Hens Party - Part 1

So last weekend was my hen's party which consisted of two parts.  Part 1 was on Saturday night and began with a vintage hair & makeup lesson but La Viola Vixen of Brisbane Burlesque & Beauty.  It was so much fun!!! Viola show used heaps of different hair styles which I got to try out on each other and then we got to choose which one we wanted for the night and she helped us recreate it.  Then she took us through how to do vintage style makeup.  I had so much fun doing this and I learnt so much.  Afterwards we all headed out to the Hard Rock Cafe for dinner before heading to Swinging Safari for some drinks and fun.  Here are a heap of photos from the night....

 

Getting my hair done by Viola.

 

Little victory roll I did in my mum's hair.

 

My bridesmaid Mahnee and the victory rolls I did in her hair.

 

Mid makeup

 

Getting makeup done by Viola

 

The girls on the balcony of Mahnee's stunning apartment in Surfers Paradise.

 

My finished makeup

 

Me, my mum and my sister dressed and ready for dinner.

 

Amy, Kat & Hayley at dinner

 

My gorgeous sister Hayley

 

Me and my alabama slammer

 

My giant onion ring

 

Mahnee and me, mahnee's hair by me again.

 

Me and the girls from Corey's side of the family

Me, mum and Hayley again.

This was such an awesome night and a big thank you must go to my awesome sister Hayley and my bridesmaid Mahnee for all their planning and time that put into this night.  It was loads of fun!!!  Stay tuned for photos from the kitchen tea.

Unicorn Beanie

This weekend I was finally able to gift one of my knitting projects to its recipient and now I can share it with you.  My darling friend Maria from Movie Mazzupial and I share the same birthday and I wanted to knit her something this year.  Unfortunately, I was a bit slow and didn't get it finished in time so I had to give it to her this weekend at my hen's party (more on that to come in another post).  Maria is a massive fan of unicorns and purple so I made her a unicorn beanie.

I did a bit of googling and couldn't find a pattern specifically for a unicorn beanie that I really liked so I made up my own.  I used this earflap beanie pattern and then this cone pattern.  With the cone pattern I started with 36 stitches and did a few extra decrease rows to make it bigger.  For the ears I used the ears from this pattern.  The mane was quite simple but time consuming.  All I did was cut strips of yarn double the length that I wanted the mane and then I double them over and used a crochet hook to pull the loop end through the beanie and then the loose ends through the loop.  That is probably not a very good explanation and I would be happy to do a tutorial but it will have to wait until after the wedding.

So that is how I made the lovely Maria a unicorn beanie.  I forgot to get a photo of her wearing it so here is one I cropped down of here from the hen's party.

OMG it's wedding week!!! I am freaking out already and it is only Monday morning.  Not sure what my posting will be like this week.  I do have a few things to share but not sure if I will have time.  Let's just wait and see how I go.

Welcome Home Hayley

It's been a couple of days now since my sister returned home and it feels like she was never gone!  Hayley and her boyfriend Kieran landed on Wednesday morning and Kieran's parents, my parents and I went to the airport to greet them.  After the airport we went down to the beach for brunch and a swim to welcome them home.  It was the perfect chance to play around with my new camera so here are a few photos from the day.

 

Dad with our sign.

 

Mum with our sign. Aren't my parents adorable!

 

My mum and Kieran's mum.

 

First hug off the plane.

 

Happy to be home!

 

Hayley's favourite food for brunch. There were also oysters.

 

And chocolate brownies & apple pie!

 

Gorgeous day at the beach!

 

Hayley, Dad & Kieran

 

Roxy missed Hayley too.

Roxy waiting for some food to fall off the table.

Chillaxing and reading magazines.

This weekend is my hen's weekend which is going to be awesome fun.  I have a couple of other things to share with you guys as well but just need to find time to photograph them and post them.  It's getting busy now.  Only 1 week left till the wedding!!!

Brain Suckers

For Halloween at work we were allowed to dress up but since we had meetings throughout the day the girls and I needed something small we could wear in the office and take off for our meetings.  When I saw this pattern over at Louie's Loops I knew they would be perfect.

These were so quick and easy to make as well. I made 3 and I think I will be making a few more because everyone in the office loved them!

I put little hair clips on the bottom of them so we could clip them into our hair and take them out when needed.  The girls loved them and now they live on our desks as our little office pets.

Read More - October

Last month I slowed down a little on the reading front and only managed 3 books.  I do have 2 books that I am halfway through both so maybe I should have just focused on one of those so I had 4 books. Oh well.  Here is what I read last month...

So all the books are continuations of series that I am currently reading.  I finished the Hunger Games trilogy and I must say the first book was definitely my favourite.  I just think the first book was so good that it was hard for the next two to live up to that. I can't wait for the movie to come out and I just hope it doesn't suck like a lot of books to movies do.

I read another Vampire Academy book which surprised me by being a bit more intense then the first two.  It wasn't so much about high school love lives this time.  It was still a light read though and quick and easy which I liked.

Dead Reckoning is the latest in the Sookie Stackhouse series and apparently she is pretty close to ending this series.  It kind of ended in a weird way. I was expecting more to happen but it was all very abrupt.  I do love these books though! The whole series has sucked me in.  I just got the 3rd season of True Blood on DVD too so I will be watching that soon.  Right after I finish season 7 of One Tree Hill.

Happy Halloween

I can't believe October is over already!!! Where has this month gone to? That means that from tomorrow we are in wedding month. How exciting!!!  My sister comes home Wednesday and I have my hen's weekend this weekend.  Then next week will be countdown week.  Anyway, today being Halloween we are having a Halloween morning tea at work and everyone is baking something.  I made brownies!

These are a hybrid of a couple of ideas I saw around the internet.  I made brownies and iced them green.  I then used white icing and chocolate icing to do the details. Super duper easy and super duper cute!

I am so happy with how they turned out! I wanted to make some skeleton gingerbread men too but I ran out of butter and couldn't be bothered going to the shops.  Maybe next year!  So this is also the last post of Blogtoberfest. I am pretty happy with how I did. I only missed 1 day.  I am really happy to have taken part in this again and I think I will definitely be back next year.  Thanks to tinniegirl for organising an awesome month of Blogtoberfest and thanks to everyone who participated and visited my blog this last month.  It has been great fun!

Wedding Crafting

This weekend at mum's my main aim was to get a couple of wedding things crossed off the list.  I am happy to say that I got two of them marked off.  I managed to make 111 place cards for our reception and some reserved signs for the ceremony.

I made the place cards in Word and printed them onto a textured cardstock.  Then I had to cut them all out and fold them.  It was time consuming but easy!!!  I am really happy with how they turned out.  They are simple but pretty.

I also wanted to make some signs to reserve the front two rows at our ceremony for family.  I wanted to ensure that my grandparents, parents and Corey's family got good seats.  I know this is pretty standard but the last wedding I went to people sat wherever and took up all the seats and when the bride's family arrived no one moved for them.  So I made these little reserved signs.  All I need to do is tie some ribbon on and they're all done.

I have a few more projects I want to do for the wedding but they are pretty simple and shouldn't take up too much time.  The major one is our seating chart which I can't wait to share.  Hopefully I will have that up by the end of the week.