a new 'do', a new park

I spontaneously gave Harley his first haircut the other week. I can't believe I did it, after refusing for so long! I sat him on the kitchen bench and trimmed his fringe with the kitchen scissors! Its much better as its out of his eyes. These photos were taken at this awesome new park we have discovered up near PMH, in Subiaco. They have a fabulous playground which is fenced off so you don't have to worry about runaways hehe. He ate some dirt and loved getting his hands all mucky.

D x

natural art

I wanted to do a post just on the flowers at Kate & Joel's wedding, they were so different and absolutely stunning.

Natural Art by Rebecca Grace were responsible for creating the amazing floral arrangements and bouquets. They really did a fabulous job! From the stunning bouquets to the ceremony flowers, to the mantlepiece and sweets station at the reception, the flowers really stole the show.

Top: Bride's bouquet, Above: Bridesmaid's bouquet

Kate went for plenty of white with green foliage, hot pinks, and berries. The result was striking. The ceremony was set in the garden's of Caves House, Yallingup, under a beautiful big tree. Unfortunately I don't have any photos of this as I was too busy playing Bridesmaid!

Above: Kate checking out her dress, bouquet in hand

Now for the reception, which was set in the Yallingup room at the historical Caves House. The room was decked out with pink flowers in an array of vases & jars, candles everywhere, white leather chesterfield couches and an amazing sweets station with colour coordinated lollies and desserts by Carmello of Edible Art.

Above: the Sweets Station

Above: the noodle boxes with a sweet little swing tag which guests filled with their favourite treats.

Above: the boxes were displayed on white wooden ladders

L-R: Emelie, Davina, Kate, Claire, Kassy & Jodie - standing in front of the amazing mantlepiece which was decorated with stunning floral arrangements & candles.

A day at the track

I’m not sure if I can call being at the go kart track stylish, but here it is – A post about my Sunday at Cockburn Track. I made sure I had a large picnic with me as I thought that food could keep me occupied if I got horrible bored. I even played with the idea of packing a bottle of wine, but I stopped myself when I realised that alcohol and motor sport doesn’t really match. My plan was to sit in my chair around fumes and sweaty boys and study my photography, so I needed to keep level headed anyway. We arrived at the track and Adam showed me a corner that I could call my own, I set up my things - camera, books and food! For the next 10 hours I had a marathon of reading, taking photos of races, eating and falling asleep in my chair only to wake up when someone decided to rew their kart ridiculously loud. After a while I had enough and decided to go and have a look around and I got childishly excited when I found out that I could order hot chocolate with marshmallows at the canteen. I had three of them throughout the day! What was I thinking – Who needs wine when there is hot chocolate!! Adam (#2) did very well in the competition and it looked as though he was going to get 4th in his class in Australia, only to get taken out in the last lap in the last race. He was devastated. I had to stop myself when I realised that I was taking advantage of his emotions with my photography, I put my camera down as I saw his face through my lens, dug deep in my picnic bag and pulled out a bag of chocolate eggs. Things can only get better after a nice caramel chocolate Easter egg.

Emelie ♥

sucker for stationery...

hello! my first post back as a mrs - wooo for weddings! stay tuned for a few more posts on little details from the wedding coming up! x

i am a bit of a sucker for beautiful stationery, so picking elegant, stylish yet still modern and funky stationery for our wedding was one of my top priorities!

letterpress is definately the most romantic of printing and so off i went on the quite time consuming task involving a significant amount of hours (and the odd glass of vino or three) pouring over letterpress blogs, contemplating using the larger american chain letterpress, but wanting to stay in australia and find a local studio... luckily, i found one and set my heart on bespoke letterpress boutique based in queensland - alischa is a fantastic designer, and tireless worker, and we were so happy with the final result....

our save the date cards and thankyou swing tags were two of my favourite items - they featured a little love heart and the swing tags were used on noodle boxes for guests to fill up with lollies and miniature desserts from the sweets station!

bespoke don't just do wedding stationery, and recently blogged about some new items they have added to their online store which are too cool not to purchase i think! there are greeting cards, prints, swing tags and paper twine amongst others! this greeting card is my favourite and is available for $6 in their store

i also love these awesome little hello notecards, with vintage map scalloped envelopes (6 pack is $25)... makes me want to start writing notes to my nearest and dearest for no other reason but to say hello !

check out bespoke press' blog here

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feelin' a bit arty

I took this photo yesterday arvo out the front of our place.. i've been trying new things with my camera and am really happy with how this one came out! the blurred background is the bark of the tree. Hope you likey. D x

this makes me very excited!!

I have just found out that Bugaboo has brought out a double pram!! I was wondering what I was going to do when I have another bub, but now my problem is solved!! I know you girls won't understand how much this freakin' excites me, but seriously!! Meet the Bugaboo Donkey. Now I want to have another baby just so I can get my hands on one of these!

its the little details that count...

There were so many well thought out details to Kate & Joel's wedding which was held at Caves House, Yallingup on Saturday 26th March. The weather was amazing, unusually warm for down south this time of year, and it was so nice to have everyone down there for a few days.
d x

morning playtime at the park

This morning we walked into Subi - Harley, Soobs & I. I picked up my skinny latte from Spring Espresso, checked the post box, bought some sushi to have later for lunch, and then we headed over to the park for some play time. Harley loves going to this particular park on a morning because he gets to see all the big kids going to school. I put the camera in the pram and took a few snapshots of him playing, and one of gorgeous soobs patiently waiting... d x

enjoying the cooler weather

We spent the weekend down south watching the Margaret River Drug Aware Pro, the weather was cool and slightly wintery. I had to share this photo with you of Harley wearing his new beanie - doesn't he look cute as a button!? Loving the cooler weather and a new season of fashion! d x

god save McQueen

A little something I wanted to share with you - not sure if you girls (except kate of course) have seen this! This Alexander McQueen scarf was my gift to the beautiful bride, which I gave to her the day before the wedding. I bought it from Net-A-Porter, and struggled to choose between this colourway or black & white. Glad I went with the red cos kate LOVES it & i think it looks AMAZING with her hair :) I thought long & hard about what to get kate as a special bridesmaid to bride present. I wanted it to be something she would have forever and perhaps hand down to her future daughter, and something that would never go out of style. Even though this scarf isn't something you would wear every day, I think its something that will never date, and hopefully kate gets lots of use out of it in the years to come! d x

miss stewart becomes mrs dytlewski

I know this post is really late.. but i still wanted to do it in order of before the wedding, then the actual wedding day! A week before the wedding a few of kate's friends from different walks of life met up at the good ol' breakwater pub for a few drinks to celebrate kate's upcoming wedding. It was really nice for everyone to get together and see people we don't see often before the big day! More wedding posts to come.... d x

Assignment 2

I can now tell you the exciting news that I passed assignment 2 in my photography course, only 10 to go! The module was all about shutters, aperture, ISO and their relationships. The assignment had four different parts to it and required the use of my camera. I had to take a series of photographs to complete the first three parts to the assignment and explain what happened to my images as I made the required changes to the camera settings. I went to Kings Park during a few lunch breaks as I needed deep shadows and bright highlights to get the results I needed.

For the last part I used my new skills and took a photograph where I set the shutter speed, aperture and ISO to get the required final image in a controlled way. You can see the result above.

Emelie ♥

Fastlagsbullar

These lovely buns are filled with a sugary almond spread and as you can see lots of cream. They are traditional "fastlagsbullar", we bake them during this time of the year in Sweden. Although I’m not in Sweden and have the excuse that I need the extra “layer” to keep warm, I love to make these here in Australia. It’s important to me to keep my Swedish traditions, even though sometimes it’s the totally wrong season for it. For example when I’m adamant to have my hot "glögg" in December because I know they have it at home, and its tradition right! The only difference is that my Swedish peers are trying to keep warm when it’s minus 10 degrees outside and I have at least 35 degrees here in Perth. Well, I see myself as a pretty good problem solver and my solution to this, a very powerful aircon!

Emelie ♥