My Fair Lady

Hey Audrey!

I watched your film My Fair Lady with a friend the other day. We both loved it! I'm so happy that Cecil Beaton, who designed your iconic costumes, won an Academy Award for them back in 1965. When I first saw the film as a little girl,  I wanted my wedding dress to look exactly like the white ball dress with matching long white gloves. Now I love the shell pink organza tea dress most. Normally I hate musicals, but I know the lyrics of the My Fair Lady songs off by heart. "I have often walked down this street before. But the pavement always stayed beneath my feet before da di da..."And the dialogue is really funny. Like the part where your character, Eliza Doolittle, explains to the snooty guests at the Ascot races: "Not her, gin was mother's milk to her. Besides he poured so much down his own throat, he knew the good of it."

All eyes on baby

Hey Audrey!

My friend Karen is having a baby soon, so we had a wonderful baby shower for her, in the form of high tea at the elegant Mount Nelson hotel in Cape Town. Regine, who organized the event, kindly let me help out on the creative side. I made some bunting out of bibs and mini-socks that we all bought in the colour scheme Karen specified: French blue, warm greys and red. I also had fun making the name tags and baby advice book, I love the little eyes I found at the fabric shop that gave every card its own personality.

Birthday beauty

Hey Audrey!

One of my favourite things about birthdays is creating the birthday invites.
Here are two images I created for birthday invites. One was a collage for a picnic in a beautiful park with a fish sculpture in a pond, the next one was for a traditional German coffee afternoon that my German mom made all the cakes and the cutest cheese hut for.

Hey Audrey business cards

Audrey in the 1963 film 'Charade', dressed by Hubert De Givenchy.

With co-star Cary Grant.

Hey Audrey

I just wanted to show you the business cards I designed for my design business called (surprise!) 'Hey Audrey'. I made some sketches based on some of your most famous movie moments, and on the reverse side used some of your famous lines, like the witty one from Charade (written by Peter Stone). I used 1 colour printing (my favourite red) on a recycled paper stock. I never grow tired of them, and I hope neither do you!

My cat as a computer

I love working on/in my bed: with my Macbook Pro and my beloved cat, Venus.

Hey Audrey!

One night, I was working on my laptop in bed and feel asleep. (I was working hard and it was late). My new laptop slipped off the bed, and when I woke up in the morning, I found it lying on the floor with a small but noticeable dent in it. Ugh, how frustrating! That's when I started wishing that my laptop were more like my cat, who I can roll off my bed and land on all fours. And when I roll onto her she just wriggles herself free an sleeps further. Now why can't a laptop be more like that. So I dreamt up this inflatable laptop. One can spill on it, jump on it, throw it across the room in a rage and it will be fine. I also submitted the design as a project for my Masters in Digital Art at the Wits School of Arts. One day Apple will think of this too!

Hey Audrey!

A friend recently told me about archetypes, especially as defined by Carolyn Myss. We can choose the archetypes that are most significant in very aspect of our life, and learn to understand ourselves better, but also to shift and to grow. I found it interesting that we all have the saboteur, the victim, the child and the prostitute as part of our personality make-up. So this is an etching, (combined with colour pencil and watercolour), I made for someone special, symbolizing his warrior archetype, after a story he told me about a very tenacious moth that featured at a big moment in his life.

Artistically Audrey

by Gavin Rain

Hey Audrey!

I found a portrait of you by South African artist Gavin Rain. Who would have thought you look this good in circles!