Wedding photograsquee

The wedding photos have arrived. I managed not to squee in front of the photographer whilst we looked through them together but I am so chuffed with them, it’s amezzin.

Some of them lack the, shall we say, finesse of others:

You can imagine that woman in the background all like "HIYAS!"


Some show off the gritty streets of Hartlepool to great effect:

And some are just my absolute favourite pictures of me that I own.




This is where the crafting effort needs to come in. I refused a wedding album to keep the costs down and also to ensure that i got the exact layout etc that i wanted. However, i am limited in my sick papercrafting skillz so i need to research into this. Help?

I almost forgot. The Family Hill, March 2010.

Wedding Day

Our wedding day has been and gone. I loved every minute. To be continued...

Wedding Calla Table Centre Wreaths

It's taken me so long to finally get round to making the table centres for the wedding. Considering that the wedding is A WEEK TODAY and i have only completed one so far, i'm getting scared.

At least the prototype is done and i'm set to make the rest now! I'm going to try and post a tutorial of this while i'm making the rest tomorrow. I'm so pleased with them considering they're supposed to be a cheap alternative to actual flowers.

The wreaths were about £2.50 from Hobby Craft discontinued christmas stock and the flowers are made from small squares of felt with rolled felt for the stamen. Bits of ivy, the same feathers that is used in my buttonholes and onion grass just finished it off. After making 50 of the felt callas, i am totally sick of looking at my glue gun.

Manic Manic

It's all very quiet and busy around my little etsy shop at the moment. Not had a sale in a while and not really updated my products much. Things are going a little stale, but it can't be helped, i'm just so mega-busy!

Wedding plans are featuring large at the moment. There's only 5 weeks to go and i still have a to-do list as long as my arm. I haven't started on making the remainder of the button holes yet, and i still have to make my table centre decorations. I'm thinking of wreaths for the table centres and i've been scouring all over the internet for lovely inspiration, which i think i now have clear in my head the kind of thing i'll be going for. It will definitely involve some crafting influence from dearest lollychops. In the form of some pretty little felted flowers.

For now though, i'll leave you with my favourite find from my inspiration wreath search.

This beautiful wreath was crafted by Kristen over at Domestifluff. The full tutorial can be found here. I can't wait to try this one at some point, although i don't think i'd have the time to make 10 of these for my own wedding.

This wreath is also fantastic and so simple to make! Originally found via weddingbee.com but the tutorial can be found by it's creator at thelongthread.

Tomorrow i'm off to the dressmakers and hopefully saturday i might get the chance to sit and actually make the last of the buttonholes, which i will share, of course! Happy hump day, it's all downhill to the weekend from here.

Wedding craft

As I'm sure i've mentioned over the past 2 months, (or have I?) I'm due to start out my life as a mrs in approximately 6 weeks. Marriage eh? People thought it was all a bit conventional for me, but i'm as excited as can be and i'm SO looking forward to having a lazy spa weekend for the honeymoon.

So i'm knee-deep in organisation for this wedding, and since we decided to do it on a tight budget, i've done most of the "crafty" bits myself.

So, over the next couple of weeks, as i'm getting further into the crafting, i'll be sharing some of the projects that i'm doing to try and make the wedding look super amazing. They're things that can be done on a budget, some using shop bought materials (but with suggestions for where you can use re-purposed materials).

I'll be sharing how i made my:

Buttonholes (Buttonieres)

Bouquet

Bridesmaid Purse Corsages

Table Centre Decorations

Birdcage veil & Hair pins

Ring Cushion

Invitations

...and probably more that i haven't thought of yet.

Here's a little taster of my prototype efforts at Buttonholes. They haven't ended up like this in reality, but i think they were pretty (but maybe a bit over the top) nontheless.