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
Recently I realised what the last 6 years of my life have been about. Manifesting into reality a WIG (Wildly Improbable Goal) I set myself before starting my current project and which I forgot about entirely until a few days ago. My WIG is happening, right now. Passion when you have a goal is easy,
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
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
I have been hiding out, and doing a damn fine job of it. Hide and Seek Level: Master. I have been getting all sorts of queries recently, including but not limited to comments such as, ‘Mutha, are you still alive?’,’ Mutha when will we see your next post?’ etc. Yes, I am very much
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
A woman is like the seasons of the year, never the same from one moment to the next, dynamic, loving, caring, giving, nurturing, life giving, elegant, motivated and creative.These qualities hold untold value for society and deserve recognition. Why should a woman have to work twice as hard, to get half the recognition of a
Jinjin Jewellery, based in Constantia Village Life Style Centre is officially, my number one spot for purchasing Jewellery in Cape Town. Keeping it local, the owner of this fine establishment, Suzie, is utterly fabulous. Her ethos to sell and promote only local smaller jewellery designers, is truly inspiring. You are guaranteed to leave with
Things I am grateful for today: A healthy body and mind. Clients who recognise the value of my assistance and remind me why I love my work and are grateful for my assistance. I’m grateful to be able to assist them. Staff who work hard and assist me in doing the best that I can.
My fiancé, while searching for the lyrics of a song, stumbled upon this interesting definition of DIY Ethic on Wikipedia. He sent this to me this morning, saying, ‘Honey, this reminds me of you’. I had a good laugh and decided it’s so accurate, I need to share it with you: The DIY ethic (do
Yesterday, a dear friend of mine, experienced what seemed like an earth shattering blow. She called me in a state of despair. I didn’t stop to think, its the middle of the day, or about how much work I have on my plate, with my business just hitting season I am swamped. Instead I told
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
Been as quiet as a church mouse this week. I have been having to much fun designing and launching my new blog, Mutha Blogga is now officially local ladies and gents, a real dot co dot za. It doesn’t get more Lekker! Let me know what you think! On the subject of local, I
What makes you love your city? Is it the people? The environment? Your friends? The atmosphere? The positivity you see in people each and every day, despite their circumstances? The respect? The creativity? For me, it’s all of these things and more. I couldn’t leave ( no matter how much I say I would), if
