Sunday morning, sun is out and so are the beautiful people of Johannesburg. The heart of the CBD comes alive on a Sunday morning, but not with the usual hooting of the taxi's, shouting vendors and the buzzing city dwellers, No. Instead, Arts on Main is alive with the sound of vintage, Ethiopian coffee and organic veggies.
Downstairs, upstairs and outside. The buzz follows you wherever you go. Whether you're shopping, eating or viewing the art galleries placed around the square, Arts On Main has an atmosphere that no other market or mall can ever match.
I wore what?..
A little Self Portrait
My oversized clear stone ring is also from Cotton On and I'm wearing my usual pearls and silver Tiffany & Co. necklace, ring and bracelet. The baby blue large Longchamp bag I bought in Paris and is perfect to fit all those shopping bags in.
Stalls I Love and Need to Share
Seek and you shall find. Jewelry stalls that caught my attention and also with smiles on both our faces accepted my money.
Silver Fly makes silver necklaces, thin chains and pendants varying in two sizes. There are stars, horse shoes, bees and their hive, hummingbirds and four leaf clovers among other darling pendants. I bought the smaller version of the hummingbird. The detail is specific and engraved into the silver body. Upstairs amongst all the vintage is Rhinestone Cowboy. Bigger is Better this season, look for bulky, rhinestoned necklaces. These two stalls are perfect for Christmas gifts.
Flatbread is my naughty pleasure. Rocket, tomatoes, parma ham, parmesan and balsamic syrup. Yum. It's more than big enough to share with a group of friends. Another treat to spoil those modelesque figures are the Crepes and Jozi Bagels stalls. If you would rather sit down and have a restaurant meal, Canteen is the joint to gather your friends to.
Heart Of Africa Barok is just one of a selection of vintage stalls you can sink your fashion loving teeth into. One of a kind pieces. Shoes, dresses and accessories to fling you back to days we yearn for yet hardly know. The trunks and antique suitcases are just small details that give this unique stall character.
Recycled, found hidden and forgotten and re-lensed. Two brothers with an idea to rummage through piles of discarded and forgotten glasses and accept donations from kind strangers who have lost their love for their own recently uncovered decades old sunglasses. And in this love, Retrospecs was born.
After relensing the diamonds in the rough they become vintage, one of a kind pair of sunglasses.
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Sunday has officially become my favourite day of the week. It is the perfect kind of day to end off the weekend on a relaxed, sophisticated and Oh-so-cool way. The buzzing beautiful people squeezing passed one and another to find those perfect vintage shoes, the stand out piece that says I ooze style and to soak up the weekend's alcohol intake with flatbread, sweet naughty pleasures.
In front of my lens
A father and his son sitting at their Ethiopian Coffee stall and one of Joburg's beautiful people unaware and utterly submerged into the Sunday newspaper. These two photographs I took mesmerised me.
Tap water in a jar. A warning sign stating the safeness of Joburg's tap water. A silly commodity but a fun gift to put in the guest loo or your work desk.
Pencil Sunday in in your diary and make your way over to Arts On Main. For more information on stalls, location and directions visit the site:
http://www.artsonmain.co.za/
I have missed you all, but I'm Baaaack! xoxo
