My second make up and hair trial ... final decision!

My second make up trial was with Amy Chan and I was very impressed. She was very efficient and good at what she did. Her make up on me was flawless and I loved the look of it. She turned up on time, and went through the pictures of hair and make up that I had selected and listened to my experience with the first make up artist. We were off to an Army Ball after she did my hair and make up so it was a great excuse to have it done and be nice and pretty for the evening.

See below for the photos of what she did for me:

Tidying up the laundry - making it more accessible

We are renovating the apartment that we are living in and about a year ago I think it was, I decided to start painting the laundry white and got into sorting it out. It's all nice and white now and I decided that we could benefit with a shelf above the washing machine and laundry sink. This helped clear out some of the mess. But now that I've started lite n easy and their boxes are quite big and we've still got paint cans and reno stuff being stored in the laundry, it's getting a wee bit cluttered in there again So I thought I better do some organising in the laundry to save me falling over stuff when I go in there. We are also planning to rework the laundry later on in this year or next year so this is just an interim plan for the time being.

Ecco Bookcase courtesy of Fantastic Furniture

I saw that Fantastic Furniture had a new bookcase/shelf thing being advertised on tv, so I checked out their website and thought that it would work in the kitchen rather well.  See the picture right for what it looks like on the website.

I went and had a look at in the store and it's quite a simple but modern shelf but i think that it will fit in well with the laundry as the sink is chrome and the shelf and other boxes are black, plus black and white go well together. 

Pre - wedding accommodation... time to go looking

Yesterday I managed to rope in my sister in law to be to come looking at five and 4 star hotels in Sydney's CBD for us girls to get ready in and also for the boy's but either in a different hotel or a different level of the same hotel. Man what a mission this was ... I cannot believe how expensive parking in Sydney is for an hour to two hours. It ranged from $29 to $54 an hour. After a few backing out of the parking lots because it was too expensive, we eventually found a metered park in The Rocks, that wasn't a loading zone and parked there and did the walking.

Before we found our park we started off at Fraser Suites in Kent Street. This place was one of the first places that I had wanted to look at because it looked rather gorgeous on the website. My research has all been done through wotif.com.au, I just picked the names of the hotels and then went and visited them yesterday.

DIY Pocket Fold Invitations ... Finished!!!

Last night I finished the last of my spare pocket folds and I now have a pile of addressed envelopes with our invites to the Australian guests sitting on my coffee table to post. There is another small pile beside it of the New Zealand guests but they need to wait till my New Zealand stamps arrive so I can put them on the RSVP cards.

Finished envelopes with invites inside (my photo)

A Perfect Surprise .... on a very hot humid day

The lovely box filled with goodies (my photo)

Well it's a hot and humid day here in Caringbah today and i've got all the windows open but there is hardly a breeze.. sitting here in my coolest clothes possible and even thinking about putting an ice pack on my neck ... the indoor clock reads 28 degrees @ 5.30pm ... so hot!!!

I was in the bedroom making my bed and heard a hello, hello at the front door. Low and behold here stands a man with a big red box with a chiffon bow wrapped around it..... 


I opened up the card which read  'To show you how much I love you' ... from FH .. so sweet of him.

Spell Check ... pity photoshop doesn't have it!

So last night I had armed myself with my black gel pen and was filling in the names on the RSVP cards and applying stamps to them and putting them in the pocket fold and then the invite into the addressed envelope. Thinking that this month of DIY envelope making was nearly over!

But to my horror ... I thought I'd just read through the invite one more time to make sure.. and I'm dam glad I did. Apparently photo shop has no spell check and I'd created all my invites parts on it.. ARGGGGHHH!!! You probably would of heard it outside if the door hadn't been shut. 

Thongs, Jandals and Flip flops - for those with sore feet.....

High heels worn all day can seriously hurt those important things that we call feet.... And I can attest to this because I'm usually the one wandering around with my heels dangling from my hand and my bare feet caressing the pavement.. Or I've wrecked many a pair of black tights because I'm suffering from the same affliction... gotta find some comfy heels and boots I say.

Box of Jandals - Courtesy of 'I Do' It Yourself