Colorstrology

"Colorstrology" helps you find your unique pantone color matched to your birthdate. Select your birth month and birthdate and you've got yourself a pantone color match made in heaven. You can even send pantone color birthday e-card. I sent one to myself (obviously). According to Colorstrology I'm a pantone 12-0322: "inspiring, sexy, imaginative." I can live with that. ;) 

Find your perfect pantone and wear it with pride!

Just Che - a bit about me

I posted this today on my Just Che page. This blog is a slow work in progress - each day I'm inspired to start a new section or have another idea for a new page or section to include.  The "Just Che" page is a self created tribute to me. Just so that you have a small idea of who I am, what I love and you can see the kind of style that works for me :)

Make a tribute to yourself. List your loves, your loathes and anything else that makes you tick...

Posting Secrets

Postsecret, is one of my all-time favourite websites. Seeing stranger's secrets posted on a public forum somehow makes me feel more connected to the world and really gives me the feeling that I'm not alone (It brings me peace to know my thoughts are not as crazy, weird or alone as I think they are...)

I had a really strange internet stumbling a few days ago - I was fumbling around the internet-randomly clicking links to interesting pictures and obscure blogs and in the middle of the vast cyberspace world I coincidentally came across MY secret that I had mailed to postsecret. I had missed it when it was posted on the postsecret website - (they only stay up for a week). So it was purely coincidental that this blogger decided to pick out my secret to post on her own blog and even more strangely creepy that my random clicking path led me to it! It was a surreal feeling to see my secret on someone's blog.

So, for those secret-posters who missed their secrets on the actual site, I hope you stumble upon them here...

Be Brave and tell someone your secret...

Blog Break

Since there are so many awesome blogs floating around on the web, I've decided to allocate a "blog break" time into my day otherwise I'd never get anything done! Only once I've done some actual "work" on my computer- can I take a quick 20 minute blog break to see what awesome things I can stumble upon.
here are just a few...


A Beautiful Mess - http://www.abeautifulmess.typepad.com/
A Field Journal - http://afieldjournal.blogspot.com/
Eat Drink Chic - http://www.eatdrinkchic.com/
Design*Sponge - http://www.designspongeonline.com/
How about Orange - http://howaboutorange.blogspot.com/
Lushlee - http://www.lushlee.com/
Oh, Hello Friend - http://ohhellofriend.blogspot.com/

You can find more gorgeous blogs on my Blog Love page. To visit it click HERE.

Find a blog that inspires you and read, read read...

Coffee Lovers

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So, I have been put onto some anti-biotics by the dentist and I'm not allowed to drink coffee or tea... (what is the world without coffee or tea?!) So this is in tribute to the liquid force coffee that sustains my being.

Wouldn't it be great to add a pretty pick me up to your pick-me-up? Like this from Coffee Stencil Shop on Etsy:

You can buy your own coffee stencils here on Etsy.

Make a delicious cup of steaming coffee and share it with someone special.

Kuler Colours

Hello every designers friend!
Welcome to Kuler. An online resource that enables you to select, choose, analyse, create, define and ogle at beautiful colour schemes. You can use the colour schemes in various projects by viewing the RGB, CMYK or HEX colour values and loading them into your photoshop (or other editing program).
Using this site you can search for colour schemes based on words such as "berries, candy, water and grass". You can also play around with different schemes such as monochromatic, analogous and complementary. Have fun...

Find yourself a colour scheme that makes you smile and use it create something beautiful. (PS I spell colours with a "u" since I'm proudly South African)

Wallpaper, Posters and the Decemberists

This poster for The Decemberists Album is absolutely gorgeous. The background wallpaper is so sorbet-ish that I think if it wasn't on my computer screen I'd probably lick it! Never heard The Decemberists? Listen to some of their music here.

I also really love this poster for the LCD Soundsystem - it's girly AND robot-edgy. Their music is also pretty great :).

If you'd like to see more great posters, go right ahead: click here.

Pretend you're in a band. Make yourself a band name and a terrific band poster. (it's ok if its only in your head...) Go you rock-star you...