ART by Josephine Bradley

I haven't visited a Sportsgirl store in quite some time now and was pleasantly surprised when I went in there last week at the launch of the superflagship store at Cadstone, more so with the decor and displays, than the actual merchandise. There was this very talented artist Josephine Bradley who was customising trainers with her beautiful artwork (all for $30). All the proceeds were to go to Butterfly Foundation. Sadly when I went in there she had just wrapped up her counter and I was one of the unlucky few who couldn't get their hands on any of the stylish trainers.

But we can still buy her artwork from selected sportsgirl stores so I thought I'll share some of it with you all here.

Thankyou everyone for your comments and suggestions on my last post. I have found some good ideas/sources to recreate that look!

Have a fabulous weekend everyone!

World Map Feature Wall

I am currently re-doing my son's room who has just turned eleven. The colours which we have chosen are black and light blue with pops of bright red. I liked white with red and blue for a boy's room but then I think if it's black and blue he might be happier with it through to his teens. I would love to do a wall like this, any ideas where I can get such a huge map, is it a wallpaper?


The only thing I could find so far is this decal which won't look as good.

CHEK Homewares

A lot of you have asked and shown interest in my homewares range (thankyou!!!) and want to know a little bit more about it. Well I'll share full details with you all in a few weeks as we are hoping to launch our brand very soon, but to share a tinsy bit of info....I have designed hand block printed cushions, tablecloths, napkins, placemats, paper-products and bed-linen. We are launching with the cushions and tablewares with the upholstery fabric, paper-products and bed linen to follow later. It has taken me almost one year to design and source the best possible fabric and artisans, which is a really long time considering I grew up in a country where we still go to tailors to get our clothes stitched and all embroidery, dyeing, printing etc is done by hand so I have grown up surrounded by and appreciating the workmanship of these skilled artisans. For our launch collection the colours are indigo, pink and ofcourse yellow!

Also huge congrats to Kate and Mia (The Enchanted Closet) on the opening of their second store. I visited their store on Saturday and its gorgeous, from the lovely things they stock and display ever so beautifully, to the amazing detail in their store interior (specially the pink striped wall). I bought a fabulous pink skirt for my daughter which has such a vibrant colour and ruffles and layers..just the way it should be..Wish you every success Kate and Mia!

Pictures

Spring is here!

Happy Spring everyone. I love this time of the year, spring is certainly my favourite season. I love Anna's blog (like thousands of others) and I particularly enjoy her Friday Flowers posts so today I have put together a few of my favourite flower pictures from her blog to kick off this lovely season.

And the most precious of all for me which my kids brought back from the park last evening!

Cute Find

One of my friends sent me a link to this miniature frame work. Isn't it amazing?

Birthday Party Details

As promised here are my daughter's third birthday party pictures. Her birthday party went very well except for a few hickups, but everyone had a real fun day and I guess in the end thats all that matters.

Since we had over 70 guests we had a formal sit down dinner at a restaurant. The place was huge so decorating it wasn't very easy. We set up the candy buffet and the cake cutting tables outside under fairy lights, lanterns and pom-poms and it looked beautiful, but sadly it started to rain and we had to move and setup everything (in 15 minutes) inside just before the guests arrived. Never trusting Melbourne weather again. So the tables couldn't be set up exactly like I had planned and the pom-poms couldnt be hung exactly on top of the candy buffet but all in all the place looked pretty amazing and the kids just loved the candy buffet.

I used Cristina Re's paper for the invites and went along with the same design for the rest of the decorations too. I also used personalised stamps and printed Cristina Re's design on the envelopes. I asked the guests to come dressed in the theme colours (green and blue) and almost all of them did and it looked great.

Here are some details:

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Invitations

Door Sign:

Wish Box

Delicious Birthday Cake By Kellie of Sweet Treats


Candy Buffet

Sorry!!!

Sorry for being away unannounced. I have missed posting and commenting on other lovely blogs, but life got in the way and although posts were popping up in my head left, right and centre but I couldn't share them with you all.

Thankyou to all those who kept on visiting and specially those who have still kept my blog icon lovingly sitting at the end of their blogroll. I will soon start updating my blog.

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