Guest Post: Seen on the Street

Bailey is without a doubt the New Yorker in our family but this week it is I who is wishing I was in the city, watching all the fashion week goers and their amazing outfits.

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SIGH!

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Measure of a good day

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If no hitting or biting is the measure of a good day then I am doing okay. Although we still have a few hours left of the day... So I don't want to get ahead of myself since I am feeling particularly agitated by the assortment of smells, sounds, and irritations in the office today and might not be able to hold back a good bite.

The Packaging Project

Local South African blog Cupcake Couture is running a Packaging Project for all you bloggers out there that may be interested.

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What is it? "An exchange to connect like-minded creative folk around the world.  It's all about swapping packages and handmade delights."

I am definitely going to take part and will  update you on the package I send and receive.

What a great idea! Thanks Cupcake Couture.

Laughing is contagious

To mark the US Final, here is a clip of two great stars behaving, well, like normal people when you can't stop laughing.



Watch it, it will make your Monday.

Have a great week.

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Remembering, reflecting, respecting

I can't believe it has been 10 years since 9/11... I remember going up the World Trade Towers in 1996 on a family holiday to the States and being amazed that, on a clear day, you could actually see the curvature of the earth from those heights. I remember sitting at home in Johannesburg watching the event unfold on that fatal day half way across the globe. But knowing it would change the world as we knew it. I remember moving to New York and moving into a building a block from Ground Zero just before the fourth anniversary and it became real in a different way. I remember the lights shining up from the site every year as a stark reminder of what the city and its people went through. And today, 10 years later, I remember all the brave men, women and children that lost their lives and loved ones.

{New York city skyline, pre 9/11}

"And even 9/11 itself has a kind of rightness. No one says “September 11th” anymore as shorthand for that awful day. (To do so, a friend once joked, would be “so September 10th.”) There’s a pleasing, no-nonsense simplicity and precision to the expression — the same effect created by “24/7,” only starker, and with none of the exaggeration. These four syllables are right at the end of language, where words turn into abstraction. Individually, they’re just random, empty numbers, but yoked by that fateful slash they contain volumes. 9/11 — everyone knows what that means, and to say any more would be pointless. Sometimes words fail." 

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The new 1 World Trade Center (also known as Freedom Tower) lit up in red, white and blue to mark the day

The front page of New York Times 10 years ago.
And New Times Special Report.
NY Magazine's coverage is also worth reading

Have a fun weekend!

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What are you up to this weekend? If you are from South Africa (or New Zealand, Tonga, France, Japan, Scotland, Romania, Argentina, England, Australia, Italy, Ireland, USA or Wales) I am sure it will involve watching a rugby game. 

I am going to the delightful Rochelle's for dinner tonight with the husband and friends. And tomorrow we are celebrating Tshepo's 30th with a luncheon (I would like to indulge what we are giving her but she may just read this post. And that would ruin it). The weather is perfect so it looks to be a fun weekend. 

Here are some lovely links from around the web:

For those of you who have had a long week, here is a wish list of how to spend a good day

I want to go and stay at Utah's Homestead Resort just to swim in this underground crater

A cool billboard from my long-time hairdresser in Cape Town (I miss you Andrew G!)

We all need this: How to focus in the age of distraction

Can you imagine getting married in this see-through church

I want to get myself a copy of the new Design Sponge At Home book

This rose gold watch would look right at home on my wrist (I heart rose gold. And men's watches)

And for all the fashionistas and dreamers among us, invites to NY Fashion Week 2011

xoxo

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Go Bokke!

Today not only marks the start of the weekend, it also marks the start for the Rugby World Cup. While this is by no means as big as the Fifa World Cup, it's a pretty big event on the South African calendar (I even have a schedule of games on my fridge!). It is taking place on the other side of the world, in New Zealand, but we will be cheering for our boys loud and clear!

To mark this day, and join in the green and gold spirit that is popping up everywhere, here are some cool alternatives to rugby jerseys to show your support for the Springboks:

Well done to Deathbok for the clever concept - I want the one second from the top.

PS. For the ladies out there who still don't knwo the in's-and-out's of the game (I include myself in this pool), read Rugby: Explained for girls.

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