blogged about here) whose new SS2014 collection is simple and lovely. these clothes feel like the height of summer to me. as i’m typing this it’s POURING with rain outside my window, and we seem as far away from summer as can be – but i know that …
some new pieces and lovely lookbook shots from Paloma Wool. love that pink button down skirt. you can read more about Paloma Wool in my post about them earlier this year.
i love these oil paintings by local artist Alexia Vogel. Alexia Vogel is a recent Michaelis School of Fine Art graduate. She considers all of her paintings landscapes, even the most abstract ones. She works from old family photographs of landscapes which she feels are imbued with a romantic sentimentality. Her work is very personal, as she considers it the affect of …
i really feel like my bag obsession is getting out of hand. sometimes i think i might to have to buy duplicate wallets and cosmetics and keys just so i can keep a set in each of my bags (don’t you hate transferring your stuff every time? yes i know that is the ultimate in laziness). …
Toino Abel was started by Nuno Henriques with the aim to preserve the tradition of Portuguese reed basket weaving. Nuno’s great-grandfather José began his basket-weaving business in the small Portuguese village of Castanheira, and today the business is still run by Nuno’s grand-aunt and employs 6 weavers who make the baskets by hand just as …
last week my husband and i decided to go on a spontaneous road trip from Durban to Cape Town. he had just bought a new car from a dealer up country, so we put it through a 1800km journey on some serious gravel roads and epic mountain passes to see what it could do.