If you go into the woods today your sure of a big .... beautiful wedding! We hope you enjoyed this months woodland wedding ideas. Here are a few of our favourite finds this month to wrap things up. We just fell in love with this picture from a real life whimsical woodland wedding, a bar in the middle of the forest and a...

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Pic via Green Wedding Shoes The idea of just one wedding cake has been quickly taken over the last few years by the dessert bar. But for a more rustic approach, great for cooler months, how about a pie bar? Offer guests a mouthwatering selection of homemade pies in lots of fun flavours. Mini pies even make lovely wedding favours wrapped in little...

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Cakes via Once Wed  Your guests will totally trip out over a cake decorated with marzipan or meringue mushrooms! Whether using store bought marzipan or making your own from scratch, it can easily be molded like play dough into little mushrooms. Start by making the stems - just a blob of marzipan rolled into shape. For the tops use a cookie cutter to make circles, not...

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Searching for the perfect woodland wedding centerpiece? Then look no further than a terrarium – a magical miniature landscape complete with living plants displayed in a glass container. This beautiful example above is from Make Something, and there are plenty of other great resources available on the internet to show you have to make your own, these are a couple of our favourites: Camera...

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Pics via The Sweetest Occasion, Young House Love and Going Home to Roost. There was a lot of interest last week in our printer to wood DIY project post, here. So I thought we'd take a look at a few other great ideas to turn an ordinary piece of wood into a wedding wonder! Wood burning. A fantastic technique perfect for signs and table...

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Today we have a really lovely  real wedding to share and hopefully inspire you. Last post we had a little look at DIY firefly jars. A great idea if you don't actually have fireflies around. In this wedding, the bride Kathryn included firefly catching jars as wedding favours. "They were a major hit and I thought it was a super cute DIY idea." says photographer Crystal...

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Pic: We heart it Don't you just love it when something so pretty is so simple?  Just flick glow in the dark paint onto the insides of jars and recreate the magic of fireflies. A very clever idea from Chrisjob on Curbly. ...

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Using mod podge, glue and a piece of paper this great step by step shows you how to transfer inkjet images from your home printer onto wood. Click here to see the tutorial from Matsutake. Place settings, table numbers, decorations, there are plenty of ways to use this technique. ...

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Set the scene for a magical woodland wedding with this beautiful rustic range of printable wedding stationery. Pick from a selection of Aussie, US or European birds and animals, you can use one throughout the range or mix and match from the following: rabbit, kangaroo, deer, owl, butterfly, wolf, dingo, bear, koala, squirrel and kookaburra/kingfisher. With a lovely faux wood design all part...

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If you're looking for free wedding downloads don't forget to check out our website idoityourself.com.au. These beautiful wood effect designs - or tree hearts - are available to download for free. With six tags, three green and three brown, each circle is 3inches across so they're easy to cut out with a circle punch. Here we have printed them out on a fairly thick...

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Forget sun damage, the winter can wreak havoc on your skin. Cold weather, strong winds and dry air from heaters can leave your skin dehydrated and damaged. Here are a few of our favourite winter skin saviours: Aveda Botanical Kinetics Hydrating Lotion $79.95 Origins Drink Up 10 minute mask $45.00 Jurlique Lavender Hydrating Mist $24.00 U Little Beauty Drought Relief Hydrating Facial Mask...

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Photo by Stephanie Williams  While spring and summer are usually the seasons for love, winter weddings are an increasingly popular option and can help with the all important budget. With the venue and catering taking up a whopping 50% of a couples average wedding budget, it certainly pays to shop around. It's generally easier to find a wedding venue in the slower winter...

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Well I don't know what the weather is like where you are, but here its turned decidedly freezing! So as we rug up in our Aussie office and crack open the coco, this month we're going to take a look at a wintry woodland wedding. Unleash your inner forest fairy with a dreamy look from Anthropologie. After an outdoor ceremony, move the reception...

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Fiskars Washed Ashore border punch - this craft punch is great for adding beautiful wave details for beach themed weddings.  Pack of ten shipping tags - in pretty lime green perfect for decorating wedding favours. $2.50 from Kazu Online.  The Tracer enlarges any design or pattern onto a wall from two to fourteen times the origins size. The projected image can be easily traced and coloured...

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Be sure to save the date for next months Ultimate Wedding Planning Party! The beautiful Opera House Point Marquee will be transformed to host Sydney's most prestigious wedding event on 25th August, 6pm. With stunning fashions by Colette Dinnigan, live cake decorating demonstrations and beauty tips from Bobbi Brown - just to name a few of the fabulous events planned for the evening....

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