Happy Weekend!

I had a great time last night at the ISCD trends evening - and promise to make sense of my scrawled notes to share with you next week, I'm sure you'll find something amongst them noteworthy! For now it's one of those things I get when I have been surrounded by fabulously creative & successful people that I begin to get a headache of ideas!

So for now it's a BIG Happy Friday & Happy Weekend whilst I get a chance to mull over all these ideas that seem to be enveloping me at the moment - hopefully procrastination won't win!

 Hope you have a wonderful weekend - thanks again for stopping by at Palatial Living, I hope that a small corner of your life this week was a Palatial one! Take care & Enjoy. S xxx

image via vi.sualiz.us from Everythingfab

Happy Weekend!

There's nothing like the 1st Spring Picnic...it's like a promise for summer. Here in Sydney it's gloriously beautiful warm sunny weather, and spending an afternoon in the park is such a wonderful thing to do when combined with family, friends and a delicious smattering of food & drink!

This weekend we're cheering BIG for my sister-in-law Kylie [Verity] who is running in the [Blackmore's Sydney Running Festival] Sydney Marathon. She's trained amazingly hard and gone through some excruciating physio therapy & point therapy. Tomorrow it's on - she's running for a fantastic non-profit charity organisation called 'CanToo' who raise money to help researchers find a cure for cancer. If you or your family has been touched by cancer, or you'd like to sponsor Kylie in the Sydney Marathon please CLICK HERE and enter her name. You can sponsor Kylie up to 1 month after tomorrow's event. Thank You! 

Hope you have a wonderful weekend... Enjoy. S xxx

images via vi.sualize.us

Happy Weekend... Time for a Picnic!

Happy Weekend... Wouldn't it be nice to go on a picnic? If not this weekend, then why not make sure you do it soon... my favourite time to go on picnics would have to be [coming into] Autumn [Fall] - not too far away for us Southerner's here in Oz!

Hope you have a wonderful Weekend - Take Care & Thank you for following Palatial Living this week! Enjoy, S x

Images from Talent at Judith Miller Inc

It's Friday & Happy Weekend!

It's Friday & the Weekend is upon us... yay - finally! It's been one of those 'funny 'ole weeks' but needless to say I am always happy to welcome the weekend! I have a few things to put together for my lovely client, for Verandah H+G LS , this weekend - finishing touches to a styling project, which I am sure she will be very pleased with; and we are off visiting my super wonderful Grandma [I was named after her] who lives in the Blue Mountains and has a truly amazing & gorgeous expansive garden - will try and take some pics to share with you. We are also entertaining some friends & their 5 Children on Saturday evening at our home, in the back yard, which is one of the reasons I love the image for today's post - a colourful & festive gathering outside over yummy food! It's such a great time of the year (in Sydney Australia) to start entertaining outside whilst we have daylight savings and dusk seems just that bit longer & beautiful...

Thank you for stopping by this week at Palatial Living - it's been lovely again to share with you. So whatever your plans this weekend - make the most of it & Enjoy! S. xxx

Image from Southern Living

Autumn Leaves... Happy Friday!

The cooler weather [for us in the southern hemisphere] is just around the corner - I have pulled out a few cardis this week for a few brisker mornings.... undoubtedly this is my favourite time of the year - Autumn [my US friends - Fall]... As my birthday falls in end October [Halloween} and I have always wanted to be on the East Coast US maybe upstate NY to see all the leaves turn; having said that we had an amazing time on the West Coast US a couple years back for Halloween - there's nothing like it - the decorations, the spirit, the pumpkins - actually everything with pumpkin, loved it!

So here's to a great Friday & your weekend - for lovely mild mornings & snuggling in, the warm days - dappled light through the turning leaves & picnics in the park, and those delicious cool evenings with your favourite couch blanket and maybe a warm desert! Enjoy. S x

Image from Visualize us

Welcome to the Weekend....

Welcome to the weekend, Friday is here again [gosh it comes around so quickly] ... the start of March upon us and the cooler weather of Autumn approaching [here in the southern hemisphere] the weekend is set to be beautiful - crisp mornings, warm days followed by cool evenings - what a perfect formula for a late breakfast in the sun, a picnic in the park, a snooze & a read in a hammock, or time tending to the garden....

Happy Friday & Hope you have a Wonderful Weekend. Enjoy x

Image from Southern Accents

Happy Friday... Off to the Carols!

Well somehow Friday has come around again... and tonight we're off to the 'Carols in the Domain' the dress rehearsal in Sydney. Our families love going to this Sydney tradition each year - the main event is held every year on Saturday (the Saturday before Christmas) in The Domain, Sydney N.S.W. But this year we are attending the dress rehearsal - a little known thing you can do - because my (little) sister is holding her engagement party on Saturday evening at our parent's home in the garden we won't be attaendign the main event on Saturday evening [I will post photos of the beautiful floral arrangements we ordered from our family friend Sarah Cox - Floral Stylist for the event on Sunday!].

So tonight will be about singing our hearts out to favourite old carols under the Sydney stars on a picnic blanket with our family & friends - with a glass of wine, and cheese & crackers in tow! Hope you have a wonderful weekend! xx

Images from Damian White / Flickr