friday night love.....

On this rainy night in Perth there is nothing better than a cuppa, a couch and a couple of good blogs to read!

Tonight (and every other night!) at The Owl and the Elephant  we are LOVING Table Tonic. From fashion to magazines to recipes to interior design it has it all!

Beautifully written and accompanied by beautiful pictures it is well worth a read. In fact pop on over now and tell Louise we sent you, we know she would love you to visit!

Speaking of beautiful things.... Have you been past our website lately and checked out our stylish yet functional lanyards? they are our newest favourite thing!!!

Elephants in Ebony

Olive Wallflower

Tangerine Sunburst

Thought of the moment:

Rain Rain go away we have Perth Upmarket on Sunday!

pinkie tea!!

Royal Wedding day! We certainly hope that this morning finds you drinking tea - pinkie high in the air!!

When blogging the other day Mrs Elephant had trouble thinking of a "moment" to add (yes faithful followers it is here Mrs Owl admits ALL those things happened to me!!!) so this morning just to teach her a lesson - she had a spectacular moment all of her own!!

Whilst sitting back... enjoying her pinkie tea, make-upless and in her best daggy PJ's Mrs Elephant heard a knock at the door....flash backs to emails and converstations flared before her eyes as she suddenly remembered that we had organised a customer to come and pick up an order this morning!! How's that for customer service at its best people?

Ahhhhh dear I love that woman!

Speaking of things we love check out these seriously lovable blogs we have come across!!

The ever lovely Jane Hall has just started a blog over at "Salvation Jane" and we just love everything about it - from the title to the content its definitely one not to miss!! Isn't she lovely?

Another favourite is Honey and Fizz we are BIG fans of her beautiful bus rolls (in fact Mrs Owl's house is near on wallpapered in them!)  and know you will be too!

Last but certainly not least - Kelle Hampton has a beautiful blog which we just love to read curled up on the couch with our snuggie and our pinkie tea!!

Now before we leave you to your Royal Wedding preparations we thought we would post a picture of the Owl and the Elephant in our wedding gowns.... after all... everyone deserves to be a princess for a day!!!

Mr and Mrs Elephant....

And Mr and Mrs Owl (pregnant, in amongst a SMALL selection of Mr Owls family)  in wedding dress number two from our Perth wedding (dress 1 seen in earlier blogs was the sydney version a few months earlier!!)

Happy Royal wedding day everyone - how will you be celebrating?

Thought of the moment:

To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the loving cup - Whenever your wrong admit it, and whenever your right shutup!!

Fancy a chocolate free Easter?

No, neither do we! but we do know the perfect accompaniment....have a look at I Love Pretty Things 

new Easter Catalogue for some great gift inspiration

We love our latest pretty things...

find our owl & cupcake pins here

Thought of the moment:

All I really need is love, but a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt!

Lucy Van Pelt

In Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz.

We LOVE Honey & Fizz

If you happen to stop past either The Owl or the Elephant's houses in the coming weeks (or read our upcoming blogs! Josie is MADLY redecorating her house so you are soon to be inundated with boring shots of her house and its "new" rooms!!) you will see our newest prized possesions.....

We are in LOVE!!! Having spent many months searching through bus rolls we came across this lovely lady here on facebook. Her pricing is incredible at just $15 and her products divine!

And whats more..... she has a BLOG!!! We have goosepimples of excitement and will be meeting the postman AT the letter box in anticipation of these beautiful beautiful bus rolls arriving.

Thought of the moment:

Clearly if you live in Sydney, have lived in Sydney, have ever wanted to live in Sydney , or have as a bestie and business partner someone who is any of the previous you're ORSE

Who loves a good tutorial?

Nat and I lead VERY exciting lives...between loads of washing, dirty nappies, light switch covers, markets and cooked dinners we love nothing more than kicking back with a cup of tea, a piece *cough*block*cough* of turkish delight chocolate and a good ol' tutorial. Here are a few of our current favs:

 Love Making It  have taken some papier mache letters (which you can buy at Spotlight) 

and wrapped them with brightly coloured wool...such a simple idea but so effective!

Take a look



Another favourite and good one to keep in mind next time you have to wrap a present is this cool gift bow tutorial. Infact we kinda think a box of these bows would be an awesome present in themselves!!! Check them out at  How About Orange

This is one which we both can't WAIT to try with our 3 year old daughters...ALPHABET ROCKS! (get it? hehe)  Check them out over at More Mom Time

Are these  little bird cages from The Brides cafe not the cutest thing ever?

What are some of your fav tutorials?

Thought of the moment:
There is no trouble so great or grave that cannot be much diminished by a nice cup of tea.  ~Bernard-Paul Heroux

Road trip!!

The Owl and the Elephant are busy loading up our ipods with 80's classics getting ready to head off on a road trip next weekend. (Despite the fact it is the Owl's wedding anniversary - a slight oversight on her behalf, sorry Mr Owl!!)

We are SO excited to be going away for two nights to dunsborough ( though of course we will miss our husbands and children TERRIBLY *cough*) and can't wait to check out some of the talented local handicrafts and knick knacky shops.

One of the Elephant's favourite shops which she cannot wait to introduce the Owl to is Little Leisure Toys. One look at the welcome page of their website is enough to make our hearts flutter!!

Then of course a trip down south would not be a trip down south without a visit to the chocolate factory! no explanation needed, one simply cannot function without the recomended daily dose of this medicine!

The Old Court House in Busselton is one of those brilliant places neither of us have visited before that is full of local arts and crafts and we can't wait to check it out.

Two places we cannot wait to check out we first found on facebook!  room2room looks simply too good to just walk on past...

and Rustic French Living  is the sort of shop we could easily get lost in for days!

What are some of your favourite places to visit? We would love to hear some suggestions, especially for handcrafted goodies or beautiful stores!

Thought of the moment:

"Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring."
- Marilyn Monroe

P.S (do you do P.S's in blogs? Apparently we do!) Those of our lovely likers waiting for an "Alice" update... stay tuned...the next blog could well be the big reveal!!!