Weekend Wedding Blog Inspiration

How are you all enjoying the weekend? I’ve been enjoying catching up on all the blog posts I’d missed over the busy Christmas period.

Of all the blogs I follow, a few are wedding blogs. I have always enjoyed looking at these as I like browsing through the colour combinations, mood boards and styling ideas but I felt like I was wasting my precious blog browsing time considering my own wedding was back in 2005. However, a post I read on decor8 a while back reconfirmed my initial thought, that wedding blogs can provide decorating inspiration for homes too.

Two of my favourites are Wedding Style Guide and Style Me Pretty. Wedding Style Guide is a great Australian blog. I especially like their free downloads page here for bits and pieces that can be adapted to other entertaining events and parties. I also like Style Me Pretty for ideas on different colour palettes and floral arrangements. I've included some of my favourite images from each on this post.

Images 1 & 2 from here

Images 3 & 4 from here

Happy New Year!

Image by John Paul Urizar via here

Happy New Year to all my lovely blogging friends! Thanks for giving me so much inspiration via your blogs, for the great posts you all share and for the kind comments you leave me. Looking forward to more blogging fun with you all in 2010!

Restful Christmas Break

Asha with her Christmas cracker

Well, Christmas is over for another year and what a wonderful one it was. Being Grace’s first made it all the more exciting in our little household, even though the wrapping paper proved to be the biggest attraction for her! I was truly spoilt this year and received some lovely gifts, the most thoughtful of which was from my husband who has enrolled me in two photography classes next week (knowing how much I would like to improve my skills in this area for my blog). I was also really pleased to receive this pretty tray I’ve had my eye on (thanks to some clever detective work on my sister-in-law’s part!) However, aside from the gifts, the best part of Christmas was all the fun had celebrating with family.

We have just returned from a short holiday with extended family at Paul’s uncle’s holiday house. It was a nice way to recharge after the busy Christmas period and as usual, there was plenty of laughter, good food and fun times.

Hope you have all had a relaxing break too and are all set to welcome a new year.

Early Christmas Present

Photo by William Meppem via Donna Hay

My lovely friend Kylie came over for tea the other night so we could exchange Christmas gifts. She got me the most gorgeous present - Donna Hay's new book, Seasons which showcases some of the loveliest styling I have seen. With all it's fabulous photography, it's so much more than just a cookbook. Can't wait to try out some recipes from it in the New Year! Anyway, I'm off to do some last minute preparations for tomorrow. Wishing you all a wonderful Christmas - hope you all get spoilt!

Only Four More Sleeps!

We had a busy weekend here tidying things up around our place as we are hosting Christmas night for 28 people (not counting babies!) Paul did a fantastic job of getting the outside looking lovely by mulching all the gardens, mowing the lawn and tidying up (we have a fairly large yard so this was no small task!) I stayed inside out of the heat cleaning, wrapping presents and baking Donna Hay Christmas cookies. This week aside from more cooking, I need to sort out how I'll be decorating the table. How are everyone else's Christmas preparations coming along? Hope you don't have too much more to do and can put your feet up before Friday and enjoy a Christmas drink or two...

Thankyou all for your kind comments on Saturday - things went well and I feel a sense of peace with that part of everything now over x