Pamela Barber : Vera Wang and Princess Bobo

Pamela Barber : Vera Wang and Princess Bobo: My daughter asked me 'mum' can we have a wedding reception at home I was delighted to say the most.......As our girl had been wit...

Vera Wang and Princess Bobo

My daughter asked me 'mum' can we have a wedding reception at home I was delighted to say the most.......As our girl had been with her partner for fifteen years & have two beautiful children, this wedding was going to be filled with love, babies, children&fun!

we had only three months to get ready, out side needed a paint job' concrete paint check! grass cut check!flowers in bloom' in the mean time my very clever daughter had made so many crazy lovable wedding y things that made her day extra wonderful, like these pompoms her & the boys had such a huge laugh making them' some very funny shapes I tell you .......twinkling fairy lights, good music,great food and so much laughter.....................  

My girls husband to be' cut these little cake toppers & painted them' very impressed wonderful job 'Chad'. They went on to daughter's home made gluten free wedding cake...... ps taste deli-shes ssssssssss not one piece left family and friend were amazed how wonderful Bobo's cooking is....takes after her mum!!!!!!

mummy & daddies baby girl looked to LoVeLy in her vintage dress, with flowers mummy lovingly stitched  on the day before and these little silver shoes !....

photo of baby shoes on mummy's wedding dress!

and baby wings!

a perfect day .....

And what a handsome little man in his black waistcoat' gleaming white shirt black long pants & yes these orange (converse) very dapper!  Such a big boy....& never dropped the wedding rings.......

arrr made with love by mum (me)haahaaa I made to many (ring chusions) flowers added by bride to be ........beautiful

darling daughter' the lolly/sweets table what a fantastic idea the children the big kids' old kids we loved it so very much funny thing as I am writing this blog guess what I have next to me yep a cuppa coffee and left over chocolate the ones that crackle in your mouth orrrr yummy..so anyone out there getting married don't forget the lolly table huge success!

Princess for a princess 

More fun ways to make your day special not so silly to make your own decorations we all loved them ....

Bobo you looked stunning and a beautiful lovely bride have to say you had a smile on your face that to your parents came across you were extremely happy your father and I was proud we wish you all the happiness in the world....... 

Emm was that the look of a girl with her 'FAVORITE' shoes on !

There were the first to go heheeeee.......

the wedding tree every body had such fun....you had ink & you left your finger print on the tree of life...... 

bouquet of LoVe .....Perfect way to end a perfect day.

Pamela Barber : Artist ''Margaret Olley'' and Me?

Pamela Barber : Artist ''Margaret Olley'' and Me?: Turns out that the late Margaret Olley and I have a lot in common we both had/have a LoVe of house hold clutter/treasures & object...

Artist ''Margaret Olley'' and Me?

Turns out that the late Margaret Olley and I have a lot in common we both had/have a LoVe of house hold clutter/treasures & objects d'art ! can you see the resemblance!  Bric-a-brac galore' in my case ready to be photographed  in Margaret s  hat factory ready to be painted.........

So see my grown children its not hoarding' its ART! as Margaret had paintbrushes & paint I have my camera, tripod,lenses and many many cluttered ''things'' that I love & that give me inspiration & happiness!

I know I even hang pictures on the wall that nobody can see ''but I can see it  when I put my coffee down on the little table and that reminds me I  don't have as many tables as darling Margaret had!

Call me Mrs Flower pot ok potty dotty more like it !

 I have collected junky treasure's for ever'  many times I bring in broken junk but 'we' fix it & Like my Chinese Empress who lost her head a bit of glue & all new again priceless! 

              Can you see my sons' sneaky fingers' honestly!

 So you see my husband' I have been telling you for ages you are married to a true artist ''no not a ''nutta' an Artist! so when I say I can not cook dinner to night because I am an artist or I say so' dear you have no clean washing because you are married to an artist, and when the house becomes so cluttered you can no longer find ME remember like Margaret we are both ''wonderful'' Artist! xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Like Margaret' I have a great LoVe OF flowers' I cant get enough of them!

So thank you darling' Margaret' Olley  for giving me inspiration to Love what I do & enjoy my cluttered lounge/studio take thousands of more photos  & fill my home with flowers & LoVe  & to live till I am 88/100 & enjoy my life more than 'ever'............Pamela

ps have a great week every one !  

margaret Olley photo & her house photo taken by Jack Tran/Australian                                                                                                     Recreation of late painter's house/studio by Gold Coast -based Alder Constructions

Margret Olley........ story Jenny Rogers......  gold coast bulletin..............
Tweed Regional Gallery at Murwilliumbar Australia

Healing Roses & yellow fields of happiness...

I met a very sad lady' a shop assistance' she broke down in the store I was in. While serving me' she started to cry 'sobbing' she apologized then went on to say she lost her mum four months ago, I listened to her telling me about  her last few weeks with her mum. She went on to say she thought her mum came back to visit her in the early morning just before light, I said it most probably was your mum letting you know she is still with you, more tears then we had a laugh' we hugged and I went on my way.

Grief is a strange thing you never know when its going to hit you' but one thing I have learnt over the years is don't fight it go with the flow and cry cry & cry its normal and you have to let it out its your pain and you can not hang on to it any longer than you have to ( LET IT OUT ) it will come on you  when you least expect it, its different for every body on how long it can last but if you feel you can not cope then you have to ask for help! its like the lady today to talk even to a stranger  helps you get though a little of your grief........    

 'healing flower's' to every one who is dealing with Grief 

Few years ago I was having a bath relaxing I asked my mum, could she send me a sign that she was happy' the sign had to be flowers or the word flowers. Anyway by the end of that week I was driving back from the airport I had picked up my  pick up my daughter & her husband' they were returning from a trip to Adelaide. My daughter started to tell me that when the plane left Adelaide as  the plane was climbing it flew over a 'huge' crop of the most beautiful yellow ''flower''s she has ever seen 'mum it was a amazing my daughter said......... I was totally in another AAahhhhh moment !

So happy your  ''happy'' mum!

  Ps thinking of Mick Jagger & L'Wren Scott.....

Pamela Barber : Footy season and ''chocolate-croissants''

Pamela Barber : Footy season and ''chocolate-croissants'': Footy season has started' poor me I have to stay in my bedroom with smaller TV.  Watch what ever I like for the next six an half mont...

Footy season and ''chocolate-croissants''

Footy season has started' poor me I have to stay in my bedroom with smaller TV.  Watch what ever I like for the next six an half months/read when ever. Listen to music, eat as much cadbury /hot chocolate/ red-wine' write my blog. While my hubby is going nut's crazy nut's all 'alone' poor 'poor' darling it's going to be tough 'I tell you' would I lie really would I!!!!!!!! 

Forgot to mention the lounge also becomes a shrine to his footy not 'kidding' out comes the flag's the footy pillow's footy memorabilia yes even a teddy bear and the footy short's shirt and sock's yep been waiting for him to out grow it but at 73 think I have to get used to it what do you think? aaarrr he has just popped his head around the door to say footy today is very hard & fast emm maybe he's worn out a little 'poor pet' it did take him sometime to set the speakers in perfect spot behind his favorite chair! 

Wish I had sound' It's INCREDIBLE the talking he does to these fellows & if they don't score, he has to have a massive walk around the room! And if they do score well he has this thing he does with his arm and his leg goes up behind the other like he's in a running race!  funny I just took up all the old carpet 'yep'' the under felt around his chair was in pieces I couldn't work it out 'silly me'' 

Now don't go thinking why I don't like the footy 'I do' but I don't need to watch it, as I will be told every inch of the game in detail while I ''sleep'' 

While hubby has been eagerly waiting the footy to start, I on the other hand have been eagerly wishing to win  win Lotto so I could visit old London Town, it would be perfect time to go away for six month's imagine ''Portobello Road markets'  Covent Garden, more vintage markets underground to Paris for a glass of wine and more markets. Art gallery's, CHOCOLATE 'CROISSANTS''   BJ and his footy wouldn't  even know I was gone, I tell you when I return he would say well Honey ''There is always next year! ''dreamsdocometrue''  

 ps next time I will post footy photo's heheeee