The best thing about my 21st presents was the whole new jewellery collection I acquired. My favourite two items were a Skermunkil necklace and a bracelet that my boyfriend, Sean, had personally designed for me. The necklace has a brass hexagon pendent that he has gotten ‘21’ engraved into for me. The bracelet is also brass and has a teardrop shape welded into it. I love the personal touches that Skermunkil enable its customers to add- their accommodative manner allows sentimental pieces to be created and worn for years to come. A Skermunkil stand can be found at the Biscuit Mill in Woodstock every Saturday but their design studio and shop is located in Muizenberg. Their jewellery can also be found at Mungo & Jemima and Take Care in Kloof Street. It is a lovely shop to pop into if you are ever in Muizenberg or on your way to Kalk Bay. It is open from 9am to 4pm every weekday. Their website also enables customers to browse their latest jewellery designs, make enquires and buy online. Marietjie, the owner and designer of Skermunkil jewellery, is also passionate about porcelain. Interesting porcelain jewellery as well as ornaments, mugs and vases can be found too. My favourite, when I went into Skermunkil, were these porcelain dolls hanging from the ceiling that you could plant things in. Another Woodstock Jewellery favourite of mine, which I literally buy all of my friends’ birthday presents from, is Dear Rae. Its simplistic everyday wear jewellery makes for a very affordable present or a guilt-free way of treating yourself. Karin Rae started Dear Rae in 2010 after completing a Bachelor of Arts degree at Stellenbosch University. The skilled Morgan Xekethwana and Raymond Kama have since joined the Dear Rae team. The Dear Rae shop is located at the Woodstock Foundry and Karin, Morgan and Raymond are always there to be found, working on new pieces. Dear Rae pieces are made of gold, silver, brass and copper and some of the pieces have small gemstones in them. Both local and international orders can be made on the Dear Rae website. It was Olive’s birthday. She is one of my best friends and fellow ‘Princess Sophia’ band member. So I obviously didn’t give up the CKA dream as Olive and I form the rap duo that is Princess Sophia. When we aren’t claiming other people’s raps as our own or covering Plush songs, we are working on our twerking with our choreographer. Our album will be out in a few weeks (once the struggle of finding a record deal pays off). I wanted to get Olive something sentimental. She was going on adventures to Zambia to go plant trees with Green Pop for a few weeks only to come back to Cape Town and leave a few days later to work at an orphanage and teach in Ghana. As hard as it was to be saying goodbye to her, I was excited for her to go and do what she has always dreamed of (and secretly I wanted to explore my career as a solo artist). I decided to get her a bracelet from Dear Rae because it was something very simple that she could wear everyday and a piece of home that she could take with her. She has had life-changing experiences this year and that bracelet has been with her as a token of where she has come from and now, where she has been.

Skermunkil: Address: 44 Palmer Road, Muizenberg Cape Town, 7945 South Africa Email: [email protected] Studio number: 021 788 8577 These photos are taken off the Skermunkil website.

Dear Rae Address: Shop 3, The Woodstock Foundry, 160 Albert Road, Cape Town, South Africa. E-mail: [email protected] Shop number: 021 447 1390 Here are some pictures of Dear Rae Jewellery which can be found on their website