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Wedding Bonanza

My dearest Shelby is getting married! I am so happy for her and so excited! We spent Sunday in full-wedding mode, flicking through bridal mags, looking things up on the internet and watching the best wedding movie of them all, Muriel’s Wedding. Shell and I have loved Muriel’s Wedding for many years, so it provided the perfect background for the pigging out (oh yes, there were lollies!) and wedding-overload.

Even though Shell has her ring, we ended up looking at jewellery sites anyway. I found a few pieces that I thought were just beautiful. I don’t want to look at the prices, I just want to appreciate the exquisite designs from Canturi and Tiffany.



I can’t believe how much cakes cost! I can’t find a pic of the amazing bird cage cake we saw, but we also checked out these. The first one is taken from a illustrator who designs amazing cards and more in the design below. Beautifully done.


This one was a bit of a surprise. A little saucy for a wedding perhaps?


I also introduced Shell to my fave website, Etsy, where they have an amazing wedding section where you can get the most amazing handmade things like invitations, stationary in general, cake toppers, jewellery, table decorations and more.

Newtown Saturday

I couldn’t believe Bev had never been to Newtown before. It’s my fave indie shopping Mecca, so met her for lunch, shopping and more food on a sunny Saturday.

Before shopping we needed to fuel up with some Thai that Newtown is famous for.



My fried rice and veges was amazing.

Bev’s beef thingy was enough for two. She said it was delicious. A shame I didn’t write down the name of the place!


After shopping, more snacks at Cafe C – my ice chocolate and Bev’s strawberry smoothie.

Churros and chocolate.


My shopping results – dress with little white hearts, books to read on the plane and warm peach cobbler-flavoured lip balm. It smells divine.

Paddo, Bite Me & Szechwan Gardens

Bev, Lise and I spend an awesome day at Paddington markets, Bite Me and Szechwan Gardens. Thanks girls!
Who says she can’t eat a foot-long hot dog?


Mini Vege burgers.


In! In!


Topless burger.


Vroom vroom!

What? All gone?

The free ice-cream Bev received for eating the whole hot dog.


Cupcake hat?

Beret?

Shower cap as fashion item.

The cupcake looked amazing but didn’t taste as good. It was missing something I couldn’t quite identify.

Matching sunnies are cool. 


The boys joined us for dinner at Szechwan Gardens in St Leonards. 


The “eight precious vegetables” dish was mine – totally delicious.

My deep and meaningful fortune cookie message.

Fresh-as-a-daisy fried ice-cream.

Fried ice-cream porn shot.

Banana fritter.

My new earrings. The extreme close-up isn’t very flattering.

My pretty bag in “ballet pink” and awesome lipgloss. It’s non-sticky and moisturising, with a touch of colour. Bev bargained the bag lady down from $79 and $75 per bag to $140 for two. Way to go!

Chris’ 27th B’day

I was a bit late to Chris’ dinner last night, but I still made it in time for drunken photos and babycakes.

I think these photos do justice to the evening without any commentary. Happy b’day Chris!









Easter Sunday!

My parents and I decided to spend the day driving down south to Stanwell Park for some family time. What a beautiful day it turned out to be! Finally a blue sky and some sun to warm my skin.
I forget what this sport is called, but there were loads of crazy people jumping off the cliffs with parachutes on.

The beautiful view.

Mum and Dad.
Me!
Art gallery which is attached to a cafe where we ate lunch.

The cafe had AMAZING food – they made me this creation below – thyme roasted Roma tomatoes on sour dough, with potato rosti, mushroom, a vege patty and rocket. Delicious!

We then walked over the new sea bridge.
My new hat – two views of the different ways it can be worn. I’m not a hat person, but I’m totally in love with this one.

Happy Sunday

Had a really great day today. Met up with Nick to take some pics of carnivorous plants and then went to Lisa’s place for eating cupcakes, Thai, chatting and watching SYTYCD. 
Me being a complete tourist today.