Ideas

Ideas is the ultimate guide to fresh, modern living for women with creative flair and a passion for life. These women care for their families and the people around them and cherish them by expressing their own individuality in everything they do. They love to entertain and decorate their home with their unique style. The magazine provides an outlet for creativity and offers readers practical, creative content that transforms the mundane into the extraordinary. It’s a source of inspiration for craft, decor, entertainment and food. Ideas readers are stylish, sophisticated, modern, educated, balanced, creative, warm, caring and passionate.

FROM THE EDITOR

THINGS TO DO

TODAY'S PLAN of ACTION

BOOKS TO READ in January/February

Editor’s choice

GORGEOUS ON INSTAGRAM

TRENDS FOR 2020 • Walking the aisles of the international interior-design trade fair Maison & Objet in Paris is a daunting exercise in restraint for those buyers and decorators who get to decide what we will find in the shops and in designer homes going forward. And for us fortunate ones just ‘window shopping’, it is an eyeful of the future. What caught our eye was a combination of soft pinks, gold, femininity and elegance. And then texture, woven lampshades, botanicals and a bit of a fling with South America. As lovers of all things handmade, we could not miss the amount of print with just a touch of embroidery for interest. And as we mentioned two issues ago-home fragrance is a ‘thing’!

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WHAT’S NEW • HERE IS OUR LINE-UP OF WHAT’S NEW ON THE BLOCK AND ON THE SHELF.

FARM FRESH! • What was once the henhouse on this farm outside Cullinan is now an open, fresh oasis in the heat of the bushveld.

A LITTLE PROGRESS EACH DAY ADDS UP TO BIG RESULTS

HAPPINESS LISTS for 2020

A YEAR OF CREATIVITY • Keep your hands busy, your mood happy and your mind calm with these projects that can keep you creating all year long.

THE DAILY DOODLE

EMBROIDERY SKETCHING • Use your needle and embroidery thread to ‘sketch’ freehand floral designs.

DOT ART • This is a really enjoyable project. The more you do it, the more you will want to continue. And it’s as easy as simply making patterns with different sizes of dots.

A GRANNY A WEEK • With these four beautiful granny square patterns, your end project can be really flexible-try something long-term like a blanket, or something quicker, like a little handbag.

YO-YO QUILTING • With yo-yo quilting you can play around as much as you want and either take your time to make a beautiful quilt, or make a quick cushion cover.

LET IT POP! • Master the art of Swiss meringue with our easy-to-follow steps and use your new skill to make the most beautiful meringue pops.

SUMMER GOODNESS • Get the year off to a healthy start with these six nourishing ingredients.

TAKE A MOMENT • Let’s make 2020 the year of Two Thousand and Plenty-a chance to come back to yourself and what makes you tick, a year of fulfilment and joy in doing what makes you happy.

IN FULL COLOUR! • Whether it’s with her studies, her family or their family business, few people approach life with as much enthusiasm and creativity as Nadine Vosloo, the creative brain and marketing manager for Tjhoko Paints.

THE BEST TIME FOR NEW BEGINNINGS IS NOW

Our 2020 calendar, specially for you

BEAUTY IN SIMPLICITY • IN A TIME WHEN LESS IS MORE, NO-ONE WANTS TO BE SADDLED WITH UNNECESSARY THINGS, AND THAT GOES FOR BEAUTY PRODUCTS TOO. ELSA KRüGER HAS SOME SUGGESTIONS FOR WHAT YOU CAN SPEND MONEY ON, AND WHY.

ONE THING AT A TIME • By choosing to focus on just one thing at a time, instead of multitasking, you can pave the way to living more...