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A celebration of a local Footballer’s SA Career…
I was SUPER excited when I got a call from Zoe Muir, asking if I could help with a unique birthday gift, she wanted to give her husband. She described to me briefly on the phone, how her husband Bradley Muir’s mother had lovingly collected newspaper clippings of her son’s Football Career. She wanted to…
2021 Umzolozolo
I was so excited on the 28th December 2020, when I received an Umzolozolo voucher for a Safari getaway, as my 50th Birthday Gift from my family. Sitting around the table one morning at Mayfair cafe we came up with the idea of going away before Jedin went back to school and Youngwoo started his…
2016 Family Photoshoot – Tips for Photoshoots
We design photobooks for many clients and the photos taken by professional photographers always stand out, screaming to be made full pages or feature very large on the page. A very popular birthday gift (for an 18th, 21st, 50th, 70th, 90th etc) – is a “Story of my Life” photobook. Images from shoots often make…
2020 Family Photoshoot – Tips for Photobook Design
4h15am – I received a text from Kimeshan of Exquisite Photography “weather isn’t good… change of venue?”. Now, if we were any normal family, we might have gone with his suggestion to move the shoot indoors or to somewhere more suitable – but our choice of venue was very intentional and we had no intention…
Family Photoshoots over the years 2006-2020
Good grief these are such unusual times, it is difficult to know what to say. As a family, I so appreciate that we have been able to spend a lot of time together, something we can’t take for granted. At the end of last year, we booked a family photoshoot with talented photographer and client Kimeshan Govender. We…
Pocket Scrapbooking – Project Life – Memory keeping made easy!
Do you have a lot of photographs that are not in albums? Would you like a quick way to scrapbook or display them? Pocket Scrapbooking makes memory keeping so simple. … This system allows you to easily slip photos, journaling cards and embellishments in different pockets creating a unique pocket scrapbooking page. I love photobooks, but I also have so…
Hollywoodbets Offical Book Launch
This event was so unique – not only was I super excited to go to a live function, after months of virtual online events only, but we were also in a room filled with Rugby Legends and witnessing the handover of 105 limited edition photobooks, designed by Hollywoodbets and handcrafted by the na-nu-ja team. The…
Hollywoodbets and SA’s 2019 Rugby World Cup Win!
This is one of the most exciting projects na-nu-ja has ever been involved with. We were thrilled when Hollywoodbets approached us to produce a unique limited edition “JAPAN 2019 SOUTH AFRICA’S JOURNEY TO THE THIRD VICTORY” Rugby Photobook. Where it all began I clearly remember my first meeting, at the stunning offices of Hollywoodbets in…