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.

What do people do all day?

Did you ever read this book by Richard Scarry?

 Following the lives of the folk of busy town? With Huckle Cat, bumbling Sergeant Murphy and my personal favourite Lowly the Worm, who did many things during the day like going to school, driving a street sweeper and operating on people in the local hospital.

Such a multi talented worm.

Well, I know what Scott and Alia from Whitewall Photography do all day.

They make beautiful! 

Beautiful photos with beautiful styling. Like this engagement shoot.

So, Tom the groom is a chef. And yep, he made all of these dishes. Clever boy.

And the shoot took place in a friends vineyard, as what's the use of beautiful food without a beautiful glass of wine to enjoy?

Congrats on your engagement Tom & Sarah. And thanks Whitewall photography for letting me share these pics!

For more of this shoot you can go to Scott and Alia's blog.

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!

Faye Toogood

After reading this article by Natalie Walton over on Daily Imprint about talented stylist Claire Delmar I fell down the rabbit hole into the world of stylist Faye Toogood.
How I would love to style a wedding based on any of these images!
Perhaps I'll start working on a design concept just incase the right bride comes along.

Life in style

As a last minute decision I dropped into the life instyle trade show over the weekend. I was so glad I did! As so much of my work is done online these days, seeing stock and people (people! real live people!), in person was great. I especially love seeing all the stall holders break out their inner stylist and pimp out their individual spaces. Creativity overload!

The photos above were my personal highlights, but only the tip of the ice berg of talent represented.

Down to the woods

Nelson & Co

poppies for grace

Tres Divin

(these guys have some super cute stamp sets, worth checking out. I'll be buying some as obviously stamps are my current obsession, plus these lovely people are based just around the corner from me! Gotta love keeping it local!)

Wah wah wears

(So, I had no idea Zoe would be showing her beautiful, handcrafted jewellery at the fair. I was happily walking around, rocking my porcelain purple love heart that I purchased from her at finders keepers in Melbourne. Then I saw her..... yikes! Tres embarrassing. Felt a little like those folks that dig out their old band t'shirts to wear to a gig to prove they are true fans. Oops.)

life instyle

Stay tuned x

Age appropriate

At the moment I am working through the design process with two girls. Twins. Who are nine years old. We are working on a new design for their bedrooms, and discovering as we go along that they are kind of stuck. Not quite a child, but not quite a teenager either. Playing with dolls still features heavily on their agenda, but the word 'babyish' now features in their vocabulary. 

Quite the conundrum! 

I love these works by blancucha. But perhaps they are too young? Or too old?

What do you think? Any tips??