NEW HOME.

Monday, August 22, 2016

Above: My dinning space. We bought the table and chairs from LOAF. The beach wood adds warmth, with the Geronimo gunmetal chairs complementing the table, creating a relaxing and inviting space. I love greenery and will often have plants dotted around the home. I have collected various prints and photographs over the years, these are displayed around the house. The print 'Swimmer' is from Dowse, a favourite shop of mine in Brighton.

For the last 6 months we have been settling into our new home!

After 8 years of living in our small, but beautiful flat by the sea in Hove. We decided to move out of town and join suburban living in Saltdean! The first time we viewed the bungalow, we knew it felt like home, and in a lot of ways, it was similar to our old flat but bigger. 

To most, the word ‘bungalow’ makes you think of visits to your granny, but this place couldn't be further away from what your thinking. The previous owners opened up the living space, creating height, light and open planning living, which we love. The property itself didn't need too much work, apart from the usual painting and small DIY tasks. All rooms feel like a good size, and its a luxury to have space. I’m loving every moment of putting our own stamp on the property and its slowly coming together, starting to like home.

Talks of a new kitchen, bathroom and an extension, are very much on the cards for the future. Although for now, I’m just enjoying the simpler things, like owning a bath, and having a garden!

Brighton Half Marathon

Wednesday, October 14, 2015






Image courtesy of Smart Fitness via Google 

So, with my exercise regime being almost non-existent for the last year, I finally decided to sign up for the Brighton Half Marathon; a good way to force myself into exercise again! Although not long after signing up, the dreaded thought of failure started to creep in. I just signed up to a 13.1 mile run! I can’t even run for the bus these days without breaking into a sweat! HELP!

My husband, who is a keen runner, assured me I would be fine as long as I train – SO TRAIN I WILL! With this in mind, I headed down to Sweatshop a lovely running shop in town. They did a 'gait analysis' on my running style (helps runners to find the right shoe through assessing the movement of your foot, leg and body’s movement). They suggested the right running shoes that best suited my running style and also made me a pair of custom soles for my shoes. To be fair, all the technology talk went a bit above my head, I just picked the prettiest pair I could find!


So with my sparkly new running shoes I feel ready to tackle the Brighton Half Marathon! I am running with my husband and a few friends, I’m not setting myself a time just yet, I’m just hoping to finish! 


Mr & Mrs...

Saturday, August 02, 2014

Saturday the 19th of July 2014 we became Mr & Mrs Lipinski HORRAY! And as cliched as it sounds, it was one of the happiest days of my life. I only wished I could of slowed it down as the day almost run away with itself. All the people we loved in the world were there to share this beautiful day and I didn't want it to end. July the 19th I married by best friend.

All our planning, the diy projects and ideas came together, it was great to see everything as a whole. Hannah-May, our photographer, made us feel so comfortable and the photo's she snapped where just AMAZING! Her full blog posting of our day can be seen here What's more, the wedding blog Rock my Wedding also featured our day on there blog - exciting!

Decorations

Monday, May 26, 2014



I LOVE WASHI TAPE!
From the beginning we always knew how we wanted our wedding to look and feel and the decorations played a huge part in achieving the look. For me, it was important for us to put our own stamp on the wedding; it’s definitively all the little touches that make the overall feel of the day…

Decoration ideas would change daily and I spent many hours deciding what exactly I wanted (much to Fritz’s despair of me asking which shade he prefers!) I finally settled on what would work best and decided to buy some decorations and make others. I found loads of DIY tutorials on some fabulous blogs and set myself to work…Washi Tape literally became my best friend, there is nothing that little tape can’t transform!

#Giant Feather Heart
There is a beautiful fireplace with a gorgeous solid wooden shelf and a beautiful exposed brick wall at the venue and I knew I needed to make a feature of this wall by adorning it with decorations. I found a lovely diy tutorial on Bespoke Bride to make a heart shaped feather wreath. It was perfect I loved making the wreath, I just adapted the colours to my palette and voile!

#Favours/Place names
I decided to double up and make the favours tags and the name place setting cards at the same time. I found a lovely website that sold the packaging I was looking for. The Knot & Bow Company produced personalised tags, I just adapted them by using my faithful Washi Tape; this also ties in with the seating plan I’m creating. 

#Garlands
We decided to have a wall of fairylights behind us for the ceremony. I wanted to create a backdrop to fit in between the blanket of lights, and decided to create garlands of mini colorful flags that would hang in between each strip of lighting. I brought some grey twine and several rolls of Washi Tape and 40 strips of individual hand made garlands later I had my backdrop!

#Vases 
I have been collecting bottles for a few months now; I want to fill each bottle with dainty flowers and place on the beautiful wood shelf above the fireplace. Again, I decorated each bottle with my trusty Washi Tape – Just love that stuff!

There are definitely more diy projects to come… One of the biggest projects I’m making will be my ribbon chandeliers, which I’m planning on hanging from each table in the main room, will let you know how I get on!...

Photographer

Tuesday, May 06, 2014

Image courtesy of nostalgia vintage photography 

My blog has been sadly neglected for many, many months. Planning a wedding has consumed my life completely, but I love it! With this is mind and thinking about the reason why I decided to start my blog in the first place. I’ve decided I’m going to attempt a blog posting every 2 weeks from now up to the big day. I say ‘attempt’ because I will definitely try and give it my best shot, so here it goes…

A huge part of the planning process was finding the right photographer. I must have looked at over 50 photographers, but none seemed to stand out to me. That was, until I discovered ‘Hannah May’ As soon as I came across her work on my fav wedding blog Rock my Wedding, I was captured. I know it sounds silly but the images just spoke to me, and to my delight she was even hosting a competition, a photographers collection worth £1495! That was it. I yelled out to Fritz “we have to enter!” After entering, all fingers and toes were crossed… we sadly didn’t win but we did come 2nd HORRAY! She loved the sound and feel of our day and offered us £500 off one of her collections! We were sold! Hannah has been a pleasure to work with, friendly and relaxed, her passion for photography is true and it definitely shows through work. We can’t wait to have Hannah capture our day… and to be honest I think Fritz is just happy I’m no longer moaning about never finding the perfect photographer!

Invites

Thursday, October 17, 2013



Ever since Fritz proposed the one thing I couldn't stop thinking about was designing the invites. Weird I know, most girls think about the dress but not me,  the invites and decorations were always on top of my list! 

For us, the most important apect of the invites is for them to have a personal touch. After some initial research into invitations, I came across an idea in which someone used the idea of a flow chart to show to their story - Brilliant idea! This formed the basis of our invite, and from here the design grew organically telling the story of how we met. 

We used a lovely local printers in Hove called 4 Print & Design whom we worked with in choosing the right type of card and all the smaller finishes including the rounded corners

So here it is. We love it, but of course we would, its our wedding!

Triangles, triangles, triangles...

Sunday, August 25, 2013

I love triangles! Sad I know but there's something about them I just find beautiful. Maybe its the geometric formation, the uneven number of sides or even my slight ocd which attracts me to them. But hey, who cares, hooray for the triangle! So in honour of the humble triangle, I have put together a small selection of my my favourite  pieces out there.

1. Wooden Geometric Triangle Necklace (purple - gold), £16.00 by Fawn and Rose 2. Wooden Gold Dipped Triangle Ring (light blue), £12.00 by Fawn and Rose 3. Ohh Dear Leap Cushion, £40.00 available from Urban Outfitters UK 4. Aztec Print 2 by Rhonda Drakeford, £150.00 available from Darkroom 5. Aztec Print 1 by Rhonda Drakeford, £150.00 available from Darkroom 6. Wooden T-Shirt, Prototype Triangle Numero 1. designed by Pauline Marcombe.