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

MARKETS FOR NOVEMBER/DECEMBER

THINGS TO DO

IN SEASON IN NOVEMBER AND DECEMBER

BOOKS TO READ in November/December

GORGEOUS ON INSTAGRAM

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

Words to live by

WHITE CHRISTMAS • To create an oasis of calm during the rush of the festive season, JanHarm Vorster and Pieter Vosloo bathe their farmhouse in Cullinan in white and candlelight.

FESTIVE FOOD GIFTS • Keep your holiday visitors well fed with these tasty treats or package them as special gifts for your loved one.

CHOCOLATE AND VANILLA BISCUITS • A box full of home-made biscuits will always be a welcome gift. Enjoy as a teatime or after-dinner treat. Make two or three batches of the basic dough and then use different techniques to create a variety of pretty biscuits to put into the gift box.

CHEDDAR AND HERB BISCUITS • Serve these crisp, cheesy snacks to your guests to accompany their drinks. Enjoy them on their own or with dips, or as part of a cheese platter. They’re also perfect as part of a holiday picnic or as padkos for a family road trip.

CRANBERRY, APPLE AND JALAPEÑO JAM • This sweet and spicy jam is delicious served with a cheeseboard. You can also use it as a glaze for your gammon or as a condiment with roast gammon, pork or turkey.

HONEYCOMB WITH CHOCOLATE AND NUTS • This crunchy toffee caramel with salty nuts and chocolate is a very more-ish sweet treat. Serve it as part of a dessert or package it up as an irresistible stocking filler.

ROASTED PEPPER AND PARMESAN WREATHS • Serve these attractive, scrumptious pastry wreaths as a starter or use them as a place marker for your Christmas dinner table. They also make a tasty gift for guests to take home and snack on.

GIN INFUSIONS

I MAKE GIN DISAPPEAR • What’s your superpower?

COOKIE CASTLE • Create an edible centrepiece for all to enjoy this Christmas.

DECORATE WITH PAPER • Use the designs on these pages to effortlessly adorn your focus wall, Christmas tree and gifts with paper decorations.

MIXTAPES GO MODERN • EIGHTIES’ MIXTAPES ARE BIG NEWS AGAIN AND EVEN FEATURE IN POPULAR MOVIES AND TV SERIES. THE MUSIC OF OUR YOUTH STIRS UP OUR EMOTIONS AND INSPIRES US.

IDEAS ‘POOL PARTY’ PLAY LIST

Ideas

COLOUR & FLAVOUR • Artist Lientjie Wessels and her husband Robert Denton live a simple life close to nature on their farm outside Cullinan, but in her kitchen she cooks up flavours from all over.

PORK FILLET WITH LIME AND FRUIT SALAD

COLOUR BURST! • Fill your festive season with nostalgia and colour with these clever projects from the Tjhoko team.

FRAGRANT ROSEMARY • HARNESS THE FRESHNESS OF HEALTHY, AROMATIC ROSEMARY FOR HOME-MADE GIFTS AND CRAFT IDEAS, PERFECT FOR THE FESTIVE SEASON.

THE PERFECT TOUCH • AFTER A YEAR OF TOUCHING, SHOWING, WORKING AND CREATING, IT’S TIME TO TREAT YOUR HANDS TO A LITTLE PAMPERING.

IT’S TIME FOR BETTER DAYS • AN AWARENESS OF HOW TO SPEND TIME IN THE BUSY, DIGITAL ERA CAN OPEN UP A WHOLE NEW WORLD OF RICHER EXPERIENCES–AND LEAD TO A...