Pins I am loving

I love window seats … they are so dreamy and this one has additional space at the bottom

There is something about wearing a jumpsuit to a wedding or on a wedding lineup

I love the pink couch .. what a dream

 

There is something about this dress …. 

Sunday Reads

• I have been thinking of asking my female (mama) pals to a slumber party and stuff, it would make me so happy.
• Helping kids develop critical thinking skills.
• Parenting Podcasts For Parents Without Any Free Time
• Getting rid of clutter 🙂
• … and maintaining things that way.

Recipes

• Pasta Recipes

 

Pins I have loved this week

We all need some help getting rid of clutter around the house and so I loved this list.

I love this one – the blue couch and slowly I am being drawn to indoor (low-maintenance) plants

I LOVE THE JUMP SUIT AND YES i AM SHOUTING

Decor Dreams on a Monday

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What do I love in this image?

• The black and white colour scheme.
• The fact that there is so much under the stairs, but it is not busy.
• I’m not a huge carpet fan, but this one works so well.

Urgggh, I wish I had a stairwell to try this look.

Sunday Reads

• Uber’s performance on the African continent.
• Nairobi at dusk.
• Tiny hacks that elevate your room just so.
• Great book recommendations available here, here and here.
• ” … Yet there is no word for “single mothers” in Dari and Pashto, the languages spoken in Afghanistan. “Single moms are described only by the status of their husbands … so they’re either widowed or divorced. But their motherhood is not recognized.”
• Some of us recognise this kind of man.
• What a timely reminder that often our ministry will be unrecognised.
• Toast for dinner is always welcome.

 

Sunday Reads

• Yeah, I’d watch this show.
• Yaaaasssss!!! for Serena Williams.
• The danger of importing an idea without considering how it would apply to a local context. Here and Here.
• “Traveling through the neighborhoods of Cape Town is like peeling back the layers of an onion.”
• Racial underpinnings in conservation in Kenya.
• I enjoyed this piece on textural discrimination among black (hair) naturals.
• Race/ Diversity and the Church.
• Sometimes we limit God in our small thinking of Him and our calling.
• Petinah Gappah writes very well.
• Follow Jonathan Ball Publishers this month and get a free book in their give away.
• 5 Things to do when you have 10 minutes. Love this!!
• What a practical and wonderful gift to share with your parents.
• An example of a great teacher.
• Finally bit the bullet and got a pressure cooker.
• Practising a plant based diet this month (Aside: It is fine but I miss ice cream and yoghurt).

Recipes

• Yummy noodle sweet potato pasta.
• Herbed zucchini wraps.
• More on cooking with zucchini.
• I love this one-sheet chicken recipe.
• Some sweets to make in advance.
• 10 cake recipes for tea time.
• Non-dairy ice cream.

 

Sunday Reads

• Great job Zanzibar!! But how many people aged over 70?
• This is true, how we often judge women’s decisions.
• Are you a texter, or a talker? I am definitely a texter except for with family and certain close pals.
• This is a gorgeous home!!
• A bit of language but imagine if you had to sign language interpretation for Snoop Dogg.
• So MUCH goes into publishing a cookbook. Also, how if you cannot negotiate a good deal you could end up broke.
• Something about this letter correspondence broke me.
• I still believe that marriage is between one man and one woman.
• .. and more thoughts on open marriages here.
• This is true of what is driving many societies today.
• How to show your faith at the workplace.

Recipes

• Toasted Pumpkin Seed Dip with Fresh Herbs

Another Round of Favourite Pins

This beautiful bedroom. I pinned it because I love the seat at the foot of the bed and the simple lines and colours.

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This young girls locs

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I love the openness of this bathroom. Definitely appropriate for a master bedroom

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This clever use of space.

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Anything pretty caught your eye recently?

Recent Pins I have loved

Love her glasses

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Love the pop of colour.

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I love the lighting fixtures

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Her make up is flawless!

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Just the imagery of this ..

 

 

March Goals

In keeping with my 2016 theme to be more rooted and connected, this is what I hope to do in March.

1. Reach out to close friends via calls, emails or messages to talk about what’s really happening in our lives. I mean group communication and Facebook is great but not all the time. Also, to get into the habit of praying for friends and family.
2. Do more outdoorsy stuff and enjoy the last of the Cape Town glorious weather.
3. Cook more and enjoy that time.
4. Get data and finalise topic for school.
5. Read more African literature (more on this later).
6. Host a high school friend and her family for lunch.
7. Hang up more pictures around the house.

Will post at the end of the month how it’s all going.

Sunday Reads (the how-to version)

1. I love this beautiful Joburg home – the art and the styling. Yum!
2. How do you stop dirty money flows?
3. How do you invest your windfall?
4. An experts summary of how to reduce sugar in your baking.
5. For anyone that needs tips on conception.
6. So many ethical issues regarding this Surrogate mother’s tale.
7. As the gap in education access and attainment continues to broaden, this is the reality for some kids.
8. How to crotchet a chunky knit blanket.
9. For all of us that need to learn to say no graciously.
10. How do you get health officials not to steal donor funds? You send an enforcer and you put in repercussions.
11. On the unpaid work that women often do.
12. Watch 100 Years of Black Men hairstyles in one minute.
13. On Cancer and other health scans and the depths that people will sink to.
14. A project that shows how fickle international borders really are.

 

Monday Pinterest Love

Below see some pins that have been getting some love on my different Pinterest boards.

I love their glasses first of all and then the beautiful locs styles – low maintenance but stylish!

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I loved the curls and the size of the locs.

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This actually challenged me to colour coordinate my bookshelf. So beautiful!

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I would cut my hair this short if I got bored of my locs.

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I love Nidhi’s cartoons and I love how she expresses love between herself and her husband. ❤

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Sunday Reads

1. ​I read this article on miscarriage and for some reason it made me sooooooo sad 😦
2. As a foreign worker, this paper obviously made sense to read. See also the comments, very useful.
3. In case you are looking to stock your first kitchen, the kind folks of Food52 will help you out!
4. How to help yourself eat a healthy lunch at the office!
5. This life must not be easy and I am so grateful to God that I have been largely exempt from it.
6. Beautiful ways to think of gift giving.
7. Because beautiful book design covers.
8. I would love to have this in my house.

Sunday Reads

In honour of my newly minted niece, there are a lot more baby type links this week so enjoy!!

1. A really simple frozen yoghurt to try.
2. Cooking with tea leaves
3. In honour of my newly minted niece!
4. Also, this nursery
5. Looking for recommendations of where to eat in Nairobi? Here goes?
6. All the things you need to know about cooking chicken
7. Cape Town for a week on a budget (Not sure how old this article is)
8. Lessons that secular and faith based developmental organisations could learn from each other.
9. The IKEA effect and studies we actually need done (h/t Thembalee)
10. Some interesting ways to ask your kiddo how their day was.

Enjoy

Sunday Reads

I had taken some time off work this week so I the reads will be fewer than usual!

1. Ever wondered how headhunting happens for some of the more senior positions? Here’s how … (Audio)
2. God definitely made bacon and this would make Him happy.
3. Because I am really serious about hanging stuff on my walls and here is a lovely tutorial of how to do it properly.
4. These shootings while wrong are so heartbreaking!
5. I feel about this exactly what I feel about wedding financing! BAD IDEA!!
6. For the econometric geeks out there – dealing with missing data!
7. The solution for corruption is not as simplistic or clear-cut as increasing wages. So what to do?
8. Caring for your locs. Also, I am sometimes fascinated by the actual voice of some of the blogs I read and this chick is nothing like I expected …

Enjoy!!

My most pinned image on Pinterest

I am not really an active Pinner but it has slowly become the last thing I do just before I fall off to sleep. One of the most common pins on my profile that has the most likes and pins is the following diagram and I thought it apt to explain why I pinned it to begin with.

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Coffee table. I have been looking for an interesting piece of furniture like this for my house and I just love that it’s quite unique and it would give character to any room. I also just love lamps. In any form

Wall colour. I love how intense it is but also the beautiful contrast between it and the brown table and the furniture. Would love to try it on one room wall before being bold to do it all over a room / the house.

Gallery wall. For some time I have been toying with doing this well, because we have all these wedding pictures and other stuff from before that it would be lovely to showcase them like this.

Bookshelf. In place of buying one, it’s quite a space save to make one out of a pre-existing wall like this.

Do you also like this pin? What’s your favourite detail?

Favourite Pins

Loving jumpsuits – they allow me to feel playful and grown up

Beautiful coats

Beautiful home decor, particularly coffee tables

This quinoa recipe

Beautiful loc styles

Her make up. Clean and with her eyes popping

As I get beautiful images, will try and share more as well.

Some more design porn :)

I recently discovered this blog that posts a pic a day of the most beautiful homes. Seeing as I have recently moved and creating a home, these are some of the things I have been drooling about recently.

Love this little dining space

A moment for the colour of the wall!! Also love the table and the coffee tables.

Maybe just one of these at the foot of our bed

I like the imagery of the mismatched dinning chairs

Table for two? With the beautiful lighting fixture

Just the arrangement of this loft! The windows, the couches, the dining table. Just. ALL. Of. It

Now to pray for money to buy beautiful furnishings for our place!

26: I sometimes like to dabble

I secretly like to think of myself as a bit of an interior decorator and often drool over different rooms and set ups and below are some that happened to catch my eye this past week.

Hope you have enjoy these rooms as I have enjoyed clicking on them repeatedly!

Love the treatment of the wall and the open shelves

With the bed a bit higher, I could have this as my bedroom.

With this reading nook, I do solemnly promise to read for at least an hour daily!

Such a sucker for the ceiling and the wooden planks …