Blinknuwe begin.

                                                   

Die ewige see.

"Wide sea,

that one continuous murmur

breeds along the pebbled shore

 of memory!"

John Keats

"Those who live by the sea

 can hardly form a single thought of which the sea

 would not be part."

                                                                    Hermann Broch

"To me, the sea is like a person

like a child that I've known a long time.

I never feel alone when I'm out there."

--Gertrude Ederle

Gratitude, a gift to yourself, others and above all else, God...

From my favourite blogger, Ann Voskamp...

Kersfees koue tone, warm harte

aaa, ek is terug! Ek dink blogger gaan dit vir my doen. Geseende Kersfees en 'n Voorspoedige Nuwe jaar vir die van julle wat nog oor is, soos Nikita en Sandra, dankie vir die inloer, jammer vir die stilte. Die besige elke dag se lewe het opgevang met my... Hier, net 'n paar wasige, sneeu foto's van ons Kersfees kuier by die skoonmense in Yank land. Dit was heerlik, ek bly maar 'n jas, serp, handskoene, hoed, kaggel, rooiwyn, liggies mens...

Blogger what have you done to me??

Oh my word, I was away for two months and now everything has changed??
My photos are HUGE when I upload it here, not nice, not nice at all...

Fire

Summer arrived on our island, it is always warm here, but now it is very, very hot.
I wish I could flee, like the "snowbirds" (rich Americans, that migrate between the States and the island, depending on the season)
The island is beautiful though, most of the flamboyants are in bloom and it is so green from all the rain of the past few weeks.

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I'm in holiday mood,

a laziness has entered my bones,

remembering the lazy dazy Summer holidays of my small town-farm life,

South African, childhood.

Shorts, homemade gingerbeer, cookies, the smell of a braai

and

a favourite cousin.

why is it that you can find anybody on facebook

BUT

the one person that you have been seeking for,

for years...

Memories...

South Africa, I see you...

click to see the most amazing pictures of the preparations for the Soccer worldcup in South Africa!

Creativity boot camp: Day 1: Ivory

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my medium of choice, for this bootcamp- photography or maybe I'll mix it up, I'm the boss here, I can do what I like. ;)

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VJ Day

65 Years Ago my Dad shot this film along Kalakaua Ave. in Waikiki capturing spontaneous celebrations that broke out upon first hearing news of the Japanese surrender. Kodachrome 16mm film: God Bless Kodachrome, right? I was able to find an outfit (mymovietransfer.com) to do a much superior scan of t...

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VJ Day, Honolulu Hawaii, August 14, 1945 from Richard Sullivan on Vimeo.

I love Kodakchrome

as well as those

swimsuits!

roadtrip as seen through a dirty windshield

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how far can you go on an island?

helen keller

amazing
a life of silence
turned into what?
LIFE
with capitol letters!

thank the Lord
for
Anne Sullivan

heartbreak

how was I born into this life that I have?

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why are there so many others who are born
into war, abuse, poverty, suffering?
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questions going through my mind after watching this film

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my heart felt like it was ripped from my body

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watch it

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if you can stand
having your heart ripped to pieces

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but

also having it built up again

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by the wonderful children of Africa

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with many dreams

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like the one to become

"a musician who travels the world"
and many more

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children of

Patong

you are in my heart

my thoughts

and my prayers

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more vintage love

I think I told you last week

of my thrifty love

and how happy it makes me,

the ache in my tummy

from expectation,

the palpatations

on finding something worthwhile,

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well

I dragged the Yankee husband off to the thrifty store last Saturday

and

little did I know

that my lovely husband

who travels light through the world,

who has not much use for material objects

who is free like a bird,

until he met me,

I have to say!

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is the King of thrifters!

who would have guessed that!

I have never seen him

in thrifty heaven before

and I never knew!

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well, to make a long story short

I dragged him off to look at an old Singer sewing machine

seeing that he is quite the expert on sewing machines,

having worked at a parachute factory

years ago

don't you love it when a man has talents that you can use?

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so, he was quite shocked when he saw the condition of the machine

she was rather dirty and all

but

he hooked her up to his power cord

plugged her into the wall

and

it didn't take him long before he had a sparkle in his eye,

a sly smile on his lips

and to whisper to me: "she purrrrrs like a kitten"

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no matter how dirty she was

or the few spots of peeling paint on her poor little body

she is a gem

a gem I'm telling you

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so look and behold her beauty

she reminds me of a banana split with ice cream

eaten at a roadhouse in the 1950's

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don't you just love that little green sewing lady?

I do

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we ordered a manual on line

and Flo

just needs to be cleaned and re oiled

and the Yankee husband is confident that she will work like a dream

yes, ladies did I tell you that her name is Flo

and that I love her already?

we think that she is from the 60's

an era that I love

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I also found a few more lovely objects,

like vintage glasses

and linen, like always

the photo at the top is of a pillowcase

that I got for free,

because it was stained,

who cares??

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and my thrifty King of a Yankee husband

found treasures of his own

but that will have to wait for another

'showday'

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I'm again linking to lovely Colorado lady's

ooh, I can't wait to see all the other finds

Thursdays

has become

quite thrifty yummie

here

in the island shack

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Valentyn en woorde wat lewe gee 15

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dis nooit te laat vir liefde nie
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liefde is

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ek en die Yank het nie vir mekaar kaartjies
of geskenke gegee vir Valentynsdag nie

dit voel so onnodig

om een dag spesiaal te maak

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toe sit ek so en dink in die kerk
elke dag met hom

is Valentynsdag

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die volgende oomblik toe leun hy oor na my toe en fluister in my oor:
"Every day with you is Valentine's day..."

kyk

hier

vir nog woorde wat lewe gee van my man.

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ek hoop almal se Valentynsdag

en elke ander dag

was en is gevul met

liefde

vintage love

okayI'm totally into this thingthis thing of visiting and buying stufffrom the thrifty store.so from now onThursdays will probably be in Englishwith a linky link thingy to Colorado lady's blog. .I've always loved dumpster divingand carrying offother people's junk,now, to my husband's dismay, heehee.I lived in England for 5 years and am totally regretfulthat I didn't do it more often theremy heart aches when thinking about all the thrifty finds that I might have missed out on there.well, it is never to lateand I've learned that America is thrifty heaven!. we only have 2 thrift stores here on the islandwith lots of junkbut now and againyou can find a gem there.so with any further adomy finds from the last weeks.

one of my first finds, here

a little wooden box

with little areas for everything

and what not

I wasn't so sure about it

it reminded me of the dusty backrooms of old museums

with cobwebs and spiders

but I took it home anyway

and painted it cream,

filled it with some of my finds from the natural world,

hung it on the wall

and am loving it!

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yesterday, I found this!

an embroidered clock!

it was dusty and dull

but I've learned not to take anything

at the thrifty store at face value

I brought it home

cleaned it up

and it looks absolutely lovely on our kitchen wall

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I love handmade, crafty things

so much work went into this

I think it is an absolute gem

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and it is in one of my all time favourite colours

olive green

so very vintagy!

check out the detail

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embroidered love!

now all I need is to get a batery for it

and check if it still works

but I don't care about that

I love the look of it

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ahhh, I love this

I will have to try and share every Thursday

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thanks Colorado lady

lots of other lovely links on her blog!

leef opsetlik

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soos ek alreeds tevore gese het
is my woord vir die jaar
eenvoud/'simplicity'
maar
'n ander woord trek aan my hartsnare
vir 'n paar weke alreeds
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opsetlik of dan 'intentional'

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dit is hoe ek wil leef
elke dag
elke uur
elke minuut
elke sekonde
wil ek

laat tel
ek wil he dit moet betekenis he
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dit is 'n uitdaging vir my
want ek kan die tyd so laat verby gaan
sonder om daarna op te let
deur dit om te wens
deur dit te mors
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so
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in·ten·tion·al

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Pronunciation: \in-ˈtench-nəl, -ˈten(t)-shə-nəl\
Function: adjective
Date: circa 1677
1 : done by intention or design : intended
2 a : of or relating to epistemological intention b : having external reference

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sim·plic·i·ty

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Pronunciation: \sim-ˈpli-sə-tē, -ˈplis-tē\
Function: noun
Date: 14th century
1 : the state of being simple, uncomplicated, or uncompounded
2 a : lack of subtlety or penetration : innocence, naiveté b : folly, silliness
3 : freedom from pretense or guile : candor
4 a : directness of expression : clarity b : restraint in ornamentation : austerity
a. Lack of sophistication or subtlety; naiveté.
b. Lack of good sense or intelligence; foolishness.
5.
a. Clarity of expression.
b. Austerity in embellishment.
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my twee woorde

vir hierdie

jaar van 2010

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*botaniese afdruk, wat ek nie meer kan onthou van waar nie

koekies en my mojo

mmmm, hoe sit mens die geur van koekies wat bak
op jou blog?
enige raad?
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ja, ek is deesdae goed aan die bak en brou
hierdie is my skuimpies, of dan 'meringue'
van die ander aand
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my eerste skuimpies ooit
ek is chuffed met myself!
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nou sit ek hier met die geur
van koekies wat bak in die oond
'n hemelse geur
wat ek wil bottel
en uithaal
elke keer wanneer ek my mojo verloor het
resep van
hier
Ann gee vir mens voedsel vir jou siel ook
kyk bietjie rond daar by haar

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ek dink dit is die rotskoekies
wat ek leer bak het in St 6
sal moet proe
wanneer dit klaar is

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ek kan nie wag nie
mmm

kiekies, nooit geneem nie

'n piepklein voeltjie wat op my hand rus, nadat sy teen die glasdeur vasgevlieg het en ek wat staan en wonder wat en hoe ek haar gaan voer om haar groot te kry, totdat sy met 'n paar vlerk klappies opvlieg uit my hand en in 'n palmboom gaan rus en ek luister na my hart wat klop doef, doef, doef...

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gaan lees
hier
van nog

kiekies, nooit geneem nie

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en waar die idee vandaan kom

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vrydag, pffff

gisteraand

by die Bybelstudie

het ek so gesit en luister

na die ander vrouens

se stories oor hulle mans

en net weereens besef

dat al kom alles tot stilstand in my lewe

en al val alles uitmekaar

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dat my man

die een konstante

goed

is in my lewe

elke dag

elke uur

elke minuut

elke sekonde

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'n wonderlike webwerf om jou te help om jou 'desktop' skoon te maak

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dit is wat ek vandag gaan doen.

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verlore

my mojo is weg
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o wag
is dit sy
daar langs die opwasbak?
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nee, dis net chuckie

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die snaaksie

deur vriende aan my man gegee

ek't haar in 'n kas gekry

na ons troue

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daar langs die opwasbak

laat sy my wel lag

al kan sy dan nie my mojo

terug gee nie

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ai, dit voel asof alles, alles in my lewe verkeerd is

dit is nou alles behalwe my huwelik

as dit nie was vir die Yank nie

het ek seker in 'n bondel bly le elke dag

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ek sien dit gaan ook nie al dag goed met ander nie

Leonie

se dit soveel beter as ek,

maar ek verstaan presies

ja, ek doen

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woorde om aan vas te hou

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as alles faal

is daar altyd Winnie the Pooh

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in hierdie maand van harte

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