Magical Night.

I love birthdays, especially when it's my husband's! This was the first birthday that Neil and his twin celebrated separately since we moved to Melbourne. I wanted it to be a special night for Neil as all our friends back home would not be here to celebrate with us. So the whole of Saturday was spend baking and icing birthday treats, preparing food and making white wine Sangria for our guests. Also managed to get our hands on SPARKLERS as it's not a birthday without some sparkler fun! We had an incredible evening with such an awesome bunch of folk joining us and truly making it a magical night.

On a side note, this was my first time making ganache icing, so I was a bit nervous, but it turned out incredible! As a little tip, half the chocolate I used was Dark Ghana and the other half Milk chocolate (I would definitely recommend getting Whittaker's chocolate, there's nothing quite like it!!) and it created an incredible blend and perfect balance of bittersweet chocolate. I'm not an expert to be giving advise, but that's just a little something I thought worked incredibly well.

Bird Print.

Bird Print Shirt & Shorts l Topman

Sunglasses l Le Specs

Now that our days are warmer and our evenings longer, Neil and I have been wandering our neighbourhood a whole lot more. Exploring the streets and cul de sacs, as well as wandering down to the river, which we found out is actually really close to our house, has become a regular outing.

I know I don't usually feature my husband on the blog, but today he looked so dashing, I just couldn't resist. With this amazing Bird Print shirt we scored from Topman a couple of weeks ago, I've been on the lookout for some more awesome casual shirts for him. If any of you ladies like to dress your men too, have a look at Flannels Designer Menswear. I've been stalking this site a bit these last couple of weeks, as there are some fantastic designer items which I know will be perfect for Neil (there are a great collection of shirts which I am particularly interested in!). Possibly still not to late if you still need some gift ideas for your man ;)

He Said.

This weekend has been filled with socializing, relaxing, ultimate frisbee and shopping (our empty home is still in need of a bit of love, so every week we try and buy something for the home, using Look Again home shopping catalogues). Neil and I love having people over at ours, so from Thursday through to Saturday we were happily playing hosts to our guests, filling their bellies with braai's (South African BBQ), catching up on some Olympics and generally just having a good time!

Yesterday as we were making our way to the markets, we couldn't go past this incredible graffiti wall without taking some snaps. That's one thing about living in Melbourne that will never get old for me, is seeing art in all forms around the city - whether that's with graffiti, sculptures, buildings (truelly, there are some masterpieces around the place!) or posters. Incredible!

I love this place :)

It's a Man's World.

Image 1 and 5 Bobby Hicks from This Fellow. Image 2, 3 and 4 Salasai '11-'12 Collection. 

Image 6 and 7 Federation Summer Collection.

With the end of the year sneaking up and the husband almost finishing his studies, I have been on the lookout for some really nice outfits that we can invest in for him, as he will be stepping into a new job next year (yay!). And as a wifey, I love dressing him up more than what I enjoy buying clothes for myself (don't know if that's normal, but I just love a nicely dressed man)! So for anyone interested, here are just a few of my latest fashion inspirations for the husband :)

To beard or not to beard...

...THAT my friends, is the question!

Last weekend Neil and I had a bit of an adventure to capture some shots for the Fashion by Feelings initiative (here and here) and came across these train tracks which thought for perfect location. While we had our little date, the topic of Neil's lovely fluffy beard came up. Now in all honesty, I don't mind it too much, as long as it is neat and trimmed. He is exactly the opposite and wants to grow the beast as big and wild as he can. I just responded and said it's silly, no one likes beards that much anyway. And that's where he thought it a great opportunity to put that question to the test and find out.

Sooo...yay or nay for the beard?
I like a bit of stubble and the a slight overgrown look, just to show of his manly manliness (hehe) you know? But not too sure about the beast growing in thickness and size.

Hmmmmm...

I must say one thing I do really like is this awesome oversized woolly jumper we bought him in an opshop when we visited in Wellington last year. There has been many a cold day where I have decided to hide in this monstrosity to keep me safe from the cold.