Noah's Ark at Skirball

Five years in the mak­ing and fill­ing an 8,000 sq. ft. gallery,
Noah’s Ark at the Skir­ball is an amaz­ing attrac­tion for chil­dren
and fam­i­lies at the Skir­ball Cul­tural Cen­ter in Los Ange­les.
The floor-to-ceiling ark is filled to the rafters with hand­crafted
ani­mals and con­tains a ropes course with more than
30,000 hand-tied knots.

The hun­dreds of ani­mals are all crafted from recy­cled mate­ri­als
and every­day objects, includ­ing bot­tle caps, bicy­cle parts,
base­ball mitts, cro­quet balls, mop heads, and rearview mir­rors.

For exam­ple, the three ani­mal sculp­tures that pre­side over the
entrance to the gal­leries (pic­tured above) include an
Asian ele­phant with a trunk made from veg­etable steam­ers
from Loas and a pair of zebras with bod­ies fab­ri­cated from
wind tur­bines and keyboards.

Amaz­ing!

Pho­tos by Grant Mud­ford and Steve Cohn, © Skir­ball Cul­tural Center

New Save the Date Photo Shoot from W+E Photography

I love this photo shoot
in the woods, it would make a great
save the date postcard as well.
Images by W+E Photography

iWedding Deluxe

Weddings have always inspired me when designing
new stationery and planning events. So when I came
across this application for the iPhone I had to share it.

iWedding Deluxe is the wedding planner app that
will organize, guide and inspire you while keeping
all the vital information at your fingertips.

It is a feature packed planner with Todo lists,
Budget Planning, Notes, Photos, recording of
nearly every business detail imaginable,
Guest lists, Seating Plans, Wedding Guides,
Inspiration, Blogs and even integration with
Social Networks such as Twitter and Facebook.

Check it out!

Stellenbosch Slow Food Market

This market is wonderful in summer, it has a great selection
of food stalls including, smoked trout, flavoured meat and sausage,
waffles, cakes - you can guess where I was most of the time.

Among the outside stalls are hand creams, face washes,
handmade soaps, jewellery, wines, chocolates, clothing, spices etc.

My baby sister and my friend showing off their goodies they bought.
There is also lots of seating outside and a few recycling bins.
It is situated just outside Stellenbosch.

Beautiful Silhouettes

Thought I'd share this interesting piece of art, wonder
where the inspiration came from, either way it's pretty
cool. They made out of leaves. By Jenny Lee Fowler.

Will you be my...

I found these cute cookies on a The Flour Pot Cookies website,
I think it's a wonderful idea if you not sure how to ask your
girlfriend to be your bridesmaid.

They have a wide selection of other cookies that look yum
and also passes on a message, so sweet!

Growing Paper

A friend introduced me to this greeting card and I
immediately thought of my friend and colleague
who simply loves anything green.

Growing paper produces handmade paper with a twist.

The paper has embedded seeds that will grow into flowers
or herbs once you've planted the paper. The designs are
colourful and creative, just purchased a card with a birdcage
on it, I can't wait to give this to my friend, I know she
is going to love it.

Mother's Day is a coming!!!

Some ideas for you guys out there that don't really know what
to get Mom. Ok I always get my Mom flowers thats a given,
then comes the main gift, a few suggestions:

1. Experience Gift: High tea at the Mount Nelson hotel.

2. La Source - 60secs hand manicure from Crabtree and Evelyn

3. A beautiful teapot from Mustard Seed Ceramics
(See above)

4. A handmade greeting card - very sentimental, they love it.

5. A massage, manicure, pedicure from the Wellness Warehouse.

6. You could always go to Dial-a-suprize, they have a wide
selection of goodies and they deliver, bonus!

7. Experience Gift: Taking her for a beautiful lunch in the winelands,
Constantia Uitsig is always lovely or Asara, beautiful

8. Bake her cake: Found this awesome turkish delight cake recipe
in the new issue of Ideas. It looks yummy!!

9. Beautiful Apron from Decor Dash. They have beautiful
protea inspired products that are total must haves.
(Also, it's my new favourite flower)

10. Last but not least a family photo, they have beautiful
rustic photo frames at various stores, I found a few at
Rustic frames in Woodstock Main road.
(See above)

And thats my top 10 gift ideas for Mom, hope it helps.
Enjoy and spoil Mom this mother's day.

Giftwrap

I have a weakness for giftwrap, so I found these
stunning sheets of wrapping paper from Flowermill.
They bold and colourful and are sheeted in 700x500mm.
They sold in packs of 25.

With a range of designer stationery and gift cards
you'll be able to use them for every occasion.