:: Look Book - Practically Perfect Picnic ::

I am so excited it's finally Spring! I love the warm weather - it means swimming, bbqs, bike rides, and picnics!

:: Dress - Vintage / Cardigan - Valley Girl / Shoes - Ruby ::

I love picnics, there's something wonderful about them. Don't you agree?

:: Mimco ::

I love pretty hair clips and one of my favourite brands is Mimco. My sister is obsessed with Mimco hair clips, she owns SO many pretty ones! To be safe we buy her vouchers for her birthday and Christmas, because we have no idea what she owns anymore. A little while ago our sister-in-law told us about a Mimco competition - to take a photo of yourself wearing your favourite Mimco. Naturally, we jumped at the chance. The hard part was choosing her favourite clip to wear!

We decided to take the photos at the Brisbane Powerhouse, which is where Mr LG and I had our professional wedding photos taken. I wanted to create an effortless contrast between the urban background and the femininity of my sister and her hair clip.

In the end we chose the picture below and I had my younger sister's boyfriend edit it to fit recent Mimco photographic trends. We're not expecting to win, but it was a fun experience and now I want to expand my photographic abilities by taking more shots like these.

I borrowed this hair clip to wear to a friend's wedding this weekend just gone. I will share photos of that soon! I was MC and had so much fun!

:: Baby Shower ::

Last Sunday was my younger sister's baby shower. It's hard to believe that in about 5 weeks time my sister will be a mother and I will be an Aunty. The Baby Shower had a jungle animal theme, so we had elephant cupcakes (among mountains of other delicious food) and the most adorable animal carousel as a table centrepiece. We played some fun games like captioning pregnancy based comics, guessing baby animal names, and guessing the baby's name, weight, length and due date.

Gluten free elephant cupcakes!

'Normal' elephant cupcakes

Animal carousel centrepiece

My younger sister

My seriously cute next-door-neighbour

Look at her huge tummy!

My sister and her boyfriend still can't decide on a name for their little boy. Any suggestions are definitely welcome!

:: Talent ::

I'm so glad you all agree that I look absolutely fabulous as Princess Jasmine! That picture was drawn for me by my youngest sister. She loves to draw and create - we have two huge scrapbook's full of her creations already (she's six).

Yesterday afternoon I was on the train with my sister-in-law and we were discussing the different types of talent people have. Some people are crafty, some people can draw, some people can bake, some people can create, and so on and so forth. One talent I'd love to have is the gift of song. I can carry a tune, but I'll be honest - no one wants to hear me sing! The singing gene in my family was given to my younger sister.

What talent do you wish you had? Apart from singing, I also wish I had the talent of fast metabolism! Ha!

I hope you're all having a fantastic Wednesday.