Winter is here whether or not we’re are ready — who am I kidding? I’m ready. My daily tote has changed and it feels and smells warm. My sunglasses and sun hat have had to make way for warmth.
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What’s in my Winter bag
May 17, 2012 by the Sleep Walker
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How-to: Prepare a Winning CV
May 16, 2012 by the Sleep Walker
In business presentation is everything. You may have all the things human resources managers love: superior education, take initiative, a sensible respect for rules and corporate hierarchy and suitable experience. But If your calling card and the first way you present your strong points and how much of an asset you will be to the organisation is not appealing, you lose out on an interview and maybe a good job.
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How-to: Take Beautiful Family Portraits
May 15, 2012 by the Sleep Walker
All the family photographs from my childhood are not my proudest moments. From the time I was a baby until the time I was about 15-years old I can be seen in a dress with plenty trim and wearing an awkward ”cheeese!” smile on my face. I doubt that anyone kept the holiday cards with those photos beyond the holidays, not even my grandparents. It was a result of that childhood misadventure that I decided that I would never subject my children to posing in a studio. So for years, the photos on hubby’s desk, the ones on greeting cards and those on display on the mettle piece are candids.
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How-to: Shop for the perfect Sealy mattress
May 14, 2012 by the Sleep Walker
For all my friends and friends of friends.
This has been a long time coming because ever since word got out that I was somehow involved with Sealy I’ve been getting all sorts of questions and request. It all started with friends and relatives phoning casually to ask how I am and then letting it slip that they were in the process of buying new beds and they were wondering if I could organise a discount or family price…
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Her Majesty and her threads
May 11, 2012 by the Sleep Walker
This is almost close.... But not enough
Try as I might I couldn’t find the photograph in the many family photo albums my mother keeps. In it she’s standing next to a shinny Valiant — she says it was red — she is wearing what looks like a lovely Chanel ensemble. It’s not Chanel. She says she picked it up at a second hand charity shop and had had it tailored. That’s my first memory of style. A black and white photograph of my mother — in her early 20s — leaning on a beautiful car and beaming lovingly at the photographer, my father.
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Licensed to fly
May 10, 2012 by the Sleep Walker
My mum and I are as different as two people can be. She’s an academic all about family and roots. I’m a gypsy at heart and a traveler in real life. I get bored in routine — this means, hair, places, food, basically everything — she strives on it. That’s who I have grown into, but I don’t think I would be as comfortable making all these changes without her.
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Had my mother written me an open letter about life
May 9, 2012 by the Sleep Walker
For the longest time my mother was the only woman I knew and trusted. She is my hero and everything I know and love abut womanhood I learned (and am still learning from her.) From knowing her, loving her and sometimes being infuriated by her I have learned lessons about womanhood and parenthood. This is the open love letter and guide to life that my mother has written to me — without realising it.*
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What I learned from my mothers will make your mouth water
May 8, 2012 by the Sleep Walker
I'd like to make a book like this one, one day.
As much as I love my mother, our relationship only started to get closer in my late 20s. But truly became close when I had my first child in my early 30s. I don’t know what it was that kept us apart for most of my youth — I suspect her letting me get away with just about anything was the cause. On the other side ma Zane was my rock. She was the one who cracked the whip when I was out of line. The impact they had on my life was very different yet they both made me who I am.
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My sisterhood
May 7, 2012 by the Sleep Walker
Days like Mother’s Day are a great reminder of who I am and where I come from and all the people who have made me who and what I am. I was raised by my grandmother ma Dlamini. She was not my mother nor did she act in that capacity. She was my dotting grandmother. Then there were my aunts, whose official titles literally mean older mum and younger mum. So this Mother’s Day week I celebrate all the women who have mothered me and the lessons they’ve taught me.
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Celebrating mothers
May 7, 2012 by the Sleep Walker
This week, ahead of Mother’s Day on Sunday, the women of The Morning After Blog will be celebrating the mother figures in their live and the lessons they’ve taught them. Please stay tuned for lessons in love, acceptance, fitness, health, fashion and travel.
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