March in Perth

Ahhh March, I love you.

The weather is not too hot that you feel yourself burn as you go to check the letterbox, but warm enough to go to beach, and warm enough that the concrete still feels warm under your bare feet at night. The leaves turn red and orange, but there are still frangipani blooms on the trees. The birds are migrating in V shaped flocks, and if you listen really carefully you can hear them faintly honk honking at each other.

March for me means Sculptures by the Sea, an annual Art exhibition held on Cottesloe Beach - Giant sculptures which turn the beach into something out of a children's imagination. Wanna see exactly what I'm talking about ? http://panthrough.com/sculpture-by-the-sea/ - there's a virtual tour!!

The Virtual tour has been shot in the afternoon, and I love how you can see all the families having picnics along the grassy area, and really get an idea of how the sculptures catch the light so perfectly at that time of day.

Beautiful breeze, Sculptures by the sea, Gelati in hand, surrounded by friends - and all at once I know that I will always, always call Perth home.

Also in March is the Mandurah crabfest - I can't tell you how much I LOVE this festival! So many amazing gourmet foods, ridiculously talented artists, - like this girl who I actually met and melted - Emma Blyth - I love ALL of her paintings!

show rides, fairy floss, fireworks, water ski displays, all by the water, it's what life is all about for me:)

My husband and I went to both the crabfest and sculptures by the sea when we had first started going out as teenagers - I still get those teenage *please don't ever let this feeling go* butterflies every year we go back.

Wishing you a fantastic autumn, wherever you are in the world,

Love Lily

The long awaited wedding photos!

Soo I know, this has been a long time coming - if I'm truthful with you all, I got locked out of my account because I changed my password to something ridiculously hard and forgot it... Anyway, so now I'm back and will be posting every Wednesday from now on..

I got the wedding photos back from the amazing photographers Alan and Steve from Amac & Wise and I really wanted you to see them! It was such a beautiful day and I'm so grateful to have had two amazingly talented photographers capture so many precious little moments. Here's a few-I've tried to have the important ones..

(Can't believe I'm marrying the boy of my dreams)

Very Proud Daddy

The setting: Brookleigh Chateau, Brookleigh Estate, Swan Valley

It was honestly like nothing else existed at this point in time

The kiss

Making it official!!

Afternoon tea in the rose garden, Brookleigh Estate

Bridal party!

Love

Afternoon light

My prince!

Happily Ever After

I love this last one, such a private moment :)

Hope you're all doing fantastically, wherever you are in the world,

Love Lily

September already!

Hey everyone, hope you've all had a great weekend, wherever you are in the world :)

Sorry for the lack of posts, I've been running around town like a crazy person organising wedding details, phew! Nobody told me how much work getting married is - Meetings with the photographers, florists, venue events coordinator, e-conferencing with Luly Yang at 2am in the morning, having hair trials, makeup trials, getting nails done, organising table arrangements, choosing music, wedding cake, afternoon tea cakes, drinks selection, dinner selection, accommodation ! - The list seems neverending!

Anyway, I thought while I had a minute I'd share a few details that I CAN share with you!





The Venue:

MY DRESS IS HERE!

I can get married now !

If you weren't doing what you're doing, what would you be doing?

Hey readers!

It's another absolutely spectacular sunny day in Perth- You almost wouldn't believe it's still winter today, had it not been for the cold night last night, so I'm going to make this quick and get out there and soak up some of this beautiful weather very soon - photos too if my phone will stop playing up, still without camera charger :)

So here's what I'm wondering - If you weren't to have chosen the career that you are in now, what would you have chosen?

For me - nothing brings me more happiness than make other people's lives brighter, so I'm pretty well cemented into motivational psychology, but if that hadn't worked out , I'd like to think I would be an interior designer, seeing photos like this make me melt!

Hope the sun is shining down on you, wherever you are in the world
<3 Lily

Spring is nearly here!!!

"Perth Pink" Bottlebrush blossoms

My Favourite Kangaroo Paw

Happiness is... actually having time to post - Seattle Part I

Hey gorgeous readers! It's been a while I know, cheers for sticking with me :)

There are so many things that have happened and that I want to share with you! The trip to Seattle went amazingly, I had so much fun and had so many adventures, and did things I really didn't think I had it in me too, like conquered my fear of flying in smaller planes,

and I learnt to wake surf... I'm going to try and upload the video that Sam managed to get of me up on the board so you can all have a great laugh at me swishing around not having a clue to what I should be doing!)

This was probably the thing I am most proud of doing while I was away, because as Sam can tell you - I do NOT deal so well with being alone in the middle of big spaces of water... this may have something to do with watching Open Water, not too sure ;) ... anyway by the end of it, I had the American people who's wake boat it was rolling around on the deck in laughter at my expressions... the first time I lost my board I actually kept holding on to the rope just so I didn't get any further from the boat :P

Oh and Sam and I got to experience our first 4th of July ! yayy!!





It was incredible - I'm lucky enough that my parents own a house on Lake Sammamish, so we were able to see people all around the lake letting off their own fireworks, and later went out on the boat to watch from the middle of the lake - fantastic ! It was such a great night - the real highlight moment for me came later, about 2 am in the morning, we were swimming in a huge pool overlooking the lake, a whole group of us, drinking tequila straight from the bottle and all singing Oasis - Wonderwall... these are the moments I will look back on forever!

All my love, wherever you are in the world, <3 Lily