Our Day by Design

I had a lovely 4 days in London last weekend with my sister Ashleigh, her fiance Patrick and my new nephew Enzo. I was able to visit them in hospital on Friday and help them bring Enzo home which was wonderful to be part of and I got to be chief photographer for the day! My Mum & Dad came down for Saturday & Sunday so I was able to go and stay with them on Saturday night to give the new family some peace and I also made the trip out to Kent to visit my friend Angela, her husband Dave and their baby Jack. There will be a further post to follow, but until I get a chance to write it, and get mummy's permission to post some pictures, here are the fabulous balloons {if I do say so myself} that I got for baby Enzo. How cool is the blue zebra! Can you tell I'm easily amused by helium balloons!

I made baby boy & baby girl cards for all the people that were having babies! I made 2 of each hoping that would cover the 3 arrivals {which I did so now I have a girl one spare!} I sent one to Angela once Jack had arrived, and gave one to Lucy when Emily arrived, but didn't want to share them until Ashleigh had her baby and she had seen her card too. I originally got the idea from this card from Hero Arts , which is where I found the Baby Girl & Baby Boy clear stamp sets I used, as I really liked the announcement bit you fill in. As you can see I just changed the colours and type of ribbon, used cute baby buttons instead of the pearls, added they baby girl / baby boy stamp to the top then I filled in the sections and added the actual babies names at the top. For Jack & Emily's cards, I stamped their first & middle name onto the blank white section at the top, but unfortunately I didn't think to take a picture when they were completed. For Enzo's card...

...no official weigh-in; I'm down in London visiting my sister, her fiance and my new baby nephew!

My nephew has now arrived! Can you tell I'm just a little bit excited! My sister Ashleigh had a baby boy called Enzo at 3.12am this morning, weighing 6lb 14oz & 53cm long. I'm so so so happy and delighted for her and her fiance Patrick and can't wait to visit the new family and see how they are all doing. Congratulations Mummy and Daddy! I'm flying down to London after work tonight for a long weekend until Monday which is going to be lovely and Granny & Grandad are also coming down on Saturday to see the new arrival. I should get to see mummy & baby tomorrow. I'm also going to pop out to Kent at some point to see my friend Angela & her new baby Jack, who is almost 8 weeks old already! So its going to be a full weekend of babies & family. p.s I'm so glad my 101st post could be about the new arrival!

Woo hoo, I have reached my 100th post! I cant believe I have managed to keep up writing this blog for so long, I have no doubt that part of it is because of all the lovely comments I get, thank you everyone. I also really enjoy it and hope you will all continue to do so too! We still have 193 days until the wedding so maybe enough time for 100 more! For my 100th post, I leave you with images of the Storefront for Art and Architecture in NYC and Saipua's new shop in Brooklyn, which I first seen on Peonies and Polaroids , both completely unrelated to weddings! Storefront for Art and Architecture (Image from here ) Saipua's Store (Image from here ) p.s I really hope my 101st or 102nd post is going to be about my new niece or nephew!

Today I posted off the deposit to confirm our date with the make-up company. They are called EyeCandy and they were originally recommended by the hairdressers where I am getting my hair done {well hopefully, really need to book it!} and I have read some good reports about them. They also use MAC make-up which I use and really like which was another reason I liked the sound of them. (Image from here ) I don't wear a lot of make-up generally and since I totally want to be pampered on my wedding day and want to make sure I'm wearing enough for the photos, I wanted to get it done professionally. They are a mobile company, based in Edinburgh, who can either come to my parents house where we are all getting ready or go to the hairdressers since they have a good relationship with them and there is plenty of space. Which is a good thing since 6 of us {me, mum and 4 out of my 5 bridesmaids} will be getting their make-up done {I had left it up to them to decide whether they wanted it do...

At work the other day me and my colleagues were discussing weddings {my friend at work is getting married in 2 weeks so this is a regular occurrence just now} and my boss, whose 5 year wedding anniversary was on Friday, was telling us how him and his wife had kept to the traditional anniversary gifts every year. This year, since the gift was wood, he had got her a wooden penguin from dcuk, The Duck Company , and he was given a wooden cocktail muddler. I thought it was a great idea and something we would love to do in the future, although given that we aren't even married yet, it will be quite a while until we have to worry about it! I dug out my birthdays + anniversaries book from Paperchase which lists each anniversary to see what they are {UK ones anyway}: 1st - Paper 2nd - Cotton 3rd - Leather 4th - Fruit & Flowers 5th - Wood 6th - Sugar/Iron 7th - Wool 8th - Bronze 9th - Copper/Pottery 10th - Tin 11th - Steel 12th - Silk & Linen 13th - Lace 14th - Ivory 15th - Crystal ...