My Polyvor Weekend Look

Here are some outfits I put together on Polyvor for an average weekend - Friday night fun, Saturday Shop and Sunny Sunday Lunch. What do you think? I simply love this site, it is like a dream closet, so fun to play and mix and match. I love everyone of these looks, wish they were mine! :) G

Thought For The Day.

Street Art By Damon Ginandes

I love this street art done by Damon Ginandes. He uses mixed media and paints elaborate compositions if portraits intermingling with one another. They are devoid of context and stripped of their identity, they are souls - ageless, anonymous, and solitary. Beautiful! G x

Pinterest Photo Of The Day.

Tea Time!!

Tea always brightens my day! Seriously I am either so easy to please or everyone feels like this. A nice cuppa just makes the day seem easier! I swear whenever our lovely tea lady comes around at 10 and 3, I could kiss her on the face! I always tell her she is my favorite person in the whole company! :) She makes the tea...so she is!

LOVE this!!!!

I have stuck this on my mirror and look at it every morning! No truer word has ever been spoken! Don't forget it! G

Sweet Tooth!

Oh wow I really have to try this recipe. It looks so yummy and I have always wanted to make a souffle. Apparently it is a very easy recipe too :) Yay. Enjoy G

Chocolate souffle

3 tbsp cold butter, for greasing

1 tbsp caster sugar, for dusting

1 tsp cocoa, for dusting

150g dark chocolate

50g butter, cubed

4 egg yolks

110g caster sugar

1 tbsp cocoa

5 egg whites

1 pinch of cream of tartar

1 pinch of salt

Icing sugar, foér dusting

Step one

Preheat the oven to 200°C. Grease ramekins with butter, then brush the sides with a pastry brush to create vertical grooves (this will help the soufflé to rise). Combine caster sugar and cocoa and dust ramekins. Shake out excess.

Step two

Place the chocolate and butter in a heat- proof bowl set over a pot of simmering water; allow to

melt. Remove from heat and set aside to cool a little.

Step three

In a bowl, whisk together egg yolks and 60g caster sugar until pale. Sift in cocoa, stir well to combine. Add the egg mixture to the melted chocolate mixture, and stir well to combine.

Step four

In a large glass bowl, beat the egg whites with the cream of tarter and salt until soft peaks form. Gradually add remaining caster sugar one tablespoon at a time until mixture is thick and glossy and stiff peaks form.

Step five

With a metal spoon, fold a little of the egg white into the choco- late mixture to loosen it, then gently fold in the remaining egg white until combined.

Step six

Spoon the mixture into the prepared dishes. Run the tip of a folded piece of paper towel around the lip of the ramekin, between the mixture and the dish (this will help the soufflé to rise). Bake for 20 minutes, remove from oven, dust with icing sugar and serve immediately.

Thought For The Day.

Kevin Peterson

Today I found some work done by Kevin Peterson. Peterson’s paintings reveal a sharp contrast between the innocent world of a child and the reality of the world in which they live. His work is about the varied journeys we take through life. It’s about growing up and living in a world that is broken. These paintings are about trauma; fear and loneliness, and the strength that it takes to survive and thrive. They each contain the contrast of the untainted, young, and innocent against a backdrop of a worn, ragged, and defiled world. I truly love the thought process and concept behind his work. G

Poem For The Day.

A Dream Within A Dream by Edgar Allan Poe

Take this kiss upon the brow!
And, in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow--
You are not wrong, who deem
That my days have been a dream;
Yet if hope has flown away
In a night, or in a day,
In a vision, or in none,
Is it therefore the less gone?
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.

I stand amid the roar
Of a surf-tormented shore,
And I hold within my hand
Grains of the golden sand--
How few! yet how they creep
Through my fingers to the deep,
While I weep--while I weep!
O God! can I not grasp
Them with a tighter clasp?
O God! can I not save
One from the pitiless wave?
Is all that we see or seem
But a dream within a dream?

A Nice Thought

It's A Fact.

Hey everyone. I am here today with some incredibly useless, yet beautifully illustrated facts. I must say I do enjoy a good useless fact, even though my mind never seems to retain them, I would still quite like to be a fountain of useless yet interesting knowledge :) G

Happy Friday!!!

I am so happy it's Friday! FINALLY! This week has dragged. And this weekend is a long one for me, yehaaa! I am so excited to relax and spend some quality time with my loved ones and my book :) So I am here to wish you all a happy Friday, an awesome weekend and a very special Woman's Day. Have fun x x x G

Thought For The Day.

Sum 41!!!

Sum 41 is in Durban tonight!!! Eeeeeekk. I know to many people this would not be such a big deal, but I fell in love with Deryck Whibley in standard four and ever since then I have fiercly stood by this band. Even now as I am getting older and punk rock and mosh pits are no longer all I live for, Sum 41 will always be closest to my heart. This band got me through many, many hard times and all my awkward phases. I remember saving for months to get their first album and this was the very first album I ever bought. So tonight I will become a teenager again and I will finally see these guys live. I am so excited. Eeeekk!!! Rock on peeps, G :)