Wedding Invitations

Thanks for all your lovely comments about the brides maid dresses. I'm so glad I have finally made a decision.

Had a busy weekend with work, a beach trip and a 21st birthday. The beach was fantastic! Jason and I went up to the Sunshine Coast. Melly my brother Alvin's fiancee had a small surprise lunch for his birthday (a belated one we already celebrated his bday). It was lovely hanging out and having a BBQ. We hung out at the beach afterwards and I attempted to learn how to surf. Not good but then it wasn't a good day to learn. Waves were too choppy. We hung out more then went for Gelato which is so good. The 21st at night we were just too tired to stay for long.

So many wedding things to do. At the moment I'm figuring out wedding invitations. I haven't quite decided if we are going to do print them or have more of a DIY look. If it's DIY I would love for them to look like the Cristina Re ones.

I bought the long envelope and the window envelope and I'm going to play around with it and see if it works or looks dodgy.

Here are a few examples with how these envelopes can be used.

I was going to use this idea but for the invites (this looks like a thank you card) and have a few pages inside with the wedding details.

This is really the colour theme. White and silver. But I've added some pastel shades with the brides maid and some of the other decos will have soft colour.

I bought the silver paper. So I will play around with it soon.

The hearts are raised silver foil. It's pretty and I was thinking about this paper too.

I wanted to add this for a burst of colour. The envelopes great. And the more I see it the more I'm thinking about using them for the invites.

I just love this. These cards are gorgeous and I wish I could use them for something =)

This is one of my projects for the week. Figure out wedding invitations and other stationery. I think it will be fun.

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P.S. Check out my guest post on Diamond in the Rough. Here and here. Thanks Sara and team.

Wedding Update

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It's apparently 101 days until our wedding according to my countdown on Facebook. This concerns me and excites me too! I thought it was time for a bit of an update.

At the moment I'm focusing on wedding invitations and other stationery. I have a vague idea of what it's going to look like and we are working on it this weekend sometime. Amongst going for a beach trip, a birthday and work.

I have bought my wedding dress. It's all paid for and hanging up here at home but still needs the hem to be taken up which I will be getting done next week. I tried it on in the shop and the fit is perfect. I was by myself when I picked it up so no one besides the sales girls have seen it on in the right size (the one in the shop was absolutely huge, they had to hold it up for me) I also realise that I haven't bought a veil yet. So I will be going back to that wedding shop to find one.

I have finally found my bridesmaid dresses after changing my mind so many times. I decided to go with the same dress style but different colours. There will be 2 in pale pink, 2 in lilac and 1 in aqua blue. Here are my iPhone photos of the dresses (lilac and aqua) and Laura's beautiful shots of the pink one.

The lilac dress.

Modeled by Laura. I didn't actually cut her head out I was trying to get the whole dress in the pic. This colour is for my matron of honour Liz.

Image by Laura

Image by Laura

This is the pink dress. I decided to have the three colours because I really loved the dress. It's sort of a Grecian style as well.

I was thinking of having a flower or some type of brooch for each girl. These are a few ideas. All flowers from Diva, except the top right from Equip. I'm going to check Etsy too.

There will be another update soon about Honeymoon and lots of other things.

P.S. I'm going to be on Diamonds in the Rough blog tomorrow! And thanks for your trip opinions =) More about that another time.

Just a minute in...October

From Christmas last year

It's the beginning of the busy season. So far we have two 21st birthdays, my lovely Laura's bday, a wedding (with a trip to Bathurst), my brother Alvin's engagement party, my bridal shower/kitchen tea, a beach trip this Saturday (I have a Saturday off work without asking for it yay), a pre Christmas dinner with friends. And of course work, wedding plans and Christmas plans.

Reading... The Picture of Dorian Gray, assorted magazines, Lonely Planet Europe on a Shoestring and Lonely Plant USA

Planning... Beach trips, wedding invitations, bridesmaid accessories, Christmas presents and decorations, an overseas trip for next year

Wanting... To buy a Christmas tree (already know which one I want)

Hoping... To get a haircut, to get a massage

Finding... The joy and beauty in all the little things

Wishing... I could take good photos, I was travelling

Loving... God, my family and friends, Jason, my blog friends! Tumblr <--Mine, chocolate kisses

Needing... To relax and to start enjoying all the wedding preps and other plans.

Feeling... Happy, tired, excited, a bit nervous

Obsessing... Over where to travel next year....Europe or USA

I want to read more and write more like in these images. Getting lost in a book and writing my own memories.

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So lots of things happening for the rest of the year really. And I'm trying to decide where to travel next year with Jason. Europe or USA are the contenders. Any thoughts?

Have a lovely week!!

Picture quotes

It is such a beautiful day! The perfect weather, blue sky and it makes me feel so happy. Plus everything at work has been resolved so that has taken a load off.

I had a lovely day with some relatives from the US going up north to Redcliffe to have some fish and chips while sitting by the water. Gorgeous.

Anyway, here are a few inspirational words and pictures. I'm obsessed with Tumblr.

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I hope these inspire you all to have a wonderful weekend. And remember I have a Tumblr now so let me know if you have one. Oh and our wedding website =)

Wishing I could take good photos....

I want to begin this post by saying how overwhelmed I am by the support and lovely comments about the whole 'breaking down' scene at work and all the other problems associated with it. I definitely feel a lot better. I've been praying a lot, resting and just using my energy on other things. Such as using Poladroid, making a new blog banner, posting photos on our wedding site (which needs more maintenance) and getting a Tumblr (let me know if you have one).

Plus wedding plans of course. I shouldn't forget them. Made a bridesmaid decision finally and I write about that soon. At the moment figuring out bouquets, invitations, bridesmaid accessories and basically everything now. 3 months, 18 days to go!

Right now I seem to be really into photography (well wishing I was good). I would like a fancy camera but I will be happy with borrowing Jason's brother's older camera. I wouldn't mind a lomography camera.

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This is what I'm hoping to buy sometime, the Diana Mini. I'm completely fascinated by the way the photos turn out.

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These are single use (preloaded) lomography cameras and I thought that would be an idea for the wedding. I would to have a few of these scattered around and get people to use them during the day. I think it would be really exciting to see what others 'see' on the day.

And here are a few of the poladroid pictures I made.....They're all pretty random photos.

A present from Jason last Christmas.

Down on the bayside.

Down on the bayside. View from a cafe we ate at.

Laura and I when we out for dinner a few weeks ago.

My university graduation day in 2007.

A random photo when we were out and about.

From our engagement party. This was the cupcake tower of chocolate favours. With fairy lights of course =)

To end this post I'll share my links. To check out our Wedding site go here. For my Tumblr go here. And I will be updating this blog. Put more photos and update my links and other things.

Have a great rest of week lovely people!

In need of comfort

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Hey my lovelies! Thanks for all your wonderful comments. Well I had a little breakdown at work yesterday. Weekends mean nothing in the retail world. I'm usually at work. I was all set on giving my unavailability to my manager and she wasn't there. I had worked myself into a frenzy.

Anyway, to cut it short. Someone else I work with got all cut at me (for who knows what...I seem to be the go to girl when someone needs to be upset about something). And I just lost it. I started crying at work and had to go to the bathroom. On my way back the new manager in training (aka...has no influence yet) in our area asked if I was ok because I didn't look too good and I started crying again (yes the water works were going strong). He took me to the kids shoe reserve to calm me down and to ask what was wrong. I was so far gone I couldn't even get the words out. Well, he pretty told me it's ok and we all have bad days etc. He then bought me a coffee which was really nice of him (but it was so awkward and embarrassing).

So again I have been over emotional and absolutely dread going back to work on Thursday for a fabulous 9am-9pm shift. I'm so sorry I'm on such a downer lately but I will bounce back because I always do. I'm not a pessimistic person and I know there are people out there with more serious problems than me. I'm just going to relax and give it all to God.

Again here are some pretty images to end with and to dream about. I'm going to pretend I'm living in a fairy tale world.

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I'm going to dream, to write, to relax, to pray and to not let people get to me so easily. Thanks for all your support =)

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I dream a dream

Right now I want to daydream and pretend I never have to work again. Work is stressing me out and I don't need work stress on top of wedding preps and the family issues. My manager basically doesn't care that I have a wedding in just under 4 months times. When I told her my wedding was on the 24th of January, all she said was " So you won't be here for back to school?" Which is back to school shoe fitting. I'm a trained kids shoe fitter,but I'm being nice by working in back to school for two weeks. I could have taken more time off before the wedding but I chose to help out, because I know how crazy it can be.

But anyway, there was a lot more to this conversation but I really don't want to dwell on it as I'm already exhausted from the amount of frustration I felt. Soooo.... I need to imagine myself away. I really want to enjoy these last few months before the wedding and I'm not going to let work make me feel upset.

I want to add some soft light to create some ambiance and dream myself out of reality. I want to sit, reflect and journal my dreams.

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You know I'm seriously thinking of getting a Tumblr account. There are times when I just want to post one picture or a quote or something. But then again I could probably do that here anyway.

Have a wonderful weekend everyone! And thanks for all your lovely comments.

*Images from Wehearit