Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Life is all in the details..

Hello lovelies!

It has definitely been a very long soujourn from my last post...no internet at home in Tauranga! Soooo...while I am back in Wellingon for a holiday I have been able to catch up on all the gorgeous things that are about...ahhh...I miss thinking and daydreaming about wedding details!! The notion of being able to make a dream and vision come to life is not only the best fun EVER but something I truly love.

Life is all in the details...sometimes we all get too busy, too stressed, spread too thin to take a moment, take a breath and actually stop to appreciate the small details that make our lives so wonderful. My gorgeous husband stops to capture these moments in time with his photos and share them with me. I am gaining yet another viewpoint on the world. What my job teaches me over and over is that life is fragile and precious...so today it is all about taking a big breath, having a BIG smile and enjoying the things you truly love.

XXXX

A recent gorgeous piccie by Neal.

Saturday, November 20, 2010

Debut appearance!

Hello lovelies!

Well it is Saturday morning, and I have just finished a night shift...and realised that it has been far too long since I posted on my blog...blame work!! And also the fact that we just got our wedding videos....I have already watched them 5 times!!!!

I was super duper excited to see that Kate from Magnolia Rouge has used some of our photos in an inspiration board for Valley & Co. Ohhhhhh do have a look, I love the WHOLE board!!

http://valleyandco.blogspot.com/2010/11/inspiration-acorn-aspen-goodness-from.html



Just to finish, one of my FAV piccies from our wedding. http://fionaandersenphotography.com/blog/

Have a lovely weekend, and for all you cyclists - be safe on our roads

XXX Liesse

Wednesday, November 3, 2010

Sweet Love

Hello lovelies!

This post is for Eve.....lolly tables are just super duper!!! We asked our parents and godparents to make fudges and sweets, then added some colours with favs like liccie allsorts and giant jaffas. I am in love with both fun colouful lolly filled jars, and the gorgeous colour themed ones too! We DIYed and made takeaway cones out of doilies, brown paper and twine with our custom made birdie stamp. There weren't many left at the end of the night!!

Here is a couple of pics of our table by lovely Fi, then some more themed from the SMP files.....yum!!




Style Me Pretty nashville wedding
XX

Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Sneaky Peek Wedding Pics

WOW!!! Here is a link to our amazing photographer's blog (Fiona Andersen), and a peek of our wedding photos. We are simply blown away, I can't stop looking at them. Fi, you are such a super duper star, we love you!!

http://fionaandersenphotography.com/blog/?p=1416

XX Liesse

Friday, October 29, 2010

My own little inspiration board

Hello everyone!
I hope everyone had a fantastic week, mine was crazy busy at work, a little sad and a lot busy!
Well is some of my compilation that turned into my inspiration for our wedding. We were engaged for 2 years, so plenty of time to collect and refine exactly the look and feel that we wanted - and it turned out more perfect than we could have imagined. I found it pretty hard to name the look we were going for...maybe soft, intimate, rustic, textures....any suggestions? X

ps: I couldnt post the word compiled boards to this blogspot , so had to post some of the individual piccies that inspired me- or maybe I just couldnt work that out - does any one know how to post inspiration boards that could let me know!

Taken from Style Me Pretty, Twigs and Honey, Once Wed My sincere apologies that I dont have exact link for each picture, they have been collected over 2 years - and I didnt think I would be ever posting them.

Simple, white, gorgeous


Soft and spring

From Jessamyn Harris on Style Me Pretty - this board and the next pretty much sums up my inspiration!



Jar and lantern obsessed!

Gorgeous details from Twigs and Honey

  
Have a super duper day X

Sunday, October 10, 2010

Milk Bottles and Jam Jars

Happy Sunday Evening!





I Was just flicking through some friends piccies of our wedding, here is a wee start on some of the ceremony site details. I have developed over the past 2 years a true love of old bottles, milk bottles, medicine bottles you name it!! Through that has come a love of pottering around antique and second hand shops all around the country, on honeymoon we were pretty lucky not to return with an old wooden butter churn and rice/drain sieve!! So imagine my absolute delight when we first visited the Thomas Brown Art Gallery in Arrowtown. This gorgeous whitewash brick interior building was the site of an original dairy and cheese factory, it has amazing character, presence and natural light - fantastic for showcasing Thomas's vibrant work. It also holds many treasures like these old milk bottles...perfect to fit with our collected bottles and jars! We also spent hours wiring jam jars into lanterns and vases to hang over white chairs - our florist Sarah did an amazing job to 'bring spring indoors'!



XX Annaliesse

Friday, October 8, 2010

Welcome to My Little Buttons

Well once again I am making a start on joining the blogging world. Inspired by all the super duper talented bloggers and sites, I thought I would post some of my own wee inspirations and thoughts. And the name..well inspired by my wonderful grandma - who always calls me "My little buttons".

So here is my foray to share things that I love and find that make me smile! During my recent wedding planning it was so exciting to get my hands and brain into creative ideas, something that is a world away from my day to day job as a doctor. I found a renewed fascination with all things sentimental, things loved from a time now past, little buttons, little birds, textures and twines and the harmony that mismatched yet loved objects conveys. Combine that with a great love of food...and here we are!!

The next weeks will definitely and excitedly include snippets from our wonderful wedding 2 weeks ago. I could not have got by without my daily reads from NZ's own and wonderful Magnolia Rouge , The Ivory Dahlia and the bible of wedding gorgeousness Style Me Pretty.

But for today, in the quest for domestic goddess status - my freshly baked Belgian biscuits - so pretty!!




Photos by my gorgeous husband Neal Danby of nealdanby.com photography.

Enjoy the afternoon, and if you are in Wellington -take a raincoat out there!

XX