BEHIND THE SCENES

Every year our team (the creative kids) at work make handmade gifts for Secret Santa. So basically you pick a name out of a hat and the person you get will be the person you have to make a gift for. My Secret Santa this year was Amber Jones of Thunder in our Hearts ,So the pressure was on.

With a lot of research from waiting for her to leave the office so I could study her desk (What colours she likes, fonts etc...I know right sneaky)  to going on her blog on a daily and even checking her archives...to watching how she drinks her tea, which hand she uses, to what colour she wore most for that week...hahahah jokes!!
After having gazillion ideas in my head of what to make for her ( buying her a holiday apartment in Manhattans was on the list as well, hahahah) I decided on making her a stool out of magazines..

 And the results were impressing...

 Needed to improvise regarding wrapping the stool so I decided to use fabric...

SECRET SANTA

The Gifts...

How cool is this wrapping paper....

 So glad my gift is practical...lol!!!

 Really love my new friendship bracelets from my Secret Santa...

A party is not a party without gate crashers of course....

MR PRICE XMAS PARTY

The theme for this year's Christmas party was The Great Gatsby... Good times we had...
I must say Mr P you did it again...best party eveeeeerrrrr!!!!!

UNTITLED....

IZULU ORPHAN PROJECT

Izulu Orphan Project is a non profit organization which support orphans and children of HIV positive widows. Founded in 2006 by Chadd, Kate and Shelley Bain, the organization was created to serve thousands of orphans residing in Zululand. Their aim is to school, feed and clothe as many orphan kids as possible and to impact the local community through education, health awareness and job creation.

This past Saturday they had a Christmas party for the orphans and I decided to volunteer to help out at the party.

 3000 kids at the party attended.

 This is so unfair..notice how Phili is not sweating and meanwhile I'm sweating like a pig? Gosh wish someone could have warned me about the unbelievable heat....

 Did a bit of face painting as well.....

 We had to prepare 7000 hotdogs for the food packs...Talk about  job well done....

 Decide to take a walk around the village and landed at this Spaza Shop....very old school and interesting...

 Phili contemplating on wether to take over Phumi's assigned duty or stick to the hotdogs and party packs duty....Lets just say admin was written all over Phumi's forehead...I don't think I could have managed...plus the heat chowed most of my brain cells....So we decided to stick to being bouncers and handing out packs...Well done Phumi you handled your task very well...

Check out the IOP website here for more details on up and coming events....