I see what you’re trying to do. Really, I do. I know that this is a mass market take on this Vivienne Westwood shoe:

But… IS IT REALLY??

Forgive me, I must sit down.

Dear Mr Price, I know some great fashion buyers if you guys are struggling. Hell, this design I did while I was on the phone earlier would probably work better than what you’ve got going on over there. You are welcome to use it. You guys can have this one for free, but next one you pay, okay?

A shoe design by CTG

Sincerely,

CTG

Watched the A-team last night. Here’s what I know for sure:

1. That black dude with PITY and FOOL tattooed on his knuckles was quite cool, but a bit emo. I don’t like my cool big black dudes to be emo. Did anyone else find him emo? Like that vibe where he gets freed and then he trims his hair and there’s this deep moment where we see he hasn’t given himself a mohawk again? He’s just given himself a normal trim? Like, tragedy! I’m not sure that scene actually happened since I did drift in and out of sleep. But that was the vibe.. and it was emo..

2. Sharlto Copley was really funny. Especially when he sang ‘You spin me right round baby right round’ while clinging to the helicopter blades. Also loved all his crazy faces. He was a great crazy guy. You just look at him and you laugh. And then when he’s not on screen you think, what is going on in this movie? Who are these people? Why do they keep saying something about a plan coming together?

3. Bradley Cooper is HOT. More please.

Guys that movie was really confusing. I know it was meant to touch me somewhere deep, to evoke some kind of nostalgia, or something, but I also realised while watching it that even though I THOUGHT I’d watched A-team when I was younger, I clearly hadn’t because I didn’t know who anyone was or what was going on.

Anybody else seen A-team? Anyone else have that kind of revelation? Anybody else feel confused? Going to have to watch Inception just to feel a little less confused.

Tea & Macarons?

Hey remember when I went to that new Massage place in Gardens – enmasse? Where I had my first oil-free Thai Massage? Well I’ve got 5 x 2-for-the-price-of-1 enmasse treatments to give away to CTG readers this week. Sounds good right? Grab your BFF & go get yourself each a Thai Massage for the price of one. If you’d like to win, just tell me what 2 things you need to get your relaxation on. Is it a massage & a facial? A cup of tea & some macarons? A double-vodka & Red Bull?

A nun & a gun?

I won’t judge you. Just tell me what takes you to your happy place. Leave a comment or email me editor@capetowngirl.com

Thank you to all who nominated CTG for a Best New Blog Award in this year’s SA Blog Awards. Very nice of you! Would bake you all cupcakes but I don’t bake cupcakes, I just eat them. Same goes for macarons. I just create the demand. Anyway, you can now be a part of the voting process - click here and it will select CTG from the list and you can cast your vote for me in the Blog Award Finals. Or you can just click on the massive blog awards badge on the top right of the page. Hopefully we can take this ‘chick blogger’ thing to a whole new level! Maybe even ‘release my own fragrance’ (smells like Macarons) or ‘design a limited edition range for a department store’ (smells like Macarons) or ‘release an album’ (all about Macarons..)

Thank you again. I really do appreciate the support.

Sincerely,

xxCTG

One such thing happened yesterday morning.

As I was stepping out of the elevator this morning, Vida & Crush fruit salad in hand, the lift doors opened and before I could step out ANOTHER WOMAN STEPPED IN. Stepped in, before I could get out. She might as well have asked me to slowdance, since I was moving out, and she simply couldn’t wait a SECOND longer to get in the lift, so she ended up moving towards me, effectively thrusting us together in some form of fumbling, flourescent-bulb lit embrace. Um. Can anyone say ‘awkward turtle‘?

I know I have covered this before, but I understand that change has to happen incrementally, so here’s another attempt to convey sound personal space principles. Basically,

WAIT FOR THE PERSON INSIDE THE LIFT TO GET OUT BEFORE YOU GET IN, or:

Why, you ask, wringing your hands in perplexed agony. WHY CTG WHY??? WE DO NOT GET IT??? WHY DO YOU HAVE THIS STRANGE PHOBIA? WHY DO YOU HATE PEOPLE? WHAT DID I DO?

Allow me to explain. If you get in before the person inside has got out, you effectively BLOCK them from getting out, and you create an awkward situation where I must do a little dance with you in order to shuffle myself to the exit while you shuffle yourself even further in. Adding to the confusion is the ‘which side to go???’ dilemma, which sees the two of us smashing into each other, touching each other way more than 2 strangers should ever have to, and me, the poor soul who is JUST TRYING TO GET OUT OF THE LIFT must make complex social and spacial calls in order to ‘get through’ this situation without having my personal space completely invaded.

So you see. Please. Just wait for whomever is in the lift to get out before you get in. I don’t think this is complicated.

Is it? Why do people do it???

So… CTG, LA & PD are working on a dance track. We figure, since we got this video vibe going, we might as well make music to do our dances to, or Sony is going to ‘be up in our faces’ forever, which is no good. So we’re working with a (real!) producer and writing some super deep lyrics about going out and dancing and having fun, which is a cause we firmly and strongly believe in, so we’ve been doing a bunch of referencing tracks that inspire us, which led us to Ace of Base – The Sign – which led us to a whole BUNCH of 90s album artwork covers. Which are truly hilarious. Guys, what was going down in the 90s that led us to style our pop culture icons like angry Swedish teenagers? Like, all of them???

Got to love the collage work, the faces blooming forth from the rose

A rose, but there is some anger. You can see it lurking in her elfen bangs.

rainbow gradients - too good! peroxide! yes!

The name of the album says it all - deadly! in that lovely SandScript too. Super hardcore.

There are a lot of fists happening in that image above. Should we fist on our album cover??? These are all things we must consider.

Oh yeah. Let's rave out. Let's rave out to some synths. In my crop top.

You would be forgiven for thinking that TLC is the name of a weekend burger special at Wimpy. I've forgiven myself. Forgive yourself.

Uh. We're in trouble. Dyed our hair with peroxide then tried to get it brown again and it turned out pink so we wrote a song. Gonna sulk it off.

Very inspiring. We feel very inspired. PD & LA are coming over this evening, and we’re going to print out all these images and stick them up on our studio wall while we ‘lay down some vocals’. It’s gonna be great. We can’t wait. Can you wait??

Went to Canal Walk. After 15 minutes, we were basically suicidal, and fled outside to take in gulps of fresh air. There was a trolley in the fountain, in the rain. Seconds from slitting our wrists, we got Vida and fled the mall entirely, but not without being first bumped, jostled and *touched* by freaks who have no concept of personal space. What is it with people who shop at Canal Walk not having a clue about personal space? Seriously? Anyone else find this to be true, or is it just me?

Canal Walk. Doesn't this MAKE you want to die?

Weekend started on brighter note with Anna’s Farewell party. We went to Sidewalk Cafe in Vredehoek. Ordered the Caesar Salad. Rich, but in a good way.

Anna & Jenny

Jenny & Mark

Ryan & Rikus

Went to Cassis for Macarons. Got distracted and came out with macarons +.

oh nom

Had coffee at Montebello in the trees. Wore my new Vintage-inspired Chanel shades which have the cutest daisy detail on the arms (click to see) and amazing enamel detail in the frames too. I adore these! Definitely keepers.

Vintage-inspired Chanels. We like.

TC in the Chanels. Pretty!

Discovered a great sushi special on Kloof Street at Best of Asia, opposite the Spar. Basically it’s order a plate of one colour, get a plate of the same colour free. Great sushi, and they serve you a beautiful fruit dessert after too! (these things make all the difference)

How was your weekend?

Hope like, Friday’s energy is all like, charged and awesome man. Like these colourful ahsome charged crystals.

I hope like, your BFF gives you a pink calculator with rainbows on it. Because you are just so ahsome.

I hope you meet an ahsum doggie in the snow, sitting next to his ahsum snowy doppeldawgy

I hope your pens turn into ahsum rainbow pencils

I hope your low GI sandwich tastes like ahsum rainbow cake

I hope a ahsum sharey sloth shares its celery with you

And that a totally ahsome cat sits on your ahsome keyboard in space.

Basically I just wish for you the best most ahsome Friday evar.

xxCTG