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Saturday, 4 October 2014

Hermanus, Matric Farewell 2014

This year it was my little brothers turn to have his matric farewell dance, well he is not so little anymore! But I still remember driving him to school when he was Gr 1 - It was an absolute pleasure to spend the few hours capturing this momentous achievement -

Eduard and Zani had a good time too!

Enjoy...

- Love you two -

Let us know what you think!

Saturday, 22 March 2014

Origami Flowers - Handmade for a Hermanus High School Dinner

So, we (my mom and I) have been commissioned to do the flower arrangements for the local High School grade twelve dinner a week ago... It was held at a restaurant called The Classroom, which has a formal interior but also touches of a traditional old school classroom, black boards, chalk, rulers etc.

We've been playing with the idea to make hand folded Origami Kusudama flowers form old telephone guides with the old traditional interactive fortune teller. Which the learners could pick and play with during their evening. We've designed our own template with general knowledge questions on the leaves, to encourage them to take note of their environment and world around them as their almost entering the adult realm ;) This was encouraged by a pencil with a small 'Pick me' flag on it. No one was told to pick the flowers otherwise, so we thought it would be interesting to see their reactions!

Folding a 150 flowers!

We've designed a Afrikaans and English version of the fortune tellers -

Our theme also focused on sustainability and recycling. So we've used mayonnaise glass jars, filled it 1/3 with white sugar, wrapped a linen bow around it holding the pencil -