Summertime:Color blocked Maxi

The days are getting warmer which calls for dressing in clothes that leave me feeling comfortable the whole day. I paid the mall a visit and stopped by Forever 21 just to browse through and ended up leaving the store with not one but two maxi dresses.

I was going through some of blogs and noticed another blogger had the same dress and styled it differently too. Check out how the other blogger styled it Channing in the City. I styled it differently with a thick belt,wore my Steve Madden platforms and was good to attend church.

 Dress-Forever21, Shoes-Steve Madden via Ross,Belt-Winners

White & Blue Affair

July days are supposed to be warm and summery days but for some reason this year Summer decided to arrive yet.So much to looking forward to summer time and only getting rainy,cloudy days. These pics have been sitting in my archives for the longest but I finally came round to uploading them.

This is what I wore to church about three weeks ago ,the day when we had to pray and thank God for  my birth country,Zimbabwe. I was picked to represent my country and stand in front of the whole congregation and say what we Zimbabweans are particularly thankful to God about.After church we had to rush to the airport to drop off a friend who was flying out to the motherland.

Blazer & Shirt- H&M

Pants-Dynamite

Heels- Michael Antonio via Winners

Buntzen Lake Picnic

Miss Swaziland and I

Miss Kenya and I

Canadian geese(had to stand far in case they felt threatened and attacked me)

Having a barbecue was not one of the plans I had in mind for after church hence the whole African attire look at the lake. Day turned out well considering this was a new barbecuing spot for a bunch of us. Taking a day to drive out the city to a place where we can all connect with the outdoor life and chill with friends ain' t a bad idea at all.

Love the blue long African dress, my friend had it sewn in Kenya and I had mine sewn in South Africa.

Monday Myth: Sitting on the road

Many of these myths were brought up by the elders in a bid to stop children or people from developing bad habits. These habits were dangerous acts that would truly harm an individual. They were created because some people were not ready to listen when they are told straight up not to perform a certain activity or act. In fear of turn into something if they did not listen,children were ready not to go ahead with such an act.

While roaming in the streets or the neighborhood teenagers felt the need to sit in the main road or any road that cars passed by. To stop them from going on with such a bad habit the elders informed them if they did that they would develop bumps on their buttocks. The elders went on to say how these bumps could not be treated.

If translated elders were just using this as a caution to stop the kids from sitting on the road in case they get run over by oncoming traffic and get injured.

Turquiose & Bantu Knots

Sunny days call for a lot of things: these include leaving my hair out,sunnies,wearing sandals and more dresses. this summer I adopted something new,instead of tonging or flat ironing my hair I have decided to do overnight Bantu knots and undo them the next day. When I undo them the next morning I got these cute curls depending on the size of Bantu knots I made.These were my first Bantu knots, I moisturized my hair with Olive oil moisturizer and sprayed some Olive Oil spray. Fortunately I loved the knots taken out but I did not know how to style my hair so i combed the front a bit and left the curls out at the back and other side.

I paired up my curled up hair with the summery turquiose dress I picked up from one of the boutiques downtown.

Coconut Cupcakes

I have been into baking a lot lately, was concentrating on perfecting my banana bread and I have since received good reviews from different people. Baking is some form of art and I enjoy it and love trying out more of the different recipes out there.

Today I decided to go back to the cupcake baking and I tried out the coconut flavored cupcakes.

Here are the ingredients:

It took me less than 10minutes to mix up the ingredients and baked them for 20-25minutes.

Below are pics of a coconut flavored and frosted cupcake

Monday Myths: Passing the Salt Shaker

Growing up there were many actions our elders forbid us to do and these have been passed from generation to generation. Some of them are are norm but some people tend to question why they were and are there and always seem to brush them off. This could be merely be cause they didn't follow them and nothing happened to them so they see no need to follow what their elders taught them.

Some myths have been put in place because of ones culture,religion or upbringing. Some would say they were put in place so that people would not break rules,not make noise etc. In the following weeks I will dedicate Mondays to telling you about some of the myths I have heard or grew up with.

To kick off Monday Myths I will start off with the one that forbade people to pass the salt shaker from one person's hand to another while eating or cooking. Elders told us that to pass the salt shaker to someone you had to place the salt shaker on a flat surface somewhere reachable to the person asking for the salt shaker. If one passed salt directly into another persons hand this would mean they would not see eye to eye and forever hate/dislike each other.

Till now some people still practice it while other people at the mere thought of hating someone because you passed the salt shaker into their hands.