Can I have a Whinge?

No internet at home is really getting on my nerves. I have all these posts prepared in my head, but it just gets too inconvenient to come into work or my parent’s house to post them up. No one really knows why our internet doesn’t work at home, which is also very annoying.

I had a whole heap of videos to show you all of all the yummy stuff I’ve been making from scratch this week. My chocolate attempts, rye bread, and homemade mozzarella! But none have got posted, cause I can’t upload the videos.

So that’s my whinge. I guess I’ll just have to tell you all about the other things I’ve been up to, and post the videos next week!

Thanks for visiting my site again! keep checking back for more updates!

Tags: no internet, whinge

A Personalised Embroidered Wedding Gift

Marcus and Emma’s wedding on the weekend was beautiful. I’m still on a high from having all my Gibson cousins together, and seeing two people in love get married. Marriage is such an awesome gift, hey!?

I thought I’d take a moment to show you what I made for them as a wedding gift. I embroidered this saying, and then included their names and the date of their wedding below. What do you think?

The saying is “Home is wherever you are…”. It’s meant to be like a husband saying to a wife “Home is wherever YOU are”, but in hindsight it just reads like home is wherever you happen to be at the time… :-/

But anyway, I thought their names and the date was a nice touch. The fabric is glued around the back so this can just hang on the wall ‘as is’! We gave it to them with some of those cool thick white letters (an “M” “&” and “E” for Marcus and Emma).

I also quickly put together a little card. This type of card is seriously SUPER easy and you can do it in so many shapes for so many different occasions. As this was a wedding I just used a hot glue gun to make the heart shape and stuck the red buttons in. I dusted it with glitter afterwards, which stuck to the bits of glue that were showing. Easy peasy!

I’d love to know what sort of handmade gifts you’ve made for a wedding. Let me know in the comments!

Tags: button, embroidery, gibson, handmade, marcus&emma, wedding

Marcus & Emma’s Wedding

On Saturday my cousin, Marcus, got married to his beautiful bride, Emma. I appointed myself chief babysitter to Deegan, who was as adorable as ever! Basically the was day awesome because it included two of my favourite things- weddings and babies! Better yet, family weddings and babies!

Usually weddings spell disaster diet wise, but with our ‘no sugar’ thing we could eat all the food except dessert! Win! (BTW: of course we were careful to not just eat anything, we did check that things didn’t have sugar before we ate them).

My brother Rhys and I held all the drinks, scarves, purses and babies for the Gibson cousins as they got their family photo taken.

Luke and Deegan. Lovin’ it.

The cake- they’re wearing the same thing on the cake as they did in real life! Also, that’s their dog, Mojo down there on the green!

My stunning mother.

My Uncle and Aunt, David & Judy.

Our Rodgers-Carbis family.

Everyone wants a hold of Deegan, even the bride!