Flower Inspiration

Guys, I'm getting married! I don't get tired of saying that, and whilst I am super enjoying all the fun planning and surfing the net this wedding planning malarky can be just a little bit stressful...like, stuff is really expensive. Why is everything so expensive? 

I try and push all the money, expensive and stress inducing stuff to one side and enjoy dreaming about all the pretty things that we'll have at our wedding. We're planning it for Autumn time, but I don't want to do the stereotypical autumn stuff (pumpkins, leaves, orange and red) mainly because Australia doesn't do any seasons the stereotypical way...especially not the colder seasons. So, the current idea, and I say current because I am very prone to changing my mind, is beautiful autumn berries colours. Above are some of the beautiful bouquets I have found on my many hours of pinterest browsing. So many beautiful options. I currently saw a gorgeous white protea at my local florist and think it would look so beautiful surrounded by soft red and purple flowers.

Sources clockwise from top: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

I Love Flowers

 I love flowers. Pretty much every time my flowers die I buy some new ones. The wonderful little place I go to never has the same stuff in their store either, so I get to pick all sorts of beautiful different flower. I really love the coral like flower I got this time. The whole bouquet makes me happy, I love having it right by the door to welcome me home. :)

I also learnt an awesome little tip about Lilies when buying these flowers. If you pull the pollen bits off, with a tissue, when they open you don't get all that horrible orange pollen everywhere. The gorgeous lily smell is till there, just none of the mess. If you pull them off just as the flowers open they aren't as sticky.

Getting Crafty

This weekend has felt pretty awesome.
Yesterday, James and I rented a car and did some shopping at Ikea and Bunnings. I got a rug and plant for work, and we went in to set them up. The room looks SO much nicer now. I am a lot happier. :) We also found the perfect piece of wood to replace the bit that was broken by our dividing wall blowing open and ripping the old piece apart. We also picked up some new flowers for the apartment, James' idea. :)
I have also made some pretty bunting for the Nursery room, some birthday balloons, and flowers to display all the children in our room.
We've also been through most of our cook books and picked out the recipes we love, and watched the whole first season of Suits.
To some, it may sound like a rather mundane weekend, but to us it was pretty perfect. :)

Floriade 2013 - Part 2

 

Floriade 2013 - Part 1

Today we went to see Floriade. I love the flowers. So pretty. :) These are my pink, white, purple and blue photos.

I have pretty flowers!

On Monday I bought myself some pretty flowers. I love having pretty flowers in the apartment. I went in hoping to get some colourful gerbera and tulips, and that is part of what I came home with. The gorgeous pink gerbera I came home with were displayed next to beautiful purple orchids and some blossom branches; so of course I had to get some gorgeous purple orchids, blossom branches AND the gerbera and tulips I hoped to get. It's only been three days, but I LOVE my pretty flowers. They so purty. They make me so happy. Why my lovely James does not buy me flowers I do not know, because I so love flowers. 

Eeee, pretty flowers!

Blossoms

 

 

I don't know if we hang out in the wrong part of Sydney, or just don't get out enough, but season changes like Summer to Autumn, and Winter to Spring are not as visually noticeable. In Canberra, however, the tree turn those gorgeous reds and oranges in Autumn, and blossoms come out in Spring. It is gorgeous, and one of the many reasons I love visiting Canberra. Today I took the opportunity to take some blossom photos, as I cannot guarantee they will still be around next time we visit, and taking photos of blossoms is one of my favourite spring time activities (we have a gorgeous pink blossom tree back in Geneva that I miss so much).

I then took some gorgeous photos of James, but since he is not so fond of the photos I will not share them here. I love the photos. I think he looks gorgeous, and so happy, and that makes me love them even more. :)

One more day of my long weekend and then it's back to reality.

Poppies

 

 

 

Last week I bought a whole bunch of poppies, actually two bunches of poppies. I think poppies are gorgeous, and for the first couple of days they did look gorgeous and would make me feel so happy when I walked in through the door...but then they all died. I don't know what I did wrong. I treated them like all the other flowers I get, the bunch I bought at the same time is still very alive and happy, but my poppies are now all droopy and hanging about. It makes me sad. I don't think I'm going to buy poppies again. I'll leave them for admiring in beautiful gardens.

Also, I need to work on my flower photographing with the new camera...the focus is all over the place in these photos. Not good.

Flowers Make Me Happy

We have flowers in our apartment again. It makes me happy. :)

Floriade 2012

At the end of September James and I visited Canberra for a long weekend. Whilst there we visited the Floriade, it's a big flower park/display thing. Basically, it's lots of pretty flowers. Cameras ready?

Unfortunately, it was pretty cloudy and rainy the day we went, so I didn't take as many beautiful photos as I would have had it been sunny. I am happy with the photos I took though. I love taking photos of flowers. :)

These are my favourite flowers, they look like paper flowers and are such gorgeous colours. So pretty. :) I would be very happy to have a garden full of these beauties.

This tulip was beautiful too, like a crazy fiery flower. Gorgeous!

And my favourite thing of the whole Floriade was the gnomes. Gnomes had been painted by all sorts of kids of different ages. I loved pretty much all of them, but this guy, he was my favourite. If I could have, I would have bought him and taken him home.

I think we may definitely go again next year. :)