Vignette woes

I always have these grand visions of how I want to style my vignettes, inspired by my hundreds of pinned pics, only to be let down by my realization of the said idea.

Curation takes time, it need not take a lot of money as many things can thrifted, bartered or even found, but a collection is gathered, not bought.

This is one of my latest creations. I deliberated it for ages and all it took was looking at things I already owned and finding a way to piece them together in a visually appealing way.

The butterflies were a Milnerton Market find, a complete score at R95.00 ($15USD). The typewriter was my Grandfathers, he used it daily and it’s fond reminder of both him and my early childhood. The baby crocodile head I bought when I was 14 while traveling through Zimbabwe and the quartz rock a roadside find.

The ceramic bird I found in a store in town and used a glass cloche from O.live to encase him. The National Geographics are from the year of my birth and inspired by Neill Stemmet’s use of them as colourful accents and lastly the flower print a 2nd hand bookstore find.

I’m happy with how it came together.



Farm city

I love this short doccie looking at how NYC is working towards bringing back food production back into the city, an ideal that is close to my heart as a vocational ‘Urban Farmer’.

I grow food in urban farm lots and support my community through a weekly urban farmers market I co-founded and provide local eateries with a selection of fresh, picked daily old world/heirloom vegetables.

The Mail & Guardian ran a feature on me this week, read it here.

If you are keen to try your hand at growing your own edible garden take a look at this short video I did for eXpresso Show.