India Arie - Ready For Love

This is one of the most beautiful songs I have ever heard! I fell in love with it the first day I heard it.
It's beautifully written and touches my heart every time without fail.
I love India Arie.



Amazing right?

Have an awesome weekend!


Zithande
The Black Pearl

Child Trace - I Can't Be Bought fashion show

I was asked to MC the very first and official Child Trace I CAN'T BE BOUGHT fashion show that took place yesterday, an honour I could not refuse. I was so happy to take a stand against human trafficking through two of my favourite things,fashion and glamour.
We all went through the journey of a human trafficking victim using fashion as the story teller. From when someone is innocent ( we saw the innocent range here), to when they are trafficked (the trafficked range) and the finale was the end (the stop range) of human trafficking.

It is a cause that I truly support and wholeheartedly believe in. What would you do if you were bought and sold? What if the only fashion accessory you were allowed to wear was a price tag or a bar code?
I think that just by raising awareness about human trafficking, one would have already made a huge contribution to the fight against human trafficking. You too can do your bit to help. Go to the ChildTrace website and find out how.

The proceeds of the entire fashion show went towards the funding of all the Child Trace initiatives and I was more than happy to donate my services as the MC!
I'll upload the pics as soon as I have them, I didn't take any of mine, sorry.

I hope you enjoyed your Human Rights Day!


Zithande
The Black Pearl

Quote of the week

What doesn't grow...dies!

Trendy Turban

This was my first attempt at tying a turban and I think I did pretty good!
Yay? Nay? Be honest!

They are very trendy right now!
Jeans, heels/sneakers, a sleeveless top, turban and you're ready to go!




I'll put up a video tutorial soon!


Til then...

Zithande
The Black Pearl

NeighbourGoods Market part 2

So I had a 'peroxide'moment(blonde is an understatement) on my previous post!
Instead of complaining about the 8MB that blogspot only allows, all I should have done was just decrease the size of my photos! Yes, go ahead and judge me because I'm judging myself right now!

Anyway, here are the rest of the photos!










Shout out to Zama Dube , Pearl Shongwe , Funeka Ngwevela, Natasha Luvuno and Lesego Kgosimolao


#GoodTimes


Zithande
The Black Pearl

NeighbourGoods Market

Cape Town's original gourmet market is now experienced by Jo'burgers in Braamfontein! Hoo ray to that!
Friends of mine have BEEN asking me to join them and I finally decided to go 3 weeks ago.I was so mad at myself for not going earlier.
This is my bit of Cape Town in Jozi!
The food, the drinks, the people and the vibe all make you feel like you're in some place far from the city!
I had a blast of a time, here are pics below to prove it.
I couldn't load all of the pics because I'm only allowed anything that doesn't exceed 8MB... come on blogspot, seriously!!!
And I think the picture story starts from the bottom up...



















I'm definitely going back soon.
In the meantime....
Zithande
The Black Pearl

NeighbourGoods Market

My New Obsession - Gotye

Gotye (pronounced Go-te-yae) , is a Beligian-Austalian multi-instrumental musician and singer-songwriter and I'm so in love with him right now. He's with Kimbra , a New Zealand singer-songwriter in this track titled Somebody That I Used To Know.


This song releases all sorts of weird emotions out of me and somehow makes me really sad, in an enjoyable kind of way. Ever enjoyed feeling sad? It makes me feel like that!
Pathetic I know, but that's what it does.

No matter what I'm doing, as soon as it comes on... everything else disappears into nothingness and it takes centre stage!
When Kimbra's verse comes on... Oh when Kimbra sings her verse! Oh! My! Freak!
I love this song and could actually listen to it all day, but I won't. You know what they say about too much of a good thing.
The video is the icing on the cake, beautifully shot and creatively executed.

Here are the lyrics below. I hope it makes you feel what I feel when I listen to it.. yes.. sad!
It's an enjoyable sadness!
Enjoy!


 Somebody That I Used To Know
ft Kimbra



Now and then I think of when we were together
Like when you said you felt so happy you could die
Told myself that you were right for me
But felt so lonely in your company
But that was love and it's an ache I still remember

You can get addicted to a certain kind of sadness
Like resignation to the end, always the end
So when we found that we could not make sense
Well you said that we would still be friends
But I'll admit that I was glad it was over

But you didn't have to cut me off
Make it like it never happened and that we were nothing
And I don't even need your love
But you treat me like a stranger and that feels so rough
No you didn't have to stoop so low
Have your friends collect your records and then change your number
I guess that I don't need that though
Now you're just somebody that I used to know

Now you're just somebody that I used to know
Now you're just somebody that I used to know

[Kimbra:]
Now and then I think of all the times you screwed me over
But had me believing it was always something that I'd done
But I don't wanna live that way
Reading into every word you say
You said that you could let it go
And I wouldn't catch you hung up on somebody that you used to know

[Gotye:]
But you didn't have to cut me off
Make it like it never happened and that we were nothing
And I don't even need your love
But you treat me like a stranger and that feels so rough
And you didn't have to stoop so low
Have your friends collect your records and then change your number
I guess that I don't need that though
Now you're just somebody that I used to know

[x2]
Somebody
(I used to know)
Somebody
(Now you're just somebody that I used to know)

(I used to know)
(That I used to know)
(I used to know)
Somebody<

Zithande
The Black Pearl