This week’s #romancingthehome theme is Christmas pudding. I don’t eat Christmas pudding. Luckily Christmas pudding doesn’t actually mean an actual Christmas pudding. It’s any Christmas dessert! So, with that, I decided to give you my 3 favourite easy summer Christmas desserts to make for those long, hot, summer Christmas days!
This week’s #romancingthehome theme is a special gift. My interpretation went a bit further… a specially wrapped gift! Who doesn’t love that?! I know that I do! But, have you seen how much those beautiful boxes, ribbons and gift wraps cost? You may as well upgrade the present for the extra 50 to 100 bucks… Read More Budget Friendly Gift Wrapping Ideas
Yes! We’ve moved our #romancingthehome series to Fridays 😀 . This way, you have the whole weekend to give our tips & tricks a try 😉 . This week’s theme was flower’s with food… Now, as you know, I’m not a cook. I do like to bake though, so that was a start. I have… Read More Romancing the Home: Flowers with Food?!
Summer… long hot days spent hanging out with friends, endless amounts of braais (barbecues), beach visits and, of course, cocktails! So deciding on our #romancingthehome challenge this week of a (keto) summer cocktail was a no-brainer!
This week’s challenge or theme for #romancingthehome was a trip to the market. In case you didn’t realise it from my Kamers post, I love markets. The vibe, the produce, the local makers, the live music… there aren’t many better ways to spend a day off! Luckily for us, Cape Town and surrounds has so… Read More Romancing the home: A trip to market
This week’s #romancingthehome challenge is simply “roses”. I really thought that this would be easy for me. But it wasn’t. Maybe because things have been hectic and I didn’t plan properly. Maybe because the only roses I could find were starting to brown and, to top that, were really expensive. Or maybe, just maybe, its… Read More Romancing the Home: Roses and a trip down memory lane…
Table setting – a chore as a child, an unnecessary evil in my 20’s and, until recently, a superb waste of time in my 30’s. That was, at least, until I found Pinterest and Instagram. My oh my were my eyes opened! I finally understood!
This week’s #romancingthehome challenge was a high tea. I love a good high tea – simple sandwiches, jam and cream scones and, my favourite, tea! So what’s better than a high tea? An easy one!
I love a good picnic! When this week’s #romancingthehome theme happened to coincide with a road trip up the west coast, it only seemed right that we set our picnic up in the West Coast National Park. It is, after all, Flower Season.
I’ve added a glossary below for all the South African slang & Afrikaans words. Alfresco dining: Cool evening breeze, relaxing ambiance, good conversation with friends and family… There is nothing quite like it! When alfresco dining was thrown out as one of the ideas for our September #romanicingthehome series, I just knew that it would… Read More Romancing the Home – Alfresco Dining: a good old South African braai