May Photo A Day - Week 01

Sooo.... confession time... I haven't been keeping up with this so well! I should have 12 photos here for 1 - 12 May, but I have 9. I do plan to catch up on whatever I miss before the end of the month! Better late than never, right? 

Aaaaanyhoo, if you missed the first post about this and don't know what I'm on about, you can find out here, and if you'd like to follow on Instagram, you can do so here. 

If you're also doing the challenge, have you kept it up better than me so far?

And the Giveaway Winners are...

I thought it'd be unfair to choose a winner based on my favourite quote so I used random.org...

Congratulations, Jowhara! Her quote was...
“Don't create for the masses. Create for people who are your kind of weird.” - Seth Godin

And then, because I'm all kinds of soppy and really did just want to give you guys stuff and started wanting to give everyone something and blah blah blah, I decided to choose two more people (also chosen completely randomly) to give a set of stationery, and those two were...

Please drop me a mail with your postal deets, you three!

Thank you so much to everyone who entered and shared an awesome bit of happiness & inspiration!

All of them were so great, here are just a few of my faves...

“The beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides.” - Audrey Hepburn from Nicola Williamson Meyer

“f you want something you've never had, you've got to do something you've never done.” from Michelle Baron

“Happiness can be found in the darkest of times if one only remembers to turn on the light.” - Albus Dumbledore from Sohini

“I want to be as awesome as my dog thinks I am.” from Nadia Ox

“Even after all this time, the Sun never says to the Earth 'You owe me.' Look what happens with a Love like that. It lights the whole Sky.” - The Poet Hafiz from Taryn Stedman (I've always liked this one, gives me a warm fuzzy feeling :)

Be sure to read all the others in the comments, they'll really brighten your day :)
I hope to have more giveaways soon, so if you didn't win this time I hope you'll try again next time! 

Recent Work - Art Deco Pattern Designs for Chausan Luxury Silk Scarves

I'm so excited to have been chosen to work on this project for London based company, Chausan luxury silk scarves. They were creating a few new ranges for their 2013 Spring-Summer Collection and I got to work on the Art Deco collection. It was great since I hadn't really created anything in the Art Deco style before, but Durban has such rich Art Deco architecture from which I could draw some of my inspiration. They recently completed production of the scarves and they're up for sale on their site. It looks like they turned out really well, I love how vibrant the colours are on the fabric.

“With a focus on super deluxe silk fabrics and cutting-edge design, Chausan was founded in 2012 as a London silk scarf label that sought to capture the modern fusion between the East and the West.

Synonymous with imperial luxe, Chausan create timeless silk scarves with a touch of modern interpretation of orientalism. Channel the label’s luxurious fabric and finest craftsmanship, which, with their iconic and inspirational Western designs, perfectly capture the essence of Chausan’s luxe 'fusion between premium silk fabric and freedom of expression of metroplitanism '.”

You can see their other ranges on their site and their Facebook page. 

** P.S. Today's the last day to enter the giveaway! Get your entry in if you haven't already! **

May Photo-a-Day

I love this cool photo-a-day idea I found on Instagram yesterday thanks to Nicola Ashe (@askashe). It was created by Chantelle Ellem, a.k.a @fatmumslim. I've never done any of these thing-a-day things coz I'm just not organised enough to be that consistent, and I just forget, but looking at the topics she's listed for each day it just looks so totally do-able that I think I'm going to do it. I had even already done the first one before I had seen that post! 

I took a pic of the fantastic old book treasures I found yesterday. I feel excited just looking at them!

Anyway, case in point with my previous comment: by the time I remembered about today's topic ("morning ritual") my morning ritual was already pretty much over :/ Hah! But I'll catch up tomorrow and try to keep it going, I think it's going to be fun! 

Read more about it on her site. It's not limited to instagram and there are even prizes involved.

Are you going to try it? Follow me on instagram to see how it goes :)

Hungry for some ArtSnacks!

I was so freakin excited by this fantastic find the other day! Like the many other similar services I've seen popping up recently, ArtSnacks is a subscription service to get given a surprise package on a monthly basis... but this one is for art supplies! Plus a sweet, haha. You get 4 or 5 items in each package and it's $20 per month. For us here in SA that's around R180, plus $10 international postage which makes it about R270. Not bad considering that art supplies like the ones they send are usually quite pricey! As soon as I have some spare cash lying around (hah!) this is where it's going. 

"ArtSnacks is a monthly subscription service to the best art products around, serving artists all over with top-of-the-line art supplies. ArtSnacks is the creative brainchild of Sarah and Lee Rubenstein, a brother-and-sister team who are also behind EatSleepDraw, one of the largest user-submitted art sites on the internet."