Saturday, April 2, 2011

Priscilla Ahn Dream - Wedding Aisle song

This is the song I'm going to be walking down the aisle to, thought I'd share it with you!

I'd been looking for the right song for ages, then one ordinary day I was sitting in my loungeroom watching Grey's with bestie Sam, when this started playing and all of a sudden - bam- this is it. This is the song I want to walk down the aisle to marry my amazing fiance. This is my story, the little girl who would sit in the garden making food for the fairies out of bottlebrush flowers, and who spent most of her time up in the trees in pretty little dresses, finally marrying the man of her dreams, the man she can't live without.



Now all I have to do is learn how not to cry when I hear it.. don't even speak to me about the vows!!

All my love,
Lily

Googles icecream logo




How cute is this?

Friday, April 1, 2011

the little things!




Suuuuch good weather - I love you March!! It's the little moments that bring me the most happiness. Yesterday I rode down to the lake, just to have some time to myself,sat down by the shore with my toes dipped in, and tiny baby fish - or tadpoles, but I'm pretty sure little fish, started nibbling on me, just like the fish in Phuket that you always see in those big tanks in shopping centres - so cool! I stayed as still as I could and just watched them for what must have been forever, because I stayed there so long that a dragonfly landed on my knee. It made me so happy it turned my whole week around, which was good, cos the day before my bestie and I were VERY nearly in a head on collision - after a 4wd fire truck decided to roar into our lane to overtake.



Also got new glasses - I'm in love - Sam helped me choose them - gorgeous gold colour by Alex Perry.. now if only I could own a few of his dresses! It's funny, I feel like my wedding dress is quite Alex Perryish - very feminine with ah-mazing construction.. I can't wait to show you guys.. I just wish my fiance didn't read my blog so I could share..
but I can tell you the lady making my dress is Seattle designer Luly Yang, and it's a 2011 collection.

Oh and on the way home from my magical lake feet dipping experience, I bought a new plant - her name is Cynthia, she's an indoorsy, and I'm quietly smitten :)


Hope you're all having an amazing time, wherever you are in the world !

Thursday, March 17, 2011

While I was gone - February update



- Fiancée set up our hammock..this is pretty much 90% of the reason I have been neglecting my poor little blog, i spent nearly every night swaying in my fiancée's arms, feeling the amazing night breezes dance through my hair under the moonlight, with not a care in the world.




- There was a huge fire in Roleystone - 6th February - my fiancée and I jumped on the roof that night and you could see half the hill was glowing. Creepy just doesn't touch it. So thankful that there were no lives lost and that things didn't get as bad as they could have. For any of you Australian readers, Roleystone is very much like Marysville - the community worst hit in the Black Saturday fires. Literally 3 days before it happened I was up there and said to one of my close friends " I love Roleystone, the only thing that scares me a bit is that it's so much like Marysville, if they had a big fire up here, it could get really bad".








Jumped on my roof and watched the sunset countless times.
This is one of my favourite things in the world to do and I've been doing it since I was a little kid. ( yep, I was that hippy earth child that was always climbing up trees, living in a world of their own, rescuing dragonflies from our patio and from our pool. I even had a pet stick which I called "petstickandI". PetstickandI had some awesome adventures, but his favourite thing was helping me toast marshmallows. Champion. )




Not worn much makeup.
Not a huge thing for a lot of people, but as a blondie, ever since I can remember I've had pale eyelashes, which means as soon as I made the discovery of a magical thing called mascara at 14, I tried never to go a day without the stuff. Now they're tinted, and I'm a happy little munchkin who can get back to being that hippy child I always was, free and au naturel.


Swum to the point that would make people wonder if I thought I would grow gills.

Got a teeny tiny potbelly while my fiancee was away,then lost it in like 2 days of him being home. Another reason why I didn't do any outfit posts ! I blame Connoisseur Cookies and Cream completely.

Caught up with loads of people who I really should have caught up with before Christmas.

Hung out with bestie Sam, started looking for bridesmaid dresses! yayyy!


Had loads of sleepovers with friends while baby was away, which meant lots of Greys, lots of How I met your Mother and lots of Modern Family :D



Met with the Wedding Photographers! eeep! very excited to have such amazing talented and laid back guys covering our big day.


Discovered Little Caesars Pizza.
The fact that no1 had told me just how delicious the pizza from this place was leads me to think that they were afraid if everyone knew, they'd never be able to get a seat there. Caramello Sam pizza was like eating a creme caramel - Caramel, Brown Sugar, macadamias and almonds, icing sugar and custard. In. sane . I may just turn morbidly obese because this place exists. Next time - it's this - Birds of Tokyo teriyaki chicken, yay! Also loving this Birds of Tokyo song, thought I'd share :D





god super late, gtg love u all !

Monday, January 31, 2011

nakie dress!

I think most girls in Perth could fess up to owning one of these dresses.. The weather here has been incredibly humid, the aircon systems aren't doing much to take the edge off... this is where the nakie dress comes out...defn usually from Bali- the tropical paradise playground for Perth peeps (also hot and humid), the dress is so thin you have to be careful you don't rip it pulling it out of the washing machine, and so free flowing that it just kind of floats around you, making you feel like you're wearing nothing at all.. and there you have, the nakie dress - a whole new level of comfy. The other night it was soo nice and balmy I went for a swim in mine,.... total.. bliss. If this summer never ended I'd be the happiest girl in the world.

Although, truth be told, i kinda am the happiest girl in the world right now, with good reason! ..

i have news readers - I'm getting married in October - eeeppp! During my latest trip to Seattle I went for a bridal fitting at Luly Yang couture to kinda get some ideas, and the fourth dress I tried on, I walked out and my parents just gasped breathlessly " oh. my . god." I'd found it ! From there everything else has just been falling perfectly into place ( so far :-p)

So I'll be casually blogging stuff as I figure it out, pictures of where it'll be held, invitations, bridesmaid dresses, things like that, but I won't be able to show you the dress just yet - fiance likes to read my blog ; ) Nice try darling !

In any case, You should definitely check out Luly Yang's collection and works of art, my God this woman has an incredible amount of talent, and an incredible story too, she studied architecture originally and then decided what she really wanted to do was construct for people, the rest is history as they say.

Anyway i'll post again soon, kinda anjoying getting back into the swing of it, hope you're all having an awesome time, and if it's summer in your part of the world, here's wishing you nakie dress good times, wherever you are in the world,

All my love, Lily


Sorry guys, I'll havta load the pics up tomorrow, apparently 12 mpxl shots take up a bit of space XD

I googled " bali dress" and found this - this girls all over it :) mine's not that pretty looking, but u get the idea

Friday, January 28, 2011

Happy Australia Day




I love being an Australian.. I love walking down the white beaches watching the sunset over the water, with thongs and beer in hand, I love that we're such a young country with so many different people from all over the globe, just happily living by the "live and let live" philosophy. But more than all that, I love that when things take a turn for the worst, whatever it may be, there is always a place in our hearts for others, We saw it during the tsunami, where Australia alone - just normal people living in their normal little neighbourhoods, gave us much as they could to the people of Thailand and Sri Lanka and Indonesia to help them rebuild. Within 5 days of the Tsunami, the red cross had received $14 million dollars, and other organisations such as world vision saw donations of 6.3 million.

Recently we saw Queensland, our north-easternmost state devastated by flash flooding, the footage is ridiculous, look up http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYUpkPTcqPY
to give you an idea of how badly things turned so quickly..

So when the rest of Australia saw all this happening, our mateship culture rose again, and people from everywhere, are donating clothes, electricals, wood, food, money, everything that these communities need to rebuild. Defence force people are working around the clock, people from unaffected towns have jumped in to help anyway they can, people are banding together, helping each other through, offering support to those whose friends or families were washed away. People who have never even met before are crying on each others shoulders, sharing a beer together, commiserating.


That Right there, is what makes us Australian. And why I am proud, not only on Australia Day, but everyday, to call myself an aussie.


Hope you all had an amazing fantastic Australia day :)

Thursday, January 27, 2011

New Scents




Now I can have summer with me all year long :)