18.12.10

9 year anniversary

This week the doc and I will have been married for 9 years.

To celebrate, I'm going to tell you 9  things about the doc that rock.

1. In every relationship there is the one more comfortable about spending and the one who tries to save. In many couples it can be a female who likes to spend and a male who like to curb that spending ("but you already have 5 pairs of slip slops"). In our house the doc is the spender and, well,  I try harder not to spend. :) When we decided to go through infertility treatment and it cost a LOT of money a LOT of the time, we made a deal to buy no new clothes from 2001 - 2005. Though he was a fun 'n snappy dresser when I met him in Wylde Oscar shirts - burgundy velvet pants - he stuck to it. (btw he's back)

2. He was brought up by his mom and 3 sisters - he cooks (way better than me) and cleans though he argues better than me - with more logic and is way less swayed by emotions which I have to admit can actually be annoying as I like to win arguments

3. Team Player. Last week our 3 year old urgently needed her new ballet shoes' elastic sewn on, he sat sewing on the elastic an hour before the show cos I was doing their make up (and he's part surgeon, he sews, well hand sews, better than I).

4. He reads his girls bed time stories every night and says things like: "Who'se your dady?"

5. When he gets called out by the labour ward to deliver a baby in the middle of the night or has been up all night, he can still be in a relatively good mood the next day (on no sleep i'm not really a nice person).

6. Every few weeks, he says to me: You need a break, have a massage or a coffee and I'll watch the girls for 2 hours.

7. He gives talks for free on the HPV vaccine because he cares.

8. He gives really good advice about work/family/friend and even cushion dilemmas though (understandably) he's hopeless and impractical at dress lenth, hair colour, underwear (all hetero guys?) , make up, bags and shoes :)

9. He gives beautiful pressies (like for this anniversary).. hint hint :)


14.12.10

Hey I'm on Ebracing Style- Go enter and Win!

The completely lovely Anthea from www.embracingstyle.co.za is running a Fablefairy Giveaway.

Fable Fairy heart ring and necklace

Please leave a comment on HER blog to stand a chance to win. 

We need to know your favourite bracelet from here is and which women’s health topics (if any) you’d like to learn about.

You also have a chance to win Fable Fairy  with Lucky Pony! http://superduper.co.za/lucky

13.12.10

Shoe Hunt

I wanted something like this (from Polo):



But the 3 was too small and the 4 to big.

So I ordered this from Green Cross (www.greencross.co.za)


 :

Then I got totally distracted by Red shoes (favourite things) since my Nine West Reds have got too tight.

On the internet, i love cute gourgeous Vivienne Westwood for Melissa shoes and the more classical Polo ones:




but none were available in SA. And so, on an entirely different note in a real shop, I fell in love with these Melissa flops. 

Must stay focused when shopping!

12.12.10

Swimsuits Hunt part 2

Inspired by my favourites, Brazen (www.beingbrazen.co.za)  and Embracing Style (http://www.embracingstyle.co.za
on Style Scoop http://www.stylescoop.co.za/, I set off in search of  Espadrilles (thanks Anthea) and a vintagey looking costume (Thanks Brazen) online first of course.

Brazen mentioned Australian brand Seafolly imported by Stuttafords. Be warned that only the Century City branch has this brand in Cape Town  (not Claremont).

They only have about 6 styles, but they are nice!

This was what I wanted:


Love the bottom right one.

You may recall I had previosly  been inspired  by Ava



and these:





 but I didn't feel up to the hassle of measuring and not being sure it fitted if coming from the UK etc even though a visiting friend of a friend offered to bring one.

So I choose a vintagy Seafolly looking top alone cause my credit card was screaming, but after 2 children I need some shaping! Pictures when tanned and thin :)

The shoes hunt is in the next post...

10.12.10

I'm on Lucky Pony Today. Go enter and Win!

Lovely Blogger Angie is doing a feature and a BIG Xmas  giveaway today that includes Fable Fairy! Go enter! http://superduper.co.za/lucky
 
 
"Below are 8 wonderful people who have all given something awesome towards this competition. Each block contains a number, the piece/s they are giving away, a picture of their lovely mugs and a bit about them.
All you are going to have to do is leave me a merry comment and go past their blogs to say ‘hi’ or “man you are smart” or “wow” or “get Angie to pick me or run the risk of loosing both eyebrows. The choice is yours”. Super easy right? Right.

I will then pick TWO winners, who will have to mail me 4 out of the 8 numbers, each number representing a gift. So if you want 1, 2, 5 and 7 that’s what you will send me. The one who mails me second gets what’s left over 4, which is still awesome!"

9.12.10

Bracelets are a (li'l) Girl's Best Friend





Fifi and the Flower tots


Flower Fairy Love


Fifi's Bee Gang


Fifi's tulips

 

Anchor Red Love


 Namesakesy

My bunny and bluebird are in Snow White at Artscape! 


Cuteness!