SLK shows us how to wear Summer 2011’s shades

22 Jul 2010, Posted by Cape Town Girl in BFFs, CTG, beach, bloggers, fashion, holiday, hotels, sponsors, 6 Comments

Shades by Salvadore Ferragamo, bikini by Aubade, beach by god

As I mentioned previously, CTG’s styling and makeup gets done by Samantha Laura Kaye, aka SLK. Sam recently jetted off to Mauritius for a little bit of sunshine in the wintertime, and CTG got Sunglass Hut to hook her up with a preview selection of this coming Summer’s hottest shades and basically show us ‘how to do Summer 2011′. Mauritius is not imperative to the looks she’s put together, but let’s be honest, it will definitely help.

A lady and her luggage. Shades by Salvadore Ferragamo, exclusive to Sunglass Hut.

This season's must-haves: Shades by Ferragamo, bikini by L'aubade, Kindle by Amazon.com, coconut cocktail courtesy of the Le Touessrok beach barmen

Sunglass afficionados, take note - these guys are employed to clean your shades while you're on the beach. Not kidding. That's all they do. Those who share the sunglass fetish will no doubt appreciate the utter awesomeness of that fact.

A close-up of the shade-cleaning action

Shades by Miu Miu for summer 2011, bikini by L'aubade, beach by Mother Nature

Shades by Ray Ban, bikini by Kulu, light dancing through the water in the swimming pool by some otherworldly power that is inspiring and beautiful

Shades by Ferragamo, green vest shirt by Diesel, white pleated skirt by Aca Joe, panama hat by Fabiani (imported from equador) bikini (under green top) Aubade.

Shades by Salvadore Ferragamo, bikini by Kulu

Swimwear (under dress) by kulu, dress by Melodie A, sunglasses by Ferragamo, earrings by Givenchy, watch by Fossil, sunshine by sheer awesomeness

Isn’t it just all a bit much in terms the of ‘holy crap that looks incredible’ factor? Don’t you  just want to book a flight RIGHT NOW? I’m trying to stop my mouse wandering over to TravelStart and booking myself an irresponsible beachy adventure, but it’s tough. It’s REAL tough. If you’re interested though, SLK stayed here for a total of 10 days, and I think one might conclude from these pics that she ‘had a good time’. Maybe.

****COMPETITION ALERT: Guys, mail me which of SLK’s outfits you liked the best and why, and you could win this pair of white Miu Miu’s for this upcoming summer. They’re not even in stores yet! editor@capetowngirl.com – go! You have til Friday 6 August 2010.

weekend in pictures

19 Jul 2010, Posted by Cape Town Girl in BFFs, CTG, cape town, lifestyle, non-tourist attractions, photography, south africa, weekend in pictures, 1 Comments

What a beautiful weekend. Spent a lot of it outdoors on my balcony in the sunshine, outdoors running along the sea in the sunshine, outdoors lounging around on the grass in Constantia in the sunshine… simple things really. Outdoors.

City Bowl sunshine

Constantia sunshine (it’s beautiful everywhere, the sunshine)

Priscilla wears top by Country Road, shades by Georgio Armani

Leigh Anne wears top by Country Road, shades by Ray Ban

CTG wears dress by Wardrobe, shades by Chanel, jersey by Country Road, pumps by Woolworths

Pretty red flower dude

Lounging around in the warm winter sun

Too beautiful. Happy Monday!

Food Interrupted Chapter 6: One World. One Love. One Dish.

15 Jul 2010, Posted by Cape Town Girl in BFFs, CTG, cape town, characters, food interrupted, girl stuff, lifestyle, south africa, 1 Comments

Puppies,
I am simply unmoved thrilled by the events of Sunday night my darlings. To watch China and Australia qualify to play each other in their FIRST tennis final in recent history was a drunken an emotional moment for me and for a handful of several trillion people.

And petals, the heroic battle of these two cities is not the only example of globalization around at the moment – no no! There are wonderful things afoot my darlings, wonderful opportunities for us to once again run barefoot and stark naked with a crazed amphetamine tilt to our heads carefree through the woods of our tomorrows.

The entire WORLD darlings, the WORLD is coming closer together darlings. Darlings, the bloody planet is shrinking and crumpling in on itself its getting so cosy with itself. The bloody stars darling, the bloody stars in that great big milky stain in the bloody sky darling, they’re coming together. It’s bloody continental drift darlings, in reverse. It’s, it’s drift continental, darlings.

And cherubs, what really excited Mummy about the closeness of her inter-continental brothers and sisters darlings, is the amount of wine I can get from other cities the sharing of information, the sharing of knowledge, the sharing of sexually transmitted diseases emotional resources. And so to celebrate this, this shrinkwrappage of the earth, I give unto you my endless, all consuming debt newest creation, honouring the planet and her peoples:

I give you: We-are-the-World-We-are-The-Children,-We Are A-Soy Steak-on-Cowboy-Bean with- Tomato-Salsa-Platter, So-Let’s-Start-Giving.

How fantastic, you crow, what makes such a heavenly treat?
A couple of Porterhouse steaks, trimmed of all fat
(we must be a healthy world populace darling, we can’t run toward each other in a field of poppies with gay abandon if we’re wheezing from the extra 25 kilos we’re carrying with our own breasts hitting us in the face one at a time with metronome succession now can we?)
Soya sauce
1 x can Red kidney beans
1 x can Lentils
Tabasco sauce
Fresh chilli
Black pepper
Good quality sliced salami (that means not the pink stuff with the green peppercorn lodged in it like bullet holes because you were too lazy to go to the deli)
2 x Onion
Garlic
Peppers, red and yellow
Stock of any sort (I prefer Fond, but then again, I also am fond of Argyle underwear and suppositories, so, each to their own)
2 x fresh tomatoes,
Sweet basil
Vinegar

Tell me how darling!

Place steaks in a bowl, pour soy sauce all over them (that one’s for you China! Mwah!) and allow to vibe.
Cut up an onion and the peppers, open a can of lentils and beans and gooi all into a hot-ish pan. When I say hot-ish, I mean, I can put my hand over it. If I were to touch it I would be in pain, but not as much pain as for example, if said hand was being slowly ingested by a python. That would indicate a slightly hotter pan.
Add about half a cup of your stock in and allow bean mix to vibe alongside already vibing steaks.
Toss into pan extra things like Tabasco, or chilli, or both, along with garlic and liberal, hippy-like tossings of black pepper.
Cut salami up into little squares and with restraints, tie your one hand to a spice rack or other solid installation to try to limit your premature consumption of aforementioned salami.
Into the pan goes the salami. You will notice that the beans are getting quite soft, so, after wriggling free from your makeshift handcuffs, get a potato masher and mash the beans mix into…well…mash.
Turn the heat down and turn attention to steaks.
Panfry steak in a little olive oil and a dash of red wine.

Chop fresh tomatoes and fresh onion and blend in a cap-ful of vinegar, some salt and sweet basil.
Set steak atop a serving of bean mash and serve with a little of the salsa.
Unless of course you are unable to serve at all, as you set the pan to python and were too late with your restraints, meaning you are now very badly burnt, but still alive, curled up at the bottom of the bean pan, trying not to break bits of your charred self off while humming Home On The Range.

Excuse me darlings, I’m off to befriend my neighbours. I think they’re from Pretoria!

Frances

discovered treasure

15 Jul 2010, Posted by Cape Town Girl in BFFs, CTG, photography, 0 Comments

in the form of an entire roll of unused Polaroid film in my Polaroid camera last night. Which begs some majah questions. Questions like, how did I load a new roll of film and NOT NOTICE IT? Especially since I have only ever had 2 packs of Polaroid film before they stopped making it, and spend a large amount of my time talking about polaroid film, googling Polaroid film, and bribing store rooms in China for Polaroid film old stock. Clearly I actually had 3. Where was I at the time??? In the clouds? Chatting to the aliens? Peeling Frances off my bathroom floor? Ensnared in a slanket? Dog knows. But am super happy about the discovery. It was made while I was attempting to load the new film into my camera, and Mark ever so logically asked, ‘but is this not a full pack?’ And then he took a shot of a the vase of flowers on my dining room table. And then I took a shot of myself in the mirror. And then we took another shot, which came out completely white. Ghostly, but in a good way. And then I took a shot of all of it on top of my notebook.

Loved Mark so much for initiating said discovery that I gave him these glasses:

Well, kinda. Come collect Mark.

CTG loves: Dil’s Mario Hoodie

14 Jul 2010, Posted by Cape Town Girl in BFFs, CTG recommends, fashion, 0 Comments

Awesome

How can you not?

Double Awesome

Are y’all familiar with the Ancient Zen saying…

14 Jul 2010, Posted by Cape Town Girl in BFFs, CTG recommends, fashion, girl stuff, hilarious, 7 Comments

“If not now, when Slankets, Jumpsuits?”

Srsly – Jumpsuits – this is totally CTG’s Winter vibe for home-lounging. Click here to order your own – you can completely custom-make them!

Win some Livestrong Cycle Shades with My Friend Marc

12 Jul 2010, Posted by Cape Town Girl in BFFs, CTG, bloggers, competitions, fashion, sponsors, sport, 1 Comments

CTG has a wide and varied group of friends, which is what makes life so interesting. One of my specialer friends is a chap called Marc, who owns a company called Obox, who does CTG’s website, but Marc is also a super duper cyclist. And if you think that by ‘Super Duper’ I mean he wears Pink Spandex, you are totally right! Just check out the super!

Boom! (he also says 'Boom!' a lot)

Okay, I know you’re going ‘CTG why are you showing us this where are the puppies and the kittens??’ but please, just calm down a second. You see Marc has been covering the Tour De France over on his blog the last week, and to celebrate the event this year, Marc will be giving away TWOs pair of Oakley LIVESTRONG cycling shades, courtesy of Sunglass Hut. Which is basically like owning a small piece of Lance Armstrong. Kiffstrong. Talkablestrong. Dinnertableconversationstrong. YouseewhereIamgoingwiththisstrong.

Jawbonestrong.

All you got to do is peruse Marc’s blog for the highlights, and then drop him a mail answering this question. Easy as pie. Now let’s take a moment to appreciate Marc’s jawbones in real life…

Hawtstrong. Yeah.

extreme birthday love

09 Jul 2010, Posted by Cape Town Girl in BFFs, CTG, food, 0 Comments

thank you Marc and Fran, who came over with this amazing spread of cupcakes that Fran’s little sister made. super duper lovely! Thanks too, to Chris Rawlinson for giving me a million year’s worth of wine, and to Frances Sauvage for taking CTG out to dinner. Such a lovely birthday :)

A dancing Frances

fun Cape Town pop sound: Prankster

07 Jul 2010, Posted by Cape Town Girl in BFFs, CTG recommends, music, south africa, 4 Comments

Prankster. Dark and twisty. In a rad way.

Has anyone else heard this pop song on 5fm, which is totally catchy, and it goes on about ‘Don’t tell me what to do’ (a sentiment close to CTG’s heart). Well I found out it’s actually by a local band called Prankster. Go visit their fanpage – the song I’m talking about is called (aptly) Don’t Tell Me What To Do. I quite like it. I also think their song Train reminds me of a band I used to LOVE but totally forgot about – also South African (I think) called Just My Humanity. Does anyone remember them? Anyone know where to get their music? (They had a song that started You’re my flesh / I’m your bone…)

Anyway, back to Prankster. What do you think? Interesting history Prankster has too – they’ve been involved with all sorts of local music hotshots over the years. Read more about them here.

UPDATE: Here’s the link to that Just My Humanity track I was talking about (is actually by someone / thing called Herbert, and is called The Audience). So happy! Thank you @floodedcodeboy!

xxCTG

hey Mickey you so fine

07 Jul 2010, Posted by Cape Town Girl in BFFs, fashion, hilarious, 0 Comments

Love this jersey, as seen on Ryan.