My husband made me these wooden letters. I´m so grateful that we found and said "yes" to each other.

Love...

...is a wonderful thing!

Getting ready...

1. Our wedding invitation. 2.Little treat baskets. 3. Love heart name cards.

A Wedding!

Friends and family have been told and invitations sent so it´s time to fill you all in. Erich and I are getting married on the 5th of April here in a simple evening ceremony followed by dinner and dancing. I´ll be decorating the entrance, courtyard and dining room at the castle myself with lots of flowers, candles, fabric hearts and my glass bottle collection- all pictured above. I have also made a lot of these paper balls to hang from lights and ceilings and I´ll be making signs similar to these and these little paper baskets filled with chocolates with name tags attatched for the 20 guests. I´ll be wearing a green crushed silk skirt and jacket with a fine knit vintage top underneath (in the middle above). I can´t wait!!!

colours

colours
Originally uploaded by chestofdrawers.

I love colour! When we moved into this house 7 years ago, the walls were all white and my husband loved it. Most Austrians I know have white walls and coming from Australia where there is colour all over the place, I was quite bored with my surroundings. I didn´t have the courage or the strength to get my ideas out there when we were decorating our house because I was preoccupied with 3 young children and my husband prefered to consult his parents about decorating. After we moved into the house, my husband went away for 3 months to work in Saudi Arabia against my wishes - there was no point in pulling my hair out about this so I painted one wall in the kitchen blue and another yellow. I loved it and when my husband got home he freaked. Then he decided to work for a company on the other side of Austria and only came home every 3 weeks...thus the 3 boys rooms are pistachio green, bright yellow and indigo blue! After a huge argument with my inlaw´s some time later, my way of handling my anger was to drive to the paint shop, buy paint in yellow and orange and go over the living room first with a roller and then a sponge -I sure felt a lot better afterwards!When I found out a few years later that my husband was having an affair, I took Feng Shui´s advice and painted my bedroom dark red in the hope that it would rekindle the passion in our marraige - but instead it drove him away for good!
When I think back to all those times when I was lonely, when I felt isolated without support, colour was my friend. How can you feel down when a sunny living room greets you each morning.
Putting colour on my walls was my way of screaming out to my husband "Look! Here I am, this is me, take it or leave it!" And I´m so grateful that he did leave it because now I have a partner who sees me and loves me for what I am.
When Erich walked into my house for the first time he said "wow, I love all the colour on the walls" and I knew my lonely days were over.