14th of February

On the 14th of February I woke up to the smell of pancakes and my amazing Sister, Mum & Boyfriend.
Happy Birthday to me...
1. Amazing table setting, with antique plates and hand painted paper dowlies
2. Pancake stack, choc chip, banana and plain wholemeal pancakes
3. Homemade Latte, and homemade orange juice waiting to follow
4. Home grown flowers, handpicked that very morning
5. A stack of presents!

I was super spoilt this year, Thank you to all the amazing people that helped me celebrate over the three days! I am feeling very grateful... Just remember for the next birthday coming up in your life get a little crafty or personal, a little thought goes a very long way.

Enjoy.x

Hens Night.

As part of my Wedding line of posts, I'm happy to show you the Hens night put together by four wonderful bridesmaids. Blogging is a great way to get inspiration and ideas for hosting your next event, I hope this helps!

I think surprises are great! Keeping the Bride to be out of it, & you organise these fun events.
As we know brides have enough to do.

For this special occasion we decided to start with High Tea, homemade, of course. High tea is a buffet of scones, cream, cupcakes, plenty of tea and in this case a little sangria! We baked all the amazing goods ourselves assigning each bridesmaid to a job. The buffet table was an elaborate array of three tier platters filled with mini sweets and savoury goods, jars of lollies and nick nacks that we had collected over time to complete the feel.

The table setting is an important part to a tea party... We completed it with a tea cup (varied style for every table placement), a placemat (which was actually just a piece of scrap booking paper) but it really completed the look, a doily coaster (for the tea cup!), and to finish it unique place cards with everyone’s names and a vintage pin up girl (ready to wear as lanyard for the rest of the night!). *example above

This created the perfect eclectic vintage stay at home High Tea.

Next we travelled off to, "Hens love art". *picture above*
Staying true to a traditional hen’s night! The retro loft was filled with easels, 15 giggling Champaign drinking women and one buff man ready to be drawn. “Hen’s love art” made the experience complete, with small prizes, fun music and dress ups for the Hen.

And then it’s always nice it end the night with some bar hoping, and a boogie.

Happy planning!

Sorry, I've been on coffee break.

so, I'm going back in time for a few posts before I start posting about now! Sometimes we need to admit it, life just gets in the way.... But I'm back in the blogging world and figers crossed, I'm here to stay!

Morocan Inspired Kitchen Tea!

Two weekends ago my sisters bridal party (me included!) successfully hosted her Moroccan Inspired Kitchen Tea! It was exciting to have a different theme, and everything to be a complete surprise for the bride to be! We wanted to stay true to theme, using rich colours of red, orange, pink and gold, and then also taking on the homemade antique vibe.


In the first image you can see our theme table, which just had decoration to set the mood and no main food on it. It backed on to the amazing pool and garden area, really setting a relaxed environment. Each table setting had a centre piece, just as the bottom images display. This kept the theme consistent through the entire party area. The decor was a mixture of great op shop finds! And ornaments I've been collecting over time and handmade pieces. A few little homemade art projects always give a great touch. Together I think it had an amazing feel!

It was a joy to see our visions come to life, and get busy with a few homemade art projects.

To make the day pass, we had plenty of food and desert, also played a few games; a great one for any one organising a kitchen tea, or any shower in this case is, Bingo! Traditionally presents are opened in front of all your guests, so giving everyone a bingo card to play along whilst opening presents keeps it fun for everyone. Great idea for young and old, I’ve given an example of the simple cards above!

She had an amazing time! I Hope everyone out there gets to organise a fun themed event for someone special soon!

Little pick me ups...

Just something I found inspiring, we all need these little things to keep us going. Just to stare at for a little while! Also, buying a cute Kitchen Tea gift for my amazing sister from this website where these images were found. Hope she loves it, can not wait to share all the photos.

Hope you can get as inspired as me, amazing and affordable prints!

Adorable!

My boyfriends adorable little brothers.

They are a joy to be around, and a huge inspiration to make little adorable clothes for adorable little people.

Cooper and Liam.  

And my beautiful man, of course.

The meaning behind the label...

Only now I'm beginning to realise that he was trying so eagerly to get to know me so well in the short time he knew he had left.

To learn all about me: He would ask me where I want to be in life next year, why I'm going to uni, what I'll do when I finish, why I want to own my own business. And that was his favourite part, my aspiration to do something of my own one day.

He would always assure me of the competition in the fashion industry (I never let it bother me). But I know he only said to protect me from being hurt by the world. We could speak for hours, over lunch and long slow walks of business and ideas I have about markets and business cards and more!

I remember how he would just smile, he loved hearing me speak about it all. Especially being a very successful business owner himself.

He believed in me, he was interested in my journey, and excited by my ideas...
So, I wanted nothing more than for him to be a part of this...
My Dad, Mick passed away 23rd of January 2012.
The first part of my label was named after my amazing Dad. “Mickey”
The start to the creation of my label... An inspiration every day, I miss you.

*A very honest start to my blog, I know! But an important explanation!
(Meaning of "Rose" soon to come!)