Our lightboxes are popular choices for people who want to create glowing, classy lighting for their parties and events. These versatile luminaries can be used to create stunning centerpieces just by simply adding ribbon, crystals or flowers.  Add a coloured LED light or light cube…and marvel at the effect!

Our customers have used them to hang in trees, create glowing aisles and light up ordinarily hard-to-illuminate areas...the possibilities are endless.

The gorgeous Jenn from 'i Do' itYourself has taken our lightboxes and worked them over into sophisticated and stunning luminary that is très chic!

All you need is a large light box (available here!), some black card,  scissors (or craft knife), sticky tape and a tealight candle (or submersible LED/light cube - available here).Check out the tutorial on the 'i Do' it Yourself blog and create your own elegant centrepieces in minutes!Competition Time!Win a $25 Moonlight & Whimsy Gift Voucher!We're looking for YOUR designs! 

1. Sketch on a piece of paper, a napkin (or whatever you have handy!) how YOU would dress up our lightboxes for your next event. 
2. Upload it to our Facebook (tag your image: "Light Up Your Life Competition"), 
3. The winner will be the entrant who receives the most votes by 5pm (EST) on Friday April 1, 2011.
4. The winner will receive a $25 Moonlight & Whimsy Gift Voucher to spend in the online store. We will also feature shortlisted (and winning!) entries on our blog.

Feeling extra-creative? Purchase one of our lightboxes, dress it up and submit a photo! There is FREE POSTAGE (to Australian residents) on all light-boxes throughout the competition for those who really want to impress!

Planning an eco-friendly wedding or children's birthday party? Looking for a cute idea for favours that will cost you next to nothing? I found this great tutorial for Paper Roll Seed Packets! These are so adorable - I had to look twice when I realised what they were made out of!

(Brides? This is a great DIY project to involve junior members of the wedding party in, too!)

One of my guilty pleasures is spending my morning, idly scrolling through my favourite wedding blogs and sighing over the gorgeous whimsical, vintage & DIY weddings that are happening around the globe. I'd like to share a few pics of one in particular with you today - which made me smile.

So simple and so gorgeous!

Are you planning (or have you planned) a wedding, party or event that can be classed largely as DIY, Whimsical and/or Vintage? We'd LOVE to feature it! Send us an email and we'll get back to you ASAP!

I have a confession to make. I have a thing for dragonflies. I have dragonfly stationery, dragonfly jewelery...even a dragonfly tattoo. True story. My 10 year old daughter is the mad butterfly princess (no tattoos until you're 30 honey...). HOWEVER I absolutely fell in love with this idea a few months back - so much so that feather butterflies were one of the first items to be featured in the Moonlight & Whimsy online store!

As brides (I know - I've been one twice!) know - we sometimes get fixated with tradition. We immediately start planning our weddings around what church, which reception venue, and what colour our flowers are going to be. Don't get me wrong - I love flowers. I do! At my first wedding I had a long train of champagne roses. At my second, a bouquet of black tulips (much to everyone's shock! Black flowers? At a wedding?!). And it's all very well and good - but what if we stepped outside that box for a moment and considered that bouquets can be made from absolutely anything?

Martha Stewart Weddings posted this gorgeous little how-to on making butterfly bouquets. They're unique, inexpensive and are perfect for Spring and Summer weddings!

Tools and Materials

• Assorted floral butterflies
• White floral-wire stems
• White floral tape
• Ribbon

Butterfly Bouquet How-To

Floral butterflies come on wires, making this project super simple. Tape the wires close to the butterfly bodies with white floral tape to cover them and create a uniform appearance. Then gather together a few butterflies and tape their wires together using white floral tape. Stagger the spacing, or tape the wires only at the ends so you’ll have lots of wire to bend.If the wires are short, or if you want the butterflies to be able to be bent farther apart, attach individual butterflies or clusters of butterflies to floral-wire stems (lay the wire from a butterfly alongside a wire stem with a 1- or 2-inch overlap, and tape the two together). Make several clusters, and tape them together to create the desired shape. Finish the stem by wrapping it in ribbon.

Smartbride has a plethora of non-traditional bouquet ideas too: