I’ve been missing in action for a few weeks (again) so sorry!  BUT I have a good excuse.  I’ve been madly preparing for a 40th birthday garden party – mine in fact!  Monsieur Bonbon and I decided to hold a joint birthday celebration (we’re three days apart) at a beautiful venue called, Gardens House in [...]

I was asked to coordinate a corporate end-of-year celebration in December last year. The venue was already chosen, so all I needed to do was come up with a theme, decor, logistics and entertainment – easy!  So with six weeks to the big event, I quickly gathered a small event crew to help me plan [...]

I thought I’d share this quick DIY project from my last New Year’s Eve party. I made these sparkly gold crowns after I realised that I didn’t have any party hats for my guests. I quickly looked around my craft box and spied some sparkly gift wrapping paper leftover from Christmas. I whipped out my [...]

Last Saturday I attended a flower arranging workshop at Flower Temple in the city. Originally I was looking to purchase a wreath for home this year, but when I saw this workshop being offered, I thought it would be fun to learn how to make my own. There’s something special about a freshly-made Christmas wreath [...]

I love the festive season. Everybody starts to wind down and prepare to celebrate either the religious holiday that is Christmas or the end of a very busy year.  Around Melbourne, city streets are full of end of year parties with people doting santa hats and reindeer ears, whilst loudly singing christmas carols. It’s hilarious [...]

These fun DIY accordion paper trees have been created by crafty bloggers around the world this festive season. I thought I’d throw a spin on my own accordion paper trees. They were quite easy to make using this Julep template.  All you need is some unused wrapping paper, coloured card or patterned scrapbooking card (like [...]

Christmas is less than six weeks away! Yay!  My Pinterest board is full to overflowing with fabulous ideas for decorating and entertaining this holiday season You’ll find pins on table styling, DIY decorations, cocktail recipes, gift wrapping, sweet treats and much more. Here are a few of my favourites pins so far.  Beautiful holiday centrepiece [...]

I found this gorgeous vintage frame at my local op shop (charity store) a couple of weeks ago.  I thought it would make a wonderful menu stand.  So I bought it (for $2) and took it home to clean up. Inside the frame was a piece of fabric art which I carefully removed and then [...]

Earlier this year I picked up a couple of TMOD Party Hat Cards at the Finders Keepers Market.  We saved one to give to Mademoiselle Belle for her birthday this year.  The cards are beautifully designed and come with a section on the inside for you to write your message. Once the recipient opens the card they [...]

Last week I had to quickly whip up a birthday crown for Madamoiselle Belle.  She was celebrating her birthday with friends at her kindergarten. I looked through my craft box and found a Mambo giftbox, which I had been saving as gift wrapping. It was made from heavy card and finished off with a fun [...]