Day 21 - Mirror/rorriM

When I was in Korea I was awfully home-sick most of the time and when Mikhail came to visit he brought this glitter snow-globe of Cape Town with him. After he left this was such a great reminder of home for the last few months... (I admit to taking a million pictures of myself in the mirror before deciding that there are more lovely things in my life to document...)

CPT <3

Day 20 - Upside Down

Nadia came home from school early today so she and I decided to try out the "sock-bun" that everyone on the beauty and fashion blogs are raving about and its actually rather cute and fairly easy once you get the hang of it. Nadia had a lot of hair (if you don't already know this) and her bun was like a crown. Here's a cute picture of her laying "upside down" o my bed.... 

shining in the sun

Day 19 - 9 o clock

Well I must admit that is is getting harder and harder to keep up with the photo challenges on the weekends but I am determined not to fall behind again. So here is today's picture depicting what it is I usually (and tonight is no different) do around 9pm on most evenings. If you don't use http://pinterest.com/ you should! I love love love it!!! It's a photo sharing site and its AMAZING! Check out my profile, follow me and I'll follow you right back! http://pinterest.com/natsy2103/

my profile

Day 18 - Eyes

Here is the eye of my favourite man in the world. 

my love

Day 17 - Animal/Insect

Willow

Enough said!

Day 16 - Plate

Yesterday Mikhail flew over Cape Town for the first time and over our house! I am so proud so I thought I would make a celebratory dinner for him. All things he love (Alfredo pasta with ham and mushrooms, Mango juice and chocolate Brownies with ice cream). Today's word is "Plate" and I thought it only appropriate to show you what it looked like after we ate all that food.

Yummy yum!!!

Day 15 - Korean Addiction

I love love love the obsession Koreans have with cutsie couples things. Couples t-shirts, couples shoes (which Mikhail and have by the way... We just had to), couples mugs, couples clothing sets!!! I love it, cheesey as it is, I love it. So for today I have a picture that I took a while ago of a set of couples mugs I bought for Mikhail and I at 'Diaso' (my favourite Korean store)

with hats!!!

Day 14 - Sign

Since I'm stuck at home for the day and am not out and about in the city prowling for opportunities to take pictures to complete the daily challenge as part of the 30day photo challenge, I thought I would take today's word/theme with a slight pinch of salt. Today's word is "Sign". And here is a sign of how bored I am today.

Facebook tetris

I'm a little ashamed to mention how often I play this online but it's so addictive and helps pass the time. Also don't forget to check out illusemyword.blogspot.com and pohangdiaries.blogspot.com to follow my friends pictures on the 30 day photo challenge!!!

Kisses! xoxo

Nats

Day 13 - Danger!!!

Mikhail and I have been getting bites on our legs and arms so he suggested we do a fogger to kill all the little bugs that bite us. Before I left to pick up Nadia at school I opened one. Unfortunately its very poisonous and I had to put the cat out of the house so he wouldn't be affected by the poison. He was very angry with me. Anyway for today I chose this picture of the fogger before I opened it.

bloody bugs

Day 12 - Building

Today my sister-in-law and I went for a mini road trip to my rival university, Stellenbosch University (I went to the University of Cape Town which makes me an Ikey and not a Matie from Stellies) to drop off her applications for next year (to my dismay, she liked the place). Even though there is some stupid rivalry Stellies happens to be situated in the most gorgeous part of the Cape Winelands and has some really old buildings, thus I thought it would be suitable to do Sunday's word/theme, "Building" there. 

'Gebou' means building in Afrikaans

Day 11 - Open

As I'm playing catch up. Here is a picture I took today on one of the better winter days where it wasnt raining so hard that my bedroom window had to be closed. I was happy to have it open with some sunshine and fresh air streaming in. Oh and by the way this one was for Saturday and the word/theme was "Open".

sunny day

Day 10 - Business owner

savvy lady

So I know I'm behind on the challenge and I'm hoping to catch up asap... The weekend gets so busy that I forget. My apologies. This post is for Friday's word which was "business owner". This gorgeous lady is my cousin and very good friend Nina. She owns her own business running an after-care and kids holiday program. She gave the opportunity to get experience with kids so I could go to Korea and teach! I love her and she is a wonderful, successful business owner.

Day 9 - Stress Reliever

Cam and Mitch - world's funniest facial expressions

Modern family makes me laugh and laughter is the best stress reliever. Adding some chocolate to that and you have the perfect R&R time!!! Happy Thursday!

Day 8 - Cute Student

As I've said before I was an English teacher in South Korea last year and I tell you, I had the cutest students in the world. So I thought for today I would use one picture of one of them for today's picture challenge.

Meet Mindy!

Day 7 - BIG!!!

smacking the camera flash

Today I thought it would be perfect to introduce Willow. This is Willow, my kitty. He is BIG!!! and he loves BIG and he has a BIG attitude and a very BIG and bushy tail. He loves shoes and cake and does yoga with us sometimes and calls birds but then runs away when they come close to him. He hates being alone and sadly is not a fan of my fiance'. So there's Willow and his BIG mouth!

P.S in this picture he is hitting the camera because I took lots of pictures of him and the flash was upsetting him so he just smacked it

Day 6 - Lunch

Background for today's photograph is that I was baby-sitting my little cousin (Although she will say shes not a baby so how can I call it 'baby-sitting). She's 8 years old and we hung out for the day because her school only starts for the 3rd term tomorrow and her mum had to be at work. We watched movies and played with Willow but we also spent the better part of the day baking and what we baked was our lunch and thus my picture for today. We had fun making this!!!

Thanks Lyn!!!

Day 5 - Garden

Today I feel a little bad about the topic because, if you know anything substantial about my family, you would know that they all love to garden and they are really good at it. My grandmother is by far the best, she eve makes mini gardens for people to buy and take home (well actually they are rockery's or whatever she calls them) Either way, its a mini garden that consists of two small plants (usually cacti) and rocks placed in way that makes it look as though its a garden. She makes these not because shes nuts (debatable)  but because every year her church has a bazaar and the congregation make things to sell and mini-gardens are her thing. I on the other hand am not big into gardening (to be very honest I'm not even small into it) but luckily our garden is beautiful!

potted paradise

Here is just a tiny bit of our garden. There is a lot more of it but I personally enjoy the walk to the front door and lovely smell that the blossoms give off in the spring! I'm really looking forward to that!

Day 4 - Chair

On the weekend it becomes more difficult to complete the photo task for today, or even to remember that there is a task because I am so busy enjoying my weekend. But, thankfully I remembered and got this one with me in my cat, Willow's favourite chair.

Willow ran away so I couldn't get him in the pic

Well there we go, let's hope I don't forget tomorrow!!! 

Day 3 - The best part of my day

Today's photo challenge was slightly tough for me because there were so many good parts of my day (hail storm, a cup of warm home-made soup on a chilly day and my cat chuffing like a tiger in the window at the birds outside) But I realized, IT'S FRIDAY!!! My favourite day in the week, not only because its the start of the weekend (which for me means nothing right now because all my days are weekend-like) but because on a Friday the man who loves me most in the world, the man who I adore comes home for 2days a week!!! So today my picture is a screen shot from my phone. The minute I know he is on his way home to me and that in a matter of 2 hours I will see him, I get all tingly and giddy and the butterflies in my tummy go crazy and fly in some serious aerobatic sequences! Definitely the best part of my day... and so you know, it only gets better from here on!!! (wink wink)

He still gives me butterflies

Have a great weekend everyone!!! <3 

Day 2 - busy

So as I continue with the 30day photo challenge I thought I'd be cute rather literal in my picture for today. As the title of the post suggests today's word/theme is 'busy' and in my picture I choose to, instead of creating a busy situation to photograph, I'm showing the busiest time of my day. 

busy blogging

Yes, I know I haven't done anything with my day as you can see. Don't judge me!!!

Check out http://illusemywords.blogspot.kr/ and http://thepohangdiaries.blogspot.kr/ to see my friend's pictures for today!

Say Cheese!!!

HI all, I know I've been away for a while but I'm back and with something fun and interactive too.

A good friend of mine asked me if I wanted to join a 30day photo challenge with her and some other friends. And of course I said yes, which is why I'm telling you about it (then again if I said "No" and was keen to blog I would've probably also... Anyway I digress). I said yes.

Here's how it works:

• There's a list of themes (one a day) and everyday you take a picture according to the theme and upload it to your blog or on a social network site by mid-night
• Share with your friends
• Here's the list of the pictures for each day!

So I'm taking part and today's theme is 'SELF-PORTRAIT' and here is my picture...

funny face!

Go to the following blogs to see some other pictures on my friends blog

• http://illusemywords.blogspot.kr/2012/07/30-day-photo-challenge.html
• http://thepohangdiaries.blogspot.kr/

Have fun looking at the pictures for the next month or so and do your own challenge with your friends if you want. Comment and let me know your thoughts! Say Cheese everyone!