teach me how to wrap

I pray to the gods of all things Afrocentric, style and everything fab that I can be able to master the art of the head wrap. My skills are lacking and I keep wrapping my hair in the most basic styles. I feel its about time that I learn the ish, that kind of head wrap that's scared of nothing. This is not FOMO.I will make it my life's mission really. 

These 3 are my attempts at the wrap. Its nothing fancy but, I really pride myself on them. Well ok, in all honesty these are the times were I just got it ok or something close to what I initially wanted.

To show how serious I am , I have taken to the University Of Everything ( The Internet) and downloaded some tutorials to aid me,from the gurus of the art. I will take some time and try them out. I am on a mission and I am not backing down. 

I also want these cool head wraps thou. So that will also go on my wish list. If you love me or wanna do something for charity, do buy me bold printed wraps. with all the love ....

hair things

The love hate relationship between me and my hair is crazy. One minute I love it and wanna show it off and the next minute I want it in box braids because I really cant deal with it. I guess I'm emotionally attached to it , in all honesty I'm emotionally attached to anything.. anywayyyyyyy. I have been growing the afro for the past year and a few months. I am happy with how its taking shape now. Its at a point where I can do more with it so, I have decided to take a break from braids for a month and see how much fun I can have with it.

I guess if I was not this lazy and like those natural hair enthusiast I would have the perfect afro. Who knows, I would have a hair blog and some sponsors.

Will post again soon about this hair challenge.. keeping in mind I colored my hair recently and it came out black instead of burgundy.. story for another day.

Khuthimages

I have a friend who takes pretty cool pictures of me, ok before I get carried away ,she basically takes cool pictures everyone and everything.

Khuthadxo Nedohe is her name but to the world she is known as Khuthii. You can find her on Twitter and Instagram at her handle @khuthii. If you wanna check out her blog you can go to khuthimages.tumblr.com . You can thank me later ;). Her love of documenting the world is evident in her work. I say keep an eye on her not because she is my friend but because she is hella talented  

 

 I also take pictures of her too so, I see this as a match made in heaven. lol ... 

when you see her smile...

My Basaar experience

So here's the thing, I have been walking past this place for like forever and today I finally made my way into this eatery.pluse they were closed for some bit during December. It is on 16 loop street in the CBD and well worth the drop in. They open Monday to Friday 7am-4pm

 

Besides the cool deco it has a pretty chilled ambiance about it. Nothing pretentious, just a good old fashioned vibe, good food and yes free WIFI ,hahahaha I'm looking out for you fellow wifi stalkers. 

 

 

They make a lovely red velvet cake. I couldn't say no hey..

 

Oh one more thing, the servic is pretty cool and they don't constantly hover over you. You are left to enjoy the a sizing food, ambiance and free wifi in peace. The smiles are good too lol. 

 

Aaaw and they have this for you to take home..... Will I be back? Yes I will be, the is more I wanna try out on the menue. This will be my new hide out in the city. Do invite me ;) 

All dolled up..

So my December was lekker busy hey. I even got a chance to be a plus 1 to a 21st(at my age thou) I wouldn't be going on about this but it as a chance for me to get all dresse up and even ad hight to the already towering  glass of water that I am. Lol I'm silly but anyways. The theme was black tie and this is my interpretation of such. While most of the room had black on, yours in crazy had white on.

I had a lot of fun thou getting ready and the actual party was pretty chilled. I'm glad  my friend invited me. We had some fun together and it was well worth us getting dolled up and trying not to rub our eyes cause we had eye makeup the whole night( ok maybe I'm over doing it) hehehe. 

      No I don't like things, I love things and they love me. ;) 

As the new year begins....

“I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes.

Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You’re doing things you’ve never done before, and more importantly, you’re Doing Something.

So that’s my wish for you, and all of us, and my wish for myself. Make New Mistakes. Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody’s ever made before. Don’t freeze, don’t stop, don’t worry that it isn’t good enough, or it isn’t perfect, whatever it is: art, or love, or work or family or life.

Whatever it is you’re scared of doing, Do it.

Make your mistakes, next year and forever.”

Neil Gaiman 

A lot like you by Rudy Francisco

this is the last one of Rudy Francisco you will see on my blog ( ok maybe not) .. but this is.. this that you are about to watch is all sorts of beautiful..

this makes me such a girl thou.. but ja...

Complainers by Rudy Francisco

"You’re still alive, so act like it"

 

If you watch anything today let it be this... I get it. As the year is coming to an end and I am at a point where I feel so tired that I don't know if I'm coming or going.As I look back at the year that was with both excitement and a tall glass of WTF? and a side shot of "why me?". This made me stop and think, it made me see that it could have been worse and I should celebrate that I made it this far with all that I have and all my achievements. I travelled for the first time out of South Africa twice not once, this year and it was awesome. I made it threw a lot and I am still standing. Still fluffing my fro and sipping chai tea.  

This smacked me in the face on some " b*tch please". I get it. 

Hes name is Rudy Francisco.... and he writes amazingly well

Market story

So the V&A Waterfront is a place I frequent to of late. The reason for this out of character migration to the "front" is the  V&A Market on the Wharf. It's situated where the Musica store used to be and I like really like what they did to the place. It has this industrial feel and a really chilled and cool vibe about it.

 

 

 

The food stalls are pretty cool and it caters for every taste bud really. From the arty type foods to the simple "I'm so hungry I could eat anything " stomachs. It even has food for those who just want to experiment with different thing ( they also have a stall that sells tea with bubbles) I'm still scared to try it hey, I don't know if I'm the #thuglife. 

 

The first time I went I even got so excited that I pimped some biscuits with a friend of mine. We were like the biggest participants ever but it was all good in the  hood with us hey. The aim of the exercise was to have fun. 

I think I'm am becoming a market person hey... It's time to explore markets around CT. :) I love 

#shareaCokeza - tha'ts not my name

 

That's not my name, that's not my name ( no really that's not my name)...

Dear Coke SA... My name is Abongwe and I don't have a name to share. 

 

I decided that from now on I will be taking the ones with the name queen.My friends don't want to go shopping with me when I want cool drink because I will stand at the fridge for a long time at the shops looking for my name or anything resembling it. *sigh* that's not my name

I love the ad thou