Just Teasing ~

Dearest friends,

I hope you’ve all had just as pleasant of a weekend as I had. It probably is the first weekend since Spring arrived in town that I could walk out in my Spring-wear, and wish that the weather could be as beautiful as today, everyday!

This weekend has been the first semi-lazy weekend in a long, long while. Past weekends I’ve had to get around to doing a million things, get to a million places at certain times/deadlines. Was stressful alright. I still had to get work done this weekend but I was able to do it at my own pace without having to try multitask.

I’m in a good mood today, (although a bit sleep deprived from late nights) after going for Sunday lunch and afternoon drive with my partner. We went for a walk in a national park North of Sydney and soaked in some golden light, truly enjoying every minute! I hope to make this a weekend/fortnightly thing for us; going for long walks in parks, beaches etc. It’s good to have a little get away from the computer. (Yup, sadly most of the stuff I do (and enjoy) are between the Macbook and I)

So, to wrap up this weekend, I’d like to share a teaser for what’s coming next on the blog.

Will introduce you to this loving couple later in the week :)

Lots of Love,

Clarissa

Weddings ~ Katrina & Martin

The love story of today’s couple is an inspiring one; A relationship that was almost separated by distance, between countries (America and Australia), but all it took was commitment from both sides and eventually something beautiful blossomed.

Today, I present to you Katrina and Martin’s wedding.

That Saturday was forecasted to rain, but the weather remained beautiful throughout, Sydney weather sucks does it not?

The day began with getting ready at Katrina’s family home, which housed a great collection of her parent’s keepsakes from over the years and beautiful flower arrangements put together by Katrina’s mother.

Katrina’s beautiful Salvatore Feregamo flats – totally loving the grey/purple colour!

She got her wedding gown custom made, the top made from beautiful French chantilly lace. I love the soft boat neckline created by the lace (you will see what I mean below!)

The wedding reception too place at Athol Hall in Mosman. The place was beautifully made over by Form over Function, who took care of every little detail!

Katrina put together a song for Martin which was based on the ‘Yellow Submarine’ tune. So much fun and catchy! I can still replay the song in my head right now :P

Party! Party! Party!

We stayed till the end of the wedding and saw the newly weds leave in ‘style’ ;)

Was so fortunate to be part of another beautiful, heartfelt wedding, thank you to Bailie for asking me along!

x Clarissa

Hello Spring!

Hello, hello!

First day of Spring, weather not looking as sunny as I would like.. but I’m hoping it’ll warm up a bit soon.. so I can start kicking. . i mean strutting around in my new shoes that I bought  for an awesome price in China! Well, it was about $40ish each, which you would imagine isn’t an awesome price here… but these shoes are considered like the brands you would find in Myers/David Jones here… but the awesome thing about it was I got them at 50% off! Why can’t we get 50% offs here in our department stores too?? I went there on the last day of the sale, only had about 800rmb on me (au$100), wish I could’ve bought more!

Left: Lime yellow cork wedges wedges, they are about 1-2inches high

Right: Sandals (with a little bit of heel) and a lot of ‘coins’ hanging off it!.. Yep, you can hear when I’m coming! like coins jiggling in a bag :D

Wedges were totally IN in China, hence I got sucked in to buying a pair, I know the boyfriend dislikes it… because then I will be taller than him :P

Also bought a few floral maxi dresses, which were also IN, which my boyfriend also didn’t like me in… but aye its hard to find maxi dresses that I ‘look good’ in.

Loved pairing these with 3/4 maxi skirts when in China, but I couldn’t find many that I liked :( I hope there will be lots in store here this season.. Ah Spring shopping :)

Missing great variety, big discounts, and cheap prices..of course you need to sift through the clothes to find something of decent/awesome quality…  oh China…

xx Clarissa