Purple and Pearls

It all started so well. 

You may or may not have noticed my lack of wedding weight loss updates.  The reason for this is because, well I haven’t been going to my meetings!

In fact I haven’t been since the end of November.  Oops!

Tonight I’m getting back into it, hard!  After my weigh in (please, don’t let it be too bad!) I’m off to body combat.  Obviously I have never been before otherwise I don’t think I would be considering it.

Uh Oh!

I’ve had a terrible accident with a bottle of hair die and look what’s happened!!

Last week I won a pair of Coast purple kitten heel shoes.  Suzie saw them on eBay and sent me the link.  I won them for the bargain price of £13.  Their retail value is over £60.

This is the story of the purple kitten heel shoes.

It started with a box…

and a promise…

and then, there they were.

The End.

I’m not 100% sure I’ll use them for the wedding.  I don’t think they are perfect, they rub my toes a little but for £13 I can’t grumble, I’ve got myself a stunning pair of purple kitten heel shoes!

P.S is it me or is one of the flowers miles bigger than the other?!

This Saturday I shall be dressed in my piratey best aboard the good ship “Hen Party”

It’s Suzie’s swashbucklin’ single life send off and the theme of the day?  Pirates!  (In case you hadn’t figured that bit out!)  We’re all off to a photography studio armed with inflatable palm trees, monkey’s and bottles ‘o rum to have lots of crazy photos taken.  Then it’s back to Cap’in Suzie’s quarters for fun and games!

Because I’m feeling rather mischievous today I’m going to share a sneak peak of some of the goodies and surprises we have in store for our hen…

Every year our venue Nailcote Hall gives one lucky, lucky couple the chance to win £5000 towards the cost of their wedding.
We have been invited to attend their Bride of the Year Champagne and Canapé evening on the 11th February.  If picked we could win £5000 off the cost of our wedding and be featured in the hotels promotional material.  We’d even be in the local paper!

Obviously it’s a long shot but someone has to win it!  Keep your fingers and toes crossed for us! x

As planned I took a trip to Hobby Crafts on Saturday to buy everything I needed to experiment with my chalkboard heart placecards.

I bought a pack of 17 wooden hearts for £2.69 and a can of chalkboard spray paint for £8. The whole project should cost me about £20

My chalkboard placecard kit

I took all the bits outside and made sure I covered the area I was going to work on well.  Each wooden heart is about 4.5cm by 4cm so it doesn’t take much to fully coat it.  This is what it looks like after 1 coat

Although it was still a little wet here, I think it will need at least two coats as you can still see the wood grain and I’d like it to look a little smoother.
Before I spray the rest of the hearts I’m going to drill a small hole so I can attach a piece of jute twine.  They really shouldn’t take very long to do, I can cover about 20 in one go with the spray can, it’s now just a case of buying around 68 more hearts and hoping for good weather!

So on Friday I said I had a little surprise for Suzie…

I made up a little bag of honeymoon goodies!
I started to collect what I thought were essential items (yes Haribo is an essential!) for a honeymoon, including the super cute Goodworks bath products like “Good Riddance Body Scrub” and Good Looking Body Lotion so she can smell delicious!  I also bought a little hand fan so she can keep herself cool by the pool.  I found some gorgeous “Apple and Dots” hair bands from Baubles N Bows.  A bites and stings kit, antibacterial hand sanitiser and nail clippers, file and scissors!  Hopefully these little things will all come in handy!

I also gave her a little photo album they can keep their honeymoon snaps in.

Suzie isn’t going on honeymoon for another few weeks yet, but I know she’ll be getting organised about now, hopefully my little pack will help her out a bit!

Note: Photos are a bit rubbish because I took them minutes before rushing out the door on my way to Suzie’s  and I only had my little camera with me!

Today I met Sarah from Blue Door Bakery at Stone Manor Hotel’s Wedding Fayre.  I got to see her gorgeous cupcakes in the flesh and let me tell you they we’re amazing!  Just standing by the stall talking to her we could smell them!
Sarah had two arrangements one was an 80 vanilla cupcake tower with purple embellishments, including purple and laser cut cake cases and another made entirely from chocolate, crowning the chocolatey tower was a rather impressive giant cupcake.  The presentation of each cake is perfect.  You can tell Sarah obviously puts in a lot of care and effort.

After I had introduced myself to Sarah she said “Oh I have something for you!” and pulled out a little cupcake gift box from under the table!  So sweet!

Not only do they look and smell absolutely delicious they taste incredible!  The cakes are so light and fluffy and the frosting is heavenly!  My words seriously can not do these cakes justice.  You really have to try them for yourselves!

Needless to say the first thing I did when I got home, aside from devouring the cakes, was to email Sarah with the nitty gritty details of ordering these for our wedding.  Our guests really are in for a tasty treat!

It was lovely to meet you Sarah and thanks again for the scrummy cakes!  x

I have a rather wedding packed weekend on the cards!  Tomorrow I shall be visiting Hobby Crafts to see if I can find the materials to make chalkboard place names. If I get time I’ll also have a go at putting one together.

The it’s off to Suzie’s house to drop off something special… what could it be!?  Not telling!  If Suzie spies this post the surprise will be ruined!  I promise to post about it once she has it!

I’m also out with some friends tomorrow night for pizza, drinks and dancing so I may as well kill two birds so to speak and curl my hair and play around with some wedding styles.

Then Sunday bright and early (depending on hangovers) we shall be eating cake from Blue Door Bakery.  The lovely Sarah will be at the Stone Manor Hotel Wedding Fair.  Hopefully I’ll be able to cross off another “to do” item from my January list.  I’m really looking forward to meeting her, we’ve chatted over email and twitter so it’ll be nice to put a face to the tweets!

Jealous?  You should be!!

Happy Weekend! x