Every Wednesday morning, Paul and I are out of the house before dawn, off to join the Breakfast Club, where a bunch of volunteers cook and serve breakfast to the little learners at Good Hope Seminary Junior School. By 8:30am, tummies are full, and about 400 cups, bowls and spoons have been washed and packed away, ready …
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A Good Start to a good day
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Seriously, have a good coffee
Did you read our friend Bruce Majonga’s wise words about a good cup of coffee? With this in mind, my team and I thought we’d improve the day of our Bree Street neighbours for the rest of April by putting a note on car windscreens, offering a free cup of coffee from Jason Bakery, just …
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Making Friday: Punch needle with Crafters Box
Much earlier this year, I had an email from Morgan at The Crafters Box, asking for my postal address. This US-based company, whose aim is to make it easy for people to bring crafting back into peoples’ lives by providing subscriber-based mail-order kits and online instructional videos around particular crafts. What a great idea! The …
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Making Friday: Getting stitchy
Isn’t it the best when you’ve got a smallish project that you can pick up at any minute and make progress on? The reason for all the stitching I’ve been doing lately is that I’ve been plotting out a couple of new workshops with Bridget Henderson of Cowgirlblues for later this year, so if this is your kind …
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A Skinny Doughssant?
F I R S T L Y. . . do you know about the unholy union of croissant X doughnut, known as a Doughssant? It’s the terrifyingly decadent brainchild of our friends & neighbours, Jason Bakery, whose weekly inventiveness (there’s a new doughssant EVERY SATURDAY!) results in winding queues down Bree Street, as salivating Capetonians queue …
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Fashion Collaboration with King Louie
In 2016, while visiting Europe to promote our Brise Soleil range, I first came across Dutch fashion brand King Louie in a shop in Paris, and fell in love with their feminine vintage styling. All their prints and cuts just felt like exactly the vintage clothes I was always hoping to find, but never did. Little …
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Cook Better workshop
Find out all about this weekend’s Vinaigrette workshop.
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In The Press: Prudential
We’re happy to see the Heather Moore for MRP Home collaboration appear in a feature in Prudential magazine. See the article here.
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Lovilee’s room makeover
So thrilled to see some of my items from the MRP Home x Heather Moore COLAB used in this gorgeous room makeover from Lovilee blog. Missed the MRP Home COLAB? Read all about it here.
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