Heroes Acre Cemetery

Kind of depressing starting a post this week with the word “cemetery” in the heading right? In case you haven’t noticed, we had a bit of trouble with internet the last couple of day, but it’s much better now, and I didn’t even get the chance to do my Monday post, but I’ll make it up to you with these photos I took about a year ago, and only now got around to it to develop my films, I also have 2 other films I developed with this one, so I’ll share them later on.
Here’s some background on the cemetery: Heroes Acre Cemetery is located in Pretoria on one of the world's longest streets, Church Street, Heroes Acre is one of the city's most fascinating attractions. The cemetery was established in 1867 and the burial place of a number of historical figures including Andries Pretorius, Paul Kruger and Hendrik Verwoerd. Also among them Harry ‘Breaker’ Morant,  an Australian, executed for the murder of a missionary during the Second Anglo-Boer War. Surrounded by beautiful Jacaranda trees, the cemetery is open to the public daily.

I was fascinated with the historical figures buried there, the gorgeous trees as well as the magnificent statues & headstones in the amazing cemetery! It’s a place I can’t wait to visit again (although in a very dodgy area, since the centre of the city is not at all a safe place anymore), I’ll have to try going there again soon!

ALSO
Check out this awesome giveaway 

over at Little Chief  Honeybee!and stand a chance to win  a Jensen Turntable! like WOW! :)

wreck this journal {part 5}

As you all probably know from this post, I had a few FUN-tastic hours, over the weekend, with two of my good friends Johann & Marius. I also asked them to help me out with one of my pages in my Wreck this Journal…

I’m kind of sad that I have to destroy this book, but it’s what it’s all about right? I realised that so far all the pages I’ve done in the book didn’t destroy the book much, so I’ll have to start doing pages that would really damage this book. Also in the photo below I tried to smell if it smells like burned paper, but it still smelled like me, yay! :)

Hope you enjoyed this edition of how I wreck my journal! :) Have a lovely weekend! xx

friday reads to love

It’s FRIDAY!!! :) I’m so happy it’s weekend, tomorrow is one of my friends (Simone’s) birthday, so I’ll be there, other than that, I have nothing planned for the weekend but rest. Luckily this week flew by pretty quickly, I was swamped at work with our stupid internet not working properly, at least that got a bit better later on this week so I can share my favourite reads from this week with you. Hope you enjoy!

Yesterday I did share these two links to fit with my post, so if you haven’t seen “Getting real” over at Little Chief Honeybee and “super long and probably
          ridiculous” over at Busy Bee Lauren please read that, and also my post here.

And if you’ve read my blog long enough, you probably know that Everyday Musings is one of my favourite blogs and there’s no way I’ll skip her on my Friday reads to love, so please check out these posts, the photography once again is 
          absolutely amazing… “weekend (in Barcelona)”, “breakfast at the market”,
          “sagrada familia” and “sunset in nice”.

The coolest and GREATEST giveaway over at Busy Bee Lauren, check it out “Busy Bee Giveaway”. Good Luck! xx

I laughed so hard at “What if Wednesday” over at IndieBerries, the cutest what if Wednesday post so far! I absolutely love her blog!

My lovely sister always has the cutest diy ideas, and unlike me she actually tries the diy’s. So check out “more on my diy list” over at Him & Her for her next couple of diys she would love to try.

I thought this recipe looks amazing, normally I’m not very keen on trying any cookie recipes (because I’m not a big cookie fan in general) but this looks amazing and I can’t wait to try this out “[Recipe] Oreo Cookies” over at Love &
          Photographs.

Summer is around the corner here in South-Africa and this “3 Easy Infused Water Recipes” over at A Beautiful Mess would do the trick in this extremely hot weather in the summer and I can’t wait to try this out.

Also, one of the things I can’t wait to try and I think would look absolutely gorgeous as decorations at any party “pretty paper windmills {diy}” over at The Pretty Blog. MUST DO!! ;)

I hope you found something you loved to read amongst these wonderful posts during this week. May you have a wonderful and sunny weekend! xx

what? why? who? uh…

I recently came across two very insightful and amazing posts that got me thinking. Why am I blogging? What am I blogging about? Who’s more important on my blog? But first, check out this post over at Little Chief Honeybee & this one on Busy Bee Lauren.

Did you read them? Kay good, then I can explain…

Both of these posts got me thinking, why did I really start blogging and believe me when I say, I did sometimes worry about how many followers I got going here on my blog (not many, that is, but those of you who do follow me, it’s dearly appreciated and I love having you here and I appreciate every single comment), but in fact that’s not important (I’m not saying that my followers aren’t important, without you it would be pretty dull around here), what’s Important is that I do what I love and what I want, my blog has nothing to do with what other people want it to be, and I’m scared of becoming a fake blogger, that the ME in my blog gets lost. In fact, I don’t care about who likes my blog and who doesn’t, I don’t care because I’m doing this for me, to post about what inspires me, what I like and capturing my life, to read through this one day and see how much I’d grown over the years and how much I’ve changed. It’s awesome being able to share these things with friends and followers and who ever likes what I’m doing here, maybe I’ll be able to help a few people in some situations maybe even inspire someone. It’s my space to share my millions of photos that I’m passionate about and hope that it’s not just me who like them? ;) hiehie!

The point about this post is, to remind myself that I want to be myself and do what I like, that I’ll be silly sometimes and sometimes I’ll think about deleting a post just because I’m embarrassed about it later on, sometimes I’ll have nothing about my life to blog about, (like the past few months, because I was in hibernation-mode, it’s winter, and I can honestly say, I don’t do much wintertime accept watch tons of series and drinking tons of coffee, always in my pj’s and always in bed), but I’ll keep it real. This sentence from Busy Bee Lauren is exactly what I want to portray on my blog: “When you open up this blog, you will see me. Not something carefully sculpted and fabricated into the person I want you to see. This blog is me.” I made the decision today to do my own thing, to use inspiration only gained from other bloggers and use my own creativity on my blog and be honest with myself and with you, to share the good as well as the bad. To be everything I can and want to be. If for whatever reason I loose track of this thought this post will remind me and hopefully one of you out there too.

There will be times I will talk only about the good & great things in my life, just because it’s easier than to talk about things that’s awful, and I like to keep positive, I don’t like to dwell on the negative. But I’ll share my ups and downs, because I’m a real person and I’m not perfect and I don’t want to be. I like being just who I am, and I hope that what I’m portraying in my blog will inspire you and I hope that you can accept my blog for what it is. I’m not going to edit or change any of what I wrote today, because I want to keep this as real as possible, it’s a bit hear and there but it’s straight from my thoughts and I want to keep it that way… I created my blog to seek friendship and build my self-esteem through sharing who I am with wonderful people. I’ll always appreciate and be grateful for my followers, and I’ll try my best to be there to show my support to you as well. My blog is not for self gain, and I would love to have you all here to share and inspire other people out there. Hope to see you all still here after many years and apart of who I am and apart of my blog…

hump day playlist

hello all! :) It’s Wednesday and that means it’s time for another hump day playlist! I have some super cute songs to share with you, I’ve been listening to these songs 24/7 for the past week and I’m loving them even more! a special thanks to my cousin Carmen and her husband Emile for introducing me to most of these songs, it’s absolutely stunning! i hope you all love it as much as I do!

Ingrid Michaelson – Breakable 

The Velvet Underground – I’m sticking with you

Mumford and Sons – White blank page

Christina Perri – Jar of Hearts

Florence & the Machine – Blinding

Kimya Dawson – Loose Lips

Cage the Elephant – Aberdeen 

I still have loads of awesome songs to share, but don’t want to bombard you with too many at a time. Also, thanks to the incredibly slow internet the past week, I was only able to post my weekend post today, I’m not usually the kind of blogger posting more than one post on a day, but I couldn’t leave anyone of the posts, I have to share both! May you have a wonderful day! ♥