Tag Archives: At Home

Bokkies on KloofYesterday, this ceramic plate could be snapped up for a mere R20 on Kloof Street, but today in my house it’s priceless, especially since it’s made such good friends with my favourite beer glass. Enjoy the weekend, everyone!

It’s comingSpring is starting to show at last. Yesterday evening we went walking on the promenade at Sea Point, where the puppies and lovers and families capering in the hazy sunset light had me practically in tears: feeling good about being a human being for a change! This really is a beautiful time of year, …

Suggestions?I haven’t had any illustration deadlines for the last two days, and have found myself sewing together the bits and pieces from my offcuts box in a manner bordering on obsessive. Now I have a very large bit of patched-together fabric, and I’m not quite sure what to do with it, other than just keep …

Only funny without the “.”Years ago, my friend Brendon told me to always scout the bakery department in case there were Ass Muffins for sale (mmmhpph…), and I followed this up with my own discovery of Ass Biltong (see me rolling helplessly in the butchery section). Lucky for you, on the day that Ass Loaves …

Me too!Inspired by the lovely pics of simple food at Smosch today, I took a photo of my lunch. Then I ate it. Actually, I’m feeling somewhat overwhelmed with work right now. There’s faaaaar too much going on, and I can feel that manic feeling setting in, somewhere just behind my teeth. I think I’ll …

Pattern krazeeThere’s a heckava lot of pattern in our place, but somehow I forgot to enter the pattern contest over at Design*Sponge, where you can win Lena Corwin’s new printing book . Ah well, I’ll just play along on the sidelines. Anyway, one of the finalists has obliquely inserted my patterns into the running by …

Take it easy, mon..keyIt’s Nelson Mandela’s 90th birthday today – a good reason to take some time out and think about the meaning of life. I’m off to join the sock monkeys on the bed, and see if they’ve worked it out yet. In the meantime, here are my very happiest birthday wishes for Madiba! …

New cabinetWhen I was a kid, I played the piano all the time, and my parents kindly let me have the family piano in my own home. But I never play it here, and so eventually decided it was time to let my brother and his young daughter enjoy it instead. In the piano’s place, …

Sock MonkeyI’ve been monkeying around in my studio a bit. Lucky he’s not a sock chameleon, or he might have exploded! Happy weekend, everyone! Floods predicted down this part of the world – ack!