Goodbye Missy Pie

She's done it.
She got her 3 year working visa in the UK.
She's gone.

My next-door-neighbour colleague.
My Cake Partner
My Hot Men Fellow Perve.

Who am I going to tease and give a fright to in the morning?

Farewell Parma Ham, Rocket and Mozzarella Croissant

Tea Lovers

Hot Men Perverts

Dangerous Driver & the 2 crazies

SMILE! (But keep an eye on the road)

Enjoy the UK Missy Pie, I will miss our daily chats and laughs - and enjoy the One Direction picture waiting for you on the wall of your office when you get there. (Insert one of your own evil laughs here - you know the one I mean)

Follow her blog here, as I am sure she will be keeping us up to date with all her upcoming adventures!

For Kate

... and the other ladies out there

Strange Dreams

Lately I have had the oddest dreams & wish I had a psychologist to give them meaning.

Dream 1:
I dreamt I had my hair cut by a strange black lady who's salon was actually a restaurant by night.
She charged me R1400 and warned me that she hoped I had medical aid to pay for it.
When I asked her to fix it because she had not done a proper job at the back, she proceeded to shout at me.

Dream 2:
I dreamt that I was eating custard out of an elongated Tupperware cup (the exact cup we used to eat custard out of when I was a little girl)
I heard shouting from the cup and when I looked inside, Justin Bieber was drowning.

Dream 3:
I went to visit Claudz' house and to get to their place, we had to walk a long dirt road. Then we had to climb up a 90 degree sand hill. After much struggling, I manage to get to the top of this hill that looks out onto a little restaurant.
As we start to walk towards the place, we notice that an armed robbery is in progress.
As we slowly start to back away, a man runs out towards the right and the robbers run after him to shoot him.
Claudz and I start to back away slowly hoping not to draw attention to ourselves and I wake up.

It isn't all rainbows and butterflies up in dreamland... I much prefer the dreams where I am kissing Jared Padalecki's abdomen... that V is super sexy!

Now how on earth do I get back to that Happy Place without visiting McDonalds?

Sunday Lunch - Hertford House

This venue was 1 of the venues visited when searching my brother's wedding venue.

Walking around it's rustic premises with old charm, I knew instantly that it was not the right venue for them.

My friend Li is an old soul, and I have her wedding planned in my head, just waiting for her to find the groom. This is the perfect venue for her, so I wanted her to see it.

Guest rooms overlooking the terrace

Salmon Salad starter

1 of our visitors

Dessert - A little bit of everything

We spent a lovely winter's afternoon on the terrace eating a delectable 3 course Sunday lunch and afterwards took a walk around to explore the chapel and gardens.

I've always wanted to get married under a gazebo

Winter is not very kind to the scenery, but you only had to look at the pruned rose-bushes and leaf-less branches to imagine the beauty that will blossom in Spring time.

The Chapel

We chatted about men and the serious lack of sex in our lives. I made a decision that I really need to get some soon - it could be the root of my grumpiness. (Nah, it's probably mostly due to work, but I am sure the lack of action is playing a bit part too!)

Fun in the Sun

Swing-swing

Such a pretty place.... The food & setting is definitely worth the visit!

Through the Eyes of a Princess

I love taking photos - I always have.
One of the first things I spent my pocket-money on was a little camera (the long thin types)
For my 16th birthday I was treated to a Samsung Film Camera - it cost R999 ($100) (18 years ago that was a lot of money, especially for my parents) I still have that camera and I will never part with it.

Last year I treated myself to a Canon and I am still loving every second of it (even if it spends more time in the closet than out in the field)

I take hundreds of photos, share them online and then store them on my Hard Drive.
Nobody ever really gets to see them and enjoy them.
I have recently mounted a few of my photos into frames which are now displayed on my wall along the staircase, but those 13 photos are a drop in the ocean compared to the thousands I have stored.

Hard Personalised Cover

A few years back I saw the Photobooks and fell in love with the idea of having a stylish coffee-table-style book filled with photos for people to browse through.

I made myself my first book with my Thailand photos and loved the idea so much, promptly made a second book with all my day to day photos.
I have recently completed my Europe Holiday photobook and will send to print when I have some spare cash. Next I will begin work on "Through the Eyes of a Princess II"

The design work is fun because you can do anything you like! I use some of my photos as backgrounds, make a collage, frame them, drop shadow them, add scrapbooking looking embellishment images... the list is endless.

Terrible Cellphone images - sorry!

The books are professionally bound and the pages are glossy and thick enough not to tear very easily. A scrapbook album looks lovely but it becomes bulky and the embellishments and paper can get torn so easily.

 

What do you do with your digital photos?