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Tuesday, February 5, 2013

Traffic jam on my information high way

This year I will be doing a short course on internet marketing through UCT, massive excitement!

So to prepare myself I went on Twitter – the last of the social media platforms I’ve never been brave enough to conquer.

Twitter sent a message to all my email contacts asking them to join and follow me and what an overwhelming response I got – the general consensus was – ‘I’m not ready for Twitter – still too old school for that.” These messages came from very interesting sources like journalist and art director friends of mine that I’ve always thought was on the front line of technology.

My other die-hard online friends periodicaly takes a detox week or month away form social media to focus on family and friends (the real life ones).

With our business being online I need to check, post, follow, like, pin on a daily basis to interact with clients on different platforms and it’s all becoming a bit overwhelming. Addictive … but overwhelming.

To illustrate, herewith a list of all the social media I have to maintain: ... sigh

Personal website and online portfolio: http://dmmadewithlove.wix.com/margaux

D&M made with love website: http://www.wix.com/dmmadewithlove/home

Personal Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/margaux.smit

D&M made with love Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/margaux.smit/DmMadeWithLove

Personal blog: http://margauxtait.blogspot.com/

D&M made with love blog: http://dmmadewithlove.blogspot.com/

Pinterest: http://www.pinterest.com/dmmadewithlove/

Tumblr: http://margauxtait.tumblr.com/

Twitter: @MargauxTait

Linked: http://za.linkedin.com/pub/margaux-tait/3b/27b/9a0

Not even mentioning keeping track of all the different passwords!

It feels like it’s all repetitive – the same information just dressed up differently for each media.
Hopefully this course will let me see the light and make sense of it all. On that note, I’d like to share some very funny jokes on the subject.

Love, Margaux

Picture credit: via Pinterest

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Picture credit: via Pinterest

Picture credit: www.someecards.com

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Saturday, January 26, 2013

Life is better at the beach - Vintage nautical

I am so excited to have been asked to be do a renovation for a beach restaurant in a sleepy little West Coast town.

So much so that I am now completely obsessed with the chosen theme: Vintage nautical

From dated black and white photographs from the 50's where ladies where dressed in beautifully cut full body constumes to striped walls and thick boat roaps.

Herewith a few of the visual references I've been collecting for the project via Pinterst.

Lots of love,

Margaux

xxx

Vintage photographs with a beach theme.

I love the flattering swim suit cuts and stripes.

Picture credit: via Pinterest

Quirky signage and a quote to go perfectly with the theme

Picture credit: via Pinterest

Picture credit: via Pinteres

Nothing says nautical like a striped wall, rope textrue
and a fluffy stack of beach towels

Picture credit: via Pinterst

Picture credit: Via Pinterest

Picture credit: Via Pinterst

Picture credit: via Pinterest

I'd love to incorporate watercolor aquas into the interior

Picture credit: ana@whitelineninteriors.net via Pinterest

Some of my sea scape photographs, just for fun

for my full profile and portfolio visit

http://dmmadewithlove.wix.com/margaux

picture credit: Margaux Tait http://dmmadewithlove.wix.com/margaux

Picture credit: Margaux Tait http://dmmadewithlove.wix.com/margaux

Wednesday, May 30, 2012

The colour charcoal

Greys are still all the rage in the décor world and we were inspired by vintage chalkboards that after years of work turn a powdery charcoal colour.

Charcoal is such a nice deep variety of grey that really works well when black’s too harsh.

The word falls nicely on the ear in winter and reminds us of fire places, overcast weather, art work done in charcoal, stately grey suits and even river pebbles.

We have found some great pictures that just had to be shared.

Enjoy, D&M xxx

Picture credit

www.fineartamerica.com

Namibian hardwood charcoal for sale

R35 per 10KG bag

Nice big pieces of charcoal that makes phenomenal coals.

Free delivery on 10 bags or more

Phone Derick on 081 518 0472 or email him derick.t@hotmail.co.za

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Wednesday, March 14, 2012

D&M made with love

BIG news ... Derick and I have started our own side project called D&M made with love. I do the designing and marketing and he heads up production.

It is so much fun conceptualising new ideas with him and seeing how it all comes together.

We have done our first round of product testing and the shoot over the weekend and can now get rolling with it.

Please contact me directly if you would like to place an order at margauxsmit@yahoo.com or require more information about the products.

You can also join our facebook group to keep you in the loop on what we dream up next.
http://www.facebook.com//#!/groups/383819598295462/

Lots of love,
Margaux & Derick

and finally ... some behind the scenes action!
We couldn't attach the chalk board cut outs permanently to the wall of the location so we had to fake it!

It was a case of ... be quick or miss the shot!
Derick did a great job of playing catch.

Thursday, October 27, 2011

Flattering florals - trend watch

I have always loved florals. Feminine and playfull.

Hope this trend sticks around a while - I think we could all do with a good dose of playfull this time of the year.

Lots of love,
Margaux

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