Nicola Tweed

I love, love, love photos! I'm never shy to pose for photos and my reasoning is that even though you just may look hideous in the picture at least you'll have that moment saved for ever and a life time to giggle about how terrible your hair/outfit was or cry over how skinny your were (see pick below...thinspiration I tell you!).

Last week my sister and I were in complete stitches, we had tears of laughter streaming down our face over some of the below snaps....

Pictures from my first nappy cake attempt.....

The last couple of weeks have been one crazy emotional roller coaster ride loaded with stress (urgh how I despise you stress!). I think my boyfriend and I are feeding off each others stress making it tens times worse but the funny thing is the more we bicker the more I'm falling in love with him <3. I know now how much he cares about me and how much we are willing to do for each other. These moments are the ones testing our relationship and making it more special. So with that stress I secretly love you too! (love hate relationship)

I've got plenty of time on my hands and I think the funniest thing is that when you've got time on your hands you can't think of a thing to do and when you've got a full time job you can think of a million and one things to do! Always the way!

Anyway I've decided that as I have time on my hands I will be posting everyday even if it's just a picture or a saying but hopefully more because I really have no excuses!

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On Monday night we went to visit one of my boyfriends friends in Hilton (awesome place + even more awesome couple!) and while laying the table I spied some very very stunning place mats. Let me tell you I'm no Afrikaaner but these place mats were just too school for cool! I was surprised to realise how many Afrikaans saying I actually knew and remembered! Things like 'n boer maak 'n plan + More is nog 'n dag... + nog a laaste dans...
Anyway I did some google (gotta love it) research and found that these amazing place mats were made from 'Modertaal op Materiaal' (mother tongue on material) and even better it the material comes in several different colours. Me thinks a creative project will be coming along when we finally settle into our new house (5 days and counting down).

Another super cool finding yesterday was The Designery Blog by Adri Marais' (that's where I found Modertaal op Materiaal). Adri blogs about home grown South African design talent, something I am passionate about. I love her work and look forward to many guilty pleasure days of reading her blog. Thanks Adri! 

I love number one, so true! What you fear most you need to do most!