A post dedicated to the awesomeness of cats.

..and being nocturnal animals, they are the perfect company when you cant sleep.

Today I am thankful for...

...an impromptu date with my favorite boy in the whole wide world. I love how washing dishes together turned into a magical night with simple cup of coffee at a beautiful place and a walk in the rain.

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5 Reasons why it's wonderful being a (high school) teacher...

I am so blessed to be able to say that I absolutely LOVE my job!!!
For a little more than a year I taught pre-school and junior students BUT in fact, I am actually qualified to teach high school. When I got a job teaching high school this year, I was kind of scared and wondered if anything could ever match the joy of teaching little ones. It turns out I had nothing to worry about because I love teaching high school, even more than juniors  and there is 5 reasons for that:

You get to talk about your favorite subject - everyday, all day long!!!!

Yes, you really do get to make a difference and that is probably the best feeling in the entire world.

I love that we get two tea breaks a day!!!!

...and that I have my own little classroom with my own blackboard - so much fun.......

BUT the one I am most excited about today is that I get a months worth of vacation (as from today!!!) and another 2 months during the year.

Gosh, I love my job!

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Weekend in Pictures # 5 (Camping)

 

This past weekend, a friend and I decided to go camping. It was my last weekend in the west coast before I move back to Cape Town and with the well-known Tietiesbaai♥ just around the corner from where we live, it would’ve been such a waste not to make the most of it. Tietiesbaai is a nature reserve with no electricity and only sun panel-heated hot water. It’s pretty much as close to nature as one can get.  My dad use to be an avid camper and I have fond memories of camping as a little girl but not having camped for almost a decade, I had my reservations about "getting back to the basics". I can now honestly say that I need not have worried - I LOVED it. We practically camped on the beach, sunbathed, made coffee in tins on an open fire, ate crayfish to our hearts content and fell asleep in the cool sea breeze.  I loved camping so much that Chris and I decided to camp again this December. Who would've guessed?!

Today I am daydreaming about...

..holding my future husband's hand...

..until one day when we are really old!

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A weekend in pictures # 4 (Kitchen Tea)

 

In little less than a month, Chris's sister who also happened to be a dear friend of mine (she introduced the two of us, is getting married. We just had to celebrate it in style so we dressed her up in a vintage wedding dress, had a lovely champagne breakfast, played silly games and laughed until our bellies ached. Oh,and what fun it was!

cutie cupcakes ♥  vintage underwear ♥  make up for face painting and advice for marriage taggs ♥  "Black Beauty" (which I brought all the way from Korea) ♥   the outfit ♥  Honeymoon fund ♥ bride to be ♥ questions and answers ♥  the youngest guest

Wedding planning

A few months ago Chris's sister asked me to help her with her wedding invitation.

Whilst I studied art as a subject, I have never ever done something like this before but in the end our invites came out pretty okay and we had loads of fun!!!

We used Delft as inspiration..

and this was what we came up with

 

So the invitations were send, and now it's time for the decor.

Because we live in different towns right now, miss. bride-to-be asked me to go do some fabric searching. I have no idea what she wants to do with it yet but man, I love fabric shopping!

Of course, I couldn't resist buying myself some fabric too.

Soon these pretties will become scatters for my new apartment and I promise to post an "after".