so yesterday my friend davis had his birthday party at george lea park. as a present i baked him an extravagancer of awesomeness and future toothache. the cake you see before you was a chocolate/vanilla/caramel treat/whipped cream/buttermilk chocolate icing/chomp/smartie tower of awkwardness, that tasted like a very super sweet cake, i guess ha. we lit the flag and sung happy birthday to davis and as we finished, the inevitable cake fight broke out. cake faces all around. fun. ps: there were than 4 of us there, in case you were wondering.

*oh man, we look like 4 lonely mexicans in a holdup. haha.

today is friawesomeday. first of all i got this awesome mail from anastasia in dubai.

then i got a brand new laptop. it’s so shiny and mysterious. i’m like a school kid who got a double peanut butter barone sandwich for lunch. as if someone’s mom would do that. i’m going to. my kid is going to be the fattest happiest dancer in the whole world.

say hello to my newest bambi. he came all the way from argentina with my awesome friend leigh. he’s beautiful.

also went past the shop this morning. the floor is nearly done and the walls are getting painted soon. one word- AWESOME. yes.

i also made this little pouch this morning…hmmm… maybe i’ll keep my berries in it.

and last but not least. say hello to my new friend amy. shane and i had her and her husband over for supper last night. they are very cool and look how nicely she matches my (jo’s) cushions hee.

hope you are all having an awesome flipping friday x x

last night we went to this cool little outside venue called Hot Box studios in pretoria for a desmond gig. i took my trusty camera along and took some photos. it was too much fun and i wasn’t the only one to think that, the crowd went blazing mad. good fans, good. good desmond and the tutus, good x x

this is another necklace made by the clever Miss behind Skermunkil. it was bought for me by good friend william. it’s so pretty and nice, just like him. i bought the bird whislte from a staionary store for R3.99. so sweet.

my friend Andrew runs a blog called we-are-awesome. it is filled with super cool pictures and stuff – go check it out if you have time. he bogged about polony horse today. so awesome. thanks Mr Berry x

here are 2 more awesomes that i got from my granny – now i know where i get my obsession from. both of them broke in the move, which is a damn tragedy, but i superglued them back together again, so all is well in ceramic land.

*the regal looking lady at the top of this post is my granny in the 1950’s.

my friend doug and i started a band during the december holidays. it’s name: Polony Horse. we have exactly 2 songs that we wrote and then sang and recorded on doug’s laptop. oooohwee it’s too much fun to write songs. i get a bit shy when i have to sing, but i tried.

*thanks shanus for playing the keyboard and craigus for the drums. as agreed, we will be paying you in jellybeans.

**here is our first song ever, it’s called Your Teeth Shine Like Diamonds. enjoy. x

i saw this in a magazine this morning and thought it was pretty so i tore it out. sharing is good, tearing out of magazines, not so good, but anyway….so i’m going to share my tin birds. miss moss, i know you will love this little guy as much as i do, so he’s all yours x

i ordered these beautiful tin bird pins for myself and some of my friends from an awesome girl called HUI LING, she lives in singapore and she runs such an awesome blog filled with very cool things. it’s called lazyjane and you should definitely go check it out. she also has a online shop that sells pretties like the ones above. happy spending.

when i opened my package, i found a little surprise in there for me, which i was not expecting and which made me almost fall off my chair from excitement . LOOK. how beautiful? i’ll answer that for you – very flipping beautiful. thank you lazyjane for my awesome pins and my awesome gifts. i’m super smiling x x

**cath and leigh you can’t have this, so please don’t punch me in the face the next time you see me. thanks.

look a yogi bear fortune teller. ahhahhaa too cool.

so guys we got about 60 odd entries all together, which is awesome. thank you  to everyone who entered our little competition. we wish we could give you all packages and we would if Operah was our mom, but Being Brazen and Kirsty you 2 are getting little parcels very soon – well done and happy friday  x x yay ( i have a video that i shot of me picking these names, but i can’t upload the damn thing. sometimes the internet makes me want to harpoon a humped back whale)