Eat Drink Chic

Here's a mid-week dose of colour and sparkle for you. Festive items that will brighten up your homes, your parties and your pretty selves! 

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I'm a huge fan of T2! I regularly visit their stores to check out their latest teawares and have a taste of their latest brews. More often than not, I will end up leaving with a pretty souvenir, from the experience, to add to my ever-expanding teaware collection. It's very hard to resist :)

At the moment, I'm loving their new jumbo colour block 'jumbled' cups and saucers!

I'm also loving the intricate geometric patterns in their bright and colourful Casbah collection. Wouldn't it be lovely to have a modern Moroccan-inspired tea party with all these beauties?

Oh, and their Bling Coasters are pretty lovely too!

It's Friday so I'm guessing everyone's in a pretty festive mood right? ;-)

Have a happy weekend peeps! 

straws | balloon | flag | salad servers | tassle | popsicle studs | napkins | button | card

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All these things I know to be true:

• Kate Lilley is awesome. I mean, seriously. Love her site Minieco and love her Strawberry Treat Box printable on Oh Happy Day. Love love love.
• Aiko Fukawa does the cutest illustrations. Guaranteed to make you smile. Get lost in her colourful world right here.
• These pillows are just too adorable and I must have them all.
• Marsha Golemac creates pretty things with paper. Her Mother's Day 'Things we love' sign for Megan Park's boutique window is just beautiful. I want to be Ms. Golemac. There, I said it.
• Movenpick's Creme Brulee ice-cream is to-die-for and no, there's nothing strange about eating ice-cream in the dead of Winter.
• After getting sucked into the rabbit hole that is Pinterest and getting lost for an hour (or two), I've become a) really inspired by Japanese packaging and b) absolutely certain that Pinterest needs to have a big, flashing "Enter at your own risk" sign on its homepage. If you dare, you can enter the rabbit hole here.

Thought sharing this might be a festive way to kick-off the week! Pretty wooden bunting by Cubbylove. Such a cute name too, doncha think?

See all their other colourful goodies in their shop.

{ photos from Cubbylove website }

Get your craft on and have a happy weekend everybody! :)

So, I disappeared a bit last week. Sorry about that folks! My new Pomodoro timer app still works a treat but at some point, for whatever the reason, the wheels fell off my whole 'getting organised' mission. Just so you know, I've been working on these babies! It's my latest post for Oh Happy Day. You can grab them here.

If you've been following Eat Drink Chic recently you'll probably have noticed that gift tags are a bit of an obsession of mine at the moment. I think it's because they're like cute little works of art. Simple in concept, practical and also an opportunity to explore all kinds of 'graphicky' goodness! 

Inspired partly by the colourwheel and partly by these awesome Pie Chart Stickies from Present and Correct, I set out to design gift tags in a similar vein. Above is what I came up with!

I recently used one of these tags to embellish a friend's birthday gift packaging. I also cut out little semi circles from some gold stickers to decorate the wrap. And just in case you're curious as to what was inside the package- it was a copy of The Hand Book and a set of nail art brushes which I picked up from Lulu.

Tackling some nail art has been on the bucket list for awhile, so I actually bought a copy of both the book and brushes for myself and for my friend! Of course, if I'm feeling lazy (a strong possibility), I might pop round to Trophy Wife Nail Art and just get them done for me. So many inspiring designs...

Read on to download your freebies!

Absolutely thrilled to have a project up on Oh Happy Day today!! Free summer-themed printables to create gift tags, embellish giftwrap, create garlands... whatever your heart desires.

I've long been a fan of Jordan and her gorgeous blog Oh Happy Day so it really was an honour to create this project for her.

Go take a peek and grab your freebies now!

How pretty are these wooden popsicles from Anthropologie?! By Johnny Hermann.

Green | Orange | Multi-coloured | Pink

napkins | oxfords | tiger cushion (via the design files) | leopard cushion | moustache | mask | tag | straws | dog | de clieu | mousepad | coaster 

shoes | escort card | star dominoes | shades | tumbler | girl's dress | postcard | paperweight | vase

Don't these images put you in a party mood?

Top left: Loving these fashion editorial pics for the latest issue of Rue Magazine. (Photography by Lara Rossignol. Fashion styling by Kate Riney for Aim Artists. Props created and styled by Jess Hammer.)

Top right: The most adorable photo of a dog I have ever seen! ( via Creature Comforts )

Bottom left: Bonbon Balloons- these are simply awesome.

Bottom right: Neon fabric bonbons by Wholehearted Studio- A lovely blog, by the way.

For our Australia Day BBQ back in Jan, I put together this little Ice-Cream Sundae bar. (Yes, I am obsessed with Sundae bars.) It is now a permanent fixture in our home.

It may appear to be intended for small children but no, it, in fact, catered for full-grown adults. All of the objects I've used to style it are part of my own collection because, basically, I am a large child. This table design is totally a manifestion of my colourful, eclectic and exceedingly infantile mind. 

And yes, perhaps including a pic of Audrey Hepburn these days is a tad cliché, but I don't care, she's awesome. (It was a toss up between her and Audrey Tautou.)

Oh and, by the way, if you ever plan to use plastic amber bottle dispensers for your toppings, don't get anything too thick- it will be a massive fail :(

I'm so in love with my test tube rack of colourful sprinkles! (I've re-used some old Happy Lab tubes.)

Confetti sprinkles are the bomb.

Happy Easter/Passover weekend everybody! :)

Cloud Napkin holder from Ikea (I use mine as a letter holder on my desk!)

Love the gorgeous colour block pots from Pop Plant.

Lamp from Fenton and Fenton (I liked it so much I bought one for our living room).

This retro style chair from Freedom is definitely on my wishlist.

Red Bird origami patchwork cushion from Kissen Studio.

Yellow Alarm Dock from Areaware (such a clever idea).

Star paper cup from My Little Day.

Recycled Leather Fuchsia Tablet folder from Paper Thinks (I want!!)

Black Heart Wall Flag from Pony Rider.

Pixagon Rug from Fenton and Fenton.

I've been stumbling across lots of inspiring and colourful bits and pieces lately. As a result, here's double the 'Fab Four' fun...

one: graphic stripes wooden utensils from brown button trading | two: tennis ball gift bucket from harry barker | three: leather mousepad in neon yellow from freshly picked | four: malmo stool in mint from crate expectations

one: hearts and crosses coaster set from pony rider | two: you + me card from sugar paper | three: little heart note cards from anthropologie | four: rainbow gel pens from kikki.K

I'm back! Did you miss me? ;-) I hope everyone had a Happy Halloween!

I'm still putting the finishing touches on the new website design that I promised you, but I hope to push it live early next week! A huge thanks to the hubby for all his hardwork in building it.

During my break I also managed to get a bit of a head start on some holiday freebies which I look forward to bringing to you over the next few weeks.

In the meantime I'll leave you with some colourful bits n' pieces to inspire your parties and gift packaging...

Pink wooden { forks } from Pretty Pickles 

Sunshine Yellow reversible { wrapping paper } from Sugar Paper 

Stripes and Dots Paper Bakeware { Loaf Pans } from Little Ink 

Wooden { feather gift tags } from Anthropologie 

Felt rainbow { garland } from Little Nest Box 

Striped { envelopes} (as part of Stripe and Dot envelope set) from kikki.K

As promised, here it is, another "Bon Appetit" cutlery tag free download. Brighten up your table-setting with this summery floral pattern!

Continue to download your freebie!

So I promised you another 'Bon Appetit' cutlery tag freebie. However, I'm still awaiting those props I ordered. {Sigh}. Crossing my fingers and toes in the hope that they'll arrive next week. 

In the meantime, I thought I'd play around with watercolour paints...

These are just a bit of fun and super-easy to do. Using thick watercolour paper (not exceeding 280gsm) I've cut out tag shapes with a craft punch then basically just messed around to see what kinds of pretty and striking colour effects I can make with watercolour paints, (e.g, gradients, colour-blocking, etc.)  Nothing fancy, just keeping it simple. I've then used some mini alphabet stamps and coloured inks, to print some messages on them. Voila. Easy as pie.

You can use them to decorate gifts or to add a splash of colour to a table-setting!

Happy Friday! xo

{ images by Amy Moss } 

...our next shindig (whenever that may be), so I can show off my tumbler collection!..

... and stir up some Lemonade with orange blossom water. I fell in love with this beautiful drink after tasting it for the first time at Mama Ganoush (a lovely middle eastern restaurant in Windsor). I generally make it whenever we entertain- it's been popular with guests. Awesome with sparkling water, instead of still. Make sure to grab the recipe!

{ all images by Amy Moss }