DIY Love // Lola's Family Nests

A short but sweet DIY to share with you today! As well as purchasing gifts for our families for Christmas last year, we made it our mission to create something special for them when we could. Particularly, when buying for our grandparents with an ever expanding family, we've found it's become increasingly difficult to buy them something unique!

Originally, designed as an alterative to wedding guestbooks, Lola first spotted across these amazing 'Finger Print Tree Guestbooks' on snaps from a wedding and thought it was such a fabulous idea. With no wedding invitations on the horizon, she decided to adapt this idea to make 'Family Nest' prints for her grandparents!

Here's a little step-by-step to how you can make them yourselves...

Firstly, after measuring card in your chosen colour (I went for a slightly off white) to fit your frame, draw out the outline for your tree. Bear in mind, you'll need lots of branches if you have a big family (this is why it's a good idea to do it in pencil first so you can play with the space you have!)

Once you're happy with your design go over in black ink - coloured if you're after a more vibrant print!



The idea for the orginial 'finger print tree guest book' is to get your wedding guests to each leave their fingerprint to represent the bird in the tree, but as my nests were to be gifts, I thought I'd complete the Family Nest with a family of birds! I found these rubber stamps on Ebay which included birdy couples & cute owls!



Then just stamp on your birds! Keep track of the number of birds/family members of you might end up with a few miscellaneous birds of your tree!

I wanted it to look really bright so I used acryllic paint to make a turquoise but it would probably work a lot better with an actual ink pad as it was a bit too thick for the delicately, engraved stamps.

I completed the pieces by writing everyone's name next to a bird (starting with my grandparents at the head of the tree and working down to parents, aunts & uncles, cousins etc) And that's all there is to it! The Family Nests look great mounted and framed and the best bit is... you can keep adding to it as your Family grows!

It's such a lovely idea for a personalised gift and my grandparents really loved them <3

Much love,
L&R xx

The Twee Towers Flapper or Dapper Party

Gosh, it's been a little while - we've finally found a moment to gather our post-Christmas thoughts and show you what we've been up to the past few days! As fortunate as we are to have a lovely, long break from work, we always find ourselves at a bit of a loose end in the period between Christmas and New Year, so this year we decided to bridge the gap by inviting our finest guys and dolls to don their most exquisite attire and join us for a roaring twenties style Flapper or Dapper party!

Our boys looked amazing suited and booted with bow ties and tweed, whilst us ladies went flapper, fringed with heap loads of sparkle for a bit of extra dazzle!

In the background we played a soundtrack of twenties jazz, some charleston ditties and the incredibly charming 'I wanna be loved by you' by the magnificent Helen Kane whilst we laughed and chatted over a Twee Towers jazzy punch! The evening drew to a close with an intense and extremely competitive game of Taboo - hilarious after a drink or two before cosying up on the sofas to watch The Rocky Horror Picture Show... we might have all jumped up to dance around the living room to The Time Warp.

Oh, we just wanna pretend to be movie stars everyday...

We thought we ought to bring the twenties a little up to scratch with their environmental credentials so we mixed ostentatious glamour with energy saving light bulbs!


Popcorn, pretzels and candy cane treats were on offer along with mini cigars for an authentic twenties aroma!




Twee Towers obligatory punch - mix a little peach schnapps with some sparkly rose fizz and top with cranberry juice for this absolutely delicious tipple! As always, measurements to taste and personal preference!




We kept up the photobooth backdrop from Little M's superhero party and made cute moustache & top hat props to play with!

Are you all looking forward to seeing in the New Year?

Much love,

L&R xx