Buffet Finally Bought

After much searching, we finally bought a buffet cabinet for our lounge room. I was after something in a dark coloured wood, preferably with a wine rack to add a bit of character. While Oz Design Furniture actually make a cabinet in exactly the same style as our coffee table, I didn’t want things to be look all perfectly matched and preferred to find something a bit different.

We’re happy with our choice and now I need to work out what to display on top of it. We're also trying to decide what size and type of artwork to put on this wall - one huge piece or several smaller ones? Any ideas?

Weekend Snapshots

Hope everyone had a lovely weekend. We went shopping on Saturday morning to get a new suit for Paul for the wedding we have coming up on Easter Saturday. Later in the day, my friend Kylie came for afternoon tea and brought some cute cupcakes from Sherbet with her for us to enjoy (see the photo above).

Yesterday, we went to the local community fair. It was nice to wander around in the sunshine looking at the different stalls and Grace enjoyed seeing all the animals in the mobile farm enclosure.

What lovely things did you all do over the weekend?

Advice Needed

I need the opinion of some fellow mums out there. I was discussing the option of attending a playgroup with a friend of mine recently who was keen to join one. I thought it might be nice for Grace to start socialising with other children now that she's getting a bit older. We have looked into things and there is a session available at a playgroup nearby which means that we wouldn’t have to join an existing one and could start our own. There would only be 5 or 6 of us attending with our little ones.

Over the last few days though, I’ve starting thinking about germs and the fact that flu season will soon be approaching. I’m not worried about the other girls and their children in the group as none of us would ever bring our sick child along. However, what about all the toys and equipment that other little fingers will have touched? Am I being a worry wart or at almost one, is Grace still too little? Would really appreciate your feedback...

Blogging Award

This week, I have been kindly given the 'Sunshine Award' by two lovely fellow bloggers - Nellie from McCarthy Designs and Louise from Illume Design. Thank you girls - you are both so sweet and I adore your two blogs.


The rules of the Sunshine Award are:

1.Put the logo on your blog or in a post
2.Pass the award on to 12 fellow bloggers
3.Link to the nominees within your post
4.Let them know they have received it by leaving a comment for them
5.Share the love and link to the person who gave you the award.

I've decided to pass this award on to the following lovely bloggers:

1. Catherine at Little Glowing Lights
2. Flick at Everyday Chick
3. Melissa at Undomestic/Mumma
4. Catherine at A Time To Create
5. Sarah at Sarah Elizabeth
6. Leah at Little Maison
7. Belinda at Nest Design Studio
8. Kerri at Driftwood Interiors
9. Karlyn at Rosa's Room
10. Abby at Two Little Dicky Birds
11. Lesley at Life At Number 10
12. Rachael at A Room For Everyone

Please don't feel obliged to play along, just know that I have passed this award onto you because I enjoy your blogs and want to share the 'sunshine'...

Hope you all have a wonderful end to the week...

Top image from here

Birthday Parties on Etsy

I’ve been spending a bit of time lately searching the Internet and trying coming up with ideas for Grace’s first birthday which is coming up in May. I’ve decided to go with a polka dot theme which will be cute and girlie. I’ve already made my own invites but before I did, I came across some fantastic birthday party products on Etsy which I wanted to share with you all. They all come to you as PDF files so you once you pay, you can print off as many as you need. I’ve bookmarked them all for future parties!!

Olliegraphic’s invites are my all time favourite – if I hadn’t already made Grace’s invites myself before I discovered this store, I might have gone for one of these. With these invites, you customise the character on them to suit your child with choices for everything from hair colour, style, clothes, eye colour and facial expressions. I’d love to order some of these in the future.

Parties by Hardie have a fantastic Etsy store with printable files of themed party invites, banners, cake toppers and much more. This set of vehicle decorations would be perfect for a little boy’s party.

Happy Papers have such cute party packs for sale including invites, thanks cards, party hats, themed bunting, cupcake toppers and gift bag tags. I adore their Red Riding Hood set and hope I can use it for Grace one day in the future.

Finally, Paper and Cake have a great range of products which can be customised and then printed at home. My favourite is their ‘Sail Away’ party pack.

As I said, I'm making the invites and decorations for Grace's party but all of these wonderful stores have given me lots of inspiration. I'll share my ideas for Grace's polka dot party soon...

All images in this post are from the respective Etsy stores. Image #1 from here.