Spectacular South Africa

South Africa is a spectacular country filled with diversity and beauty, it’s no wonder South African’s are such a proud nation. This powerful video (made by Aquavision) was put together for us (one… Read More →

Longmeadow Piano Lounge Wedding

I was privileged to be a 2nd photographer at this beautiful wedding at Longmeadow Piano Lounge, Sandton recently. I was supporting the main photographer Alana Meyer and having never covered a wedding professionally before it was a great… Read More →

everything’s pretty much black & white (&stripy)

This post is a quick, happy dedication to my lust for the stripe.  esp black and white stripes.  Hope it inspires, enjoy!   images found my daily haunts/reads, design*sponge, decor8 and apartment therapy

Props : Blog Appreciation : IKEA’S LIVET HEMMA

I happily stumbled across a blog post on one of my daily reads about IKEA’s new blog LIVET HEMMA (Life at Home). The idea behind the blog being to inspire some creativity in… Read More →

bright fascination

I am pretty much obsessed with eccentric bursts of colour. Mostly bright things fascinate me when they are cleverly made to fit perfectly into the space around them, where they become feature pieces… Read More →

etsy finds

‘etsy finds’  is bound to become a regular feature on my blog as I continually find more lust-worthy items available. I had to share these handmade embriodered wood jewellery by the spotless loop.… Read More →

props : local design

Props go to the “Local Lovelies” at SoKiff Textiles. Only a South African will appreciate the beauty and wonder of the ZOO BISCUIT print. How amazing, seriously this is stuff I love to see.… Read More →

props : blog appreciation

Mr P’s blog “In The Fashion Loop” always brings the bacon. Its all about timing and for some reason I saw the link become popular on my blog so decided to check out… Read More →

day at the market

Market on Main is a new trendy market in the heart of not-so-loved Joburg and can be found in the new “redevelopment” zone otherwise known as Fox Street. Loads of creative-eye-candy and actual… Read More →

love inspiration

I love the idea of leaving a home made heart lying around on valentines day (or any day) —> here’s some inspiration for those who love the idea too ♥ images all found on… Read More →

little house on the prairie

01 01 2011 Richmond, South Africa Canon 400D 15mm Fisheye

FI: Friday Inspiration

very much in line with the purpose of this blog Download your own from here: http://www.howjoyful.com

Furniture Fetish

I have a deep love for wooden furniture, something that I am guessing is rooted in my childhood days spent sitting in the sawdust of my dads workshop drilling holes in the off-cuts of the… Read More →

FII: friday image inspiration

courtesy of @guy_with_camer‘s image blog “life,love,lenses“. I know of Andrew through friends of mine (his cousins). He’s a bloody good (captonian) fashion photographer + (serial)blogger. Check out what he’s up to, I find… Read More →

light fun

These lamps are converted found lamps with one long fluorescent bulb connected to each lamp. I imagine it would be fun to have one, just because. http://www.dezeen.com/2011/01/07/relumine-by-mischer%E2%80%99traxler/

today i saw

browsing the web I came across this website “9 inspirational photographers” these are some images that struck me. all images are copyright of the respective photographers. http://www.colerise.com/ http://www.aditu.de/ http://www.koendemuynck.com/   http://alecrios.com/9-inspirational-photographers

moving thinking

I’m moving house soon and am obsessing about how to redecorate (actually decorate) the new space, even though I havent found it just yet. I came across some images of home offices that… Read More →

print passion on etsy

I felt drawn to these prints whilst browsing etsy.com These images are photographs that have been digitally processed and then screen printed – beautiful work I love the grainy film feeling and the shadow-less light, it… Read More →

the wonderful world of lomography

One of my favourite cameras is a plastic Ltd Edition (white) Diana ++ Lomo. It is a film camera and makes these kinds of high saturation dreamlike images. Part of my morning spread on chrome… Read More →

different perspective

loving the colour coded books – how fun. When I get a bookshelf one day … image from: http://www.designspongeonline.com/2011/01/sneak-peek-reiko-kaneko.html  

design inspirations

a peek at sites that I frequent for a bit of inspiration: Design Sponge – does exactly what it says http://www.designspongeonline.com/ Dezeen – UK based design mag – always something noteworthy http://www.dezeen.com/ We Heart – waiting… Read More →