Super...what?!

Put your superhero cape on, get your Captain planet ring out - run around the garden yelling FIRE! FIRE! and see what happens...

Fun things on the WWW

Just some lovely things I've come across...

Making photo transfers with Promise Tangeman and The Girls with Glasses
A collection of 2011 Calendars from Oh so Beautiful Paper
A DIY Bunting greeting card from Just something I made
Take a look inside a gorgeous studio at Divas and Dreams
A December advent type journal/calendar from Elle's studio
Awesome styling and photography from Katrin Schacke (especially love the food and fashion - click the pictures!)

Check out some of these sites.

snapping frenzy. iLOVE iLOVE!!

So I have finally gotten a little iFriend (yay!! yay!!) - and bear with me... I think I will probably be posting about this for several weeks since that's how long its taken me to get an iPhone (I blame it on Korea). Anyway yesterday I took some pictures using iFriend for Nicoles birthday and I also opened a US itunes account - using this link found on 2oceansvibe (it works. I'm now Cathie from Texas). 

First: Pictures from Nicoles birthday breakfast - (I know they are a little blurry- i was just too excited)

muffins, croissants, strawberries + blueberries (my contribution), scrambled eggs + avo + cheese + peppers + tortilla = breakfast burritos, coffee and rooibos tea. deelish.  

Birthday girl

Now... I have been lusting over the Hipstamatic app for at least 5 months - (and half the reason I convinced myself i needed an iphone) So i (aka Cathie Taylor from Texas) signed onto the itunes store and finally made the purchase ($1.99).

I also purchased CrossProcess (99c) and ShakeIt photo (99c). Here are some of the results - 

my coffee.

A water shooter into the fountain

Lovely Laura waiting for our students...

The English Village Tram

Jules - our English Rose

the fountain. tis grand

Kristi's yarn

the ground. (Laura's picture. not mine)

kristi and i - (me very overly excited about iphone.

me: I'm so excited!!!

Laura: I know, you're speaking in your ogre voice.)

Testing out the reverse camera. (im so freaking fancy with a freaking reverse camera)

Blake. He is also fancy.

The statue outside my house

Tea time

Drinks and snacks for Colie's Birthday 

little love bear

me and i heart mustard scarf

Oh i'm in love with iFriend! All the above pictures are a mash-up of photos using The three different photography apps - Hipstamatic, CrossProcess and ShakeIt Photo. (once again I got overly excited and forgot to keep track of which photos were taken with which app) 

I will do a proper review post soon on these photo apps.

(So far I have found that I like CrossProcess most of all since it is very easy to use and change settings. The Hipstamatic interface is slightly annoying and the ShakeIt Photo produces the least noticeable results but they all have awesome/different effects.)

iLove iLove!

Just go buy an iPhone. haha. no problem.

What if Wednesday

What if I had listened to my teachers...

Yesterday was a joyous day of great celebration... I finally got my beloved iPhone!!! After I left the store I got an international phone call.
"ring ring..."
Me: hello
Phone: hello, this is Steve jobs. I'm just calling to find out how your new iPhone is going.
Me: wow! Well I'm on my way to pick up my credit card from the bank right now and so far I've walked past the bank twice because I've been paying too much attention to iFriend
Phone: we have an app for that you know.. It's called MAPS.
Me: that's not very funny
Phone: he he he
Me: wow mr. Jobs you most certainly sound very south African today...
* * *
yes it was my dad. Such a prankster.
Anyway I am in love with new iFriend! I have already created a US iTunes account courtesy of the 2oceansvibe link on their homepage... And I have bought some lovely lomo style apps! Here is a sample from where I work

Happy Birthday

Today is Nicole's birthday (yay!) and we will be celebrating with dinner at Royal India, followed by carrot-cake and coffee - yum yum. (we've already covered the breakfast burrito's, muffins and croissants) I love gift wrapping - so I made these birthday gift tags for Colie using paper that I designed in photoshop -

(those are some earrings that I bought for her - they looked good in the giftwrap haha)

my schfancy handmade gift-tags

Happy birthday Nicole! May your day be as wonderful as you are :)

"i have this huge problem"

(don't worry it's probably just hidden in a pile of pink and black right now)

As a reward for being such a grown up and finally taking charge of my financial responsibilities, we decided to go shopping...

You can listen to my answer here ----> tbsefm.seoul.kr

on Wednesday at 4:30pm Korean time (9:30am South African time).

You can listen to Nicole's answer to "How can I get revenge on my enemy without being caught..." same time, same place on Thursday

and Kristi's answer to "How can I be famous in Korea?" on Friday.

Oh Korea. We love you.