Practice: July 2012

Tuesday 31 July 2012

NEW LOOK

Hallo!

I've been doing this whole blogging thing for a while now and felt like a revamp was in order...

SO I welcome you to

PUPPY CLUB

little-dog-puppy-club.blogspot.com

my new blog address to keep you up to date with my clothing (new items + shoot + market-time coming soon!), nice things, amusing things, and pictures of pugs.

If you subscribe to my feed, Google Reader will update your Reader to include Puppy Club but will keep civvies-day alive too, so unsubscribe from that old guy. I don't know how other subscribe-y things work but I recommend you just resubscribe, and if you didn't before then you should now, thanks ☺

I finished my internship last week, which was sad but now I have more time to sew and be a better blogger.

groen vingers

I introduced my housemate to Pinterest which briefly took over her life (she is now 'over it'). The many, many 'pins' of delicious dishes and cooking tips inspired the Julia Child in her, which suits me just fine as I get to eat her yummy creations (thanks, Julz!).

She tried out this idea to keep your herbs fresh: Freeze your rosemary/thyme/I don't know any more herb names in water or OLIVE OIL in ice trays and whenever you're doing your cookin' thing just pop a few out!

They just look so pretty!

(The yellow ones are the herbs in olive oil)

Thursday 26 July 2012

on the street where you live

I went to the launch of the Topshop Pop Up Shop at Unknown Union 2 weeks ago. I was SO EXCITED for it but didn't report back here because I left empty-handed, pretty disappointed with the selection. I did however get stopped by Elle's street-style-spotter (thrilling!) who requested a photo of just my feet ("Ouch" - the rest of my outfit).

I didn't know my calves had a bad side but this girl nailed it.

The fabric in the background is called Billions of Bunnies and you can buy it HERE

Wednesday 25 July 2012

purple rain

a skirt I made back when days were a little sunnier

♥

Tuesday 24 July 2012

i wrote a letter to my love

words + pictures PART TWO

(PART ONE)

JESUS

GIRL YOU BE KILLIN' 'EM

PIZZA

DOPE (!!!)

Sunday 22 July 2012

LA SARDINA

guess what I get to play with this week!

I'm testing out the La Sardina, a Lomography camera that takes 35mm film and looks fun as hell. Hopefully some of my photographs will come out somewhat respectable so I can share them here. Until then here are some examples of the kind of dreamy, slightly wide-angle photos it can take:

source

D.I.Y. Sunday ♡ : washi tape lappy keyboard

This lovely rainy weekend made me too lazy to bother with a new D.I.Y project, sorry gang!

I did however visit the most beautiful shop called TYPO, new to Canal Walk and coming soon to Cavendish. Laptop covers, cheeky cards, stamp sets, pretty notebooks, book ends, nice pens and too many other wonderful stationery delights to list.

I found some WASHI TAPE I mentioned in last week's DIY. I hope they get some more in as their selection was kind of limited so I only got 4 rolls. I attempted the Washi Tape Laptop Keyboard Make Over and it came out looking pretty fun but I'd like to throw some more colours in the mix.

I love this stuff 'cause it peels away really easily and doesn't leave yucky sticky residue, perfect for the non-comittal DIY-er!

Friday 20 July 2012

raincheck

A Vida e Caffe Lindt Choccy Hot in this rainy weather ♥

The barista was rude to us so to make up for it he drew a smiley and a frowny face with foam on top. Illogical, yes, but it made for a cute photo.

Tuesday 17 July 2012

dreamy

I've been writing an article on cosmetics and their expiry dates/the germs old make-up carries which made me want to go home and just throw everything away. It's really hard parting ways with your favourite make-up though, especially when it's treated you so well for 4 years (gross, but I'm guilty of keeping stuff for this long) so I started with my nail polishes and found using the old & gloopy ones as art supplies felt way less wasteful.

Some (very) old favourites that needed to be let go/poured out onto my cellphone cover (NOTE: this pouring is V satisfying) + some ice cream buttons I'd been saving for special.

Sunday 15 July 2012

D.I.Y. Sunday ♡ : Keyboard Make-Over

If I had some Washi Tape / stickers in my life today I would definitely attempt a laptop keyboard make over!

It looks misleadingly simple to do but there's a bit of measuring involved adn I'd recommend rounding-off the corners to match the shape of your keys.

Washi Tape, for those of you who have never been on Pinterest (where it's been used to death) is kind of like masking tape with pretty pictures on and is perfect to use for something like this as it's semi-transparent so you can still see the letters through the tape. It won't leave nasty sticky residue on your keys so if your attempt doesn't look quite as lovely as you'd imagined, simply peel it off and no one will know of your terrible failure as a crafty person.

some nice examples:

by her new leaf

by mini fan fan

by sometimes crafter

Saturday 14 July 2012

forever young

My new favourite website is 8tracks which lets you make playlists and listen to other people's playlists, too. I like it because you can search by mood ("study" / "chilled" / "happy" / other prefixes to the word 'vibes'), artist, or names of playlists ("so you got dumped" / "songs for my sons 17th birthday"). Also everything is a surprise: there isn't a list of all the songs to come, you just gotta go with your gut / the description provided. SO FUN.

I'm sure there are many more music streaming sites in the world but I can't be bothered to look and I like 8tracks' layout and Spotify doesn't work in South Africa :(

Back in the day, before I knew how to make my own decisions, my music choices were hugely influenced by the then-popular teen drama The OC. I'd type 'The OC' into Limewire and download every song possible and then every album from each of the singers/bands I liked. A pretty good system I think.
So naturally I couldn't resist searching 8tracks for an OC-themed mix.

This playlist has brought back many memories of pining for Ryan (I KNOW, WTF. With age comes wisdom, I now know Seth is the one for me) on a Thursday night.

Oh boy. Remember when 'emo' was a valid music genre?

Wednesday 11 July 2012

you belong to me

It's important to label your books. I like buying old books with someone else's name in, I always hope I'll recognise the name (this once happened. Cape Town is tiny). I like to think someday in the future some young girl will dig out "Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging" at a second-hand book shop. She'll see my name in the front and dream up an imaginary life for the 'Andie' she shared a love for great literary classics with but never met/ Facebook stalk me / Google how I died.