Happy New Year! 2015

Embracing 2015 with a BIG SMILE!!! Wishing everyone a Happy New Year! May this year bring new happiness, new goals, new achievements and a lot of new inspirations on your life. Wishing you a year fully loaded with happiness! Cheers to 2015!!!

Work in progress!

These last days have been super crazy, as I've been running all over to finish up the wedding dresses of the December brides who are eagerly waiting for their big day! (Hence, why I haven't had much time to blog.) Anyways, we are a few weeks away and the dresses are still a work in progress. Here are some hints of the Walima dress I'm working on right now. Didn't really want to post a full pic of the dress to keep the surprise, instead some detail images of the lace appliques and the hand work. 

Get the look!

Here are some multiple looks I created for your All In One piece. For those who don't own one yet, you can place your order through my page at https://www.facebook.com/pages/Ayora/140664499472666 in your favourite colour! :D

A Happy weekend to all! Ping! 

DIY-Plain to pretty!

Hey guys! Sorry for pulling a vanishing act again. :$ Been busy with some free lance work so here I am back again, blogging to glory! Ting!

So this time I'm going to share an easy DIY project you can do your self at home with just a pair of scissors, some strips of gipio lace, fabric glue and of course a top to work on!

Let's get to business! Shall we?

So I will be working on a chambray sleeveless top I happened to spot at House of fashion for just 700 bucks which I thought looked very comfy... of course! It's chambray! Denim's softer cousin! The fabric is ideal for a laid back summer and is also one of the trendiest looks for summer 2014.

After I did make this purchase, I realized that it looked too plain for my taste hence, decided to get experimental and was thinking of ways to make it look more interesting. So I found some old strips of gipio lace that I had saved for little diy projects like this which did come very much in handy at this point. So yeah! Lace and denim it is!

Ok so... I was too excited to get on with this that I forgot to take a picture of what the top looked like before I applied the lace. So this is just an image I found in the internet to show you what it was like before the lace was applied. Luckily I happened to find an exact image of the top!

First you will need to glue the lace. Keep in mind that you have to cut off the unwanted pieces of thread from the lace and glue only the parts that you need to stick wherever in your top. Just don't let it get messy. This part will require a lot of patience. :$

First I applied the lace on the shoulders

The pocket

Collar

Back yoke

Ta dah! The finished look!

Hope this helped in someway if you're thinking of transforming your boring tops to something pretty! :)

All in one piece for the fashion nomad!

  A dress, pant, skirt, top, jump suit, poncho all in one piece! A pattern I just happened to experiment which turned out multi functional, which can be worn as a dress, pant, top, jump suit, poncho etc.

 A versatile piece ideal for all fashion nomads! Create your own look by experimenting with this multifaceted piece. Please refer to my page to place your order. :)

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Ayora/140664499472666

Ramp to reality!

Iromi Siyasinghe dazzling in two of my designs!

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Pretty Pink and Lace

Soft pink! Such a happy colour and just a touch of it gives a light, happy-go-lucky feel to any look! :)

Home coming!

For my home coming I chose pink and purple as our wedding theme and carried it all through all our wedding details with of course, a bit of humour! Although pink and purple are considered as common colours they have a somewhat strong and deep emotional influence to me so, I had to use them somewhere! If not it wouldn’t have felt right! lol

The Invitation

Unlike the formal invitations I wanted to mix things up a bit and inject a little fun in to my home coming invitation, make my guests feel less stressful and give them a great laugh when they receive it. So I decided to draw an illustration of myself and my fiancé. Which turned out to look like this!

The Home coming cake 

Since my fiancé’s nick name is ‘Ibba’ (meaning tortoise) I’ve been thinking of ways to incorporate ibba’s in to my homecoming and finally figured that it’d be a cute idea to get the cake made with icing tortoise cake toppers in pink and purple.

Home coming saree

I know that the red saris have become the traditional garment choice for most homecomings in Sri Lanka, but I was very eager to wear pink for this function and obviously my clothes had to flow with my theme. Although, I had no right to decide on that, as it’s a custom in Buddhist weddings for the groom to present the homecoming sari to the bride, my fiancé, just being his nice self let me decide on the colours of my sari as long as it’s not one of those colours that bring bad luck. (Yes! Call us superstitious!) lol And Yay! I found my pink! :D

                       

Reception venue: Galadari

Sari: Srimathis

Styling and Outfits: Ayodhya Ratnayake

Groom’s attire : Hercules

Dressed by : Enoka Wijetunge

Flower deco : Arty weddings

Bouquets : Arty weddings

Cake structure : Buns and muffins

Photography : Prabath Premaratne

Video : Editing table

Soft Coral Beach Reception Dress

Hey guys! Here are the long awaited images of the pearl and embroidered dress in soft coral I designed for Ashvini Nadarajah's beach reception. Enjoy! :D