YOUTH RADIO AWARDS DONATIONS

"On June 16th, 2013 the Children’s Radio Foundation will host the first annual Youth Radio Awards in Cape Town. The awards are aimed at recognising the effort, passion and determination of young reporters at community radio stations across South Africa, who use the medium of radio to get their communities discussing important issues. "

The Children's Radio Foundation is looking for our help to raise the remaining funds needed to carry out the awards. I feel that this event is really important to recognise the talent and communication of our youths.

To do my part, I've dedicated to contribute 50% of all my A3 print sales between today and the 30th of May.
If you'd like to just donate to the foundation, visit the GivenGain site here.

Take a look at my prints in more detail here.
Order each print by stating the number on the image to hello@laurenfowler.co.za
Each print is unframed and excludes postage prices.

TAKE CARE AUTUMN / WINTER 2013 LOOKBOOK

My favourite South African fashion label has to be Take Care.

Every seasonal lookbook is shot by local photographer, Julia Merrett and modelled by artist Matty Roodt.

I love the clean lines, simplicity and elegance that Jessica Harwood brings to her label. I have all my basics covered from Take Care. It's everyday clothing that can be dressed up or down with the addition of heels and a necklace to sneakers and a pony tail.

I had some fun with Julia's photographs from the shoot and created some images out of my favourite pieces from this collection.

Shop online or find your closest store here.

MOTHER'S DAY

Yeah.

Don't pretend like you've got something already.

Mother's Day is on Sunday and we've got your back!

I've got cross stitch sets for sale and I've teamed up with a couple of other Woodstock businesses to create a Mother's Day Hamper.

The sets are available through me and come wrapped with a free gift card of your choice.

The hampers are available by emailing: mothersdaygifthamper@gmail.com

Cross Stitch sets R250 or R280 + free gift card + gift wrapped

Mother's Day Hamper - R280 + option to add a Benedikt book voucher

All collections from Opus or my studio, Lost Is A Place Too at the Woodstock Foundry.

BENEDICT & TRIBE COFFEE

We have a new coffee shop here at The Woodstock Foundry.
Tribe coffee is in the new part of the building opposite Opus. The building boasts two long glass box shops with a beautiful courtyard at the back leading on to the Tribe roastery and the Benedict Taschen book shop.

I designed the logo for Tribe, so it's really cool to see it in wood and steel up on the wall.
Tribe coffee is roasted, sold as well as served here. It's the perfect little spot to get away and have a quick coffee or meeting. They also stock Munch Boxes which are the most delicious cous cous salads and wraps.

The Benedict book shop displays Taschen books and international magazines for sale. My prints are also available here. All the furniture in the coffee shop as well as Benedict are from MBA, Made By Architects. The tables and chairs are really quite fun to look at, as they are made from ply cut outs.

Visit the Woodstock Foundry at 150 Albert Road, Woodstock.

WIN TICKETS TO DECOREX

Hell yeah!

I've got 5 double tickets to give away for Decorex!
All you gotta do is follow me on twitter, tweet me (@laurenxfowler) and use the hashtag #LAURENFOWLERforDecorex

I'll also be giving away a set of gift cards and a print!
First prize is 1 set of double tickets and an Ouroboros print.

Second is 1 set of double tickets and a gift card set.

Then three other winners for double tickets.

Yay! Tweet me!

Preferably with a picture of a cat :)
P.S The give away is only open to people who are in Cape Town this week...cause that's where the show is. Obvs.

TOPSHOP / WATERFRONT

I trotted off to the Topshop opening the other night at the V&A Waterfront, I arrived and instantly felt the rush...the rush for socks.Topshop has always been my favourite place to buy socks, I've got some real cute and crazy ones. Finally, no wait, FINALLY, we too can have crazy fun with our ankles.

I purchased some cute ones, fancy ones and a pair with cray cats with party hats on them.

I felt the need to buy some panties too, so I did the same here, crazy American states briefs, pretty cute ones and some sexay ones.
I also bought Gene some man socks. He didn't find them just as thrilling as I did.

The make up section is well stocked with all the fancy bits as well as brushes and all that girly stuff. I bought copper nail polish.
Topshop also had a free personal shopping service, rad, right!?

I really loved the mens clothing and the prices are also just right.

Basically, I'll be spending some more monies at Topshop preeetty soon.
See you there!

P.S Do you guys like my stick font I made?

GATHER

Gather.
Beautiful. These two ladies have the vision, they have the eye!
Amy and Mariah have launched their new site and it's a treat to look through.

In their own words:

Gather began when two friends decided to put their mutual love for creating
beautiful events, spaces and experiences to good use.

We live and work in Cape Town, South Africa, one of the most beautiful and
creatively inspiring places under the sun.

We specialize in special events, design and styling, art direction and
creative consulting and we’ve done it all- black tie events, art exhibitions,
launch parties and more.

Visit them here.