Magazine in Bloom

My obsession for blooms and table decorating often sees me trawling through wedding blogs for inspiration - there's not much else out there.

So I am very happy to find this online magazine fête which does beautiful table stylings without all the bridezilla.

Oh, and it's free! God bless the interwebs. 

Via fête

Valentine's in Bloom

There's no reason to be blue on Valentine's, unless it's with these guys! 

Yellow in Bloom

This has been such a shit summer, I needed some bright blooms to cheer me up! 

LBi in Bloom

Ahh! It all went off without a hitch! We (my trusty helper Emma D and I ) put the flowers up in record time, and it looked good (I think!) and then we packed up and spread some blooms around Sydney before collapsing into bed. SO MUCH FUN! Can't wait to do it again - who's in? 

Preparation in Bloom

Tonight I will be doing the flowers for my first real event!

One of my friends, an ex-colleague, actually asked me to do some blooms for her new company's party because she had seen this very blog. Thanks internet!

I am equal parts excited and crazy nervous.

Here's a little sneak peak into the lead up:

Buying vases at Ikea - they have some great stuff at the moment and it is so frickin cheap! Those sets of 3 vases are only $19.99 and they are really quite big. And it might be super daggy, but Friday night at Ikea Tempe is just bliss!

This is my boot full of flowers from the flower markets. Thanks God the markets are so beautiful and inspiring, because getting out there in the wee hours sucks otherwise.

And this is how everything is looking so far! It's all bunched and tied into little posies, which will then be finished with the red spider and vanda orchids.  Red and white are the company colours, and the host wanted something modern, so I've chosen really textual blooms, no roses or hydrangeas.

I just have to hope it looks great in the space. I have one hour to put it all together, thankfully I have Emma D on hand to help (although her job will probably just be calming me the f down when I go loco).

Wish me luck!

Boys in Bloom

My friend Lewis lamented on the fact that boys don't get given flowers. He says that when boys get flowers it feels just the same as when girls get flowers - ie AWESOME.

So I gave some boys some flower love on the weekend. Maybe they were just being nice, and they really wanted more vodka, but I really liked giving them blooms.

Dhalias and orchids  for Adam....

Tulips and red bouvardia for Derek. 

Happy Party Boys! 

The Hobette in Bloom

In a week that is as wet and rainy and miserable as this one has been,  flowers (and alcohol) are the only things that will brighten things up. Alas, I have had no time to even think about flowers, or alcohol. 

So back to through the files I go, and find a party I put on quite some time ago for my lovely friend Paulina Hobbs and her beautiful bump, who we used to call the Hobette, but now we call Sara. The bump is coming up for her first birthday now, so you can see this is quite old. But it was raining heavily too that day, so it kind of feels like now. 

The theme was Mad Hatter, and my inspirations were red velvet, plum, emerald green, baby pink & baby blue. Just a bit mad really!  Pic are by Emma D.