happy early weekend!

My friends I wish you a happy early weekend. We are headed off down south this weekend to visit family and attend our first christmas function of the year. This week has been a fabulously busy week so it will be most wonderful to kick off our shoes and relax a little!

I thought I would share with you all a photo from our recent trip to Croatia which is shortly about to find a new home on our walls. Last weekend saw me trekking off to ikea to stock up on Ribba photo frames to decorate our living room with. My trolley load of frames must have looked somewhat strange as a lovely lady pointed out that my trolley load of frames was going to be expensive. Thankyou. Yes im sure most normal people don't buy $450 worth of frames at one time, But thankyou for pointing out my strangeness.

Onto news from us here at Bespoke Press we must say a very big thankyou for all the emails and newsletter sign ups this week. We promise our website will be up soon and thankyou all for your patience while we build a beautiful website worthy to inspire us all. Exciting times are ahead and we will fill you in on all the new news shortly!

And finally a very big thankyou to bellemumma & design challenge for featuring Bespoke Press this week - you guys are the sweetest!!

Hope you have a most lovely weekend too xox

David Austen Roses

We are currently developing some inspiration for a gorgeous wedding couple who are having a divine vintage elegance theme. While we have been researching I have been reminded about how much I adore David Austen Roses. I love their intensity, tighly packed buds and gorgeous soft colours. But most of all I love how much they remind me of my dear mum.

Several years ago soon after my husband and I married we moved into a cottage on my parents acerage back in NSW. My mum a keen and beautiful gardener grows divine David Austen Roses and over the summertime I would walk between our two properties collecting these gorgeous flowers along the way. I would arrange them in pretty vases and give them to my gorgeous mother and lovely sisters... Such beautiful memories, how I miss those roses!

Image via David Austen

Florence Broadhurst Brisbane Concept Store

This has surely got to be the most exciting news to hit the Brisbane interior scene this year.

Signature Prints is opening a Brisbane concept store selling Florence Broadhurst wallpaper and fabric collections, limited edition art, lifestyle products, luggage and fashion accessories.

With savings of 30-50% on furnishings, cushions, ottomans, fabric art, handbags, wallpaper and fabric remnants and much more - This is truly a month long event not to miss!

In previous years I have flown down to Sydney to especially visit their Sydney Showroom and their annual sales. So I was tickled pink when I rang up to find out when their next Sydney sale was on only to find out that they are saving us a trip and heading to Brisbane! Im so very excited. I adore Florence Broadhurst prints and Signature Prints have done an extraordinary job with their range of expectational quality pieces.

You can find their new concept store for 4 weeks only from Saturday November 22nd – Sunday December 21st
67 James Street, Fortitude Valley QLD
Opening Hours:
Monday – Thursday: 10am – 6pm
Friday: 10am – 8pm
Saturday: 10am – 5pm
Sunday: 12pm – 4pm

New blogs on the block

Two new brisbane based blogs have popped up over the weekend and I thought I would share their lovely design goodness with you!

The first Nora Why Not Press is run by the fabulous team over at Thyme Design. Im loving the look of their first screen printed piece and can't wait to get my hands on it once it hits their shop later this week!


The second is the lovely Tim & Tan at Rumpus Design. Passionate about good design and creative ideas im looking forward to seeing what this dynamic duo get up too!

Happy Weekend!

Earlier this year my dearest friend and I got together to photograph her gorgeous creations she bakes. We had a marvelous day, she baked and I styled and photographed her gorgeous cupcakes - and then we ate them... Such a fun day!

She is such a clever beautiful girl... I really think she should go into business, what do you all think??

Wishing you all a most glorious weekend. Im off to visit the local op shops and then installing big casement windows in our print studio to let the much needed light shine in!

Hope you all have a lovely weekend

xox

Paper Boat Press Christmas Show

The lovely Kylie from Paper Boat Press is having a Christmas Show here in Brisbane on the 23rd of November. I absolutely adore her ceramic Christmas ornaments and this is a fabulous brisbane event not to miss!! More info available here.

typography you can eat

There is something so very relaxing and pleasurable about hand setting type the old fashioned way. But somehow I think I would find this chocolate type by Typolade just too pleasurable to resist!

via typography.com

a summer garden

It has only just dawned on me that November has arrived, summer is almost here and I hadn't even noticed. I feel giddy with excitement, so much so that late on Friday night I decided that we must have a summer garden, and we must do it on the weekend.

Now our previous front garden had been untouched since last August. One and a quarter years worth of weeds and grass had taken over and it really wasnt a pretty sight. Now I had been able to overlook this wee problem for the last six months whilst our house had that boarded up abandoned look after the small incident with the car that crashed through our house situation.

Now thankfully months and months later renovation work is complete, we have a new garage and the house has started to be painted a lovely stone white colour. Things are starting to come together and the weeds just arent a part of the new plan.

So saturday afternoon saw us outside ripping out weeds and grass and dead old plants with avengence. It was blowing a gale, a storm was rolling in and it wasnt really ideal gardening weather - but I was determined - it had to go!

One and a half full wheelie bins later, a wee incident with a small snake which had made its home in the weeds, and bunnings entire collection of white Dahlia bulbs later, im feeling optimistic - This summer I will have a garden. Please God, just make it grow!

Image via Flickr