[croquet engagement brunch]

My little sister Sarah is engaged!
To celebrate this happy occasion, we threw her and her fiancé Chris an engagement party.  Rather than your typical evening soiree, we held a Sunday brunch at a sweet little croquet club.
I had a friend of mine who's an aspiring florist to create the beautiful arrangements for the brunch table and had a few family members and Sarah's other bridesmaids to help with the tasty morsels.
It was truly a perfect winter's morning here in sunny Brisbane!

The lovely Rachel Evans created these stunning blooms, complementing the mint green and yellow theme beautifully with dewy succulents and billy buttons.

Gluten Free Banana Cake with Passionfruit Icing.

(Made by yours truly)

I discovered this completely divine recipe over at My Darling Lemon Thyme - a fantastic food blog full of delish gluten free goodness.

Clockwise from the top, Sarah, me (her MOH) and her lovely bridesmaids.

Me and my bearded husband.

Long time friends Brooke and Britney looking the part for a morning of croquet.

and the happy couple.

I love these shots,

they're a bit cute.

And so the planning begins.

Jx

[lovely midweek deliveries]

How thrilling is mail on your doorstep after a long day at work.

Yesterday we were greeted with two exciting packages.

The first was wedding invitation samples that I had ordered from Minted - a fabulous online stationary shop that Tina from Lady Chatterley's Affair had brought to my attention.

The second was the disc of our full engagement session from Sugar Blush Photography.

How lovely is the packaging...

It really is all about the details - they even have beautiful letterpress business cards.

If you fancy having a sticky at our engagement session, I blogged about it here and it was featured on Style Me Pretty here.
Hope you're all have a lovely week! Jx

[all done my deer]

He's all done.
Didn't manage to get him to the bride-to-be before she became a bride (she was a beautiful one at that!)
I painted him as an engagement gift.
I had taken my watercolours camping a few weeks ago in case the weather was unfavourable.
Lucky for me it pelted down all day which gave me plenty of in-tent painting time - not that my little deer had much to go.

Happy monday everyone!
Jx

[our engagement session]

Such exciting news!!!
Our engagement session was featured on Style Me Pretty Australia!
I'm so thrilled to be sharing these with you all.  It was such a fun afternoon!

Yena and Patrick were our photographers from Sugar Blush Photography and we could not be happier that we have them to capture our special day in October!

If you fancy having a look at the rest, here's the original post and here's the gallery. Jx

images via sugar blush photography and style me pretty australia

[engagement shoot sneak peek]

Happy Monday everyone!
Here's a little peek of the engagement shoot we had the weekend before last.

Looking forward to sharing the rest with you!

Have a fabulous week!

Jx

image via sugarblush photography

[our engagement thank you cards]

A little while back now, Dan and I celebrated our engagement with a few close family and friends.

I decided it might be nice to design my own thank you cards for our guests so I painted a little watercolour of us both, scanned the image and then created and ordered cards through Vistaprint (extremely reasonable and quick as well!).

I painted us in the very outfits we wore that night!  Only half the recipients realised - the other half must have had a really good night!

Very happy with the final product.

And now we also have a little piece of art as a nice memento of the night.

In other news, we had our engagement shoot yesterday!
Stay tuned!!!
Jx