exciting times

here is the feature from the Herald Sun Home mag last Saturday of my dolls house - it was a very exciting morning at our house!


Woodland themed invites

Woodland theme invite pastel by Torie Jayne
Woodland theme invite purple by Torie Jayne

I have a baby shower to organize for a dear friend of mine. She is a very stylish friend that organizes the best themed parties, like the Alice in Wonderland party she threw for her husband's birthday last year; think big paper flowers hanging from the ceiling, vintage teacups filled with cheesecake and cute "eat me" bracelets for the guests.

I knew I would have to come up with something good! She recently purchased an owl print for the nursery and loves her ceramic mushroom so I thought a cute woodland theme would be in order. First up, the invites! I think I will go with the purple version as I have some gorgeous cupcake cases in purple/white spots and kelly green/white spots.

Feel free to double click the pics (opens in a new window) and save them for your woodland themed party. I think they would be cute for a kids birthday as well!

Have a sweet day!

If I were any more nesty...

me just shy of 21 weeks - I finally have a bump!

This is just a short apology for my, well, scattyness at the mo. Perhaps you havn't noticed? I hope not. I adore my blog for the creative release it gives me from the humdrum of everyday life, but I sometimes wonder what the hell I'm doing it for, and whether it is of any interest to anybody at all besides myself. After all, I bore me most of the time!!

But the root of my scattyness at the moment lies with the nestiness I've been consumed, hell obsessed with over the last couple of weeks. To be honest if I were any more nesty, I'd be laying an egg!! Nestiness is not unique to my pregnancy (well, duh) but is it strange to be this bad at 21 weeks??? Last pregnancy I'm not certain I ever really got nesty at all, certainly it didn't manifest itself in the cleanliness of my home! This time I am a woman possessed. Just this week I:

- Painted the nursery
- Cleaned out all the bedroom cupboards from five years of accumulated debris
- Filled 3 garbage bags of clothes for charity
- Bought storage containers and labelled all of Ferny's old clothes by size
- Washed, folded, ironed and stored every article of 0000 clothing
- Sorted all the photo albums

... there's probably more but I currently have the memory of a goldfish. My sister is coming to stay over the weekend and it is the only reason I havn't already packed away the Queen size bed currently in the 'spare-room-cum-nursery' even though I have 5 months to go! It is suddenly of integral importance to get that room cleared and cleaned to within an inch of its life.

Good lord, I've gone insane.

Have a good weekend peeps, if you need me I'll be buried nose deep inside my wardrobe, organising every garment by size, type and colour...

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