New Beginnings

feb24th - we started our journey together as mr and mrs :)
(and yes, thats actually us! its an amazing photo I know!!)

I cannot believe how much I have neglected my poor blog! I suppose you always have the good intentions to update regularly and diligently document things that you make and do, but in actual practice its very time consuming and who has any spare time these days? I really must apologise though for my lack of posting, I promise I will try to post more often!

So, hows it going?
I cant believe my last post was in AUGUST LAST YEAR *gasp*, a whole lotta things have happened since then! I think the most major life event was that I became a missus, and travelled to Europe and Sri Lanka for the first time on our honeymoon. Other than that we have been working working working to save for a house, which we hope to buy later in the year. I havent been crafting as much lately (ultra repetitive wedding DIY kinda killed my crafting desire for a while there), but I am getting the itch again and I have a project or two in the works. Im also thinking of expanding my 'repertoire' here, and posting some interior design/decorating and perhaps cooking.. what do you think?

some wedding DIY - 8 pg handmade invites, hand done bonbonierre

I *heart* ebay

Dear Ebay,
You are always there for me when I need some obscure item. When Im pining for a brooch to wear in my hair, you have it. And you give it to me for only $7.63 including postage. You are the best friend a gal could ever have.

Love, your friend
Delaks xxxx

PS. This is the first accessory I have bought for the wedding! To be worn like this:

Or maybe even like this:

Funky Stationery

In Martha Blue and Red colour scheme

I am building quite a portfolio of invite designs atm, the more I do the more I want to experiment with new styles. This set is designed to be a more fun/casual design, and my first foray into floral motifs (Im not much of a flowery person, but I know there are plenty of brides out there that are). Im beginning to find a 'signature style' in these experiments that I hope is unique and interesting enough that I could sell these at some stage in the future (or at the rate of design Im going, send each of my 200 guests individually designed invites!! lol)

In Hot Pink and Pink colour scheme

Stripy Stationery

So I have done another set of wedding stationary just for the fun of it, but I think its actually something I might end up using for our own wedding. The more I muck around with the design of my invites (and I think this one is invite redesign number 7 or 8 at this stage...) the more I think I might like to do this as a bit of a hobby/small business. Tough industry though, I wonder how I would deal with my bridezilla self as a customer??

In other news: this website made me chuckle this week, although it makes me wonder if any of my family/friends/wedding suppliers would like to send me a "please shut up about your fucking wedding, bridezilla" postcard because quite frankly I do talk about my wedding A LOT ;P hehehe

I *heart* blogs

'Fluid' by Julie West

Doncha love it when things just turn out? I had been thinking lately that I would like to start a proper art collection, and in particular that I would like a cool, smallish, stylish print for our new place. Now where do you begin to try and find a cool, smallish, stylish print when you dont really mind who its by or what its of?? So Im doing my regular blog browsing, and lo and behold on the ever useful design*sponge blog is a link to a site called we*heart*prints... which is exactly what I was after!! we*heart*prints lists affordable and beautiful prints that are available online - perfect! Now the only thing left to do is pick one from this amazing selection...