February 2012 archives

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Let’s get healthy.

blood orange over radish, micro greens with shallots, white pine salt and meyer lemon walnut oil dressing. rainbow carrot, ginger salad with cilantro and a maple, lime dressing.  asian pear and persimmon salad with celery leaf and blood orange dressing.  sautéed hen of the woods with fermented black garlic over chopped parsley, with a bergamot, [...]

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Beach Home.

Last night I had dinner at the boyf’s parents.  His mum is wanting to redo their guest bedroom at their holiday home in Plett, so while paging through piles of House & Garden magazine’s I started dreaming about how I would decorate my beach home I one day with to own.  My families beach home is [...]

scenes from my weekend.

I feel like my weekend was a fairytale.  I had my mum down from Durban for a few days.  She bought down my winter sleepwear samples that Ive had made up.  If any of you are fussy when it comes to sleepwear, love white and are looking for something without a giant teddy bear on [...]

Myoga.

On Friday evening, The boyf and I decided to treat ourselves to a little seven course meal at Myoga Restaurant.  Living a stone throw from The Vineyard Hotel and having never been to Myoga let alone never eaten a seven courses meal before, I was quite excited. Myoga, meaning Ginger Blossom in Japanese is the venture of award winning chef [...]

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Pop of RED.

This year, will be my fifth year of living in my home.  When I first moved in I made the whole downstair’s area white, fresh with cream and white couches and accessories and kept everything simple. But when Country Road Homewear bought out a divine range of red home accessories, I could help but buy one or two [...]

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Cream and cosy

It’s good to dream, right?!  I am an over dreamer, over wishes and over planner.  If I could, I could build my dream home tomorrow, I would have everything planned out.  I would know the wall colour of every room down to the smallest detail.  As fun, and modern as it is to add some deep [...]