So, I was catching up on my poor little neglected google reader (at you-should-go-to-bed o’ clock) when I came across Gala’s post about the new Fafi for MAC range. I’ve been excited about this range, because I love Fafi as an artist and I love [...]]]>

So, I was catching up on my poor little neglected google reader (at you-should-go-to-bed o’ clock) when I came across Gala’s post about the new Fafi for MAC range. I’ve been excited about this range, because I love Fafi as an artist and I love MAC, so how could they go wrong? Surely it’s some kind of divine formula created to part me with my money!

Today I went out with my sister to get beautified (skin peel, facial, shopping etc!) and we were looking around for a lip colour that would suit the bridesmaids and maybe even me for the wedding day. We’re going for a coral with depth right in the middle. I bought a couple of Revlon lippies, one a coral colour and the other one of the dark velvet range (I’m hopeless with product names) but I wasn’t really happy with either, separate or combined so I was a bit bummed.

Image from galadarling.com.

Imagine my squees of joy when I see a beautiful kissy pair of lips with the most awesome coral/ peach coloured Lustre Lipstick by MAC in Strawbaby! I think we have a winner! In fact, all of the lip colours are totally wearable and could be in the race to get on our lips on the big day.

I can’t wait until March until the Fafi range is released in Australia!

In other wedding related news, my dress and the girls’ dresses are coming along beautifully. I wish I could share some pictures with you but it must remain a secret…! I can say that I’m incredibly happy with how everything is coming to life. As a designer, it’s my job to bring things from a sketch or a doodle into fruition… but I’ve never embarked on anything as ambitious as this wedding, let alone the dresses. It’s a completely satisfying feeling!

Who knows, I might just get into designing alternative bridal wear ;)

I love the concept of “Trashing the Dress” but I’m still not sold on trashing mine. Ms. Polka at Polka Dot Bride reports there’s now an Australian site for TTD! My dress is going to be a labour of love, and [...]]]>

I love the concept of “Trashing the Dress” but I’m still not sold on trashing mine. Ms. Polka at Polka Dot Bride reports there’s now an Australian site for TTD! My dress is going to be a labour of love, and I’m actually thinking of getting it professionally mounted as a wall display later on, butget I wonder just how trashy I have to get my dress..! Ms. Polka assures me that the dresses never get so trashed that a good dry cleaning wouldn’t restore them to their former glory, so now my mind is ticking through TTD concepts at a hundred miles an hour.

If you’re only a short time reader, I should remind you that my dress is going to be red, and my fiance is going to be wearing a cream/ bone pin striped suit. It would be so awesome if we could work with liquids like red wine and milk or cream (or at least a liquid that can be dyed so as not to be totally damaging to the fabrics in our outfits!). Another idea I’ve had is to set our shoot in a food fight in the middle of a glorious banquet!

I may just have to speak with our photographer, Kate O’Brien, about these ideas. You should check out the amazing photographs she takes too. I have a feeling a TTD shoot would excite her!

Yesterday I went to the flower market with Mum and my sister Michelle, then to look at fabric at Sckafs. I’m really glad we did, we got an awesome quote on flowers and met a fabulous woman at Sckafs Indooroopilly who basically pulled all the fabrics and colours I wanted out of my imagination.

My wedding dress: This is an idea of what we’re playing around with. The dress will mostly be red, with ruffled or pleated organza frothing around the over skirt and flowers from the beaded material sprayed around the hem of the over skirt and from the hip up my bodice. I’m not sure if I like the jacquard, or if I’d prefer dupioni. I really like its rough texture.

The bridesmaids: Creams, coffees and mochas. I love the texture of the crumpled velvet ribbon over the other fabrics.

Left: Bridesmaids – the silhouette we’re going for. Sckafs had these cool templates you could place over fabric combinations.
Right: An awesome fascinator i found.

I was looking through my google reader last night and came across casasugar’s post on ranunculus – I was so happy because I’d bought some purple ranunculus at the flower market in the morning! I also bought yellow and orange poppies. There’s nothing like flowers to make you a bit happier – and when you get them direct from the flower markets, they’re rather cheap too!

I do wish that poppies could be a bit hardier – they tend to drop petals at the slightest hint of breeze.

I took photos of the flowers so I could play around with them in Illustrator. Stay tuned for upcoming free vector posts ;)