Lines of Thought

The last two weeks have been a blur of busyness. Work has occupied every second of my nine to five and my triathlon training had moved up a notch. On top of things I also decided to try my hand at drawing after many years and entered myself into an exhibition.

The Collective is a beautiful little art gallery, situated at the bottom of Florida Road, snuggly fit next to Ike's Bookstore. A space where artists or up-and-coming artist such as myself can show off their talents without the clinical eyes of art professionals. New exhibitions are launched every two weeks, with most opening nights on a Monday. All artwork is for sale at an affordable price giving the young art collectors/hipsters a chance to cash in on the art buying tradition of One-of-a-kinds.

Lines of Thought was the name of the exhibition I entered myself into, with only a blue ballpoint pen as your medium and an A5 booklet to fill - my creative mind was only to excited (and nervous) to let loose.

If I were to give advice to any apprehensive artists out there, I would tell you to just go ahead and do it. The feeling of finding your creative child again and exposing him/her to the world, is the most exhilarating thing anyone can do. Especially if you sell it all. Eeeeek!

Thank you Amy-Jo for giving my art a new home to live in. I hope it brings smiles to many an admirer :)

Ameezing, fashion, happiness

Did you know that there are blogs out there that are purely for the benefit of a good heart-warming sesh? These three blogs are what I like to call my daily outings from the world of brands and SM (Social Media), little pieces of adventure that occupy my morning coffee. Bookmark, tag them and tab them - these posts of prettiness (and awkwardness and real life dramas and fashion fantasies and creative passion) are to be your best friends. Forever.

1. Ameezing

This is Camilla, and this is her All Things AMEEZING blog. Gosh what I wouldn't be able to accomplish if I didn't have a piece of her life to start off my day. She writes in real time all the way from the bottom of her sometimes aching heart to the tips of her daily doing shoes. Each post is so delicately put together, you'll need to make a cup of tea, call the cat on your lap and savor up every vowel. In my words, amazing.
http://ameezing.wordpress.com/


2. Happiness is...

This may or may not be one of my best friends, and I promise I am not going to be biased but I also have to say that I will be. Dear Fathima, Happiness is… you. Thank you for fulling up those lonely moments of red wine with bits of creative deliciousness to nibble on. From lovelies around the web, (she does know the www backwards), to delectable scribbles of your magic pencil. These are some of the things in life I couldn't life without. Oh, and how could I forget those feline pets you call cats. I love them. I love this blog. ps. Look out for her in this month's SA Fairlady mag. Girl! You got published!
http://happinessisat.blogspot.com/


3. The Cherry Blossom Girl

The first time I laid eyes on this fashion fantasy was back in 2009, it was a "I think you might like this" from my dear ex-colleague Miss One Day Box's Megan Douglas. This "I think you might like" turned into "I think I LOVE!", opening my blogging heart to yet another inspirational world wide webber. Alix is my most favorite fashion bloggers to date, it's not just the envy of the items she posses but more the envy of the whimsical manner in which she presents them. To her, fashion becomes a daydream brought to life. A daydream I dream with almost every sip.
http://www.thecherryblossomgirl.com/

Disney Covers

GOSH! Aren't these the coolest magazine covers you have ever seen? If you, like me LOVE Disney and have a tiny fetish of sorts for browsing through magazine covers in the Woolworths queue, then these will be right up your alley. The creative mind of Petite Tiaras did a great job at capturing every essence of a mag cover including the call outs, bravo creative one, bravo!

ps. My favourite is the Seventeen Cover. Oh Ariel! Bless.

2012, you are finally here.

It is the beginning of a New Year, holidays are now memories captured on film and tans are about to fade. But, the most exciting thing of all, (Yes, this is SUPER DUPER exciting!) there are a whole new 362 days left to accomplish new goals and start a fresh. Eeeeee!

The year 2011 was a big one for me. I ventured through self-discovery and found a whole new approach to a city I have been living in for most of my life. I made fabulous friends, found a job I LOVE and firmly placed my feet in a little house I like call my own.

So a New Year means new goals, and I am a goal maker. I believe that there is no room for improvement without goals, and I realised that making goals and accomplishing them is a value of success. With 9 of the 10 goals accomplished in 2011, here are a few of mine for 2012:

Attempt my second triathlon

Unleash my creative child

Go on a fantastic holiday…this time, with friends

Start using my sewing machine again

Surf more

And lastly, worry less.

Enjoy this year, create awesomeness and learn how to truly live. You never know… it could be our last. Ha ha. 

(All images except for my own on this post are taken from Pinterest)

Daydreaming

I keep having this reoccurring daydream. It finds itself spreading an enormous smile across my face, tiny giggles escaping my already grinning expression and fills my body up with, the super cliché, of tiny bubbles.

I am two feet out the window of an old muscle car, somewhere beneath the summer flickers of sunlight and moving trees. My head is rested on the shoulder of some amazing human who has taken my heart and thrown it to the warmth of the summer sun, which now falls softly on me. My long blonde hair is floating in the wind and distantly, a song I like to call ‘Happiness’ circles around us.

I don’t know if it is the fantastic human next to me that is making me so happy, or the feeling of freedom in my heart. But it makes me yearn, yearn for the feeling of me loving someone whole-heartedly or just to be on a road going softly nowhere.