Italian & Sons - Canberra

Happy Friday everyone! What are you up to this weekend? I have to go to one of my job sites (another custom wardrobe) and let the builder in, then heading to the sydney bridal expo - im sure it'll be full of lots of totally hideous stuff (from experience after going with a friend a few years ago) but i won the tickets so may aswell go - will be a bit of fun at least! 

On a recent trip to Canberra (we have alot these days with bike races) we went to Italian & Sons. Seriously cool & fantastic food! I highly reccomend it if you are in Canberra!

Our Engagement Party Invitations!

Now that I've sent these out & this post wont ruin the surprise i can share them! Designed by Dizzy Wizzy Design and i have to say Nat is amazing and i was totally thrilled with the result! For the engagement party we wanted something that was a bit of fun & reflected 'us'.

Being a 'designer type' and a bit very anal, i usually have a few lots of tweaks i request with this sort of thing.....nope, not with this!

We started with this.........

 The Dinky Invite, part  of Dizzy Wizzy's ready to go range.

Then Nat said she'd change it up a bit for me...and she came back with this.........

They arrived in the cutest packaging!

 was so excited to see these!

Featuring a bike of course!

Loving the chevron! Sorry there was obviously more info on here which ive blurred out (not that i wouldnt want any of you guys to rock up, but you know, gotta keep some stuff private ;)

With the cutest little return stickers for the back!

I cant reccomend Dizzy Wizzy Design Enough!
Really looking forward to starting on the wedding invites, have got so many ideas in my head! Got a few months before i need to get onto that though!

Wednesday Wedding Stalker - Vera Wang 2011

In the workds of Anne Hathaway in Bride Wars " do you really think there is something better than Vera? do they keep that next to the something better than chocolate?" (and yes, i admit to watching bridewars) Have a look at Vera Wangs 2011 collection! No saving the best for last here - this first one is my absolute favorite of the collection!

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Emmas Place

A few of you have asked to seee a bit more of my freind Emmas Apartment as it had a more 'masculine decorating style' to it....your not wrong! Emma's boyfreind is one of the blokey'est blokes i know & even a pendant light is considered boarderline too 'girly' for him! And Emma is a self confessed neat freak who has never really liked much clutter or a tonne of colour! So here are a few shots of how she has made their rented apartment a home for her & her blokey man friend!

 This shot of her living room was up on made By Girl a few weeks ago showing the custom print she ordered. She had to change the heart in the print to a + though so it was allowed to be dispalyed hehe

She even had a go at colour coding her bookshelf!

Turned out well i think!

The kitchen & the pendant she managed to sneak in!

Stick on blackboard calender - this house is super organised!

Cute little bathroom signs add a bit of character!

And a bit of colour to soften up the bedroom!

2 blogs to check out!

Ive been meaning to do this post for ages!

2 blogs i really enjoy that are relatively new or dont have a whole lot of followers that i reckon you should check out! First up is  Savvy Home - always full of gorgeous images like these....

And the owner of the blog, Gab's own house which i just love & am so looking forward to seeing more of the transformation!

And for something a bit different , not only my shoes -  that cracks me up on a daily basis. The author of this blog stays fairly anonymous...but ill let you in on the secret that i went to uni with her ;) check them out!

awesomness underneath (the wedding dress)

Happy Friday! So im thinking id like to have a pair of seriously awesome shoes on under my wedding dress! The US dollar is awesome....The hunt is on!  These are cheapies...stand by for all the 'not so cheapies' i have also laid my eyes (but not wallet) on!

not too coy

Concrete in the bathroom

At the moment im seriously in love with this earthy & organic look of using concrete & moulded basins & baths in the bathroom. With a little bit of creativity & a good builder it would be cheap & easy to do aswell!

Here are some of my favourites!

The Diversion Project

Decor8

Elle Decor

La Boom

Luxe & Lillies

Aubrey Road

Wednesday Wedding Stalker- Hillary Duff & that hockey guy she married ;)

In the spirit of planning a wedding ive deciced to scrap wednesday wisdoms for a while & make wednesdays segment about stalking fab weddings :) Im sure there are no complaints!

Lets have a stalk of Hilary Duff's wedding to ...um....mike someone who plays ice hockey....Her dress is by Vera Wang (of course!) Im quite liking her huge bun hairstyle too! Might be a good way to add some height!

LOVE all the flowers! Looks like a simple cake, just surrounded by beautiful flowers!

This cracks me up....proof read people, proof read!

can you spot what im talking about?

d.i.v.i.n.e

nice work Hillary...

i mean Hillarys wedding planner!