Voting Over...

Some of us stood in the queues all morning, and some of us lucky bastids waltzed into the voting station at 2:30pm in the afternoon and were in and out within five minutes.

This was definitely NOT our first time voting and naturally we learned from previous general elections that everyone wants to get to the voting booths early and get it "over and done with".  That's why A Daft Scots Lass, her Boerewors and Wee Lassies went later in the afternoon to avoid the Christmas rush.



The IEC did a great job with organising the entire process of the South African General and Provincial Elections. Everything ran pretty smoothly in our areas and the atmosphere was light and friendly at the voting stations.  

The IEC have even provided us with an App to download and keep up-to-date with the results and news. It's a free download for Android, iOS, BlackBerry, Windows Phone and Symbian. Go get it.

Twitter, Instagram and Facebook have been flooded with #thumbies and voting #selfies from the voting booths and its been awesome to witness the patriotism of all our fellow South Africans.

We patiently await the outcome of it all...

Join The Instagram Whore

 

Its December, ChickenPlonkers and I'm doing the #FMSphotoaday Challenge. 

Why donchya pop on over to Instagram, add me and join me in the December Christmas Photo a Day Challenge. 

Should be a Ho-ho-hoot.

Day One : Red

Day Two : Where I Stood

Day Three : Silver
 

250gram

Hi My Lovely Plonkers

Most of you know how much of an Instagram Whore I am.  Over 1100 pictures taken and shared with the world.   Here I am.

I recently stumbled across and ordered some prints from an awesome company called 250gram online and they arrived all the way from Cape Town today!   I couldn't be happier.  Honestly, I'm Go follow them on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook and order some of your Instagram pictures today!  They make great gifts.

I have a few ideas of how I am going to display my polaroid-look 250gram prints.  I want to buy a large board, cut it out into the shape of a puzzle piece and display all my prints there.

250gram Instagram prints

a portrait of me (through my daughters eyes) check out the high heels and tattoos on my arm

Our Year End Function invitation.

 Guess who I'm going as?

My Bitch

 I have been training hard lately, working up a sweat at the gym...I made this treadmill My Bitch and kick the shit out of it every day. 

I've worked my way up to not being able to run more than 2 minutes at a time to a continuous fast jog on an incline at level 10 for half and hour.  Burning 680 calories per session.  Booyah, Bitches!  I still do additional abs, legs and arms afterwards, but I'm really enjoying the running.  Something I thought I'd never enjoy.  It's amazing how quickly you can increase your fitness levels and listening to my body and pushing myself a little further every other day, makes me happy.

Whoever thought I'd get excited about getting running fit?!?

Friday's Shoegasm

Happy Friday, Lovelies.

It's officially Spring in South Africa.  

Gone are the jumpers and boots.  

Hello to the short-sleeves and flip flops.

This week is dedicated to gorgeous shoes from ThatsPoint.  Why?  Because they're cheap and their heels are forever on sale.  They've got really pretty and original styles with those sexy red soles, which I adore!

Come drool with me or join me on Instagram

Dazzling PeepToe Red Sole Cross Strap Silver Pumps $35.89 

Pretty Multi-Coloured Platform Pumps $32.86

Fall Floral Denim Boot $39.99

Flap Bow Lacey Pumps.  So cute for only $28.99! 

Striped Orsay Pumps with ankle strap. Ahoy! $33.79

Pointed Toe T-Strap heels with red sole $33.79

Have a brilliant weekend, Plonkers.

A Smart Phone Gathers No Moss

Paula wants to know why we love our smarts phones so much.

Well, I recently dropped my HTC One X and shattered the screen.  Oh shite was I devastated.  I cried.  I actually cried....that's how much I adore my smart phone.

I could still use my phone with the cracked screen, but it wasn't the same.  I made an insurance claim to get the screen fixed, but after a month at the repair center, they let me know that it was beyond economical repair.  The insurance paid out and a new HTC One X Plus was ordered from the UK.

Now I'm back Instagraming like a MoFo, honing my Twiddiction and taking photos of everything and anything and PhotoShaking the lot of them.  I get my emails on my phone, I moderate comments on my blog, I watching YouTube and chat on WhatsApp.  I listen to internet radio, play Music and DropBox for work while getting regular weather updates.  I even have a flashlight!

What more could a girl want?  Any information at her fingertips.

My SmartPhone is an extension of my arm and I feel lost and disconnected without it.

What do you use your SmartPhone for?

Thinspiration

It's Day 21 of The July Blog Challenge over a Paula's Place.  Go link up and read every one's thoughts on how the media portrays body images for young girls.

I frikken detest the way the media influences young girls to feel inadequate about our their bodies.  

Something other than perfection is not acceptable. Girls are always feeling the pressure to be thin.

Unrealistic anorexic girls prance down the runaway and magazines are splatted with stick-insects and lollypop girls.  The television and movies only seem to employ size 0 girls who wake up with full make-up jobs and faultless hair.  It's constantly rubbed in our faces in all types of media. 

You only have to witness young women on the red carpet with their titties taped up, their botox riddled frozen faces with a mouthful of porcelain veneers, to know that flawed women are just not good enough.  

It makes us chunky girls feel like we are completely deficient and uglier than a bag full of arseholes.

You only have to log on to Pinterest and Instagram to find young girls proudly posting pictures of their protruding hip bones and ribs and they even have a name for it.  Thinspo or....now that controversy has been linked to the word, they simply changed it to Fitspo.  

These girls constantly post pictures of their thigh-gaps and declare how "fat" they are.  They are regularly reading Thinspiration slogans and declaring that Nothing Tastes as Thin Feels.  They seem to feed of one another's "success" in keeping soopa thin and compete with one another to see who has the best in-grown stomach.

It's sad that women feel the need to be a certain size to feel feminine and desirable.

Is this society and the media's fault for only ever presenting us with photoshopped perfection?

Shoegasm and Instagram Whore

Happy Friday, Plonkers!  

It's Day 12 of Paula's July Blog Challenge.  Go sign up if you haven't already.

Today's Question : Who or what do you take the most pictures of?

Another easy one -  my family and friends.  

I take my camera everywhere and my phone takes great pictures too.  

Most of you beautiful Plonkers know that I'm an Instagram Whore and if you follow me there, you'll know that I post pictures about pretty much everything.  

My HTC X One has been in for repairs for over a month.  After I shattered the screen, I'm waiting for my insurance to pay out so that I can either get mine repaired, or get a new phone.


I miss my phone, I miss Instagram and taking and posting daily pictures.

Follow me on Instagram.  I'll be back there sooner than you know it, snapping up everything and anything!

And now some pretty shoes...Friday is my Shoegasm day but in actual fact I look at shoes on the interwebz every day.  I subscribe to a few "Shoe of the Day" sites and I'm forever oogling them on Pinterest.  

I love to find websites that offer designer-looking shoes at bargain prices but, alas, most of them are in the US or the UK and the shipping costs versus the shoes are astronomical.  Och well, a girl can still dream about pretty shoes, right?

Royal Blue sequined Peep Toe with Union Jack design 

Pinup Girl Peep Toe Platforms with pretty bow detail

One of my favourites - Iron Fist.  Love the Sugar Skull 

This nude sandal is WAY over the top but so pretty.
I don't have the most dainty ankles for this design, but I can still admire them, right?

Mint and Black Strikin PeepToes with Black Flower ankle detail.  So Glam!

Now go and have a great weekend, my Lovely Plonkers!