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HIIIIII,

So I feel bad not to warn any regular readers about my unavoidale absence starting now until the 22nd of November, as unfortunately there is a horrible thing called exams and I want to do well so I'm trying to avoid any distractions ;)

so here are some things (just books and CDs) to do instead of (hopefully!!!) read my blog.

CDs

• Arctic Monkeys - AM

• Miles Kane - Don't Forget Who You Are

• Oasis - What's The Story (Morning Glory)

• Lorde - Pure Heroine

• The Last Shadow Puppets - The Age Of The Understatement

Books

• Just In Case - Meg Rosoff

• How I Live Now - Meg Rosoff

• Lexicon - Max Barry

See you in a while :)

izzy

Trip to Imfolozi

Hello internet fangirls (and fanboys?),

this week we took a three day trip to Imfolozi Game Reserve and it was amazing! We saw so many animals and the only member of the big five we didn't see was a leopard.

List of animals we saw
28 rhinos (NO KIDDING)
7 lions (feeding on a buffalo)
5 zebra
10 giraffe
Lots of warthogs
Lots of vultures
Lots of buffalo
A cheetah
3 wild dogs
3 elephant
2 hyena (thank goodness no more)
Lots of different birds and eagles and stuff
MANY buck (and my little sister insisted on stopping at every. single. one.)

DAY 1
On the first day was braaing the chicken for our supper that night and a hyena came up behind him and he had to try and get inside with the meat (which he managed) and I think all us girls inside nearly wet ourselves. Being a dad, he kept trying to go outside to take pictures of the thing and mom got so angry with him she tried to forbid him to go outside which didn't exactly go as planned...

DAY 2
It was disgustingly hot and I think we all nearly died and only really saw animals in the very early morning but the day was not completely a waste as a herd of buffalo came charging through our campsite and amelie was beside herself making sure that no one was wearing red ;).

DAY 3
We saw lions eating a buffalo. FUN! *insert sarcstic voice*. It was pretty amazing though. We almost caused a traffic jam which was quite funny as well :D.

Amelie gave this profound speech in the car while looking for rhinos:

Amelie: Izzy my friends dog's leg got runned over by a car and its guts comed out!
Me: Wow Amie, its guts came out its leg?
Amelie: Ja! What are guts?

If you ever feel discouraged while in a game reserve because you aren't seeing animals, don't worry, if all else fails you will see buck. There will always be buck to spectate while they eat grass.

I love this one

CREDIT: my dad for the amazing pictures

On the extremely bright side I got the new Arctic Monkeys CD =D!

izzy

How to: Make an easy felt bunny

Hi,

I made my sister one of these for my sister while we were away at imfolozi game reserve (post soon to follow) and she loved it so I thought I would make one for here :).

I APOLOGISE FOR THE POOR PICTURE QUALITY MY CAMERA WAS BATTERY-LESS SO I HAD TO USE MY PHONE...

You will need
Felt

A needle

Embroidery threads

Stuffing

How to
1. Cut out the body (back and front), arms, ears and inner ears out of the different felts.

2. Sew a face to the front piece of the body.

3. Sew the inner ear to the ear and sew along the outside of the ear in blanket stitch.

4. Attach the ear to the part of the back that will be facing the inside of the bunny.

5. Repeat with the other ear.

6. Sew around the arm in blanket stitch.

7. Attach to the back the same way you attached the ears.

8. Repear with the other arm.

9. Sew the front part of the body to the back with blanket stitch and stuff lightly.

10. DONE!

They are incredibly easy and very cute.

BEHOLD!!! The ulitimate book nerd cake! I found it yesterday at the garden show :). Unfortunately my plea did not convince my mom to buy it so my birthday will have to suffer without a book cake ;).

Izzy

How to make CAT EAR ALICEBANDS

FIRSTLY

Happy Heritage Day South Africa!!! I hope everyone is enjoying braais right now ;)

These were inspired by Teengranny's cat ear headphones :) they are really amazing and I think all teenage fangirl nerds should own a moustache pen and a cat ear aliceband :D

You will need
2 pieces of felt

A loooooooong strip of fabric

Thread

A needle

An aliceband

How to
1. Loosely wrap the fabric around the aliceband and make sure none of the colour of the aliceband shows through.

2. Tie a bit of the thread around each end of the aliceband to stop the fabric from slipping off.

3. Cut out four triangles with rectangles on the end for the ears and cut two smaller triangles out of a contrasting felt for the inside.

4. Sew the smaller triangles to the bigger ones.

5. Sew along the bottom of the first two big triangles.

6. Place these on the aliceband and sew along the top.
 7. Sew around the outside of the triangles in blanket stitch.

8. Repeat with the other ear.
9. DONE!

Have fun little fangirls :)

izznknit

(P.S. Go and check out LORDE her voice is ethereal!)