5 Jul 2011
Get in the gas line
It wasn't a great day to be in a small business yesterday, not when electricity prices went up by as much as 30% last Friday, and there was a gas shortage in Cape Town. My gas supplier called me
8 Jun 2011
Playtime!
I loved Brene Brown's most recent blog post on play, and it distracted me into a bit of playtime of my own. Looking around my office it seems I do a fair amount of it, I've just taken to cleverly
2 Jun 2011
Hot off the press!
One of the things I love about owning a small business is the being involved in everything, it's also one of the things I find quite stressful about it too, but that's what happens when you try to have it
24 May 2011
Where was I in April?
Via the strangest of dinner party conversation coincidences I recently reconnected with long-since-lost-touch family friends in the form of my godmother and her husband. With the internet encouraging us to make so much of our lives public they had a
15 May 2011
Having your own business
Not being entirely as technologically literate as I'd like (or like to think I am!) I'm not sure how to disable some of the facebook notifications I get inundated with, and at the moment the pace is hotting up as
2 Mar 2011
Sometimes it’s pure joy
One of the things I love about this business is the adventure. Something interesting and exciting seems to happen every single day, and usually it's unpredictable. Sometimes the adventure is in the fascinating people I get to talk to, like
2 Mar 2011
What is real?
I've been spending my Friday afternoons in Conrad Hicks' blacksmith workshop pounding steel and learning to wield a hammer, I'm even learning to make a hammer! It started as a need to work through a lot of anger and strong
24 Feb 2011
Design Indaba kicks off
The Design Indaba conference kicked off yesterday and by all accounts it was a full and interesting day, as expected. If like me you're not attending you can follow the chirping at #designindaba on Twitter. But for more insights and a summary