Shades of Grey for Winter

 

Anyone who knows me well knows I love Shades of Grey.

 

Not the book as I have not bothered to read it yet, albeit it is on my desk and Carla has already read this and stolen book number two, Fifty Shades Darker for her holidays!

 

But I love greys combined with silvers, golds or a statement colour.

 

I wear it all the time in the winter and I decorate my house in it as it such a wonderfully quiet, soft statement colour but so rich and luxurious. 

 

Although my house has a lot of grey, dark grey sofas and a grey marble floor, I throw in vibrant olive greens, crisp whites and hot pinks just to make sure we are not cold and sombre ;)! 

 

I do love this colour combination with the brighter colours  mixed in as after all we do live in the Mediterranean :)

 

I have put together this mood board of cosy grey winter images as I have many stored here in my favourite file. 

 

The soft colours of mistletoe, silver shoes (could not resist this one) sequins, another love of mine, cosy knits and general loveliness including an image of a very cuddly rabbit!

 

I so love this rabbit and wish I could have one but sadly allergic to most animals albeit I have two cats and a dog?!

Pink and Gold Christmas Inspiration

Top Row 1st and 2nd image Better Homes & Gardens, 3rd Image Citrus & Orange, 4th Image Pinterest.
Second row Image 1,2 & 3 Citrus & Orange, 4 & 5 Image Unknown

Pink and Golds are definitely the in Christmas colour this year and are all over blog world.

I love them as these are the colours I have every year and mine are mixed with silvers and lots of crystal too collected over the years. I also use olive green as it is the other colour in my home but this year I am excited about using a touch of purple and deep turquoise too with lots of golds to bring a slightly grander feeling to our Christmas table. I have the crackers already and bought some beautiful olive charger plates and now on a search for a deep magenta velvet ribbon!

I thought with all these fabulous images I have found it would be lovely to create an inspiration board to share with you.

You really must head over to the Citrus and Orange blogspot, it is one of my favourite blogs and I can´t wait to see what Susana will be posting next as she shares her Christmas decoration ideas with us.

We also have some beautiful Christmas trees to share with you this week, sent in by our brides from the past few years and some of our brides for 2012 as we all get festive and share our creative ideas together!

A Cinco de Mayo Party Inspiration

Any excuse for a party and Cinco de Mayo is no exception with this gloriously brightly coloured Mexican theme to have fun with.

We found these lovely styling ideas on Celebrations using a riot of colours, margaritas in both forms, the daisies and of course the drink, chillis, a photo booth and lots of tasty Mexican food ideas so when we are all finished with the traditional Royal Wedding parties with our scones and tea, we can move on to the maracas!

A big thank you to one of my lovely couples this year for bringing me some official Royal Wedding tea to celebrate in style on Friday.

Table Styling

It is not often I find these fabulous images on the internet and before we dash out to do the Haiti Fundraising event I just had to share these with you. A fabulous use of colour and textures and of course love the snow :)!

I will have to credit this later as have it stored somewhere in the depths of my computer :)

Vampire Chic for Weddings and Parties

This red and black wedding is perfect for a Gothic celebration and we love the spanish style cake.

The table names are in elaborate ornate blackframes with the names Dracula in this image, I can imagine, with all the vampire hype at the moment, of all the other table name possibilities you could come up with! Twilight springs to mind of course!

A vampire themed night would be amazing, getting away from the usual pumpkins with the orange and black theme, this theme would be far more stylish for a Halloween soiree. Image found on www.swankytablesblog.com

Chopard Moroccan Party at Marbella Club

Hot or what!

Here we are decorating the Marbella Club's Chiringuito for the Chopard Jewellery Morrocan Night.

Just when we thought we were going to have a quiet August, the phone starts ringing!

Carlos from Lipara Productions needed our help with putting this amazing Moroccan party together, not only completely covering the chiringuito with fabrics but needed a stylist on board for the day plus our team to complete this party within 4 hours, by the time our team had finished it looked amazing. We were thrilled and the decorations Carlos and his wife has supplied for us to use were really something else. A huge effort and we have to go back tonight to clear down so drinking lots of coffee! x

Lemon and Aqua Wedding

I was having lunch in my parent's garden today with my sister and her best friend who were visiting for the weekend. The sun was out and my mother, who always beautifully dresses tables, had laid the table today in turquoise and lime colours, turquoise table mats, lime napkins, lime coloured bread basket and her white crockery.

My sister then announced she needed some lemons for her G&T! I dashed to my house, next door!, got my stepladder and raided my lemon tree in my garden and bought back a few lemons and plonked them in the middle of my mothers beautiful lunch table, it was a heavenly colour scheme I kept admiring all afternoon! So fresh and vibrant and perfectly Meditteranean. I found this inspiration board tonight on www.weddinginspirationblog.blogspot.com which compliments the colours I had today but I will do my own inspiration board tomorrow for this fabulous colour combination!

Colours for weddings

This image from Geoff White just describes what we do with details to colour by adding in chair sashes and colours on the tables with napkins completely changes the look of this wedding, smart and elegant, I just love it, can you imagine if this was just white!?

Alice in Wonderland themes

Can you imagine my amazement when I found these surreal photos from Jessica Claire, of this Alice in Wonderland party, exactly as I would have created it myself, wonderful use of colours and such work and detail has gone into this party. A brilliant theme, as the possibilities are endless and I love the coloured candlelabras. I do recall one of our stores here selling something very similiar to these last year, will have to make sure I look out for them this year.

Cudeca Charity Evening Tamisa Golf

Everytime I visit Tamisa Golf I am always taken back by the fabulous setting this hotel has with it's view over the golf course and the mountains behind it, such a popular setting for weddings and a lovely, friendly relaxed venue. I was approached my Maureen of Butterfly Events who asked if I would donate my time and some decorations for a very worthwhile charity evening raising money for Cudeca and Motor Neurone Disease.

Saudi Royal Family Party Al Riyad Palace Marbella August 2008

Our most prestigious event of this year was to design and decorate a family party for the Saudi Royal family at the Al Riyad Palace here in Marbella. We were commissioned by Puente Romano to provide the decorations for this event as they were supplying the catering which was amazing

I had a few sleepless nights and have never rushed around so much to get this party ready in time.

The theme for this party was a peppermint green colour and we used lots of crystal candles, crystals, swarovski table crystals couried in by USP on an overnight delivery!

Cream Moroccan lamps, lanterns, organza table cloths in peppermint and whites and it was certainly the night of candles and lanterns I have never seen so many

The princess was charming when she came down to see us and check over the progress, she changed a few things and instantly the party was a much more pared down low key family event and her taste was perfect and the result was beautiful.

It was an amazing day and such a fabulous venue to work at, the palace is exquisitely decorated, unfortunately it has made my little townhouse here in Marbella look rather drab!

I am hoping I might get some better images, if I do I will post some more as these photos do not really do justice to the setting and the grand scale of the event.