Purple and Pearls

Lately I’ve been spending a lot of time on Vintage Amethyst, a totally gorgeous online shop that sells beautiful decorative items for your home and really sweet gift ideas.

At the moment I’m loving:

Everything is so reasonably priced, I would love to use the chalkboard tags as name places for our wedding, they would look so cute!  

I’ve mentioned it before but our family and friends were super generous when we got engaged.  We were given a lot of gift vouchers and it was my intention to keep them until we moved into our house together.  However, we desperately needed a new duvet.

I didn’t realise how bad it was until I spent 4 weeks sleeping in my old bed with my nice fluffy duvet only to come back and sleep under our waffer thin sheet!

Tonight should be interesting, I already have enough trouble with Has hogging the covers what’s he going to be like now we have a dreamy duvet!?

Do you remember when I said that Hayley was bad at surprises?  Well that doesn’t just include surprises meant for her!

For about 3 weeks Hayley has been telling me about a present she has got me.  I wasn’t suppose to have it until the 5th November but Hayley brought it with her last Friday night.

Seeing as we’re both rubbish at waiting, we decided as Hayley wasn’t going to be with me on the 5th, it was only fair to open it then!

For Has, a Bridezilla Voodoo Doll! – the message read “To Has, If Laura turns into a Bridezilla you can give her a poke!“

2 Shot glasses on hot pink necklaces – with the tag “For all your hen doo dreams (or nghtmares!)” lol

A photo album, with the tag “You’ll have lots of wedding day albums and photos, so this is just for all the wedding things that come before!“
Inside the message read “A little book of memories just for you, to count down the days ’till you say I do!  The preparation, the laughs, the tears and of course the hen doo, can all be kept in here to be shared forever by the both of you. x“

Hayley also put in a gorgeous pink feather boa (!) and plastic willy straws!  Ever since I asked Hayley to be bridesmaid she’s threathened me with plastic willy straws! I’m sure I’ll find a way to get her back!

She also put in this card

Cute!  Thank you Hayley!  Love you loads xxx

Etsy

I’m not sure whether this is a good or bad thing!  I’ve already made my first purchase (I only registered yesterday!)

Etsy is where clever people sell their amazingly beautiful handmade goodies, and people like me buy them! eBay is soooo last week!

Unfortunately and frustratingly I can’t tell you what I’ve brought!  Too many Bridesmaids read this!

Here are a few of my favourite Etsy things at the moment.

Bird Clutch Purse from the Print Tree Shop. Alice in Wonderland Paper Cut Quote from Mr Yen.
Little red Christmas hearts Framed picture from Sarah and Bendrix. And They Lived Happily Ever After Sign from The Back Porch Shoppe.  Fancy a Brew? Tea Towel from Mr PS Shop

I love giving presents, but I’m terrible with keeping a secret. I’m usually like this:

“Oh I’m excited! I’ve brought you something, but I can’t tell you what it is!”

Both Suzie and Hayley are rubbish with surprises too. Hayley is always asking me what happens in Lost and is constantly reading the spoilers. Suzie is just as bad and made me tell her the ending to the new Harry Potter film.

So with my inability to keep schtum and their impatience for surprises I wonder whether their Bridesmaid presents will in fact be a surprise?!

This weekend I have decided on a big project for my Bridesmaids and I’ve told both of them about it without actually telling them what it is. As you can imagine they have tried their very best to get it out of me!

To help me with my secret keeping I’ve decided I can share what I have brought Sophie, my youngest Bridesmaid, as she won’t read the Blog.

This is a really cute book that Sophie can fill in.  It has spaces for her to add her own pictures and comments about her experience as a Bridesmaid.  It also has little pockets on the inside pages where she can collect things from the day like confetti, table gems or her name place.  I going to get her a little camera to go with it and probably a few extras.

P.S. Suzie, Hayley… give up now!  You’ll never get it out of me! x