New Website!!!

I have finally done it!!! It took much frustration and cups of tea/hot chocolate but I got there in the end head on over to stepford.com.au and see my brand spanking new, self designed wordpress site!!! :)

I am incredibly proud of myself and hope you will follow me on over there where hopefully things aren't too different and as the wedding season slows down I will have time to do some semi-regular posting ;)

In the meantime your feedback will be greatly appreciated as I fix the little things ;) first on my list will be centre justifying the whole lot but for now I am content :)

Getting to Know YOU!!!

Firstly.

I AM ALIVE!!!!

Just in case you were wondering :) this is most definitely a super busy time of year and I have been SO very busy that I have been making myself sick with anxiety but don't worry I rebalanced myself and now I am a ok :)

but I do have a favour to ask you all my super duper special loyal readers!!! I am undertaking a market research survey and need some lovely people to fill in my survey for me!! :)

Don't worry it isn't long and I won't know who filled in what and there is no avenue for me to SPAM you with all kinds of naughty things!!

All you have to do is follow this link to Survey Monkey, answer my 10 extremely simple questions and when you get back to this post I will have a surprise for you

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THANKS!!! :)

On the Table. Chocolate Peanut Butter Cheesecake

Joel and I were watching TV the other day when a program of Nigella Lawson's came on. We giggled naughtily watching it as neither of us can take her seriously after watching Nigella Talks Dirty, especially when she cooks in a black silk dressing gown with apparently not much else on!! Joel was already drooling at the TV screen when she started making a chocolate peanut butter cheesecake.... so we made one too :)

The recipe ended up making two cakes and now Joel and I are heading to the gym hardcore because they are REALLY bad for you!

For special occasions though whip this one up its pretty good ;)

Monday.

On Saturday I had my winery tour cherry popped for a friend's hen's day. A whole group of us on a bus drinking champagne and listening to some awesome tunes. I helped out the MOH another friend make up some goodie bags for everyone and below are some pictures of just what they were :)

I found this great complimentary banner from How About Orange printed it half the size and stitched it all together on the sewing machine. A simple cute addition that didn't take long cost pretty much nothing and hopefully made someone's day :)

For the bride-to-be she got a bit of a different bag and I made a super simple sash for her to wear that was not the standard pink shiny affair

Monday. Wedding Signs

There is something freeing about not blogging 5 days a week, I mean I really do love blogging but with the mountain of stuff on my plate it had started to become a chore, I now get excited again when I make something that I could blog about (rather than making something TO blog about).

I have been making another one of these signs whenever I have a spare 10 mins for my friends' upcoming wedding, we picked up a pallet off the side of the road a little while ago and pulled it apart for the wood. The font is called 'Silverfake' and I am planning on using it for all written aspects of their big day. Wondering how I did it? Using Publisher I printed a banner in the dimensions of the wood then used carbon paper to trace the outline and coloured it in with a black marker. Using the same font throughout really helps things tie in and it's a lot easier than it looks!

Her hen's party (Bachelorette) is on in another couple of weeks and I will have some pretty awesome things to show you then but for now just keeping them a surprise ;)

Until next time

Em