Weekend (union building)

I’ve been missing from my blog for a while now, but I needed the break, the last couple of weeks was busy, hard and annoyingly the worst! Last week was the worst week of my entire life and I hope that I won’t ever have a week like that again. Not only did I take a break from the blogging world, our internet had so much trouble we were about a week without internet at work (don’t even ask!).

Nonetheless, I had a great weekend, I basically took a break from my phone too, and I did absolutely nothing the whole weekend, I stayed in bed, watched movies and went to the Union Buildings in Pretoria with my sister Heleen. Oh, and how beautiful the city is this time of year, with all the Jacaranda blossoms, the whole city is purple! (to die for!)  I’m so glad to be posting again and I would think these photos is the perfect way to start blogging again.


The Union Buildings have the most gorgeous gardens in South Africa, and it’s huge! :) We had a few picnic’s in the gardens and there’s loads of people who does the same thing and just relax underneath the magnificent trees.
The view of the Voortrekkermonument (Afrikaans and Dutch for pioneers, literally "those who trek ahead", "fore-trekkers) from the Union Buildings.

Look at all those Jacaranda trees, the purple looks so lovely!

This cannons is still in use, and every once in a while when someone even remotely important visits the Union Buildings, they fire the cannons a few times.

It was a gorgeous and hot day out and the sky was the prettiest blue I’ve seen in awhile! I must admit, that I should probably go there more often, it’s so beautiful and peaceful and you get the best views of the city from there.

friday reads to love

Happy Friday all! I’m so excited for this weekend, I need the break, this week was soooooo long! Even though, I have a few awesome posts from this week I’d love to share with you.

First up this week Olivia Rae from Everyday Musings, as you all probably know already, I love her blog and her photos, I’m so jealous of all the wonderful places she gets to visit,  “Weekend (in Paris)”, “the tower”, “london”, “a little film about the loire valley”.

Awesome and extremely funny posts from Che over at indieBerries,   “winter”,
”what if wednesday” and “humba kahle! Go Well!” A week wouldn’t pass without a few laughs from Che! And this week’s was especially funny!

This is the cutest party idea I’ve seen in a while and I’m in love with this, a great idea for a bachelorettes party “Pretty Party // 1950’s Diner Bridal Party” over at Miss Indie. Always cute party ideas!

Busy Bee Lauren’s photography gets better and better by the day, I absolutely love her blog and her wonderful photo’s “recent clients” is the perfect post to show you exactly what I mean about her amazing photography skills! :)

That’s all for this week, I hope you all have a wonderful weekend with loads of adventures and happiness! :) See you all back on Monday!

hump day playlist

happy Wednesday! Today was/is one of the busiest days I’ve ever had, although it feels like I’ve done a million things, I didn’t do really anything, do you know that feeling? I had odd little things to do the whole day, and now, I have to sit with all the big things undone, I hate this, it makes me feel exhausted and I just want to go home and forget about anything work related. Tomorrow I will have to work extra hard to get everything done on time. busy, busy, busy! :) Even though…  I still have some awesome songs to share with you this week, so I hope you love it!

Rosie Thomas – Wedding day

The Weepies – Little Bird

Sara Bareilles – Send me the Moon

Missy Higgins – They weren’t there

Adele – Turning Tables

Tegan and Sara – The con

Tristen Prettyman – Don’t work yourself up

That’s all for this week, hope you enjoy! May you have a wonderful few days before the weekend!

strange weather

This past weekend we had the strangest weather here in South-Africa, there was 2 tornado’s in South-Africa yesterday (almost never happens here) and we had loads of rain and hail and the wind was absolutely terrible. On Friday when I drove to Groblersdal for the weekend our weather looked like this:

This is how strong the wind was blowing, I had to stop at a garage so that they could wash my window, because all of that grey stuff in the air, was basically dust and sand and my windows turned brown. It looked like fog and in some areas you could only see a few meters in front of you. It was horrible! The wind was so strong it was hard to control the car at some points… This freaked me out a little, what should we expect next? Usually South-Africa have more controlled weather, this kind of weather scares me. I just hope it’s over.

Hundreds of homes were destroyed by these tornado’s and hundreds are injured, luckily as far as I know, only 1 person died, but unfortunately it was a 9year old kid.

If you like you could check out here, here, here, here, and here for more on the tornado’s.