Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Featured

indieBerries was featured in the September 2011 issue of Seventeen Magazine for a DIY Magic craft supplement. Since I have been overseas and have only seen the article now- thought I would share it with you quick - because it's always nice to be recognised for what you do. Thanks for the support everyone. Muchos appreciate.

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The article featured DIY denim fabric roses that I made for Birthday Party Decor. You can read the full blog post here. You can also take a squiz at some of the other places where indieBerries has been featured in the press if you click here.

Tuesday, February 28, 2012

BINGO.

My lovely friend Nicole celebrated her birthday mid November last year and I haven't had a chance yet to blog about her celebrations. As a B-day gift I organised a year-long Marie Claire subscription for her. (Some South-African english magazines to be shipped to Korea~ woop!) This isn't a sponsored post - but the Marie Claire team were so helpful in answering my questions and replied immediately to my twitter questions. (@marieclaire_sa). Since the subscription I ordered would only kick in the following month - I managed to scout around Korea for (probably the only) english Marie Claire I could find. I photoshopped a magazine-sized page with Nicole on the cover and "article titles" relating to her and pasted it onto the Marie Claire magazine so that she had something fun to open.

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I also covered up the first two inner magazine pages and made a space for everyone who had contributed to the subscription to write a note for the birthday girl.

For Nicole's surprise birthday party we organised a fancy Black & White themed cocktails and snacks and I made some black and white decor gift bags for each of the girls. Each gift bag included a headband or hairclip, chocolates, facemasks and earrings.

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I designed black and white name-cards to put on the white paper bags and I bought black polka dot stickers to fasten the name-cards to the bags.

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Along with the gift bags I also created a personal Birthday Bingo for everyone to play and had a Manicure Voucher as the first place prize. The Birthday Bingo Boards included squares with the names of all the party guests, favourite foods, drinks and funny memories. The cards we pulled out of the bag included clues to these answers such as "Nicole's favourite food" or "This person loves to dance on tables".  Anyone who had the corresponding squares on their boards placed a sticker over the block. The first person to complete a Bingo row was the winner. This game was really fun since some bingo clues allowed for decision making amongst the guests (ex: "the craziest person in the room" and we would take a group vote or ask around until someone fit the profile - a great ice-breaker game, FYI.) 
Below are a few party snaps:


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1. Individual Pudding Mousse in cups onto which we'd attached "yum" labels that I designed and also some black and white decorated dessert spoons.
2. Korean Kimbap with "just a nibble" toothpick skewers which I designed.
3. Some party decor I designed and the pretty cocktail cups which Sarah and I hacked up.
4. Bingo!

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I have included a link to download the Black & White party decor I designed - CLICK HERE - in the zip file you will also find a 'How To' for assembling the different decor items as well as how to create your own Birthday Bingo. If you use any of them - I would love to see some pics! *enjoy!

Monday, February 27, 2012

kids

I have started my ten weeks of teaching prac for my PGCE (post-grad certificate in education) at our local primary school - actually the school that I attended from grades 4 - 7. (Everything's a whole lot smaller than I remember. lol. ) Anywhoo - kids in general are the perfect cartoon muse...
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"flying butter"

That's right - the sight of a butterfly and the concept of "flying butter" is enough to keep a small group of primary-school girls highly amused for several (hundred) minutes.

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everything is just perfectly lovely.

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and then 'young girl' tramples over to pick up butterfly.

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kids.

sigh.


Saturday, February 25, 2012

happy day

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happy birthday today to the BIG CHEESE! So christened by moi for his wonderfully endearing cheesy lines that always make me laugh. This year he is really old. Next year, he will be really really old :) lol.  Mr Big Cheese said he wanted a blog post for his birthday - so this is it. OLLEH! I miss you muchos all the way in London town and hope you have a birthday as fabulous as you are. x

Friday, February 24, 2012

dumb alarm

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last night my phone autocorrected "alarm" to Stalin. lol. that's when you know.
Happy Friday!!

Wednesday, February 22, 2012

oh so crafty

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don't you love this picture? It makes me feel so happy. haha.
A few awesome crafty-type DIY's to get stuck into -

A bright headband on PS i made this
Awesome, fun wall art on A Beautiful Mess
An origami heart garland on How about Orange
A quirky iPod arrow cozy on Scissor Quirk
A cute owl bag from Fiskars

Tuesday, February 21, 2012

what the frack!?

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I thought I'd show you this gorgeous pic taken by the un.earthed team.  Un.earthed is epic project created by an independent crew of dedicated photographers and cinematographers who are investigating the method of hydraulic fracturing in The Karoo and other regions.
The project is committed to thorough, objective research and encouraging open and accurate discussion amidst heated debates currently unfolding in the country.
You can read more about the project on the official un.earthed website or follow the blog for more regular updates. These guys are currently trying to raise moolah on the indiegogo site  to reach their goal of $20 000. The team are working pro-bono and would really appreciate any kind of contribution for all their hard work. Pop over to indiegogo and make a little pledge for a good cause :)

Monday, February 20, 2012

secret love

Valentine's Day has just passed. (Could you have missed it? no.) It was great being back at Primary school (busy doing my prac teaching) to witness all the ten-year old love-stricken secret wheeling-and-dealings go down. A true story:
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* 30 seconds later *
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Names changed to protect all the innocent young hearts. 

I hope you all had a wonderful Valentine's day.