Let's get real!

It's not too late for a New Year's resolution is it?
Instead of half arsing 2 blogs I think it's time I get realistic and merge my personal blog and my Bits & Bubs blog.
Who was I kidding? Lately I havn't had time to post regularly on 1 blog let alone 2!
So here is the plan; a new look blog with a new banner, regular posting, regular store updates, and of course I will have to celebrate my new found organisation and commitment (ahem) with a competition once the new look has been completed. So, what do you think?
Hopefully my laptop will be back in my very eager hands soon so I can get moving (she has taken a trip to the computer doctor as she refuses to open for me, and of course I keep meaning to back up but...)!

delicious image via weheartit

Lounge Pants Love

I just love receiving positive feedback from delighted customers, and it is especially lovely when they post pictures of their adorable girls wearing my items and loving them!

Thanks Linda from Lulufroufrou for posting about Bits & Bubs vintage Holly Hobbie Lounge pants. Little Lou looks totally adorable!

check out Lindas madeit shop for lots of lovely hair pretties for your little girl.

I would love to see pics of other happy customers in their Bits & Bubs clothing & accessories so don't be shy and send them as I would love to post them here.

I hope all you Aussies readers had a relaxing Australia Day yesterday and that there are not too many sunburns and hangovers today...very easy when you are at the becah all day under perfect hot blue sunny skies sipping vodka fruit punches...

Make Me Smile Monday

"My colours are blush and bashful!" Shelby, Steel Magnolias

Anything pretty, girly and pink is guaranteed to put a smile on my face, even on a monday morning before work...hope you all had a fabulous and happy weekend!

I would so love a cubbby for the girls based on this delicious fairy floss pink cottage!

come fly with me...

I have always said I will not get married until I can get married under a marquee with folds of draped silk and chandeliers...

so takes me back to my childhood- who didn't love ice cream soda spiders!

my absolute favourite flower...

image 1 via the princess blog, image 2 via tumblr, image 3 via golden slumbers, image 4 via tumblr, image 5via sweet home style, image 6 via eat drink chic, image 7 via flickr here

Weekend Wishes

Jump for joy, it's Friday...bring on the weekend and enjoy whatever you are planning!

Thought of the day...

image via here

Hi Ho Silver, away!

I have never been partial to horses. They smell, are too big and scary and that pig-rooting thing they do totally freaks me out.

Now these little horses on the other hand are way more my style.
Seriously- are they not the most divine vintage looking hobby horses you have seen?

You can find more items from Calamity Bolt on madeit.com here.

 

all images via calamity bolt on madeit.com

First Day of School!

Probably the one thing I did love about the first day of school was the scheduling, arranging desks and gathering the school supplies. Highlighters, sheafs of loose leaf paper, folders, pens, pencils, erasers...
Oh and the smell! Heaven be stationary store.

Yesterday was my first day back at "school" (as a teacher that is) and I am feeling motivated to get my life organised. Schedule my week into managable routines so I can get everything done and nothing (or no-one is neglected), organise my workspace (yes, it still hasn't been done) and get up to date with my large pile of filing, oh and a cute calander and diary to keep track of lifes appointments and goings-ons of course!

A trip to officeworks for basics and smiggle for cute things is on the cards I do believe.



image found via weheartit, room styled by Selina Lake

It's a beautiful morning...

love this idea- using fabric swatch portraits as mini noticeboards.

broaches aren't just for your nana!

Saturday morning the boy and myself relished in a sunny, lazy child free breakfast in a cafe by the beach, people watching, sipping frothy cappachinno, munching eggs bennedict while reading multiple issues of Frankie magazines. Total and utter bliss.

Sadly, today is my last day off before I go back to work after 2 weeks off. And what a beautiful day to end on- absolutely perfect cloudless skies. The question is, do I stay home and organise the house, tidy, sort, wash and get ready for the week or do I get outside and lap up my last day off sunning and lazing down at the beach?

note to self: order subscription to Frankie magazine...

Just breathe...

I'm sorry, did someone say it was Christmas?

Life has gone by in a blur these past few weeks and it seems I have blinked and missed all the excitement leading up to Christmas Day...

I do however remember the lounge room floor covered in piles and piles and wrapping paper, boxes and packaging, the million wet beach towels and piles of discarded clothes littered around the pool, the 8 loads of washing, the rather embarrrassingly large collection of empty alcholic beverage bottles, the 2 fridges crammed full of food, desserts and condiments.
And of course I also remember the family times, the love, the laughter and the looks of delight on the little ones faces.

Now I am looking forward to taking a breath and just being...
No rushing, no time contraints, just doing whatever we please over the next 2 weeks. Reading magazines, catching up on blogs, reading the new Paulina Simmons book, watching a few movies, lazing by the pool or beach, sewing, shopping...ahhh.
   

All time Favourite Christmas Movies

Who doesn't love a good Christmas movie to warm the cockles of your heart?

Here are my Top 5 Christmas movies that I religiously watch every Christmas- in no particular order of course because that would require way too much decison making!

The Family Stone: funny, heartwarming, touching, crazy noisy family (a bit like ours), spunky males, too many fabulous cast members to list...

Love Actually: LOVE everything about this movie. Love the music, Love the interwoven stories and relationships, Love Colin Fristle, Love Hugh Grant as Prime Minister, Love Karl the spunky French office worker (just don't answer the phone girl!!!), Love Billy Mack ("I have spent most of my adult life with a chubby employee") I could go on and on....

The Holiday: maybe not really a Christmas movie but it is set around Christmas and new years so I count it in the list. The English cottage is just too beautiful, Jude Law is not too bad too and Jack Black is a riot as always, even though it is not a comedy role.

National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation: this is usually on tv every year but if not we will rent it and watch with my sisters and mum. This is one of those ugly laugh movies. You know, when you laugh so wholeheartedly that you have to cover your face because you look so ugly and you eventually laugh til you cry. Especially when you look over and your mother is literally peeing her pants with laughter.

Prancer: an absolute childhood favourite about a litle girl who finds a hurt reindeer she thinks is Prancer and nurses him back to health...tear

What's your favourite Christmas movie?

Fat Mum Slim Christmas Giveaway

Pop on over to Fat Mum Slim for your chance to enter Chantelle's Huge Christmas giveaway!

Amongst other fabulous items my Bits & Bubs vintage floral necklace is also up for grabs...what are you waiting for? Get clicking now!!!

image 1 via fatmumslim

Weekend Wishes

I forgot to mention how lovely our Christmas carol experience was last weekend.

We all arrived, set up camp, kiddies enjoyed carnival rides, mummy enjoyed her beveredges, clouds gathered, lightning started, thunder boomed, rain poured, feezing cold, kiddies cried, mummies shrieked, gathered stuff, everyone ran, soaking wet, started car, car bogged...

Thanks to the lovely passer-by for pulling us out of the sand!
Despite all this it was still fun and we stopped to watch the beach fireworks from the headland on the way home so it wasn't a total failure of a family outing.

Enjoy your weekend!


cute random image via audrey hepburn complex

2 weeks 'til Christmas

...and still not a scrap of shopping or preparation has been done.

I am the world's best procrastinator & leave to the last minuter...

image by Alicia Paulson via Pozy gets cozy

SATC2

Only 5 months until Sex & the City 2. I can't wait, how about you?
And what do you think about the poster? It's very bright and sparkly, I don't know about those aviators though...maybe she is wearing them so she doesn't get blinded by those city lights?

What the fudge?

Is anyone else having problems opening the new Lonny Mag?
Every link I click on and everytime I open the address it takes me to the launch issue.
HELP!!! I so wanted to have a peruse before I started work this morning...

A reason to smile...

The December issue of Lonny Mag is out tomorrow!

Yeah!

image via MA Belle