Location: Babylonstoren Photographer: My dear friend  Jenni Le Grange  Her website: www.jennielizabeth.com

My babyshower took place this past weekend and it was everything I’ve hoped for and more. I woke up on Saturday morning and I couldn’t even see a meter in front of me, not to mention the harbour.  Cape Town was covered in a duvet of mist, how beautiful and dreamy. As we drove towards Franschoek the [...]

This is a basic cupcake recipe with chocolate icing, clearly I went a bit overboard with the disco balls. 18 cupcakes.  for the cupcakes 225 g unsalted butter, softened 225 g caster sugar 225 g self- raising flour 1 tsp baking powder 4 eggs 1 tsp vanilla essence for the icing 175 g icing sugar, [...]

I know we’ve all listened this song before but it’s Monday and I think we can all get up from behind the desk and dance with this guy. This is my happy song at the moment, really gets me going. Enjoy!

We’re moving in 9 days and as the time approaches I’m looking for inspiration for all the different rooms in the house. We found a lovely family home with a big garden and loads of living space, but most of the rooms are still stuck in the 60′s era. It needs renovations but we don’t [...]

  It was a lovely surprise to come home to find this delivered to my door. I’ve been really exhausted lately, 33 weeks pregnant and we still need to move to a new home, my head is permanently in a box packing or buying nursery furniture, so receiving thoughtful gifts like this made my day. [...]

Location: Assembly Cape Town

I’ve been collecting beautiful chunky mirrors, statement pieces, if you want to call it that for years and most of them I bought at Hadeda. Their pieces are mainly imported from Mexico, Guatamala, Peru and Columbia. You will find home-ware, lighting, hand painted tiles, furniture, oven to table pewter, art, fabrics, objects, bags and more. There is no [...]

I’m 31 weeks pregnant and my back is killing me, it’s expected at this stage of my pregnancy. I’ve been for countless massages but can’t seem to get rid of the back pain, so I turned to acupuncture. Traditional Chinese Acupuncture focuses on restoring a balanced, harmonious energy flow and in doing so, helps the [...]

Sunday morning was the perfect day to stay in and bake something comforting, while listening to the rain outside. I’ve never baked a chicken pie before but always liked the taste of a homemade pie, without the fat and preservatives ofcourse. Theses pies were really easy to make and it only took me 45 min [...]