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I felt I needed to break this down into two posts - as bright pink shwe shwe was enough excitement for one post.
However, the new colour range also includes the same small flower print ( that I loved so much in blue and hope I still have some pieces left, because its not made in blue at the moment) and a bold spot in ORANGE .
Bought quite a bit of this - for some yoga bags for the lovely yoga warrior studio as well as just to leave on my desk in a happy folded heap for me to look at.
My husband suggests that I measure the delight I feel about this great new discovery.
Coming home and saying "I found the most amazing thing today, you will never believe" followed by squeals of delight - to then produce 'only' some pink material he feels might not match people expectations .
My sister in law showed equal squeals of delight when I showed her,as did Len from the office who always show my new shwe shwe purchases too.
I have yet to decide what to do with it all, but I think that Tau and Modgadi will be getting new dresses and some I will save somehow to use for myself
This picture is taken on the corner of South Africa Drive and Liberia Road, in a new mixed income developement in N/W Joburg.
The woman in the leopard shwe shwe skirt did not want to turn and face me, but the kids with the balloon hats over their beanies were very keen to be photographed.
This morning I woke up to find my garden full of elephants - a common occurrence in Africa in you live, say in a camp in the Tuli Block, but not so common if you live in Johannesburg close to the inner city.
That as it may I did wake up this morning to find the most lovely elephants swaying in the mist of my gardens. We have had uncharacteristic winter rain in Jo-burg and so there is swirling mist and steam, and rain drops dripping off all my plants this morning.
Josephina has taken the next big leap in her sewing prowess. She has been asked to make waste coats from shwe shwe for a school play - having only learnt to sew two months ago, and so this was her elephant shwe shwe that she had pre washed last night to turn into lovely hand works.
Seeing washing hanging up on the line is one of those odd simple things that makes me happy, when I travel down to my parents in Mpumalanga I anticipate some of the areas I pass through where there is always washing out on a railway line that stretches for a long line as the families that live in shacks along the railway line hang up their washing. I think its all the colours in rows and rows that make me happy, as well as the thought of all that different material out on display.
The one thing that makes me happy than seeing clothes dancing on a washing line, is seeing long lines of material waving about in blocks.
I am trying to take slightly more intelligent photos with the photos with the awesome Canon G10, and after trying a few shots was thrilled with this one, that shows some of the sun catching the leaves, and the mist rising off the wet ground.
