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the art of doing something.


“The Art of Doing Something is a philosophy I have embraced to create art that I feel good about. I hope it inspires people to get a little more involved in making the world a better place to live in.” – Brian Gossett

That is exactly why I love Brian and why his art makes me happy.






Do you feel like getting up and doing something? Yeah, me too!

P.S.

Do Something out of kindness
to make someone smile
to help for a cause you believe in
that’s bigger than yourself
that makes you happy
for a change
to feed your soul
awesome, or rad
for the kids
not for the money, but for the love
Do Something & feel good again!

little egg faces.


I am always talking about my Oupa*. Why? Probably because we get along so great. We are very similar and have inside jokes, so we will laugh about things and nobody will know what we are talking about.

He likes to draw and leave his mark wherever he goes. He lives on a farm (in case you did not know this already) and after my grandma passed away he spray painted the water tanks purple. He then decided to draw faces onto it.

They sent eggs from the farm. Yes, the eggs have faces. Yup, there is a horse too.

Not sure if I want to eat it, because these are precious eggs.

He will be 88 years old in December and he recently started to fill his very first Moleskine – with art, of course. It is for me, who else?

He is my man.

*Oupa is Afrikaans for Grandpa.

this world is about love.


He might seem a little crazy at first, but then he says something worth listening to.

Keep watching, and listen.

“This world is about love man, the sooner off everybody understands that, the better off everybody will be. The trick and the secret is not to wait to be my age, and then say yeah he was right! Aiight, you do your thing.” – Shaka

here & now.

via kimgray

meet my brother & sister.

This has been a whirlwind of a week, mostly good.

Most valuable lesson learned?
When you close the door to one thing, you open the door to many new (and often exciting) things. If I have to tell you about this week, especially if I have to explain everything, it might be best if we just have a cup of coffee. Or rooibos tea, because I have not had a cup of coffee in years.

Most important news?
I have a baby brother and a little sister. No, this did not happen over night – it happened within a few hours. No, my mother did not give birth to 2 kids and no, my dad did not have these kids with another woman. Like I said, it is best to discuss this over a cup of coffee / tea.

All that matters is that I finally have the baby brother that I always wanted and I have a younger sister too. Too much excitement. I know, it might seem a bit confusing and it might sound as if I have completely lost my mind, but they are real, they are in their 20s and they are MY brother and sister.

Yes, it is okay if you are jealous. Might be a little jealous of myself.

Most important part to remember?
“It is not wrong to go back for that which you have forgotten”* as long as you “make peace within”.

* Quoted Vanilla Breath

hot dogs and poppy flowers.

These are the results of a tantrum. Today started off a little weird, then all of a sudden it felt like everything was caving in – thanks to people and their selfish ways (mostly). Lately at work I tell everyone – well, just about everyone – everything. So they know by now that I do not take most things seriously and when something ‘serious’ happens, I get over it very quickly.

Today was a little different. Had a bit of a tantrum, talking a bit too loud on the phone and yapping like a real girl. During lunchtime I left the office, to blow off some steam and buy (too many) macarons – hoping that the sugar rush would calm my moods. Did not quite work.

Back at the office I went around sharing macarons with some of the guys. Obviously gave them a little macaron lesson too. Back at my desk, there were flowers – bright yellow poppy flowers. The guys bought it for me ‘just because it looked like you were having a really rough day’. Yay.

After that, I got hot dogs too. Yum.

Might have to plan a tantrum in the near future, because it seems to pay off.

contracts.


Original post: Friday, August 1, 2001

Contract (kŏn’trăkt’) n.
1. a. An agreement between two or more parties, especially one that is written and enforceable by law. b. The writing or document containing such an agreement.
2. The branch of law dealing with formal agreements between parties.
3. Marriage as a formal agreement; betrothal.

Now that’s one way of looking at it. Ever thought of having contracts in life? Personal / life contracts? It’s something I learned about yesterday. I’ve always known this, just never looked at it this way before.

Everything happens for a reason. You’ve heard that many, many times and it’s one of the biggest clichés you’ll ever hear, but it’s true. Everything DOES happen for a reason. It’s difficult to believe that when something bad happens and no matter what people tell you – you just do not understand WHY it happened.

It has a lot to do with your own mindset, how you CHOOSE to deal with it. How you CHOOSE to look at it. Don’t get me wrong, it will still hurt, because we are human and we do get hurt.

Like the air you breathe, abundance in all things is available to you. Your life will simply be as good as you allow it to be.

Everybody has contracts in their life. Contracts with different people and things that are meant to happen in their life. I know, it sounds airy fairy and I’m a sceptic when it comes to many of these things.

SO! How does it work and how ARE you meant to look at these contracts? I’ve been through many ups and downs in my life, sometimes I hide it… maybe to protect myself in a way or maybe I want people to think I’m a happy person instead of a sad one? Don’t worry, I am happy! everybody has their ups and downs and I really think that you can choose how you accept everything and how you choose to deal with it.

EVERYBODY HURTS. Everybody has their own stuff. We’re all human beings with feelings and those feelings do get hurt. As long as you remember that even the things that hurt you – even if it’s a person who did something to you – it’s a contract you have with them. It was meant to happen. Of course it doesn’t make sense all the time, but do yourself a favor and try to look at it that way.

When you look a situation, it’s much easier to see the “bad things” instead of the good. Once you’ve worked through a situation and you look back at it, there’s usually something good about it. It might not be that specific situation, but something that happened as a result of the “bad situation”. There’s always a little bit of sunshine after the rain.

Many people focus upon unwanted things, with no deliberate attention to the emotional guidance within them, and then they try to compensate for their lackful thinking with physical action. And because of the misalignment of energy, they do not get results from their action, so then they try harder by offering more action, but still things do not improve.

It becomes extremely difficult when you have to deal with contracts that involve things such as cancer. Nobody can explain why people suffer from cancer and why we lose so many loved ones due to cancer. I don’t want to be the person to tell you, it’s a good thing, it happens and it happened for a reason – because I’ve dealt with this before and it hurts and it’s the type of pain that nobody can take away. Never will I say it’s going to be easy, because nothing in life is easy – well, at least not many.

Just remember. We LEARN from every situation that we have to deal with. When we learn, we GROW and we become a better version of who we already are.

After all, that’s what life is about, LEARNING and trying to be the best YOU that you can be, not the person you are expected to be, but the person you want to be.

Never forget your dreams, set your goals, believe in your visions and always remember to ACCEPT your dreams / goals / visions. If you do not accept those, it’ll turn into insecurities. Most of the time it doesn’t happen immediately and it usually doesn’t happen the way we thought it would. As long as you stick to what you WANT, you will eventually get there. In the meantime you just have to be ready to deal with all the contracts.

Being the sceptic that I am – I went for energy healing yesterday. It definitely changed my mindset, how I think about everything that I had to deal with (and some, still have to deal with) in my life. It’s good to be open to new things, part of the learning process.

Dream your dreams. TALK about it, LIVE it and BELIEVE in my new favorite thing… ABUNDANCE!

Photo: Our farm, December 25, 2007. A place where you always feel at home and peaceful. Have you ever experienced absolute silence?

meet my childrens.


Can I have a drumroll please? Or wait, can I have a Travis Barker snare instead? Mixed with a little bit of Frank Sinatra’s ‘Cheek to Cheek‘.

“Heaven… I’m in heaven, and my heart beats so that I can hardly speaaak…”


I think that should do it? Or maybe not, but it’s close enough to introduce you to my childrens. Yes, I always wanted to be mother, but I did not quite realize that my first set of childrens would look like these.

Please note: “childrens” – instead of children, because there are just too many. They have names like Pinch O’ Peach, Blushbaby, Chatterbox, Honeylove and the naughty one is called Oversexed, but I love her too.

my phone is off – for you.


The idea is simple: turn off phones during dinner.

I would love to add a few other occasions when I would like you to turn your phone off. How frustrating is it when you are trying to talk to someone, but they are updating their Twitter and Facebook statuses at the same time? Rude. Yes, you know who you are and every time you do it, I would love to leave the room. Yes, if you want me to leave the room, but are too scared to ask, pick up the phone (useful tip).

Thank you Ingrid Zweifel for this great idea and revolution – my phone is off, for you.


Phonekerchief – this actually blocks the signal. Too precious.


Social stamp. Stamp it everywhere and spread the word this way. Nice, nice.


5 Pieces of Flair‘ stickers and buttons. Stick ‘em errrywhere!

While we are talking about phones and when (not) to use it. Please take a few minutes to sign Oprah’s No Phone Zone pledge. Yes, I know – Oprah, again. Seriously though, take the pledge and make a promise to stop texting and talking on your phone while driving. You car needs to be a no phone zone. Thank you.

almost there.


I am ‘almost there’, I have never been this close.
Not much left to say, other than – it will be here soon and things are happening.

Yes, I said happening. Finally happening.
This makes happeee. Triple ‘e’.