#83 My Favourite Ring Bearer

Drum roll for this huge 'suprise' please...

Introducing our ring bearer, the cutest boy in the whole wide world...

And a tiny peek at his wedding day wear...

Also, a HUGE congratulations to my dear friend C & family, who welcomed their precious daughter into the world yesterday afternoon!

C x

#82 New Beginnings... (& track six)

Good Morning, it's a beautiful Monday!

Dear Weather Gods,
Thank you for finally remembering where the control dial is... Keep up the good work!
Love C x

My second youngest sister is staying with us from interstate at the moment, ever so lovely to see her.
Received a most exciting text message before breakfast today from a darling friend of mine, en route to the hospital in labour with baby number two...
HOORAY!!!
Plus, my ma, brother & youngest sister arrive on Friday to stay a few days...
Yes. Yes I will be imprisoning them in my wedding project sweat shop on a production line.


melanie horsnell - can I kiss you again

Um, how wonderful is our Melanie?
The answer is A. Wonderful.

Hope your week is full of the best kinds of marvelous.

C x

#81 Sparkling Beauty

Yep, more sparkle.
Embrace it, just embrace it...

Now seriously, how beautiful is this headpiece?
How beautiful are these photographs?
Also, how STUNNING is this bride?!








sergerius bruce photography via ruffled

Awww bless...

Cx

#80 Bedazzlement

I'll start honestly by saying, I'm really not a fan of bedazzlement.

When I first started wedding planning I was truly aghast at the truckloads of sequins & diamontes that seem to the overwhelmingly prevalent option, at every turn.

That said, although not to my usual taste, there's something about these two photos by Flo & Percy that got my attention...

the wilderness forehead band by flo & percy

I saw them on love my dress & unusually, my instinct to dismiss all things shiny (& pearls) failed to kick in.

Is it because I have found an exception to my anti-glitter rule?

Is it perhaps because the little roses aren't spangled?

Is it because the photographs & model are a bit cute?

It's a complete mystery to me, but I thought whilst in a magpie mood, I should take advantage of the fact by having a look through the rest of the Flo & Percy collections.

The mystery deepened as I found more twinkly things that took my fancy...

Oh the glistening... Next thing you know I'll be sobbing about double rainbows...

Jokes aside, if sparkle is your thing, well worth checking out!

C x

#79 Yesterday

This post belonged to yesterdays weather...

But here it is.

And isn't it beautiful?

There's just something... it makes me melt a little.
















carl zoch photography via stylemepretty

C x

#78 mysweetmuse

Wedding day accessories. So hot right now.

I am love love loving the pop of colour trend for accessories & shoes that is absolutely everywhere worth looking at the moment. 
I generally like things less when lots & lots & LOTS of other people like them too... Mary Mary Syndrome? Yeah maybe. 
Anyhow, that sentiment doesn't extend so far as that I like the colour trend any less, or that I'm going to stop loving mysweetmuse anytime soon...


I love that mysweetmuse has the perfect jewelery for either a more traditional wedding piece (albeit extra spunky) or a vivid punch of colour piece.
Speaking of spunky... yep, that gorgeous model is the genius behind the jewels, the fabulous Eva Carter.
SUPER excited that we will be featuring an interview with the lady herself very soon...

all images via mysweetmuse
I love this piece, imagine that with a white or even champagne/oyster wedding dress....
Knock out.
And yes. Custom pieces are also available, as well as any colour you can dream of.
As if we needed any more encouragement?
Would be uber awesome as bridesmaids gifts too I'm thinking...

Cx

#77 Musings of a Personal Nature.

I've been feeling a bit like this of late...

by amy neunsinger via under a paper moon

Ok, perhaps a not so glamorous version of that anyhow...

Fine fine. A LOT less glamorous.

I felt flat all week for no particular reason that I could think of. I just ignored the feeling.

Seems that was a mistake as by Friday I was a blubbering mess.

Still none the wiser as to why...

Feeling a little overwhelmed by the size of my to do list? Feeling homesick/dearfriendsick? A bit of anger thrown in there towards a certain someone? Feeling disappointed at myself for still feeling anger towards said someone? Feeling frustrated with myself for not holding it all together?

Bit from column A, bit from column B, & a good whack of mystery reasons too...

You know. One of those days.

I absolutely hate feeling like I am complaining, yet somehow I feel that it is all I do?

I'm an over thinker you see... Hardcore. It doesn't help.

I think I often sound like I'm complaining when I'm not too? I try to be too honest maybe?

Oh wait, what? I'm over thinking this? Why yes. Yes I am.

Thank goodness for amazing friends who know just when to call, who know just what to say to make you dissolve into the tears that need to be shed, who know just what to say to pick you up & show you the sunshine.

Thank goodness for Mr N too, who came home to mess of a house & a very red eyed me & didn't even blink. Just gave me a hug.

I'll confess that I've been avoiding blogging. 

In fact I've been avoiding everything.

Plus, I've misplaced my upload cables.

It's probably with my fabric knife...

I'm hoping I've put them away somewhere silly & that it isn't the little Mr who has squirreled them away?

I do have photos for sharing, so when the cables reappear...

Here is a bunch of random, perhaps largely uninteresting, stuff that to me is exciting & lovely.

It was totally lovely to have my sister & Mr B come to stay, they leave for India in a month! Eek.

I am an aunty again! Welcome to the world beautiful Clara Heather!!!

I bought the boys braces for the wedding, & their ties. I've finished 3 wedding table runners.

I have a new outdoor setting (replacing the one we didn't have) spring just got a whole lot sweeter.

My dear friend C (nope not referring to myself in the third person, another C) will baby any day now... any day...

Hope your weekend was swell...

Here's to a motivated & inspired week!

Cx

#76 We Can Hope.

We can hope that we are loved like this.

We can hope that we can love like this.

For always...


Danny & Annie from StoryCorps on Vimeo.

animation by storycorps via a cup of jo

Cx

#75 Music for Monday ( track five )

Well, somewhere in the world it's Monday .... right?

Not exactly cheery but really just far too wonderful to be described as anything less than perfect.



Tom Waits - Martha

Cx

#74 MORE Dress Love Anyone?

Yet another vintage wedding dress success...

Yes? Yes.

Also, that's some uber cute hairware right there...

wedding of michelle&dillon lang photographers via ruffled

Check out the rest of the photos from this darling wedding on the awesomtastic Ruffled blog!

C x

* Edit - Actually not vintage dress, it was in fact made to order. Oops!

#73 Wedding Dress Love

So many lovely dresses... so few wedding days...

joanne fleming design via love my dress


C x

#72 Music for Monday (track four)

I've been horribly slack this past week. I've felt a bit overwhelmed with list.
Should probably ban list talk for a while shall we?!
Unless of course it's to share that I've been ticking things off  ;)

This weekend we had the kind of weather that makes me thinks that actually it might not be freezing cold for ever & ever & ever...
I'm hopeful! I'm so ridiculously ready for spring this year.

My weekend was mowing lawns (which sounds dull but comes back to weather, not to mention the smell of spring so was actually mighty exciting!) , some grocery shopping (that was dull), a bit of babysitting, some new shoes for the small one & myself AND a lot of fabric shopping for wedding related projects!

Spent last night divided between watching "Away we go" (which was cute), mediating via phone (which was not fun), & giving myself gigantic blisters & welts as I put in a push toward getting wedding table runners ticked off the list (they are not).

I was saying to Mr N  yesterday, I think maybe we've forgotten how to have a weekend. Like a real one???

Here's my James...


"How sweet it is" - James Taylor

James have i told you lately that I love you?

Even though I should be posting a little more frequently this week, the truth of the matter is that I probably won't because...
MY SISTER IS COMING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm just a little bit excited... She is after all the greatest sister that ever ever was.
Our friend Mr B is also coming & I just can't wait to see them.
Eeee!!!

So my apologies in advance...

Cx

#71 Lists Lists Lists

While I have lists on the brain, i thought we could do some 'getting to know you' lists?
I would absolutely love it if you could pick a category, or make up your own, & reply with  your own list in the comments???
wedding things i love
1. LOVE.
2. diy & personal details
3. dancing
4. friends & family
5. food
6. commitment
wedding dislikes - obviously my personal opinions!
1. gerberas & to a lesser extent frangipani's.
2. 'bridal' shoes / fabric shoes
3. tacky themed weddings... i know you know the ones i mean...
4. hens nights of a certain kind... again, i know you know the ones i mean
5. cheesy wedding photography
6. cookie cutter weddings.
7. 'bridesmaid' dresses
8. flowergirls being dressed in a way that is older than their age.
9. bedazzlement
10. chair sashes
11. most cake toppers... most tiaras... oh there's just so much! hehe
things i love
1. typewriters
2. photography
3. dancing
4. music & film clips
5. homewares
6. books. especially picture books
favourite foods
1. YUM CHA!
2. thai
3. japanese
4. dutch smoked cheese... brie... bocconcini...cheese in general?
5. tapas
6. mangos
when I grow up i'd like to be...
1. an interior designer
2. a graphic designer
3. a children's book author/illustrator
4. an architect (with a focus on sustainable living)
5. a social worker
6. a dancer... a dance teacher...a photographer... an event planner... a stay at home mumma... a children's store owner... maybe a fairy?
random things about me
1. i am the eldest of 5 in a crazy blended/sometimes not so blended family.
2. you know the sound of fingernails on a blackboard? doesn't bother me in the slightest. however, if you  brush your hand over a blackboard/dust/flour? ARRGGHHHH! ughhhh.
3. my favourite animals are horses & frogs
4. my favourite colour is probably green... but it's pretty hard to decide?
5. i volunteer with red cross. you should do it too!
6. it annoys me when.people wear shoes with the price/barcode sticker still on the sole. i may or may not have ocd tendencies..

Um so yeah... I kinda failed at sticking to 6 for each?!
I hope you will share a list or two or six as well...

C x

#70 Music for Monday (track three)

Oh Regina...

Regina Spektor 'Samson'

C x