Thank you for the awards…

12 Tuesday Feb 2013

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Happy Tuesday everyone!

Recently we were blessed with two awards from fellow bloggers in our community. Thank you so much Jennifer at Winter Owls and Jiandra at Thingiemajingie for taking the time to nominate us for these lovely awards!

Versatile Blogger Award

The rules of this award are as follows:

1. Display the award certificate on your website.
2. Announce your win with a post and include a link to whoever presented your award.
3. Present 15 awards to deserving bloggers. Create a post linking to them and drop them a comment to tip them off.
4. Post 7 interesting facts about yourself.

We are both very musical – Amour sings and Renee is a conductor
We love to cook….and eat!
Renee loves black and skulls – Amour loves red and hearts – We both love purple and silver
Renee and Amour met at Hillsong Church during our late teen years. We’ve been friends ever since!
Renee loves the country – Amour loves the city
We are Glee addicts!
We are both girls that would pick dogs over cats any day! 🙂

In no particular order here are our very Versatile Blogger nominees:

Beautiful Blogger Award

The rules of this award are as follows:

Thank the person who nominated you
Post the award image to your page
Tell seven facts about yourself
Nominate 15* other bloggers for the award and let them know about the nomination.

*Some blogs suggest nominating seven other bloggers for the BBA if you find this daunting! Ummm yes!

Seven facts about us – as listed above 🙂

In no particular order the nominees for BBA are:

Please take the time to grab a cuppa, share the love and check out these lovely blogs.

Biscuit Tin Restyle

22 Tuesday Jan 2013

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grey, Love Notes Restyle Studio, recycle, repurpose, restyle, rosette, tin, upcycle

My niece Jasmine uses an old biscuit tin to hold her many hair accessories. It wasn’t very attractive….here is a picture of it…

Unstyled biscuit tin

So I spray painted it with White Knight Squirts quick dry gloss enamel in ‘gum grey’. I let it dry overnight and then glued on some rosettes my mum made from scrap material.

Biscuit Tin restyle

What do you think of my quicky restyle? I think it looks much better 🙂

Take care, until next time…keep restyling!

Grape and Gin Summer Cocktail

17 Thursday Jan 2013

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Beverages, Cocktail, Gin, lemon, Lemon-lime, Lime, Love Notes Restyle Studio, mineral water, soda water, tonic water

We tried two versions of this lovely tarty drink back on New Year’s eve.

Grape and Gin Goodness…

Version 1

500g green seedless grapes
3 x limes
3 x lemons
1.5 cups gin
1.25 litres lemon lime sparkling mineral water
300ml tonic water
ice

Method:

remove grapes from stems and wash
place grapes in bag and freeze until solid
slice 1 x lime and 1 x lemon
juice 2 x lime and 2 x lemon
blend frozen grapes
add all to jug with gin, tonic and mineral water
add ice to serve

Pretty summer cocktail…

This was delicious but got a bit too much after a few so we ended up trying version 2 – which we preferred!

Version 2

It’s exactly like version one – but swap out the 1.25 litres lemon lime sparkling mineral water with 1.25 litres soda water

We prefer our cocktails with just a hind of flavour hence in the end version 2 won out of the two.

How do you prefer your cocktails? Packed with flavours or light and refreshing?

Please share your favourite cocktail recipe with us – we’d love to give it a try.

Take care, until next time…keep restyling!

Amour & Renee xx

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Fascinator Restyle for Kadyn

16 Wednesday Jan 2013

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Accessories, costume party, drag, fascinator, feathers, hair, Love Notes Restyle Studio

Fascinator Restyle

Our client Kadyn was looking for a fascinator to go with his outfit for a costume party. As we had worked on the Dreamcatcher Restyle for him he came to us for help.

The flowers are made from a dressing gown and put together with some leftover feathers from a previous Fascinator Restyle. Luckily for us it was the same colour combination!

Kadyn wearing his fascinator

Another successful restyle and Kadyn continues to be a happy customer 🙂 Here’s a picture of Kadyn fully transformed into Miss Vida Boem!

Kadyn transformed into Miss Vida Boem

Thanks again Kadyn for your continuous support!

Take care, until next time…keep restyling!

Amour & Renee xx

Renee’s Nail Update – with a Meeting on the Side :)

14 Monday Jan 2013

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Love Notes Restyle Studio, Macca's, McDonalds, nail polish

Renee’s Nails

We had a meeting this week to just catch up after the holiday break. First things first let’s check out Renee’s nails this week. Don’t you just love this shade of green? Sometimes the el cheapos just out perform themselves!

We just need to put it out there – our meeting wasn’t in the most stylish of hang outs – we met up at McDonalds or as us Aussie’s call it Maccas!

In preparation for Australia Day later this month, Maccas have got some Aussie influence on their menu. So we tried out the Fanta Frozen McFloat in Passionfruit flavour. Basically it’s a Passionfruit slurpee with soft serve on top – Yummy!

Our McFloat Meeting…

Our fellow Aussie’s give it a go 🙂

Take care, until next time…keep restyling!

Amour & Renee xx

T shirt Restyle – for Jasmine

11 Friday Jan 2013

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baby, Children, Clothing, Jasmine, Kmart, Love Notes Restyle Studio, recycle, restyle, Shopping, t shirt, Tshirt, upcycled

Jasmine in her T’s

Normally we would do this type of restyle on something second hand. Due to being so busy over the holiday period we just got the Tshirt from Kmart. These basic Tshirts were only $3 each! Say it with me – BARGAIN!

Original Tee from Kmart

The first one was embellished with Burnt Flowers made from pajama pants. The same pajama pants were previously used in our PJ restyle.

The second one was printed in an ombre style whilst using a paper doily as a stencil. We did this previously in the baby white T restyle.

We think Jasmine loves how they turned out! Her mummy loves them too 🙂

T shirt Restyle

Tell us about any Tshirt restyles you have done. We’d love to be inspired by your ideas!

Take care, until next time…keep restyling!

Dreamcatcher Restyle

02 Wednesday Jan 2013

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dreamcatcher, Love Notes Restyle Studio, Oliver Tweet, recycle, restyle, upcycle

Mischa with dreamcatcher restyle

Happy New Year everyone! Hope you all had a great time partying with your loved ones – we sure did!

Our client Kadyn wanted a gift for his mother in law that represented one of the loves of his life – his pet parrot – Oliver Tweet 🙂

The end result was Oliver’s fallen feathers worked into a dreamcatcher.

Isn’t Oliver just the cutest?

We love how it turned out! What do you think of our restyle?

Thank you for supporting us Kadyn!

Take care, until next time…keep restyling!

Paper Rock Scissors – a craft store in Davao City

09 Sunday Dec 2012

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Australia, craft supplies, Davao City, hobby shop, Love Notes Restyle Studio, Philippines, rubber stamps, school supplies, stationery, Sydney

It’s my last full day in Davao City, Philippines – tomorrow I fly back home to Sydney, Australia.

During my time in Davao I checked out a stationery store called Paper Rock Scissors. I first found out about them from Aicha of The Late Bloomer Blog. When I read her post I thought to myself – well I’m in Davao soon so I better check them out. Boy am I glad I did!

I found out that they make custom rubber stamps – so we got some made! Here they are:

Love Notes Stamp Collection made by Paper Rock Scissors

Along with that we got a variety of ink pads:

Stamp Ink

Here’s a list of the inks we purchased:

Color Box Cats Eye Pigment Brush Pad in Silver
Brilliance Dew Drop in Pearlescent Crimson
Brilliance Dew Drop in Starlite Black
Whispers Ink Pad in Fresh Eggplant
Jenni Bowlin Ink Pad in Brown Sugar
American Crafts Brand Ink Pad in Black
American Crafts Brand Ink Pad in Silver

But wait! Here’s more of what else I got 🙂

More things from Paper Rock Scissors

Check out Aicha’s post for photos of the store. I was in a super hurry at the time so I didn’t get to take any pictures. So not only do they sell a variety of stationery but they offer lots of different services. I’ve already told you about the custom rubber stamps – along with that they do business cards, book binding, shape-cutting and much much more.

At the moment I’m working closely with Lilibeth at Paper Rock Scissors to get some custom clothing labels made so that our restyles can look more finished. It will also be the last step before we open up our Etsy store…excited much! Yes I am!

So if you are ever in Davao City, Philippines – give these guys a visit. They are super friendly and you can spend hours lost in their supplies!

Take care, until next time…keep restyling!

Love Notes Restyle Studio

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I’m a Blog Love Student!

08 Saturday Dec 2012

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Hi, it’s Amour here. Happy Saturday!

When we decided to start Love Notes Restyle Studio we were looking for a platform to host and share our creativity. In order to put ourselves out there more we started this blog. We are still very new to this world and we have learnt a lot so far!

In looking at other blogs we came across A Beautiful Mess – I love their DIY‘s – lots of photos that make them so easy to follow. I started reading their past posts to get to know more of what they are about. As I was doing this I was feeling so inspired and I’m loving the cheery vibe of their posts! In doing all of this I found that they offer e-courses – so I signed up for their Blog Love – an e-course for bloggers!

I have finished it now and wanted to let you know that I loved it! If you are new to blogging or just want to take your blog to another level I suggest you check it out. It’s only $34 and well worth every bit of it!

It was so comforting to be introduced to ALL of the information out there about blogging in a clear and concise way. It was also refreshing to get more insight into the creators of A Beautiful Mess and their sister businesses.

Just putting it out there – this post isn’t sponsored in any way. I just found something that I personally found valuable and wanted to share that with ya’ll 🙂

Click on the link to take you to the E-course library – A Beautiful Mess E-courses. I plan to do the Dream Job E-course next 🙂

Take care, until next time…keep restyling!

Love Notes Restyle Studio

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The Biggest Bazar in Davao City

06 Thursday Dec 2012

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Accessories, bazar, Burloloy, Christmas, collars, Crystallized Posh, Davao City, Davao Convention & Trade Center, food, handmade, JER Shell Craft Creations Int'l, Love Notes Restyle Studio, markets, Nina's Kitchen, pearl, Philippines, stall

Hi again, it’s Amour here for this post. I’m still in the Philippines but head back home to Australia soon. Last week my husband and I went to the Davao Convention & Trade Center for The 13th Biggest Bazar in Davao City.

Davao Bazar

It was the first bazar I had been to in the Philippines and I’d always wanted to go to one. The locals used to advise me not to because they were scared that I would get mugged! I felt safe though I had trusty hubby by my side to protect me 🙂

It was a mixed bag of old and new & factory and handmade goods – and in true Filo style – there was lots of food!

It’s another picture heavy post – so grab a cuppa and enjoy the pix 🙂

One of the first stalls that caught my eye was Burloloy@Craft Haus – all the pretty colours! I bought a few of their earring sets as they were handmade and I’m really looking for some quality handmade goods to give as gifts at Christmas.

Burloloy Stall Set Up – isn’t it cute?

Davao Bazar Burloloy @ Craft Haus

Now it’s foodie time 🙂

Foodie Goodies at Nina’s Kitchen

More handmade goodness with the prettiness of wood and pearl..

JER Shell Craft Creations Int’l

And now for some random pictures of random stalls…

Davao Bazar – all mixed up!

Headbands anyone???

Here is my favourite stall – Crystallized Posh – look at all of the pretty collars! They really inspired me to want to create some – so I can’t wait to get back home and dig through my stash of goodies to see what I can come up with!

My favourite stall – Crystallized Posh

What do you think? Have you been to any good markets recently? Tell me about them – I always love to hear about them and the special treats that people have found.

Take care, until next time…keep restyling!

Love Notes Restyle Studio