Shopping Finds - Cute stationery & coffee (or rather for tea) cup

I was in Melbourne Central the other day and noticed in front of soon-to-be closed down Borders, there were a couple of mini stalls. One of them was selling these really cute mugs, ceramic cups and stationery. I picked up these cute pouches and how cute is it that the packaging is an envelope?

I also picked up a ceramic coffee (in my case for tea) cup. I was told by the person at the shop that the cup depicting the Eiffel Tower was the most popular. I was not surprised though given how Paris or images of Paris seemed to be the trend nowadays....

But to be different, I got a cup depicting Saint Basil's Cathedral of Moscow. I also picked it because it is more colourful. As you know I like colours. :) Not that I've been there...but since my postgraduate research touches upon TRIZ (a problem solving tool) which is from Russia, I thought it was pretty apt!

Love,

From me to u.

A Wedding Journey: 3. It's a Sign!

As you know, signage are very important in any function. In a wedding, it can be the very thing that ties the whole wedding theme together. As I mentioned before, I did not have a specific theme for my wedding but rather I was using colours to tie the whole wedding together. Using signage, I used not only the colours, but fonts and motifs to create a feel for my wedding. 

I opted for a different, albeit a well-used idea in weddings by using words for each of my table instead of numbers. I designed and created the signs with a variety of words linked to "love". Some of my friends who were guests in the wedding helped me to come up with some of the words such as "adore, "devotion", "faith" and so on.

The fonts, motifs and colours were carried across onto other signage in the room. 

I did not want to settle for a normal excel sheets for my guestlist and sitting chart. So I created these. Again, I had hoped that by doing so, the continuity of the theme of my wedding would be preserved. 

Using cupcake wraps with stickers that I had designed to match the other signage around the wedding, I've saved time in making sure that my bomboniere were ready by the wedding reception with minimal hassle. I'm a big fan of doing things simple, easy and effective. Here, I opted for a typewriter font instead of the flowy font I had used in my other signage. Why? The size of these particular signage were tiny. It is important when creating signage that the guests can actually read them. That being said, the same font was also used in the invites. So again, it carried the theme of the wedding through.

Details, details details! It is the little details that can make a wedding unforgettable. I created a signage for my cake table to tell the guests what cake they would be getting. I created this by op-shopping my frame and painting it white.

Perhaps I was being overly obsessive about my wedding signage... but I absolutely think it is crucial to have signage that reflects your personality. The fun thing about these signage is, it could be the creative (and DIY) aspect of your wedding as you can actually do them way before the wedding, hence less stress. It is a fantastic way to get the bridesmaids and even guests involved!

Construction

After 2 years of living with uneven flooring and patches of rugs.... we finally replaced our floor. The experience of going through a construction was not pleasant, I must say. However, the end outcome made everything worth it. We finally have clean floors and surprisingly, the living room looks bigger. We also took the time to de-clutter.

The only back-draw about the clean floors is that I'm too afraid to dirty it! Not to mention the number of times I vacuumed and swept it over the two days... Eeeeks....

Wall Decor

Last Saturday I went to the craft fair with the girls and picked up some lovely fabrics and ribbons. Then, I thought to myself what can I use them for? I remembered I bought this lovely green vintage-type of frame from Typo. So I thought why not make a wall decor out of them? I proceeded to get more frames. I used different fabrics that I already had and also some of the fabrics I got from the craft fair. With the ribbons, I decided to arrange them as stripes. I hung these cute fabric collage in frames on my room wall. I feel really inspired and happy whenever I look at them!