Been fascinating!

Been doing bits and pieces, this was this morning. 

Got up at 6 - sweet, made botanical addition for fascinator - done - and then attached it - hey, I'm not a milliner - damn - fiddle-sticks.

By half 9 we were in Lygon street, with coffee, doing the sisterly hand over. Great! Now, time to go shopping ...

Behind the scenes

The Autumn sun was shining, the leaves were swirling and I made flowers out amongst it all on Mum's porch. Now that's a studio!

A guest and a florist

That was me, last week. There is nothing nicer than getting to be the florist for the wedding of one of your oldest friends :-) It is twice as stressful being both guest and florist but totally worth every minute! The BF was a gem. He progressed through the floristry ranks at lightening speed; from lackey, to apprentice, to initiate, to master florist in the space of about an hour. He did pass comment in the last moments of the set up, as he swept floors, emptied buckets and lugged stuff, that perhaps he had been demoted again? Nope, that's just being a florist, my dear. Anyway, the bride looked gorgeous, naturally; and an Autumn wedding in the Macedon Ranges is always a good idea, I say. The band was great and we had a ball. Thank you to all those who boosted my confidence with their generous praise; maybe me & the side-kick will do it again sometime soon?

People got married

A wedding that I actually went to as a guest; what a lovely change!
Check out the size of that gardenia. That's a proper tropics specimen, due to the fact that we were in the Byron Bay hinterland at the time. The bride's family just picked these from their own shrubs on the morning; heaven.
It was a weekend full of much, much love, great friends and excellent food. What more could you ask for? Beaches? Sunshine? Swimming before breakfast? Oh, well we had all that too :-)

We also had a birthday

or two in the last month.

Wanderings of the lost blogger

Aka: me.

Yikes! How did we get here already? Freaking crazy times have been had and clearly, I didn't think to sit down and document any of it here. So, as per usual, I will be playing catch up again.

There was a market: A Christmas Design Mini Market that is....

A gaggle of very clever friends set up a little market in the Kuwaii store in Brunswick the other week.  There were flowers and plants, jewellery and accessories, clothing and footwear and baked goods too!

Cecilia Fox was there and Tara Shackell, Trotski & Ash and Anna Varendorff, a few more without linkies and some home made lemonade too. Yum. 

I am always amazed and encouraged by the level of creative talent housed in this average sized suburb!

Theatrical settings

 

Venue of the year?
More over at Mel's.

Putting on a show: behind the scenes

 Some pictures from behind the scenes of Faye's wedding. Look at "my" workshed, complete with two big benches, which the Christians organised for me for the week. And check out all my helpers, at the peak I think there was about 15 of us on the job! It was such great fun to have everybody getting involved; shared work = shared laughs in my book.

Blank canvas

 A big reason for my visit to the Island this time round, has been the wedding of a good childhood friend. When I was last here Faye begged me to come back and do the flowers for her wedding; so I did. How could I say no? She was marrying in this tiny 800 year old church (above). I have many fond memories of attending Harvest Festival services with my Nana at old St Runius; perched on the skinny pews, surrounded by candles and watching the organist get up a swing as he pumped the pedals. There's no electricity, you know.

More from Red Hill

Event by Georgeous at the Port Phillip Estate. Flowers by  Cecilia Fox.

Pretty pastels in Red Hill

A couple of weeks back Isadora drove me and a van-load of flowers down the Peninsula to do this Georgeous wedding for Mel; what a pleasure! I've never spent time down that part of the state and was just mesmerised by the crisp beauty of the vistas, captured so wonderfully by this venue. It was a nice note to finish on before I came away, that's for sure.

Blessing the Way

It's been such a busy week, this little gathering seems like forever ago. I think it was last weekend (?) that we gathered some lovely ladies together in our "conservatory" to bless the way for a close friend and the little babe she's carrying. This week may see the arrival of the little "Jubb-nut", as he/she has become known!

Vessel hunting

Tori and I went on a scavenger hunt in Castlemaine this weekend; fun! Look at my new friend, I think I'll plant her full of bright pansies or some such.

Flowers in the dome

J and I took care of this hanging floral display for a glorious Georgeous wedding on the weekend in the divine dome at 333 Collins Street while Miss Melanie was in charge down at the reception venue.

A while back:

Helped Mel on this one a month or so back and forgot to tell y'all.

The cards say it all

Every now and then I pull out my cards; look what came up last week. Interestingly, a day later I had quit my job and indeed, I am now looking at a new phase in my life. Exciting isn't it? 

We ran out of Vegemite; Marmite isn't as good.

I also went to the op shop. Look what I found; and that's only half the stash! Somedays you just have that thrifting luck in your bones and it's best to roll with it.

Belated notations

I have found that it is much easier to take photos of other people's work. When it's your job, you just don't have the time. So thank you to the pro-photographer on Pete and Arwen's wedding; truly beautiful shots.

Afternoon Tea