Kate's Pretty in Pink

The gorgeous Kate had her "PINK" birthday party on Saturday night...

I love that even her beau Lucas got in on the action and wore the most fabulous pink shirt. :)

Doesn't she look gorgeous in her headband which (by chance) matched her dress perfectly, Gotta love that!

Happy Birthday Kate!

New Headbands

Many have asked if I could make headbands similar to hats, all flowery and perdy! So taking on the challenge, I've come up with these...aren't they bright and fabulous. I've made two black and white and two  in a nautical red, blue and white...all different ofcourse!

I am SOOOOO much in love with these, it's going to be very sad to part with them

I'll have a stall at the "Leedy Hop Live" this Thursday night. Come down to listen to the KYSB Big Band, have a dance or watch the dancing (swing is just as much fun to watch), $10 entry or $5 if you take a class with SwingZing. 

Classes from 7-9, band begins 9-11pm, at the Yugal Club, 288 Oxford St Leederville Perth

Happy Anniversary Nanny and Grandfather

On the 6th August, my grandparents had been married 50 years. That's pretty impressive right! Saturday night the family went out to dinner to celebrate...

 I think these three photos depict Nanny and Grandfather perfectly...

The first- being silly

 The second- Nan going to do Grandfather harm after him being an antagonistic bugger  LOL (look at that cheeky grin)  :)

The third- They really are good friends

Love you Nan and Gramps xxx 

Chocolates and Cherries

This is the lovely Emma's hat order, this was very fun to make...and pictures do not in any way do it justice! To give you some indication as to the 'pop' in colour and how striking it is, when I showed it to Mr in Wonderland, he said "WOW! I like that one!"...for someone not overly interested in girly hats, that's something great right? :)

AND AND AND... I'm very excited to reveal my new chocolate box hat, finished, well almost. I am totally in love with these...I've even got a heart shape hat in the works for heart chocolate boxes, sqeeeeeel! This one is in baby blue, I'm working on red, hot pink, yellow, green, purple and orange.

These are very fun to make because I get to look at lots of chocolates and "feltify" them.

NOT eat any though because in the last 5 days of hard core Zumba and gym trips I have lots THREE whole kilos which is AWESOME!!! Zumba is hilarious, you dance around feeling like a complete tit, shimmy-ing and shaking your booty and just when you think your going to die, you forget because the dance moves are so fun (well, fun-ny).

My application for Fremantle Arts Centre Bazaar is in...fingers crossed.

And here are some of the pretty things I've been making for orders this week...

 I'll soon be stocking my etsy and Made It stores so there will be ACTUAL single items to purchase...once I get all the custom orders out :) Until then remember you can send me an email with orders at aksparkles7(at)yahoo(dot)com(dot)au. Just remove the brackets and add the usual...I have to write it like that or I get spammed for viagra and whatnot :)

Wedding- We have progress!

Sooo, we've set a date for our wedding...the wedding discussion has popped up again, with much more enthusiasm this time as we have worked out how on earth we are to pay for it. So after a few discussions of what we want and should do, we realised we'd forgotten a step, set the date.

So on a whim over dinner one night, Mr in Wonderland decided that  22nd February 2012 was an auspicious day (his exact words, yes I laughed) and then it was done. Only thing is upon checking the day that this date falls on, we realised that it is a Wednesday, so wowee we are REALLY going non-traditional.

Now I'm a bit excited about this "Wednesday" thing because I'm thrilled with the idea of guests taking a few days off here and there over the week for lovely things like wine tours and long lunches, picnics, silly things and such and being able to have the celebration with friends and family last a lot longer than a day. It will be lovely weather after all.

Now I've been collecting pictures and ideas for a while now and a few things that I know I adore are vintage pretties and I love the DIY thing, that whimsical style of handmade treasures and the 'special-ness' that these bring. I like 'themes' of things or 'styles' of things. So look for ideas with these in mind.

Mr in Wonderland is a harder egg to crack as his tastes don't fall into 'themes' or 'styles', his likes and dislikes go on a single idea basis. Or so it seems, if he likes something, he often can't pinpoint why exactly so that probably makes it a bit harder to 'group' I suppose. One thing he has insisted on is that he wears shiny black leather shoes, also there's been some mention of bow ties and ninjas jumping out of soup and cutting bread with a sword! We both want a venue with charm and character, we've been looking at the old buildings around Perth (very conveniently most swing dancing events are held in them, hehe)

The small visual details I don't think interest him, but the details about guest interaction (which we've found some VERY sweet ideas, of which I'm keeping secret because I know you all read this, hehe) also the experiences and personal memory making stuff, and good food and wine, that's what he likes to plan. Which is great coz that's the good stuff :)  

Our "theme" I suppose would be Geek/Vintage which sounds a little odd, but from all my research, not that uncommon. So expect fun, coz I doubt either of us is worried about matching the same Pantone colour blue :)

I've made my bouquet...

and will be making my dress...

The girls will look something like this...(colour wise)

In this

Or this

We've thought of incorporating lego for ages...check these out!

Left 4 Dead custom mini-figs...even with zombies...oh man he's gonna LOVE these!!!

and for me...

Roman Holiday custom mini-fig :)

Ceremony to be somewhere like this...

Like this...look at the sign!

Reception something like this...

Hehe this is going to be fun!!!