Pinch and a Punch

Does anyone else whisper “White Rabbit” (or “Rabbit Rabbit”) to themselves upon waking on the first of a month? It’s a silly habit I have from when I was a kid, when my mum would jump out and try to deliver a pinch and a punch for the first day of the month. “But I…

Late night bridezilla

Image from FAFI’s myspace. 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…

Ffffound image of the now

I was lucky enough to receive a ffffound.com invite from a fellow designer on RedBubble! YAY! This is the sweetest thing I’ve seen for a while, and I thought I’d pass the sweetness on. The wedding is consuming me! It is one of the most amazing experiences of consumption, art direction, typography and event planning…

What Natalie Bought…

So, over the last few weeks I’ve bought quite a few things online. Mostly due to having money in my PayPal account (yay freelance illustrating!) and having to buy general wedding pretties. I want to show you the lovely things I’ve purchased! I posted about Delia’s inspirational jewellery last month, and this month I decided…

A new calligraphic hero!

Bernard Maisner‘s calligraphy is beautiful and sumptuous, I think this style of hand lettering is the direction I’m going to take our wedding stationery in, however, I’m going to give it my own twist. Thanks, Lost at E Minor, for exposing me to Maisner’s work!

Wedding Favour Ideas from Cox & Cox

Created with fd’s Flickr Toys. Cox & Cox have some really cute and innovative ideas for wedding favours. They’re also favours you can put together yourself, without being out of pocket thanks to the horrendous exchange rate! 1. Wedding Matches – You can print on some nice card stock and create a box for these…

Trash the Dress!

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,…

My bridal bucket!

I’m almost sold on hyacinth for my wedding bouquet. I found this lovely picture from floristblogs.com. The bouquet consists of Sweet Pea, Hyacinth, Peony and Roses. This posy is so me it’s not funny – kind of vintage looking without being over the top tizzy, and it has a cascade of vines to “lengthen my…

Pretty flower shots from flickr

1. Hyacinth 2. Gerbera Pocoroco 3. Berzelia Galpini 4. Pepperberry Created with fd’s Flickr Toys. Apart from the brilliant photography and lighting of these blooms (by ksflower on flickr), I really love these colours together. I want to find a way of using really green things (Gerbera Pocoroco? Berzelia Galpini!?) in my bouquets. They look…