Tag Archives: south africa

skermunkil

By diana | Published: 26/02/2010

marietjie & her team at skermunkil have been churning out amazing stuff for the design indaba expo this weekend (from today the 26th till sunday the 28th). i’m so looking forward to seeing their stand (and perhaps making a sneaky purchase)

Posted in Design | Also tagged design indaba, jewellery, jewellery design, local design, marietjie, necklaces, rings, skermunkil jewellery | Leave a comment

die laaitjie

By diana | Published: 24/02/2010

friends of mine are going to die laaitjie in robertson for a weekend away.

Die Laaitjie is so called as it nestles in the smallest and last of the Dassieshoek valleys in the Langeberg mountains. Despite being so completely remote, the farm is only 7 kilometres from the centre of Robertson. The farm is situated alone in a bowl made by the surrounding mountains. 25 Ha of the farm consists of peach, pear and apricot trees, all of which fill the valley with colourful blossoms during the spring months. The mountains themselves are criss-crossed with hiking, walking

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Posted in My Stuff | Also tagged cottage, die laaitjie, farm, outdoors, robertson, self catering, Travel, weekend getaway | 4 Comments

haasbroek t-shirts

By diana | Published: 08/02/2010

remember the Z-A series by jaco haasbroek? well, he’s submitted a design to threadless that shows the entire character alphabet and people need to vote for it so it can be printed. i would personally LOVE this on a t-shirt!

so please hop over to threadless and vote

Posted in Illustration | Also tagged Illustration, jaco haasbroek, t-shirt, threadless, z-a series | Leave a comment

suburbs

By diana | Published: 02/02/2010

i am one of 4 kids, the only girl amongst 3 boys. and we grew up in the burbs where all the neighbour’s kids were boys too. so i was the little girl running after all of them, trying to convince them that i could also build treehouses and shoot katties (slingshots). most of the time i ended up hanging out inside drawing at the table, because they wouldn’t let me play with them (aaw)… but sometimes we would do stuff like this:

weeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Posted in My Stuff | Also tagged family, family photos, kids, suburbs | Leave a comment

lucky diana

By diana | Published: 01/02/2010

hey look what i got in the mail this afternoon!

Posted in My Stuff | Also tagged angie, birds, friends, gifts, lucky pony | 2 Comments

wines of the cape

By diana | Published: 29/01/2010

i discovered this rad little gem hidden in the depths of a bookcase at my parent’s house (as you do). it was printed in paarl in 1959.

Posted in Illustration | Also tagged africana, entertaining, fifties, Illustration, mid-century modern, recipes, roman waher, sixties, Vintage, wine, wines of the cape | 3 Comments

beachy keen

By diana | Published: 13/01/2010

i didn’t take a lot of photos this holiday because i was either eating, reading, drinking, eating, lying in the sun, snoozing, eating, drinking, walking on the beach, riding my bike, eating, napping etc etc. you know? but i did wander onto the beach one evening before sunset to take these shots. the sky really was all pink & blue! maaagical.

Posted in Photography | Also tagged beach, betty's bay, holiday, photographs, Photography, summer, sunset, surfers, vacation | 5 Comments

africanis

By diana | Published: 04/01/2010

In Daniel Naudé’s first solo show, he presents a world that appears to be a fairy tale, or a fictional place: We see a donkey with the grace of a race horse. Next to an impossibly beautiful rainbow, a white mule almost turns into a unicorn. The hills and veld that Naudé invites us to traverse are filled with wonderful creatures, each more proud, perfect, and present than the next.

really wish i could go to Daniel’s first solo show African Scenery & Animals at Brodie/Stevenson, showing from 26 Jan-13 Feb. if you’re in Joburg, be… Read the rest

Posted in Photography | Also tagged africa, african, african scenery & animals, africanis, africanis dog, animals, brodie/stevenson, Daniel Naudé, dog, dog of africa, exhibition, gallery, landscape, livestock, nature, photographer, Photography, scenery, south african | 1 Comment

memories

By diana | Published: 21/12/2009

i’m on holiday for a wee while. just over 3 weeks to be exact, boom! i won’t be on the computer much (or at all, hopefully) – but i have set up some posts to go off like clockwork around here. so, to keep going with the summer / holiday spirit…. here are some lovely old beach pics for you:

From 1959 to 1963 my father took photos of ordinary people in Cape Town.

found these amazing vintage shots by liberty littlebasil’s dad from the beaches & pools of cape town in the memory bane… Read the rest

Posted in Vintage | Also tagged beach, beaches, cape town, holiday, Photography, photos, sea, sixties, Vintage | 1 Comment

favs

By diana | Published: 19/12/2009

took these for a guest post i did over at elle decor – see lots more at my flickr

Posted in Photography | Also tagged Food, nook, Photography, photos, restaurant, stellenbosch | 2 Comments

hello fox

By diana | Published: 04/12/2009

angie & her friend jo have created all this amazing handmade jewellery for the Charity Angel’s flea market

Bedfordview Pre-Primary School – 22 Kings Road Bedfordview (across from St Benedicts), 10am to 3pm on sunday the 6 December, THIS sunday.

if you’re in the area code go buy some stuff for pete’s sake! (i looove those brooches)

Posted in Design | Also tagged brooches, buttons, charity, earrings, flea market, handmade, hello fox, jewellery, johannesburg, local, market, rings | 1 Comment

i want to go to there

By diana | Published: 28/11/2009

holy moly, it’s only 18 odd days and then my SUMMER HOLIDAY starts. today i’m reflecting on summer holidays of old, 99.9% of the time spent by the sea (where else?). our family haunts were:

knysna:

knysna

when i was very small, we went camping in knysna. i don’t remember much else apart from squishing around in the mud of the lagoon when it was low tide looking for crabs. the ever present silver kombi was there (that thing took us everywhere, all over south africa, for years and years – then it was stolen from outside my parent’s… Read the rest

Posted in My Stuff | Also tagged beach, betty's bay, castle dumpies, family, family photographs, garden route, holiday, houseboat, knysna, kraalbaai, langebaan, sailing, sea, seaside, snapshots, summer, vacation, west coast, windsurfing, yacht | 6 Comments

look at nook

By diana | Published: 18/11/2009

oh YAY Jessica & Luke’s restaurant Nook has been featured in the December issue of House & Leisure!

so excited & proud of them, if you guys haven’t visited yet – please do

Posted in My Stuff | Also tagged bistro, cafe, eating out, Food, homemade, house and leisure, jessica shepherd, luke grant, magazine, nook, nook eatery, pastries, restaurant, stellenbosch | Leave a comment

kris·miss·moss gift guide

By diana | Published: 17/11/2009

i’m thinking about christmas already. sigh. my family has instituted a one gift per person R100 limit (to combat the “meltdown“). i told them R100 is almost impossible, so i’m shooting for under 200 bucks. anything handmade is great to me, and anything i can order online is even better. if i can walk to a shop – wonderful, but that kind of limits you geographically & since i’m out in “the sticks” (as some might say) i welcome e-commerce with open arms (i’m also lazy). PLUS i’d also like to inject some christmas cheer into the south african postal

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Posted in My Stuff | Also tagged bags, beatnik bazaar, books, buy cool, caitlin quiet, christmas, clothing, couchies, curios, decor, dvds, etsy, franzart, gift guide, gifts, handmade, holidays, jewellery, jezze prints, kim gray, marisa girardi, moleskine, online shopping, presents, sewing, shine shine, skinny laminx, take2.co.za, textiles, the wren, threadless, victoria's secret | 5 Comments

boogie woogie board

By diana | Published: 12/11/2009

my mom snapped these in the late afternoon at kogel bay – bear in mind that they were taken from the coastal road above the beach – if you have ever been to kogel bay you’ll know how far away that is. love this sequence & the sunset light on the water.