No language can express the power, and beauty, and heroism, and majesty of a mother’s love. It shrinks not where man cowers, and grows stronger where man faints, and over wastes of worldly fortunes sends the radiance of its quenchless fidelity like a star. ~Edwin Hubbell Chapin To my mom, my new “other
A few years back, I came to a realisation that changed my life, my job and particularly my family relationships. It was that; happiness is a choice. Every now and again I skip backwards through this blog and remember the lessons I have learnt along the way. Reflection. Everyone needs it. Mid week ‘cuppa’. Incidentally
Pinning. The most rapidly growing past time in the world. Pinterest.com is a social network with a number of significant differences. It’s an online pin board for your visual ‘likes’. It’s already providing more referral traffic than Twitter. It’s proof that a picture does paint a thousand words, sorry twitter but 140 characters isn’t going
A while ago I wrote an article titled; ‘Dear Wedding Co-ordinators and Party Suppliers‘. In this article I brought to light the fact that there are zero to no places to hire Polaroid camera’s in Cape Town. Unfortunately this situation has not yet changed. Originally I had envisioned a camera at every table and a
Either you do, or you do not. There is not try.- Yoda For me this is an especially inspiring thought today. I am getting married, I am launching
Sometimes we all need a few words of encouragement and inspiration. Reading the Holstee manifesto always gives me hope and reminds me what I am capable of. Holstee started as a part time side project selling t-shirts. When the founders quit their jobs to work on the business full time they wrote down what was
I am not losing weight, I am getting rid of it. I have no intention of finding it again.
Lindeka Qampi a fantastically phenomenal lady you have probably never heard of ; wins my first,‘Muse of the Month’ Award, Mutha’s dedication to the most inspiring ladies, making it in the Mutha City. It’s a boiling hot day in Cape Town and I’m running late, as usual. The parking guard chases after me and finding
Mutha’s Review on ‘FOTO Project Space’ photo Exhibition It was strictly chance that got me to the opening of the FOTO Project Space ( FPS) exhibition. The invite arrived randomly on my Facebook wall. Not knowing a single person on the attending list didn’t phase me. What’s life about if you don’t jump outside
I’m crazy about flags at the moment. Not our countries flag, or the flags of any other. I am talking about the decorative type. They are so simply festive. Add them to any space and it’s suddenly a party. Inspired by Lindsey & Adriano’s reception decor, which was featured on www.rocknrollbride.com, I have been busying
A few weeks ago I was approached by Gina from Secrets Unearthed Jewellery Design to assist in putting together the collaboration of the season, a very vintage fashionably fun tea party photo shoot. With much anticipation I got started with the challenge. As my first collaboration of this nature, I can only say ‘It all
When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened. – Winston Churchill Since the first time I heard this saying, every time I have feared or
