Hong Kong Shopping trip

I leave in the morning for a shopping trip to Hong Kong. I'm taking my daughter Jess and my sister Anita which means only one things lots of laughing, non stop talking, shopping, lots and lots of shopping and fun girlie days together, hopefully fit in a few pamper treatments especially foot massages (because we shop that hard we need it!) and Xmas shopping too! It's really a buying trip but I have so much fun buying that I can hardy call it work. Have a great week-end and I'll see you in a weeks time xx

The Beauty of silver

This week has been a very busy week at lily-g and I can't believe it's already Friday. We have so many new silver pieces arrive in store this week that I decided to do a silver post, the top images is not from my store but we do have a beautiful hand painted silver leaf commode due this week and so many other new pieces arriving every day.

Monday pink Post

 Just a quick pink post because I'm taking my lily Christmas shopping and we plan to decorate the tree today. Pink is always such a happy, pretty colour and I just love this beautiful pink wall-paper (not sure who its from?) the gorgeous Moss and Spy dress that arrived in store last week, the vintage collection of gorgeous girlie pink collectables and just a pretty table display, have a great week x

New Ideas's

I'm always blogging about my home wares and Interiors but I actually have a very busy fashion store as well, I create my own jewelry pieces using pearls and semi precious stones and I have them manufactured over-seas, this winter our fashion is very vintage inspired, furs, gold accessories are huge and my pearl designs will fit beautifully in this look, so I'm thinking of adding these beautiful handmade brooches to the multi strand pearl necklaces. I have designed one piece that I will post tomorrow, I'm planning on using vintage diamond brooches to this collection too. I'm also looking at manufacturing a small clothing range which I have been working on for some time, vintage styled dresses in amazing fabrics, well it may be a disaster but I wont know if i don't try! I'm also loving the idea of pinning vintage brooches to cushions and by pulling the centre of the cushion with a thread, like a buttoned effect I add a stunning flower brooch like this to the centre of your cushion, looks amazing on a silk cushion and if all else fails try it in your hair in a half up style. Just have fun being creative!

Xmas Inspiration

I love my tree filled with beautiful silver and bronze decoration, every year I change my ribbon colour to suit my theme but this year I'm definitely keeping it neutral massed with xmas lights. The tree with old watches, reminds me of Cathy's charms and the silver tray with baubles just looked so pretty I had to share it with you.

Vintage inspiration

I just love this collection of vintage Doilies sewn onto a voile runner, a perfect way to display grandmas treasures that can be handed down generations, (did I spell Doilies right, my kids didn't even know what I was talking about so they were no help!!!!) Most of our cushions at lily-g are custom made but I couldn't resist the hand screen printed linen cushions in an assortment of designs new to lily-g.

Recipe of the week

Very embarrassing to admit but I'm not the greatest lover of cooking, hard to believe as I own every printed cook book, love watching the cooking channels on TV, have heaps of crockery and obsess about setting the table beautifully, but the actual art of cooking just never blessed me, so my New Years resolution is to help my partner Paul in the kitchen and to start having more dinner parties whether formal, casual what-ever! So my blogging friends forget the dieting (never works for me anyway) I'm posting yum food every week till Xmas. So my first recipe is Berry-Banana Ice-cream it goes like this...

2 cups of frozen raspberries

2 bananas, chopped and frozen

1 cup premium thick store-bought vanilla custard (love that ingredient)

fresh raspberries to serve

store bought biscuits, such as amaretti or shortbread, but I think home-made shortbread would be great to serve.

Method:

Place the raspberries, banana and custard in bowl of a food processor and process till smooth. serve immediately with fresh raspberries and biscuits.

As simple as that, surely I can't ruin that!!!!