Designer Profile- Thula Sindi

On Sunday 28 October 2012 Mercedes Benz Fashion Week Africa Fashion Awards was held in Johannesburg.

Thula Sindi was honoured as SA Tourism Designer of the Year.

A little more about Thula.
Thula Sindi is one of South Africa's most well known young designers. He designs, manufactures and markets a women's fashion line. His creations are timeless, elegant and sophisticated.

Date of birth: 18 July 1983
Place of birth: Klerksdorp, Northwest Province South Africa
Education: National School of Arts Johannesburg. London International School of Fashion(Lisof)
First job: Head designer at Vlisco, a Dutch textile Company.
Runways: Paris, Hong Kong, Beijing, Lagos & New York.
Awards: Small Enterprise Development Agency, Best Youth Entrepreneur 2012.
SA Tourism Designer of the Year 2012

The Thula Sindi ready-to-wear collection is available at selected Edgars Stores nationwide.
Johannesburg- Melrose Arch & Sandton City
Cape town-V&A Waterfront
Durban- Pavilion

Photo via: thenewage.co.za

DIY- Elastic Belt

This is a 15 minute project.

What you'll need:
•Elastic
•Scissors(not shown in pic)
•Fabric paint
•Paint brushes
•Velcro
•Needle&thread

Steps:
1. Measure the elastic around your waist. Cut it about 5-10com shorter.
2. Paint elastic.
3. Once elastic is dry, sew on the velcro to the ends of the elastic. One piece on top of the velcro. The other on the bottom.

There u have it, a new belt.
Sew simple!

Feast of the Sacrifice- Eid-ul Adha- 26 October

On Friday, 26 October 2012 most muslims across the globe celebrated Eid.

'Eid ul adha' is celebrated by muslims world wide to honour the willingness of the Prophet Ebrahim(Abraham) to sacrifice his young first born son Ismaeel(Ishmael) his sons acceptance to be sacrificed when God ordered them to do so, before God intervened to provide Abraham with a ram to sacrifice instead.

On this day Muslims sacrifice a cow, sheep, goat, buffalo or camel. One third of the meat is given away to neighbours and friends, and another third or more is donated to the poor and needy.


The story of Ibrahim's sacrifice

Eid-ul-Adha celebrates the occasion when Allah appeared to Ibrahim in a dream and asked him to sacrifice his son Ismaeel as an act of obedience to God.

The devil tempted Ibrahim by saying he should disobey Allah and spare his son. As Ibrahim was about to kill his son, Allah stopped him and gave him a lamb to sacrifice instead.

Note: This story is also found in the Jewish Torah and the Christian Old Testament (Genesis 22). Here God asked Abraham to sacrifice his son Isaac, his son with Sarah. Ismaeel was his son with Hagar.
Via: www.bbc.co.uk/schools/religion/islam/eid_haj.shtml

Nature, Colours & Fashion

One of the biggest fashion trends at the moment: Colours; Colour blocking, pop of colour.

Looking for colour blocking inspiration? Not sure which colours to match up?
Here's a very useful technique.
Take a look at nature. Colours are perfectly matched and balanced.

1. The green and yellow of the grass

2. The pink and purple of the flower

3. The orange and red of the autumn leaves.

4. The blue and white of sky above.

5. The ocean and its many shades of blue.

And the ideas and examples go on...

*Inspiration surrounds us*
Take a look around☺

Have a lovely sunday night.

It's Tea Time over Here... Tea ring Recipe

As the name suggest, this is a sweet ring shaped bread to enjoy with TEA.

Ingredients:
1 cup milk
125g butter
¼ cup sugar
¾ tsp salt
3½ cup flour
10g instant yeast
1 egg beaten

Melted butter
½ cup finely chopped nuts
Desiccated Coconut

Icing:
1½ - 2 cups icing sugar
Cold water

Method:
1. Scald the milk. Add salt, sugar & butter to hot milk, stir and stand to cool.
2. When the milk mixture is lukewarm add it to half the flower and the yeast. Beat well.
3. Cover the dough and place it in a warm place to rise.
4. Once dough is risen twice is size, add the beaten egg and remaining flour. Let aside to rise again.
5. Once dough has risen, divide it in two. Roll each ball separately to oblong shape as seen in picture 1.
6. Brush with melted butter and sprinkle chopped nuts and coconut over.(Picture 2)
7. Roll up and place it on a greased tray in a ring shape. (Picture 3&4)
8. Make deep slits in ring. (Picture 5)
9. Roll slits over (Picture 6&7)
10. Cover and allow to rise.
11. Once risen bake at 180° for 20-25minutes or until golden.
12 Make icing with icing sugar and water. Drizzle icing over baked tea ring while hot.

Log it- DIY

These were done quite some time back. Thought I'd share it with you anyway.

Picture1 - A puzzle framed with dried tree branches.

This is how you do it.
Build a puzzle, stick it on chipboard/hardboard which is slightly bigger in size than the puzzle.
Varnish naturally dried tree branches then stick the branches on to the chipboard with wood glue.

Picture2- A wall clock framed with dried tree branches.

Varnish dried tree branches. Stick them on to the rim of a wall clock with contact glue.

DIY Pink Ribbon Scarf

A simple DIY idea for tomorrow, or any other day really.

Here's a tutorial to match the picture's
1. You need the following:
-Pink scarf
-Ribbon
-Needle and thread
-Scissor
-Dress making pins
-Fabric glue
-Crystals

2. Cut according to how big you'd like your ribbons to be. Mine are 15cm long.
3. Fold your ribbons and pin them.
4. Stitch the ribbons where they meet up.
5. Arrange the ribbons in the desired pattern on the scarf, pin them.
6. Sew the ribbons to the scarf.
7. Finally glue on the crystals.

Hope you enjoyed this post.

Keep a look out for the next :)

Pink Hijab day- 24 October 2012

What is pink Hijab day?

Firstly, what is a Hijab?
A hijab is a head covering that is commonly worn by muslim women.
A wider meaning would be that of modesty.

Pink hijab day, where women don a pink headscarf in support of breast cancer awareness.
Do your part, wear a pink scarf tomorrow, take a picture and email it to me at thehoneybirdchild@hotmail.com to be featured on the blog.
Let us not forget that the pink scarf is just a symbol, make a contribution by donating money to CANSA.
For more information go to www.givengain.com/cgi-bin/giga.cgi?cmd=donate&cause_id=1056

Life Around A Haystack

"Sawubona" that's "Hello" in Zulu which is one of the 11 official languages of Mzansi for sure, also known as. South Africa. I'll be getting back to South Africa in time to come. First things first, here's an intro to my lifestyle and blog. I'm a small town girl, a farm girl, a cowgirl (but in all honesty, I prefer horses to cows :)). Growing up nature has been my playground, it really has. The majestic mountains, alluring waters of the plentiful surrounding dams and the invigorating air always kept me completely content. Some of you might think that the rural lifestyle makes us farm people seem like we from another planet. I'm here to change those views :) What will I be blogging about? -Fashion&style(country side and beyond) -Recipes(farm style and exquisite delights) -Activities(outdoor,indoor, new and old) -Locations(all around sa) -Everything SA(all u need to know about the rainbow nation) -DIY(fun-filled projects) -Hijab(Muslim head covering) Do you have any suggestions? Please feel free to contact me. Twitter: @honeybirdchild Email: thehoneybirdchild@hotmail.com