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

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

Ok so Paula from Vamp furniture picked a name out an old biscuit tin this morning. She received nearly 60 entries and so did I (nice guys). I also picked a name randomly and then put them into a jar and got jo to choose one. Well done lady love, you now own this awesome piece of yellow. Please contact me so we can get you your table in the colour of your choice.

To everyone else, thanks so much for entering, wish there were prizes for everyone, but there is a new competition coming soooon x x x-x Paula thanks again for being so very niceawesome!

Thanks to everyone for helping me decide which Skermunkil to choose and thanks again Marietjie for making these awesome pieces.

*I just read on Marietjie’s site that you can only get the wolf pendants from us, which makes me feel super special. Nice!

On another good note, we’re choosing a winner for the super cool Vamp coffee table tomorrow. So be sure to check in x x Happy Sundaying everyone.

Ladies you have lots of nice friends – send me a mail so we can work out a cake eating schedule x

Who out of these 5 finalist deserves to win red velvet cupcakes and a pretty margazette brroch? please help me choose. Please please x

I want everyone to say hello to lovely Paula and Michael who own and run Vamp Furniture in Woodstock Cape Town (St Mary’s church on the corner of Albert Road). I sent Paula a mail the other day about perhaps participating in a bit of giveaway and she lovingly agreed. Yes you have read right, one of you is going to be taking home the super cool art deco coffee table pictured above and the best part, other than the fact that you’re getting this R950 gem as a present, is that Paula is happy to paint it any colour you like. How rad?

I asked Paula a bunch of questions, as I normally do – All I’m saying is it sounds like she has a flipping cool life, which consists of living in pretty Cape Town and running a successful amazing looking shop filled with vintage furniture and kitchenalia located in an old beautiful church in Woodstock. Her days consist of running the store and shopping for new pieces to put in it as well as vamping the awesomness back into them. Shopping for a living? Yes please!

I was wondering when they decided to open a shop and if it was tough endeavor – the answer she gave is seriously one of my dreams come true. About 18 months ago they were on a weekend trip away up the West Coast and they came across an odd shop that sold a little bit of everything from clothing and furniture to petrol. But she says what really caught her eye was the amazing selection of vintage furniture that this shop had, which previously belonged to some or other government department. They literally bought the whole lot and shipped it back home in a big truck. They weren’t too sure what they were going to do with it, but it didn’t take them long to decide to open a shop. AAAAAAAAAA how cool? I love this story, cause it seriously is like a dream. When do you ever come across a truck load of awesomes that the owner is willing to let you snap up in one go?

The guys also get their stuff form auctions and markets, secondhand shops etc etc. and from the look of the pieces on their blog, they have damn good taste.

I often wonder what people’s houses look like that have access to so much cool stuff. I asked Paula if her house looks like their shop – she says they have some pieces, but their furniture keeps changing and they like to mix modern and vintage stuff up. Nice.

My last question to her was, if she could change one thing about herself what would it be – She said that she would go back to when she was 17 and collect up all the old beautiful pieces of furniture her granny offered her that she turned her nose up at. Ha! We’ve all done that.

Man, if I could change one thing about myself, it would be for me not to look like a piggy every time I climb on horse!

Thanks Paula so much for the beautiful table and for answering my questions xx xxxx

Ok guys you know what you have to do. Leave myself and Paula (you can leave a comment under Paula’s latest post) a comment on both our sites and then hold your little thumbs for good luck. And if you are in the Woodstock area, pop in and say hi, i’m dead certain that you and your house will be so glad you did.

It’s my birthday today and our work is nice enough to give us the day off, so Shane and I have decided to take a drive to Cullinan. Why you may ask. I have no idea. I feel like going horse riding and Shane thought we should head in that direction. So we’re off, but before I go I thought I would give one of you awesomes a birthday present. I bought this beautiful margazette bow brooch from an antique store in Port Alfred and I have been waiting to give it to someone special and that someone might just be you and that’s not all – I’m also going bake 20 Red velvet cupcakes for the winner, which you can come have at Wolves with a bunch of friends, or in a takeaway box so you can eat them alone in the bath at home – personally that’s what I would do. If you don’t live in Jhb but win, don’t stress, you can redeem the cupcake voucher whenever you’re in town, even if it’s 10 years from now. I’m sure i’m still going to be baking hee.

So what I have done is designed a ‘happy birthday to you’ token, all you have to do is print it out and take a picture of yourself with it. Then mail it to me at angie.b@networkbbdo.co.za. Best picture wins. Yikes hope this works, or else i’m going to be crying on my red velvet cupcakes while I destroy this antique with a R35 hammer.

Happy snapping x x  xx

well done Kerstin, you just won yourself a pack of vintage button love x

and the winner from angie batis on Vimeo.

Ok so we got over 55 comments for this competition, which is awesome. Thanks guys for entering x x

Well done lady love………….Now please mail me your address so I can send you your Adriana awesomes!

*Next giveaway is starting soon, so look out for it x x xx