We are in the process of moving our blog, with a new design and larger photos.
We are excited. We are working hard over here to have it ready really really soon.
Thank you all for being part of the journey we love you! And are beyond grateful that you are here.
Please don't forget to check back: The shiny new site will be up in no time!

UPDATE: OUR NEW SITE IS NOW LIVE: http://www.livlifemag.com/livplusdaveequals/

It's been busy!
Last weekend we were part of  One Fine Day, the amazing boutique wedding fair in Sydney.
It was the most beautiful little event and I am so happy we were involved.
I don't know if all of you know what I do for work, but I am a Makeup Artist.
I work in wedding makeup as well as fashion editorials. The weekend started early by preparing the models for the show in the morning.
Managing our little stall all day long for two days was so much fun and also a lot of work.
We met the loveliest people and so many of the other vendors, which you can check out in One Fine Days Directory on their website.
I hope to collaborate with a lot of them soon! Everyone we met was so inspiring and welcoming. It was the best start I could have ever hoped for.
The whole week beforehand we were busy putting everything together, organizing photos, printing postcards and promo material, and putting together little goodies for the brides and designing the stand itself.
With every booking we gave away little samples of my favorite and highly recommended organic herbal tea,
"Cleansing Brew" from Tea Medica, which is really purifying and nourishing for the skin.
I had quite some cups, during the stressful preparations. I love that it's such a small independent company and everything is locally grown and organic.
For the fair I filled the tea into little glass test tubes, which looked to pretty with the colourful tea, full of red rose petals, yellow calendula flowers and green herbs.
The response from the fair has been great, and it took me all week, to reply to the enquiries and bookings. We met so many lovely brides to be and their friends & families, and it makes me very happy to contribute to such an important and beautiful day in their lives.
Thanks to everyone who booked their makeup with me, I am really looking forward to working with all of you.
Dave has been my super hero, helping me out all weekend at the stand, getting coffees for my makeup artist and hairstyling colleagues and preparing the stand. He designed fantastic forms and
print material and all that at night time after he came home from work.
Yes, I am incredibly grateful for this man.
And now I am having one day off, before I start my next six day week. We might go to the beach.
We might catch up on some sleep, for a long time.
Hope you all had a great week!?

Dave is back and catching up never felt so good:
Pancakes, hugs and hanging out.
I felt super efficient and kept myself very busy while he wa away.
By the end of the week, I ended up having a twitching right eye, a sore stomach and a few other stress symptoms:
I just have a tendency to not stop working, if I don't get stopped.
And although I got a lot done, it feels much better to have a healthy balance back.
Of course, it's the only long-term way of staying productive as well.
To catch up properly we had a wonderful day off together, starting with a good lie in, pancake breakfast and loads of chatting and cuddle time.
In the afternoon we were productive again, getting my new business cards done
(so excited, can't wait to see the printed result).
Dave created a wonderful new logo, and we adjusted it together.
We had a nice walk to the printers, chose paper and foil and colours.
Right now we are in the process of updating my new Sydney makeup artist website.
It feels so good to prepare everything. And having little breaks too ;)
One more week at work, then packing, waving goodbye to my family and off we are...

Because we are going to be super busy moving to the other side of the world,
we scheduled some awesome bloggers who will share their guest-posts about Sydney and Australia.
So excited to feature them.
We are going to fill you in with little updates from us as well but need a little more breathing time for the move. We will catch you soon.

This is a collage of bits and pieces we have been up to lately. The weather is all over the place right now. One day feels like winter the next like summer, it's a surprise from day to day.
It's reflected in the pictures as well, as you might have noticed (they don't really work together)
This week went in light speed. I can't believe it's Sunday night already!?
Here are the highlights of the week:
Learning how to roll sushi at our friends birthday party, eating all the amazing sushi too, making up a beautiful bride,  looking at Sydney real estate apps and dreaming about nice houses, ordering a new yellow swimsuit for the holiday, enjoying every sun ray that makes it over to us, starting the holiday countdown.
What have you been up to?

The move was exhausting.
Our man with a van let us down, so that I ended up lifting a lot of the very heavy things with Dave.
My legs are still covered in blue-purple bruises.
But we made it. I am already in love with the new place!
Nice brick walls, high high ceiling and loads of light and huge windows.
Finally the internet is set up and the place gets better every day.
Today Dave is on a business trip in Amsterdam and I tried my best to give the place some love with new plants and further unpacking.
See above how Dave built up an Ikea wardrobe in middle of the night after a party.

More pictures to come when we are settled in.

We had to move twice!
Our new flat is available 3 weeks later than we need to leave our old flat.
So all our stuff (yes we do have loads!!!) went into storage for three weeks and we lived in a friends house in the beautiful Angel neighborhood for three weeks.
It was almost like a little holiday. I went to Yoga classes in the evenings, and we went out to a lot of nice restaurants in the area.
We even had a little outdoor patio area and 2 cats in the house.
Aw...it's so nice to live with pets.
The pictures above we took on the last morning in Angel, after we packed our all stuff to move back to Dalston.
We were happy and excited. That was before we knew that our man with a van will be letting us down that day...

Since last weekend we are both working nonstop, at home, all day and night.
I am happy that we are both into design.
With great music & superpower, we motivated, critisized and inspired each others work.


I finally started working at my BLUSHLESS dresses again, which feels so good.
I love my job and I love my/our new workspace.
This room really feels like home already.
Dave is my hero, he supports my work & my dream whereever possible!!!

 Our friend designed the lighting for this urban orchad project.
It was a temporary community garden that was part of the London Architecture Week.
There were so many cool little details, we liked the jar shelf, in the 2nd picture. Another idea how to use jars. The lids were screwed to the self bottoms,
such a cool storage idea. I would love to have that in the kitchen for herbs & other stuff.
I wrote about Daves love for jars on my blog, just last week.
I have a secret theory about man that like jars...it speaks for these guys, that's all I can say ; )

He now plans to build a jar chandalier like the one here.

Aprospros holiday:
I will get my dogfix soon,
because we will dogsit Boston Terrier CHAD in August while his owner and our loved neighbour lady & friend is on holiday: YAY!!!!!

As you might have guessed, we have decided to get a dog!!!
We dont know exactly when but in preparation for the momentous occasion we spent the day making our own dog bed.

I'm actually really happy Liv has the skills and talent to do these things because the're not cheap.
In addition, can you believe that she had spare wadded fabric that she got from work just lying around the house. The white pillow fabric was also a spare piece from work but on a different project, and they match perfectly!

I think it turned out pretty damn good.
I guess some things are just meant to be :)

Its been a long day......Pics of the room comming soon.