Wedding colour and style

Happy Monday Everybody!!!

Ahhh so today I am doing a late spring clean, not just of the house, but of my wedding folder too!
Since first starting to plan our wedding way back in January, my wedding likes and dislikes have changed, almost weekly, sometimes daily! It's a woman's perogative!!
This has mainly been due tothe colour of the men's suits and the bridesmaids dresses.
The girls were going to be in different shades of pink, but due to the lack of suitable dresses in pink, they are now wearing differing shades of creamy, beigey, mushroomy colours with lashings of pinks in the bouquets and accessories.
So I am wanting to re-do my style board so I have a clear view of what it will all look like.
I'm very excited to be marrying A.J. Everyday I get a little more dizzy with love and anticipation.
So here is a little collection of photos I have found all over the place that represents what I'm aiming to acheive with colours and decotrating.

I hope it inspires some of your own decorating ideas, whether its for home f=or for your special occasion, but alsways remember to stick to what YOU like and what represents YOU, not your wedding coordinator, not your mother or mother in-law and not your bridesmaids, but YOU!.

Enjoy xox

Friday Arvo Champagne Aristos

Ahhh Friday afternoon's....even for a stay at home mum, Friday arvo's are still a wonderous twighlight of relaxing and taking a deep breath after a busy week. An alcoholic beverage is key to making this time truelly relaxing.
A.J was home late today so I decided to start without him. I made a champagne punch as I was feeling particularly "summery", with the heat and all, and I had a bottle of champagne given to me for my birthday from my brother that looked fancy but didnt taste fancy and wanted to use it up.
I didn't really have the normal punch ingredients so I did what my old flat mates and I used to call an "Aristos", which is using only the bits and pieces left in your fridge and pantry to come up with a meal, or punch in this case. It turned out better than I thought, here' s what I used............

* A can of tinned fruit salad mix in juice
* Some red cordial
* some lemonade
* a bottle of champagne
* I added some strawberries that I had aswell, topped and halved.
* Lots of ice to chill.
* Fresh mint leaves just enough to taste if you have some.

Haha TaaaDaaaa! Yum! Oh and don't add too much cordial otherwise it will make it too sweet, the fruit juice and the champagne makes it sweet already.

Enjoy!!! And have a great weekend!

xox

Tall Girl, Short Boy, same size....

I have been looking for wedding shoes for a few weeks now, and secretly agonising whether its ok to wear flat shoes, e.g sparkly grecian style sandles. My dress is a grecian, flowing style, but with no shoes on it doesn't quite hit the floor. Plus, my fiance and I are the same height, so I don't want to be any taller than him....So I have been trawling the internet for gorgeous flats, and as it's coming into Summer here in Oz, it hasn't been that hard. Now that I have found a few styles that aren't too over the top but still pretty, I'm very excited to wear flats shoes for our wedding. AND, I'll be comfortable ALL day and ALL night!

So, here are a few pretties I have spied, tell me what you think?

SO these two little beauties are from http://www.myglassslipper.com/

This site is so great as its essentially 3 shoe sites in one, you can jump between the My Glass Slipper pages to the Bridal Shoes pages and the Prom Shoes pages. Such great variation in heel heights and styles.

When I find some more I will post them!

Ciao Ciao xx

Blog 1, this should be interesting.

Well, here I am....Blogging...whoulda thunk it?
I guess this first blog will just be me introducing myself.
I'm a bit excited about starting my blog and creating my own little online world.
I'm not very computer literate and I'm not up with all the latest gadgets, but I really enjoy the opportunities the Internet can give people whether it be in the form of careers or self expression.
I have always enjoyed writing song lyrics, a good conversation and an occasional rant, so I guess this is just an online continuation of my passion for words. My tastes and likes always change and I've always found myself trawling the Internet for websites, pictures etc. of the things I'm liking at the time, so I'm going to do that here too.

I'm 25 years old and have a 7 and half month old daughter. She is the best little bundle of joy and I adore her more and more everyday. I also have a wonderful fiance who I'll call...say....A.J. or Hubby. He is just a saint and I feel so lucky to have him as my partner in life (awww puke, lol). He isn't a fan of putting yourself out there online and finds it annoying when people tag him in photos on Facebook, he thinks they should at least ask first. So for now, I won't tell him about my new hobby.
We are relatively young parents i think, considering most of the people our age who live in the city are career oriented or apart of the "city scene", who go out clubbing and go to festivals. I used to be one of those "city scene rs" and enjoyed it, but deep down I always had a yearning to find Mr Right and start a life together. We are the first in our group of friends to have a child. We didn't plan it that way though. It was amazing to find out how many other children were "surprises". I am a very open person and didn't hide the fact our baby was what I call our Beautiful Surprise. It wasn't a bad thing, just a new thing, so I never felt ashamed. And I think because I was so open, I was never met with any disapproving looks or whispers of shame from others. And also because we aren't that young, so people didn't take any extra notice of a pregnant mid twenties girl.
Whilst I love my life, 2009 has been a big changing year for me, and I'm still finding my feet in my new roles as a Mum and Wife-to-be. I guess that's why I'm starting this blog. I'm not the "typical housewife". I don't like cleaning, but i do enjoy the house being clean, I just find it so difficult to start the process. I mean really, who actually ENJOYS cleaning?? Please, if you know someone, or are that someone who enjoys cleaning, please tell me. I want to find out why and how.
I'm also a little lazy. I have lots and lots of ability and potential to be this amazingly organised, productive housewife, but sometimes I just can't be F'ed. I have moments of "housewifeyness" and in a whirl alot gets done and I feel proud of myself and satisfied and vow to be like that always. Then i sit down for a break and oh look Ellen is on, oh and that's right, Oprah will be on next and then I'll do some more after that. Sure.
I'm not a very good cook. Again, if I did it more i would probably get better. But I'm a bit haphazard about it all and don't really care enough. Luckily, Hubby is great at it and he actually enjoys it, so he doesn't mind coming home and cooking, its kind of a stress relief, chill out time for him i think. So he says. I do love baking though, I love making desserts. I'm a big fan of desserts. It my favourite thing. I don't care about the main meal, just give me the dessert. So A.J and I have our roles and it works, he does mains and i take care of snacks and dessert. See, I'm not a complete failure.

I'm one of these people who start one thing, then half way through get distracted and start another. I know, it annoys me too.

I'm just a person who is still trying to work myself out, and avoid doing the washing at the same time. I have always been of the opinion that a child enters your life, you don't enter it's life. So you should always try and keep some of who you were before the baby came along, even if you were planning it. I'm still trying to work out my post baby style. I was all about fun, cute and sexy dressing, a little rock chic, always showing off my loooong lean legs as they are my favourite body part. But now, those clothes aren't that appropriate to wear when pushing a pram around, or that comfortable. I don't want to try and be anybody else, I just want to try and be the best Mum I can be fort my little girl, and be the best partner I can be for my fiance, but still be me. Its kind of hard at times, but its a challenge i don't mind doing.

My posts will be about daily life, funny things, my new favourite things, planning our wedding (which is in April 2010), finding cool interior design stuff, my favourite fashion finds and my opinions on everything and anything. Which I'm not trying to push onto anybody, I'm just expressing myself and getting something off my chest and hoping to start some conversation or to get someone thinking.

Well I had best be off for the day, Hubby will be home soon and I still have to clean the kitchen and get my things and babies things ready to go to the Parents-in-Law tomorrow morning. Hubby and I are going to the PearlJam concert tomorrow night. Rock chic dressing will make a comeback!!
See ya xx