Thursday, November 23, 2006

More.

Well since some of you find the wedding preperations interesting, and since I myself find the wedding preperations interesting, I thought I would share some more of them.
It seems that over the last few days through discussions with katie, that a basic theme has emerged.
A shabby chic style, but with bolder colours. Drawing inspiration from vintage, classic, sort of vibes.
The central decorative piece is indeed still the peacock feathers. Deciding to use the Central rich Royal blue as the major colour.

Pearls will play a large part in the day, seen throughout quite a few of the details. Including the bridesmaids and my jewelly, which are set to be made by my incredibly talented sister Katie.
The bridesmaids will still be in the black cocktail dresses with the Royal blue sash. Bouquet?
Well the bridesmaids are set to carry a simple bunch of Iris's...
As for myself. I will of course be in white, with a simple bunch of Calla Lillies, with a couple of peacock feathers in the mix.
The Key colours are set to be;


I'll fill you in more as I get better pictures and all that jazz...
[aplologies that the whole thing is still very patchy...at the moment the vision is nearly entirely in our heads...it's just getting it out in a visual way thats tricky...we'll get there :P]
























Thursday, November 16, 2006

Art Spotters


I've had a few questions about the large Painting of the Sunflower, seen in the photo's taken of the flat decorated for Christimas.
In answer to your questions, yes I do think it's lovely, and hopefully I would since I'm the artist :P
Apologies for the quality of the image here, it was taken on a camera phone, and the blue bit in the bottom right corner isn't actually part of the painting, it's a bit of christmas decoration which got in the way.

I am trying to get back into my art, and I just wanted to say thatnkyou to those of you who commented on MSN about how much you liked it, even before you knew you had to brown nose to me :P
Your beautiful

Maths Equation

What does

One guitar


+ One Amp




+ One guitar Stand



+ One guitar case and Strap



= ???

$50 acoording to the guy Timmy bought this kit, for me, off today!
Oh how I love a good bargain!

Already?!!






Christmas already!!








I know it's early, But since I head back to Forster on Saturday, Timmy was gracious and let me decorate his flat early :D
Some of the best fun I've had in a long time.



Laura then came out and we had a whimsical chat under the christmas tree lights. Over the course of the conversation Laura mentioned "Gee I wonder where the whole idea of the Christmas tree came from..."
To which, (due to last years research) I was able to say..."Well actually..."



















This launched into a big discussion about How commercialised Christmas has become and how sad it is that just spending the holidays with Family and friends just isn't enough for some people anymore.
God sent his son to earth, the greatest gift we could ever hope for, that son walks as man, completely man (yet without sin) he lives a life of worship and justice, and then he dies the death of a sinner, all so we don't have to live as the scum we earnt the role of. Instead, we can live in righteousness and walk out in victory...
...And yet, after all of that, after the greatest gift has already been given, knowing that no gift can ever possibly surpass it,... sometimes....just sometimes we still manage to get lost in the chaos of a commercialised christmas, a christmas that tells us we have to get the BEST presents, the BEST decorations, The BEST of everything, or else christmas is crap.
...
Well let me just say, that I think thats crap.
...
It's times like these that I'm reminded why we are enemies with the world, So in my loyalty to J.C. I'm going against the world on this one...

This year, all I want for Christmas are my family and friends...and maybe some photos to remember it by.

Absence does make the heart grow fonder...

I love you guys, enjoy the holiday season, Theres a birthday to celebrate!!
OH!!...




and let yourself get silly once in a while.

Tuesday, November 14, 2006

$2.95!!!!

Gosh I love a good bargain!
And as I was shuffling through the reduced bucket at Sportsgirl I managed to snaffle a gooden. $2.95 for this little number.

I'm not a huge hat person, but this was just too cute, and too cheap to pass up.

Also, to make me even happier, apparantly it was supposed to be $7.95, but someone must have labelled it incorrectly, and thus they had to give it to me for the advised price :D :D

bargains make me so happy!!

[Had a quick look through my wardrobe today and realised I haven't paid full price for anything in there...Oh yes, I know how to bargain shop, wanna learn the tricks then you should hit the shops with me sometime ;) ]

Race Day

Last Tuesday, as I'm sure we all know, was Melbourne Cup - the race that stops a nation.

I was woken at 12pm by a message from Timmi reading; "So...it's race day, we getting spruced up and going somewhere?"

I quickly chat to my Timmy, followed by a message sent back to Timmi and within an hour we're all decked up and headed down to the Wicklow for Melbourne Cup fever.

The group of us ended up being Timmy, Myself, laura, Timmi, Steve and Annabell.

Can I just say that it was so nice to see the boys in suits. I don't think a guy ever looks as good as when he's scrubbed up and in a suit. My three boys were no exception. Plus add to that the treatment, it was as though the old time suits brought out old-time treatment of the ladies...to which my feminist mind was not at all complaining about. Everywhere we went the boys escourted us around by linking our arm through theirs, they opened doors, pulled out chairs - it's was fabulous!!

As for the race itself...none of us were winners.
I had gone for Number 3: Railings...Timmi had joined me,
My timmy had gone Ice Chariot- which laura whole heartedly agreed with, announcing to us all that it was going to win for sure...No doubt about it.
Annabell and Steve had gone for number 16...whatever that horse was [no idea, they had chosen it for the number and either way...it didn't place ;) ]







The Railings Pickers...Timmi & I*

















The 'Ice Chariot' Barackers...Timmy and laura

















The Number 16 backers, Annabel and Steve








For the record, after all of laura's ravings about ice chariot, it came 22nd, out of 23 horses...it was hilarious!

But what a great day was had...Oh and I even have photo's [Yes, Yes, I am good to you ;) ]

*apologies for my pic...the only one for the day was when Timmy was trying to annoy me :P so it'll do

Thursday, November 09, 2006

input is good...

Again I apologise to all the people who have to read this and really don't care.

I was brainstorming some bridesmaids Ideas with the influence of my mum to get some of this done.
Basically I don't want anything to fancy or over the top. The whole mood of the event is suppose to be relaxed.
When I caught a glimpse of this dress I thought it was beautiful and really what I was thinking when it came to the bridesmaids.
Simple, cocktail dress.



















The colours however would be different. The thoughts Tim and I have had is that the groomsmen would be in Black suits, black shirts and royal blue ties. So the concept emerged of having the maids in black cocktail dresses with royal blue sash, complete in a bow at the back.
bringing some Uniformity to the bridal party. Then I would be in my white, Tim in the black shirt, black shirt and White tie.

The thought was to buy the black dresses for the girls and then simply purchase some thick satin ribbon from Spotlight and do the tie ourselves.
Had a quick squiz around and there are black cocktail dresses everywhere!!

Of course we're keeping the Peacock feather theme, with this Blue coming from the very very centre of the feathers.



















So the overall look should be something like;

Bridesmaids

















Groomsmen




















Next time I'll try and keep my posts more interesting.

Sunday, November 05, 2006

Arty-Farty-Pets

Man!! as I sit here I feel incredibly light headed. I realised about five minutes ago that I've had something close to 5 glasses of coke today. Plus a friend of Tims visited from Tamworth so we headed over to the "White Bull" for a beer. Beer on an empty belly will have your head spinning pretty quick (especially if your a light weight like me) but a good meal and 6 hours and that was sorted. Right now I think that I might be suffering from a serious sugar overload. :P

But all of that aside, what I really came on here to share was Kate and my shinnanigans last weekend.

I can generally gurantee some sort of laugh a minute entertainment when Kate's nearby...

So, with nothing but our cheeky grins as a clue, take a moment to guess just what we may have gotten up to last wekend gone...

...

..

.

We painted the cat!!

Did you guess it?!!

Kate visited Armie for Tims 21st and Saturday morning, bored and with nothing but a "midnight Blue" permanent hair dye to ammuse us, katie and I spent the morning chasing Dizzy around the flat painting stripes all over him so he ended up looking like a blue and white Tiger.







Took a bit of getting use to. And quite a bit of us saying "Geez I wish we'd used black"
But now, a week after I'm actually glad we used Blue. had we used black I think it would have been easy to think that it was his natural colouring.
Instead he looks like an Arty-farts cat. And I think he looks unreal!

Friday, November 03, 2006

Wedding



I realise that for some of you, you cannot think of anything worse than listening to me ramble about the wedding plans, however since these are the most interesting happenings in my life currently, they my dear reader, will be what I shall share with you.

The date has been booked. 6th of October, 2007.
I'm so grateful to my mum for being on top of everything. Had we not booked this far in advance, there is no way at all, that we would have gotten what we wanted, where we wanted it and when we wanted it.

So far, what we do know is this;

The ceremony will be held at the Green Cathedral. A gorgeous open air church right on the waters of wallace lake. It's always been a little dream of mine to get married there, so it is exciting that it will be happening.







The reception will be held across in Forster, at the Wharf Bar and grill. Which has this glorious sort of verandah which overlooks the lake. From the second I saw it I was pretty smitten. It is a restaurant on the second level of the building and for the night, they would close it off completely to the wedding. The venue is complete with seating for up to 100, as well as a complete dance floor and sound system.



The Plan is for the whole affair to be fairly low key, relaxed. With 80 people total. Buffet, and a Brassery of sorts. No formal seating plan, the tables will be decorated and arranged (as would be expected) however, we've decided that we would prefer for people to decide where and with whom they would like to sit.






Theme?
Peacock feathers. Already idea's are being formulated, with Kate giving me some amazing idea's.
One that we're both pretty keen on is this;


This is all so pink I nearly wanted to puke. But now imagine Peacock feathers instead of the Pink Ostrich feathers. And blue instead of pink (barf) everywhere note: I'm not planning on all the frilly stuff, just talking the feather vase centrpieces here ;)













The bridesmaids;
Katie (maid of Honour)
Rea
Belle
Jess.W. (go the J team)

I'm sure I will update you soon ;)
xoxo