Cameo Lover Wedding

Have you met Kimbra? If not you must, you must, you must!!!!! I loved this song (Cameo Lover)when I heard it on the Triple J, but when I saw the film clip on rage, I could have died! I watched it over and over again on YouTube and decided that my next wedding would be a Kimbra wedding.

Now check out the awesome Kimbra with Cameo Lover.

Stills via Deer du Bois

So here is my Cameo Lover inspiration board. I think I have successfully turned an adorable film clip into a really workable wedding style and my favourite inspiration board yet. It just goes to show that inspiration can come from anywhere.

Tea length Wedding Dress from BHLAN, Confetti Kisses via Dandy Lion,

Vail from Sara Gabriel.

Prada Shoes, Flower girl via Brides.com.

Bouquet via Floral Verde, School desks via A Design Mafia,

Letter press invite via Pinterest.

Chuck Base, Pastel Dress via Le petite Coquin.

I totally looked into confetti cannons and they are not too bad at all. You can get 3 for $60.50 from Party Supplies Now and they are just hand held cardboard tubes, stuffed with confetti with compressed air to back it up. It would be amazing for your first dance. And speaking of dancing, are those Prada shoes not made for dancing?!?!?! I will have one pair please, only $750 USD from here.

Thank You Kimbra for my new Happy Song!

The Baby Shower

I was so happy to help out with this shower, for the beautiful first time mum Aprill. Aprill's good friends Lucy and Fee held the party, but both said they had no idea what a shower involved or where to start. So we started with themes, games and activities. You can see our planning and the inspiration board I created for her here. 

Lucy and Fee took care of the food, and I brought my box of things and a small baby and set up. Lucy is an artist and a has a lovely home full of stunning art and beautiful objects that made everything I had done look so much cooler.

The ladies who attended took on the activities with enthusiasm and gusto. Creating delightful jumpsuits and some not so delightful predictions of what this little boy is looing to look like.  

 Fee, Aprill and Lucy.

The day was quite lovely and it was a pleasure to be apart of it.

Good Luck Aprill and I will definitely post when baby arrives.

Kate and Wills Party

Are you really that surprised to Find out that we are the kind of people who had a Kate and Wills Wedding party?!?!

This is what we whipped up in a day with a printer and things I had around the house(yes I had a vintage Union Jack flag in a box in the garage). Please note my wedding dress in the background, will I use any excuse to get it out, or what!

It was great fun sitting around with all the girls. Checking out the outfits and hats (more on that later...)and giggling alike you are 14 again. And it was nice to have something happy that everyone stopped and watched the TV for, as it has been a while since that has happened. The finale of MasterChef season 1 to be precise.

Now the dresses......

Image via OK Magazine

I loved them both. I think that Kate's dress by Sarah Burton for Alexander McQueen, was exactly what it needed to be and Pippa dress, by the same designer, althought it is very sexy and white did not overshadow Kate's at all. 

As for these two... 

Image via Vogue

I think they have balls. They made brave choices, Eugenie in Vivienne Westwood and Beatrice in Valentino Haute Couture, both in Philip Treacy creations. They may have taken many hits for they outfits but they where fashion forward and once again, brave when they could have played it safe. And lets face it, I would step over my sister's dead boby for that Valentino coat.

Aprill's Baby Shower

I love a little baby. And I love using a little baby as an excuse to have a party and see friends. When my friend Lucy, asked for help for a baby shower she was throwing for a first time mum, Aprill, it did not take long for me to verbally hit her with a dozen ideas I have been sitting on since my own Baby Shower.

A few things you should know before checking out the Inspiration board I came up with after talking to Lucy. Aprill is having a little boy and like me Aprills partner is Asian. This means that their little boy will have a Mongolian spot just like Henry. The Mongolian spot looks like (as you will see in the diagram) a large purple/blue bruise on the bums of all Asian (or half Asian) babies. It is too cute and too funny so I included it the board as something to look forward to, baby bums!   



Images:Blue Irises, Baby Shoes,Brown Paper Packages tied up with String.

Chocolate milk with paper straws via My Life My Loves, Ribbon and spool via Emma Burgess, Forget me nots.  

Baby Craft via Sweetest Occasions, Mongolian Spot.

Baby Food Jar Planters via Art Projects for Kids, Cadbury's Chocolate, Forget Me Not Cupcakes via I Bake Cupcakes.

Clothes line via Sweetest Occasions, Paper Pom Poms via My Life, My Loves.

Lucy choose a chocolate and blue colour scheme and wanted the day to have an Arty, natural feel. In keeping with the arts and crafts theme, there will be games based around what the baby will look like (lots of scirrors and glue) and Lucy love the ideas of having baby craft that Aprill could keep. 

The shower is coming up in the next few weeks, so come back to check out the photos of the day. 

Henry's 1st Birthday

Yes, Henry is well on his way to turning 1! This means I get to start planning his first birthday party and I have decided to go with a Library theme.

I always start with an inspiration board because it helps me sort out the five hundred different ideas that I have had or have found online. So here is my board....

Images: The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle, Old Fashion Books, The Librarian Look by Michael Kors via Runway Daily.

Calico Library Bags, Kids Library, Possum Magic by Mem Fox.

Cat in the Hat Cupcakes via The Cupcake Blog, Newspaper Bunting Via The Sweetest Occasion, George's Marvellous Medicine by Roald Dahl, Where is the Green Sheep by Mem Fox, Ball Pit.

Newspaper Pom Poms via Craftzine, Green Eggs and Ham via Baby Farm Parties and Ideas, Library Cards and The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle.

I have made the invitations look like the book cards in library books. I found a printable template here and Triet and I wrote different lines in different pen with different handwriting to make it look a bit old school. 

I used some of my favourite books and authors as inspiration. Some food ideas I'm planning are Green Eggs and Ham (hard boiled eggs with avocado and ham rolls), every thing the Very Hungry Caterpillar ate and the Aussie food that made Hush visible again in Possum Magic. We might even have some of George's Marvellous Medicine to drink (Punch in a saucepan).

Some decorations and activities we will be having are the newspaper pom poms and bunting, a book corner, decorating your own library bags, a ball pit and helium balloons because Henry just loves them.  


I know it all seems a bit bonkers for a first birthday, but I love doing it and at least it will be smaller than Henry's Christening.

Stay tuned to see the end result in late May and you can see the inspiration board for Henry's Christening here and the party itself here.

J - Crew Up Date

So I heard from J-Crew and this is what they had to say in regards shipping to Australia:

"We're sorry that we're currently unable to ship catalogs or merchandise to Australia. Thank you for your understanding; we'll be sure to keep your name and this email address, on file for future reference in the event we begin shipping merchandise internationally.

We will be happy to work with you to ship packages to a friend or family member in the US, Canada or Japan. Please email us for details.

We also wanted to let you know that we've recently partnered with Net-a-Porter in offering select women's merchandise for sale internationally. If you would be interested in seeing what they have to offer, you may use this direct link:
http://www.net-a-porter.com/Shop/Designers/JCrew

We sincerely appreciate your interest in shopping with us and look forward to serving you in the near future."

Net a porter doesn't unfortunately have any of the J Crew wedding dresses. Frowny Face. But if you have any lovely friends that in the states or other mentioned countries, it's could be a more cost effective option.

How hip do you want your man to be?

It seems that when we plan a wedding, we focus the style primarily on the bride and her vision for what she wants to look like. So the issue is that it takes two to make a wedding day. Unless there's two ladies deciding to make a life long commitment to each other, there is a groom to consider. So Topsie and Susie have decided to do a series of posts to give the man of the day a chance to decide on his style for the day.

Today: Hipster Grooms!

The hipster man is a dude who generally is too cool for school in a good way. He is a bit retro, a bit vintage, a bit grunge, a bit casual, but very stylish. The hipster groom style is appropriate at a garden wedding, a wedding with a "hand-made" style or generally for the musos getting hitched. A bow tie, a vest and a casual shoe, such as converse, is the general rule, but more than anything the hipster groom is about being yourself on the day.