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

Ideas

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COLLECTING BEAUTY • Interior designer and events planner Otto de Jager’s Cape Town pied-à-terre is brimming with an enviable assortment of what he calls ‘artisanal antiques’.

SILENT NIGHTS • What better place to celebrate the peace and tranquillity of Christmas than in an old gamekeeper’s lodge on a gorgeous country estate? With a combination of candlelight and subtle decorations, you have a cosy cocoon for enjoying this magical time.

KAROO CHRISTMAS • Sun-bleached grass, golden straw, weathered barn doors and a wall with not only layers of paint but also layers of stories… These were the things that inspired us to create this setting for a laid-back family lunchtime feast.

HOW SWEET • SPOIL YOUR LOVED ONES WITH SOME INDULGENTLY DELICIOUS CARAMEL TREATS THIS CHRISTMAS. THEY ALSO MAKE FABULOUS GIFTS.

MAGIC MOMENTS • Make your Christmas table the centre of the festivities and decorations with beautiful flickering candles and stars created from paper, clay and sugar.

Handcraft table decorations from paper, sugar and air-dry clay

Make paper snowflakes

TEA LIGHTS WITH CHRISTMAS WISHES • These pretty candles will not only light up your room beautifully, but will also reveal a Christmas wish as they burn and the wax melts.

TICKLED PINK • Decorate your Christmas house with something old, something new, something inherited and something … pink.

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LET’S SHARE • A BRING AND SHARE TAPAS-STYLE MENU ALLOWS EVERYONE TO RELAX AND ENJOY THE CELEBRATIONS.

IN FULL BLOOM • Celebrate Christmas with special things from your house and garden. For us it starts and ends with roses.

Craft your own Christmas crackers, gift wrap, string decorations and fresh-flower wreath

THE PERSONAL TOUCH • Whether it’s your own creations or something that comes from Mom or Gran, handmade articles always add a personalised feel to Christmas. And that’s exactly what you need when the family gathers around.

GINGER DELIGHTS • Mix more than one batch of gingerbread dough for these delicious and gorgeous projects. Make enough for some gingerbread men while you’re at it.

GINGERBREAD HOUSE

VEGGY FEAST • ENTERTAIN YOUR VEGETARIAN FRIENDS WITH A TABLE AS FRESH AND NATURAL AS THE MEALS SERVED ON IT.

BOOKS TO READ • in November/December

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