We have more beautiful Genevieve Motley birdies in the house, just in time for the weekend. So bring your neck in for a treat x x xxx

*These are just a few of the pieces we bought from her….

oh and ps: Jo and I are on our way to Durban for the weekend. Flip we are so excited! We are leaving armed with our antique/shiny/awesome things eyes on and my purse is stocked and ready to spend. Yes! Who knows maybe I’ll pick a little something something up for one of you guys x x xxx bye bye

Guys thank you so so so so much for voting for me in the South African Blog Awards 2010. Thanks to your computer fingers I am a finalist in the personal blog section. I’m mentally high-5ing all of you right now. But I’m afraid I have to ask you all one more favour. Can you please please vote for me again. It’s the final round before they choose the winners. So just click on the Blog Awards button on the side of my blog and then add your e-mail address to confirm and Bob’s your uncle or in this case Angie is your best friend hee x x

So Wolves has finally got & Union beer in and tomorrow night we are starting our weekly Friday after work parties. So come have a beer and a sandwich and a mini face dance with us (there will be different guest DJ’s every week). It’ll be nice and summery and fun. See you all there x x

How cool is this packaging? So nice and clean and simple. I love it! I wish I loved beer too, but I do not boo-hoo.

My friend Nadia has a stall at the awesome I Heart Market in Durban, which Jo and I are roadtripping to this weekend. Hells yes! Nadia is going to be selling some of our Hello Fox pieces at her lovely store, which is so awesome for us and while this is happening Jo and I are going to be running around like mad people buying a flipping boot load of stuff. We are so excited to see this place, you have no idea. But for those of you who won’t be able to make it, or will, here is a little something Nadia as lovingly made to give to us to give to you. This beautiful Cupcake Couture owl brooch can be all yours for the price of a name. Yip, that’s all you have to do – send us his name and the best one wins. Hoot-5! Competition ends next Thursday, so get your names in and if you’re in Durban come say hi to all of us, it would be awesome to meet you x x

*you can gain 3 entries by leaving the same comment on my, Jo and Nadia’s blog x

Hey guys come have a face dance and a fancy beer with us on Friday after work at Wolves. It’s going to be awwwwwooooaxing! Ok that didn’t really work ha!Hope to you guys there xxxxxx

So I finally picked a recipe to try out from my Martha Stewart cupcake book. Yes finally! And they came out perfectly. Just a warning though guys, it makes 30 cupcakes so make sure you have all your sweet teeth out and some stretchy fat pants on or invite lots of friends over for a tea party. For the icing I used a simple butter cream recipe and then added pale pink gel coloring, but just a couple of drops…. you can also throw some finely cut up strawberries into the icing and mix it up for a difference. There is a royal butter cream icing that they recommend for this specific cupcake, but I didn’t have time to make it, I will try it next time though.

Here are what mine came out like…. and they were quite yum.

*I will be making a fresh batch for Thursday night at Wolves. Come have a taste xxxx

On Saturday I went to the Linden fete. I was meant to meet my friend Karen there, but there were so many people that we never landed up seeing each other. The whole time I was there I kept giggling out loud, if anyone was watching me they would of thought I was a nutcase. I just thought it was so funny how everyone was gathering as much junk as they could carry and dragging it back to their cars in big plastic bags. Stuff that if they were clearing out their own houses would be in those exact bags heading towards a secondhand store or junk heap. People were standing in long queues to get into tents that were selling stuff, this included me. I stood in queues and I came home with a bag of stuff, stuff I most certainly do not need but couldn’t leave behind. But I will say one thing for myself, I said I wasn’t allowed to spend more that R100 and I spent R95! Yes. And I think I got some gems.

First thing I bought were these awesome vintage baking tins. 1 rabbit and I lamb. When I picked them up I had a lady follow me around for about 6 minutes waiting for me to put them down – I DID NOT. I don’t think i’m going to use them, just thought they would make cool kitchen ornaments. I paid R5 each, their original price tags were still on the boxes, R8.49. Wow.

Next I bought a whole mini basket full of Wade animals for only R30. I must say I was pretty chuffed with myself when my beady eyes fell upon these guys. I looked on Bid or Buy to see if I could find any of them and how much they were going for. I found most of them and they were all R75 and up. High-5 score!

The last 2 things I got are going to form part of 2 projects – I have been looking for a while now for a nice sized printers tray to keep all my necklaces and brooches in so they don’t get tangled up. The trays are often quite pricey on the net and in antique stores and they always seem to be too big. But I found one on Saturday for R20 and it’s the perfect size. So i’m going to varnish it up and pack it good with shinys. I will post pictures when i’m done. The second project I thought of when I saw all these white ornaments together. On Thaya’s blog the other day she spoke about a friend who stuck a cake plate on a rabbit and made a cake stand, which I thought was such a cool idea, so I’m going to try make my own makeshift stand. Again I will post pictures when i’m done….

And that is that. If anyone knows of any fetes happening any time soon, please let me know. Nothing like a cinnamon pancake and a bargain on a Saturday morning x x

Whatever happened to the days of carrying a dainty ornate purse around with you? Now bags are so big you can carry yourself in them, if you could figure out how the blazers to do that – would be awesome if you could. Anyway these 2 beautiful bags that look like the come from the 1920’s were both gifts, the silver one is from my mom and the brown one was given to me by my friends Gina and Jonathan. They are so pretty and small and shiny. I love shiny things, probably something you wouldn’t have guessed about me ha. Ja right.

Bought these tan bowed beauties in Durban from Mr Price. I want hair clips like these bows.