Our Creations

Vitage bronze colour stationery and wild flowers

Tuesday, March 5th, 2013

Hellooo everyone!

How are you doing today?
I’ve been thinking what to show you for this month’s new feature “Our creations” and then I decided to use some photos that some of you probably have already seen in a few blogs now.

This is one of the most amazing weddings we have ever organised! A wonderful couple who was a please to work with and a great wedding party full of emotions and history.
We were so lucky to contribute in the design and decoration of the wedding theme.

The bride wanted a vintage theme (my eyes were sparkling when I knew that!) which also put together the element of the journey (which was both their journey from Australia to Italy, but also the journey of discovery of their past – their family roots are Italian).
We also wanted to incorporate the colours of the bride’s dress and shoes which were bronze and gold…and then we thought a touch of black would have given a nice contrasting effect…this is the result…

vintage bronze colour menu
vintage plate

We selected some nice vintage fonts for the menu, as well as some ’20s inspired frames to decorate the top and the bottom of it. To make it more personalised we also added an old little map of Italy (very old since the Trentino Alto Adige region was still part of the Austrian empire!!) and some handmade airplanes made by Engelise at Almost Amsterdam!

vintage-flowers1
vintage-flowers2
These are some pics of the flower arrangements for the tables together with the table numbers which were in line with the rest of the stationery.
Below the bride’s bouquet – a simple and elegant gypsophilia bouquet which nicely matched her vintage dress by Johanna Johnson

gypsophilia-bouquet

A county fair theme birthday party in Veneto

Friday, January 18th, 2013

Hello ladies,

How are you today?

We’ve got something really nice for you this morning, some inspiration ideas that move away from the crazy weddings world to jump back to our children young ages… our birthday parties…

A few months ago, I got the chance to meet Laura who was looking for some great inspiration for her son Giulio’s 5th birthday party! Her main words: LOTS OF COLOURS! A nice location with a great garden in the Veneto countryside, outside games, nice accessories, gifts for the kids…easy peasy!

I naturally thought of a county fair birthday theme, in a red and blue colour scheme, with the vintage touch we like. We organized the party in this beautiful countryside location not far from Pordenone on a sunny Sunday afternoon…

welcome-frame-blue-pink-cake

candy bar table

tickets birthday party

pop corn bags

red blue stripped straws

county-fair-birthday-party

The great success of the day!? My red and blue candy floss machine! All kids simply loved it!!!

Here you are with a few shots of the candy bar we created for Giulio as well as a few pics of the party set up! Thanks to Sara Scian for the yummy and beautiful cake!

Enjoy!

Red and white breakfast…

Saturday, July 28th, 2012

Hi ladies,

How are you all doing?
The weather is so lovely which I hope you have plenty of things planned to enjoy the sun! We are planning to go to Cambridge tomorrow, so I hope the sunshine will resist for another day.
Yesterday I went to the presentation of a new Christmas flower collection and they gave me some “left overs” which I thought to use to create a little centrepiece for the lounge table…I bought some extra white carnations and some red roses and here you go…this is the result…a nice colourful table for this morning breakfast (I’ve also cooked some eggs and bacon!).
what do you think?
I love the little bowls – I bought them in a vintage shop in London last week end and they are by Green Gate Copenaghen.

table-in-red
Red and white carnations centrepiece
breakfast-table
red-white-carnations-centrepiece
silver cuttlery and glass

DIY polka red tags…

Friday, March 30th, 2012

Hi girls,

Thanks God it’s Friday! Relax finally after a week I spent mostly in Venice to meet with lovey brides and grooms to be!
Here I am with part II of my Troussepinette polka dot red theme christening! Remember I used a both funny and elegant scrapbooking paper from Karen Marie Klip Design to realize my paper origami windmills?

Since there was a lot of paper left after I used it for my windmills baptism invitations, and red polka dots baptism party decoration you’ll see pretty soon, well I used it as well to make the tags I would have used on the sweet and candy bar I was preparing…

Madeleines, Macarons, Maya, Merci,… So many “M” in here! Here you are with my baptism polka dots tags…. What do you reckon?

DIY polka dots christening invitations

Wednesday, March 21st, 2012

Hi girls,

Maya’s christening is now over! I can’t even say how much I’ve worked over the past weeks! Feel some kind of exausted really, and guesss I need a rest…

But well, I spent such a good time preparing and organizing every little detail of the red and white theme christening decorations I wanted to give her!

Everything started when I came across WOP photographies website last year! I’m a regular visitor of their blog, and I was simply fascinated when I read through the few posts written by Stephanie regarding her daughter’s christening

Here I am today with my red and white invitations liberally inspired from WOP… Enjoy!

Origami red and white polka dot invitations

red and white christening invitations

red polka dot christening invitations

I love the windmills! I guess it recalls somehow the shape of a modern cross! It’s some kind of less official, but doesn’t loose any meaning to the real sense of the christening really…

Keep tuned, as the second part is about to come…

Vintage tins for diy centrepiece ideas

Sunday, March 18th, 2012

Hi girls,
The week end is almost over and I have to say that it was a creative one for me!
I’m trying to come up with some nice ideas for a wedding theme in the colours of turquoise and pink…not an easy one! So I decided to use a wonderful tea tin I found in a Christmas hamper last year, which is dedicated to the Queen’s Jubilee and has got a lot of turquoise…
So I went to a florist shop with my little tin and I asked her for some suggestions on which flowers I should use and here we go…some lovely pink and white carnations…I love it! It would be perfect as a centrepiece on small tables with some other turquoise and pink touches (in the napckins as well as in the glasses)…What do you think?

vintage-tin-flower-centrepiece

DIY Christmas at home

Thursday, January 5th, 2012

Hello lovely ladies!

I’ve just come back from Italy where I spent some amazing Christmas holiday! I’m a bit sad but happy to go back to my little house too!
On Christmas day I organised a big fat Italian dinner at mine (there were 13 of us!) and had fun with my sister and MrB to arrange the decorations for our table – my mum wanted to remain the queen of the kitchen, so no way she let us cook something!

We went for a traditional red themed table, using a long red runner on a white table cloth, paper tissues in white and red colours, red glasses and white plates from my mum’s wedding!
The flowers part was the most difficult one. I got some inspiration from the Christmas design to order photos by Interflora and tried to personalised them with something simpler…so we went for pine brunches (from my garden), two white roses, a few cinamon sticks and coloured ribbons using a jam jar. We used the same type of vase, but smaller, for the candles, which we decorated with some pine brunches again.

My sister was the creative behind the menus, the best thing! I managed to make two heart shaped holders out of some old wire…

christmas-table-decorations-in-red
christmas-red-tissue-with-mistletoe
christmas-table-decorations
christmas-diy-menu-in-red
christmas-table-decorations-candles
Ribbons from The wedding of my dreams

Under the Christmas tree…

Wednesday, December 14th, 2011

Hi girls,

Have just made it! A couple of weeks right before Christmas! I was thinking the other week I would never complete my DIY Christmas gifts on time! Thank you Maya for sleeping so well last saturday afternoon!

Here I am with my almost-ready-to-bake chocolate muffins glass jars!

A cure idea I have to admit I got inspired by after surfing on the internet a while ago! I am so proud of them that I will certainly propose this idea as favours to one of our 2012 bride-to-be in Venice! Shhh… more to come then!

regali di natale fai da te
diy christmas gifts
christmas jars

Here you are with what you need for the jar:
> Hermetic glass jar
> Lace ( great for a Venice theme wedding! This would recall the Burano island lace tradition!)
> Packthread
> Beverage Glass Napkin vintage style
> Your creativity!

I put in there all ingredients needed to bake chocolate muffins ( with the exception of milk, butter, and eggs, for obvious reasons…), but be creative, and fill these jars with whatever comes on your mind!!!

Enjoy!

Photographer: Sylvie Wedding Planner in Venice

One year ago…Maya!

Tuesday, November 29th, 2011

Maya,

29th November, one year ago. You decided time had come to jump into the real world… A real world that is so far an easy world for you… lots of happy things around you!

1st year birthday decoration

Lots of hugs from maman and papà!

Lots of hugs from your cross-border families!

Lots of hugs from your super-nannies at the nursery!

Want to say “HAPPY 1st BIRTHDAY” today with all your happy friends that can’t wait for playing with you at home!!!

1st year birthday party decorations

1s year birthday party decorations - hanging letters

hanging letters made of fabric
Love you little Maya!!!

Photographers: Maman Sylvie & Papà Gianluca

Maya’s little lilac rabbits coffee break…

Friday, July 29th, 2011

Hi there!

While starting to prepare the glass lanterns with the lilac candles for our upcoming wedding in Tuscany in september ( remember?!), I suddenly thought that Maya is turning 8 months old today! And shame on me, since my return to work in June I haven’t been good at preparing any yummy yummy thing anylonger for her…mmm… for me and her dad actually…

I looked around the messy house for some lilac theme stuff I would use in my pics set, and then I saw Maya’s wooden rabbits staring at me with their nice smiles!!!

Pick me up! Pick me up!

And hop, hop, hop, here I am with a new idea: an after lunch Italian coffee break with my French touch lilac lanterns Bonne Maman and my French touch honey madeleines
 

My Honey Madeleines ( for 16 of them):
2 eggs
100grs flavour
100grs salty butter
100grs sugar
2 spoons of Italian quality sweet honey ;-)
1 coffee spoon of cake powder yeast
1/2 lemon twist ( I love lemon!)
And here we are! Bon Appétit!

Pictures: Sylvie, Wedding Planner in Venice