Emerald and Ella Pop up SALE!

If you follow Emerald and Ella on facebook, you may have noticed they are having a fab pop up sale in Woollahra this weekend. 

A great opportunity if there ever was one to bag some super cute vintage goodies.

 Sourced by super stylist Jane Collings.

I'm hoping to pop over myself on Friday. So I might see you there!

Special thanks to my mate Jaclyn for reminding me about the sale xx

Pop up shop

Working on an exciting wedding that's coming up on the 1st October. We're running with a palette of yellow and white with shades of grey thrown in for good measure.

So, as always my radar is tuned to anything and everything that fits the brief.

( you know when you buy a new car, and all of a sudden you see that same car EVERYWHERE!?)

Danni over at Oh Hello Friend is also having a yellow moment.

You can find these great decals at 5 bucks each over in her pop up shop.

Oh and I'll keep you posted on the wedding. It'll be shot by Trish at Tealily. 

With Aleksandra providing some floral wonder. Hooray!!

Skulls and butterflies

Gorgeous wedding over at Ruffled Blog. 

The couple DIY'd the butterfly plates! What a great idea.

For a similar look try colour me mine in Crows nest where you can design and create ceramic plates.

Or upload any digital image here, and they'll print it up on melamine plates. 

Melbs wedding

Some very special pieces we're hiring from Prop.d for a wedding in Melbourne.

Can't wait to see it all come together.

The commons and a recipe for mulled wine

Super excited to be working with a couple who'll be getting hitched at The Commons in a few weeks.
The venue is filled with character and the menu is just divine. Jump over and check it out! I highly recommend you drop in for a Sunday lunch or a cosy midweek dinner.

On the topic of cosiness, we recently went on a little trip to the Southern Highlands. Our accommodation consisted of a huge barn on top of the hill in Mittagong. Gorgeous views and lovely huge open fire completed the experience. After days spent antiquing (and freezing our butts off!), there was nothing better than sitting around the fire drinking mulled wine. Here is the recipe I used, just go easy on the brandy!!

• 1 x 750ml btl dry red wine
• 225g (1 cup) white sugar
• 125ml (1/2 cup) brandy
• 125ml (1/2 cup) water
• 2 oranges, thinly sliced
• 1 lemon, thinly sliced
• 2 x 7cm cinnamon sticks,
• lightly crushed
• 6 whole cloves
• Pinch of grated nutmeg

Place all ingredients in a large saucepan and stir over a gentle heat for 15 minutes. Strain into glasses and enjoy!

P.s thanks to my twitter pals esp Joanna for recipe tips!

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Clever Kozue

Personalisation city. These stamps made by Kozue and featured over at elsiecake take the idea of diy to a whole new level. How realistic is the print? Amazeballs.

Or you could pretend to be one of those super important people, too busy to sign their name. Just stamp it! Cute to forever immortalise a child's script also.

These are my all time fav. Just yesterday I bought this stamp from papersource of the dog I wish I had. Little did I know that Kozue could make one of the dog I actually have.

 
                          

Lucky coops can't read. Don't think she'd appreciate the comment above!

Slush and boots

Image credit: http://www.pixelume.com/trashthedress/beauty-and-the-boots/

With two weddings booked this weekend (neither of them 'royal', although both equally as important!) rain has been on my mind (as it is every week before an event). 

But, you know what, it's not so much the actual rain that is the problem, as umbrellas and such take care of keeping you dry. It's more the soggy ground underfoot. Ugh. It's always great to have a plan B as mentioned in this article on Amour Amour.

But even better is to rock out a pair of beautiful gumboots for your bridal pics & embrace the weather!

These are my top three options (as a stylist needs her 'work' boots too!).

Yellow and pink from Hunter 

Super cute booties by Vivienne Westwood Melissa Shoes

P.s Or, there is always the DIY option.....

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confetti

A super simple DIY perfect for thankyou tags/place cards or any kind of wedding stationery. It seems my confetti obsession continues! At least this way is council friendly.

Dots can be purchased here

And this awesome project can be seen over on Joke's blog. Along side many more inspirational paper projects! 

My best friends wedding

Be warned: This post is picture heavy! I guess emotional involvement = severe lack of editing skills!

A wedding I've been meaning to share with you for a while, is that of my great mates Shannon & Terry. After many happy years together (some of which involved living with Steve and I) they were hitched at the stunning (and popular) Gunners Barracks, on Sydney Harbour.

Steve and I were so honoured to be their bridal party. One newly hitched couple plus one soon to be hitched couple = a whole lot of love and fun!!

All photos are by Nerida Mc Murray who I'm looking forward to working with again in a few weeks!

Mothers of the Bride and Groom, dressed so super stylishly. Great choice of colours.

Bridesmaid dress was from Matthew Eager

This was when I started crying. That look of love. Gets me every time.

Haha! Poor Shannon and Terry, trying to be romantic for the camera with your two mates hanging around teasing you can't be easy. You can see the little smirks on their faces......

Shannons dress was by Karen Willis Holmes. Having to travel from Perth for her fittings, the ladies made it all too easy, and the dress was perfection.

The obligatory girls hamming it up for the camera shot

 Showing exactly how honoured he is to be best man by whooping it up on a canon.

My boy is all class.

Alternative guest book

Ah, the good old wedding guest book. Sometimes a cross between an address book and a school diary. All nicely lined and perfectly spaced. Confining your wit and wisdom, mis-guided humour and well wishes into 1cm spaces.

I'll be the first to admit, sometimes I've just signed my name. Perhaps with an 'all the best' (smiley face).

Saving my heartfelt sentiments for the card.

For this wedding however, we are trying a little harder. Each table has their own envelope, with individual cards inside. Whilst they relax, have a glass of vino and enjoy their entree, guests are encouraged to leave a little love note for the bride and groom. Anything goes, poetry, sketches, words of wisdom or they can even unleash their inner Matt Preston and play food critic. Whatever. The page is blank.

No lines.

I'll let you know how it goes!

Be you Be loved

The amazing creative minds behind Anthropologie & Urban Outfitters launched their latest creation BHLDN yesterday. 

(how appropriate to launch a wedding website on Valentines Day!)

The site is overflowing with beautiful images and will soon provide a mood board tool for brides to compile all their ideas in one spot.

The selection of shoes, accessories, and dresses are so beautiful, and not typically 'bridal'. Definitely worth a look bride or not!

A dorothy moment

Cutest shoe clips ever. Available here

Style shoot part three

These are the last ones, I promise! A few more little details that didn't make the cut for the final six.

Voting over at the lane closes on the 20th, so please take five seconds to vote for Oscar and Ruby.

Thanks!!

style shoot part two

Some more out takes from our shoot for the lane. 

Being extremely fussy, I didn't trust any ice-cream brands to colour match my scheme, so I bought vanilla ice-cream and gently coloured it, blue, green, pink and yellow with food dye.

Georgia is studying the blue in this pic, trying to determine if it is exactly the right shade.

Think I may have created a stylist monster!! Lucky she's so cute right??

A most beautiful dress

Tell me this is not the most beautiful dress you have ever seen? I am emailing frantically to find out it's origin. Photography is by Lizelle and I discovered this object of beauty via Kate at magnolia rouge