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Dinner at Vu De Monde! Melbourne Snapshots

by VioletLeBeaux | Mar 1, 2014 | Life

For Celina’s birthday we went to Vue De Monde. Holy bajeebus was it fancy. Basically it’s known for being a bit avantgarde and experimental with food and it certainly didn’t disappoint.

It’s right at the top of the building and there are panoramic views of Melbourne like this everywhere you look.

It was the fanciest place I’ve ever been and honestly I don’t know if I’ll ever get a chance to do something luxurious like this again so I was determined to enjoy every single moment of it.

We were served several “snacks” before the degustation courses began… the snacks were almost a meal in themselves!

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I’m not a food blogger and honestly I couldn’t tell you what was in most of the courses (even though it was explained in great detail to us all as we ate) but… look how pretty it all was!

The table was covered in rocks, sticks and naturish things. The interesting thing was that as the meal progressed every single one was used. Some of the rocks held knives, the sticks were used for cutlery holders and other things were used for serving, it was very cute!

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There were so many edible flowers. I love edible flowers. I’m pretty sure it’s an osmosis thing, the more cute things you eat, the cuter you get 😛

I loved the cutlery, I want this in my house so much.

This was totally cool, they made onion soup in a special coffee maker which sucked the liquid up to the top section. It was delicious!

I really enjoyed tasting so many new flavours!

The lovely birthday girl!

One of my favourite dishes, it was made up of leaves and flowers which the servers poured liquid nitrogen over and we got to crush in a mortar and pestle then we added it to icecream. So much of a flavour punch!

SO MUCH FOOD! By the end I was so full, we were there for over 4 hours of constant eating *_*

But there was still more food… desserts!

It was probably good that we got to walk some of it off on the way home.

Random tangent: I walked past this place and had to take a photo of the gigantic giraffe! I want to go back in daylight and see it properly now!

Anyway on the way out of Vue De Monde we were given a breakfast bag for the following day. It had locally produced honey, fresh bread, biscuits and muesli.

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It was a really delicious breakfast and a lovely thought. The bread was really sweet and delicious.

Epic experience over!! Now I just need to make this happen on a weekly basis XD

Needle Felted VLB Patch Tutorial

by VioletLeBeaux | Feb 28, 2014 | Craft, Other-Accessory-Tutorials, Tutorial

Today’s tutorial is a request from members of The VLB 😀 The VLB is my monthly *cough*most of the time *cough* newsletter which includes all kinds of awesome things and the logo is a crest representing everything we’re about.

The original crest itself is a little complicated for a quick and easy needle felting project so I’ve just made a simplified version that hopefully you guys can follow along with and make your own!

You’ll need some yellow felt and other general needle felting supplies.

First cut the general crest shape out of the yellow felt.

Apply light green wool in the shapes shown below:

Fill in the opposite corner with pink wool.

Cut out a little crown from the yellow and needle it to the top of the crest, add a little red heart to the middle. My heart looks more like a circle… but whatever >_>

Now add some big fluffy white wings behind it.

Lastly use some light purple wool to write the letters VLB in each section. The last section has a heart in mine but you can add your own initials.

Done! Now you can needle felt it to a piece of clothing or put a pin on the back so you can wear it anywhere.

Cuuute!

Thank you so much to the members of the VLB for this awesome idea, make sure you send me some photos of yours so I can put them in the newsletter! If you want to sign up, just check out the page here.

How To Make Your Own Lip Scrub

by VioletLeBeaux | Feb 26, 2014 | Beauty, Beauty-Tutorials, Tutorial

I’ve been looking a bit into some more DIY beauty options this year while we save up for a house. A lot of the more generic beauty treatments are really easy to make at home.

I was sent one of the Lush Lip Scrubs by their PR department and while it’s great, the ingredients are things you would find in your kitchen so whether it’s worth purchasing I guess depends on your budget. For me, repurchasing at $9.95 is unfeasible so kitchen cupboard here I come!

To make your own lip scrub you will need:

Sugar
Oil
Flavour if you want it to smell/taste good, I’m using strawberry

Pour out a few teaspoons of sugar, I used 3 and it was waaay too much.

Mix in 1tsp of oil.

Add a drop of flavour and mix that in.

Mix as thoroughly as you like, so long as it’s all wet with the oil it really doesn’t matter as you’re just going to be scrubbing it around. In terms of oil, I used generic vegetable oil because that’s all I had but you could use anything including coconut oil for something which has some added benefits.