My top tips for maximum creativity and success
How do you keep staying creative in a fast-paced environment? How do you keep moving yourself to the next level as a designer? How do you keep leading when everyone is following what is happening around you? How do you stay creatively engaged and motivated? These are real struggles in a creative business and for […]
Breaking the Egg
This year feels lighter somehow. People seem more optimistic and hopeful. If I compare how the year has started to last year at the same time there is a sense of new things to come and exploration of opportunity.
I have been led to such interesting places and people in these first few weeks; from a building first registered in 1843 to modern spaces needing a facelift, all of which excites me.
The Merpeople of Bloubergstrand
I never imagined that I would ever be able to get into water under 22 degrees. Over the last few months, I have discovered the absolute joy of cold water swimming. As a little girl I used to love to go out right to the breakers with my mother. We used to float out there […]
The importance of a can of pilchards
Today is the first day in a long time that I have removed myself from the busyness of my life. I have waited a long time to create the life I am living now. It is as exciting as I have always wished, and every day brings new challenges, opportunities and amazing people. I dreamed […]
Sunday mornings, the emotion of the design process, the secret to an abundant life, and making the world a better place because it is a better space.
I love Sunday mornings. Waking up to the sound of the ocean, enjoying the peacefulness of the morning and the thought of my morning coffee followed by a walk through our village. This morning was so special. There was completely no wind, and the air felt fresh on my face. People were out and about, […]
COVID, the room with a view and making it count
I feel like a hamster on a wheel at the moment. I got COVID at the beginning of the year and it stole three weeks of my life. I know that I got off light in comparison to many but what it took away was much more than just three weeks. The boomerang effect The […]
MOMENTS THAT CHANGE YOUR LIFE, TV CABINETS, COLOURING IN AND STAYING THE COURSE
Photography Obi-Onyeador Unsplash We all have these places that we go to in our minds. The pure places. The places that speak to our very being. The place in which we dream and see who we truly are. There have been moments in my life, in my career and in my interior design business where […]
LOVE AND MONEY, THE DILEMMA OF A CREATIVE ENTREPRENEUR
Photography Felipe Correoa Unsplash Embrace where you are at. If it fails, it fails. One thing is for sure. Your life has a purpose and another door will open. The detail can really slow you down. If you don’t get it right it has the power to completely derail a good design. If you take […]
BEING STILL, BIG HAIRY AUDACIOUS GOALS, RE-WRITING YOUR STORY, DANDELIONS AND LETTING GO
This is going to be a different blog. Up until this point, I have been sharing how my journey and key life experiences over all these years shaped my process of creating interiors. These experiences taught me key creative principles, including the importance of the relationship between interior design and behaviour. This week I would […]
FINDING MY INTERIOR DESIGN VOICE, THE GREEN TORTOISE, SURFERS, ONE DOLLAR BILLS AND OTHER ADVENTURES
Finding my voice in interior design has been a process of understanding what works for me, my approach to design and how I help my customer’s find their own creative voice. It takes courage to speak up and speak out. Not just for the sake of speaking out but with authority, facts and bias. I […]
