

Strawberries & cream tea party at The Tea Salon Melbourne
Yesterday we hosted a sweet little tea party at The Tea Salon at Emporium Melbourne for some of Ava's friends and their gorgeous mummas. This is our favourite time of year for a tea party and there really is no better setting than The Tea Salon! My guests and I were lucky to be joined by the founder of The Tea Salon, Jill Jones-Evans, who was the most gorgeous and gracious host. Here are all the details. Tea Party Theme + Decorations The theme for the tea party was strawberri


Mad Hatter's Tea Party at Coombe Yarra Valley
Earlier in the year I had the pleasure of working on a Mad Hatter’s Tea Party with a group of fabulous Australian party people. As soon as I saw the exquisite gardens at Coombe Yarra Valley - once the Australian home of world famous opera singer Dame Nellie Melba - I knew it would be a perfect location for a magical Mad Hatter's Tea Party. I wanted to bring Lewis Carroll's tea party to life, with a long banquet table of delicious treats set for many. A breathtaking vanilla ca


Penguins on parade at Phillip Island
My family spent the recent long weekend on Phillip Island. We had been wanting to take our penguin-loving kids to see the fairy penguins for years so this was a very special trip for our family. We arrived at the Penguin Parade on the Friday afternoon for a 30-minute Behind The Scenes tour, which run on select school holidays and long weekends. Straight after the tour we went down to the Penguin Plus viewing platform, which is perched right next to the penguins most popular p