Felt Flower Fiesta: Bridal Bouquet

Just when you thought you'd never see a "Felt Flower Fiesta" post again...

You know you missed it. I'll let the pictures do the talkin', but my bridal bouquet is done! Check that suckah off the list. Wooot!

2 36" dowels cut in thirds, glued together, and stuck in 6" foam ball

Dowel Close-Up

Starting In...

Felt Flower Fountain

Time to cut some lace for the 'stems'

Almost done - Rhinestones in place!

close-up of some teeny rhinestone detail

Maternal Grandma's brooch, Paternal Grandma's bracelet

Finished Product

I'm super happy with how it turned out - Happily more projects are coming out as they look in my head then I ever could have hoped for on these wedding crafts. Can't wait to carry this guy down the aisle and have it to look at (sans-jewelry) for years to come.

Nose To The Grindstone

Making major headway on the invitations - So much so that they'll be out the door before the end of this week. Woohoo!!!

I printed, sliced, folded, addressed, ink stamped, and stuffed away my weekend. Tonight's agenda is rounding up some straggling addresses, sealing the envelopes and putting on the postage, all with Nate's help, thank goodness.

Hopefully we didn't get any cheap glue... You Seinfeld fans know what I'm talkin' about.

Interior Updates

In between invites, I managed to squeeze in a little home-making. And, contrary to the below picture quality, we do not actually live in a cave (dang cell phone camera).

Getting Some Art On The Walls

Library Table Decor

my treasured antique Chinese scrolls from my Grandmother

Scroll Detail

The photo of the scrolls is in the dining room - These scrolls are two of my most treasured possessions, and were gifted to me years ago by my dad's mother, who spent her early life in China as the daughter of missionaries. They are crazy-amazing, delicate, and detailed, so finding a place for them where they would be on display without getting much wear-and-tear or light was tricky. Extremely fine and thin woven bamboo makes up the base for the ink drawings, and they're trimmed in silk . I think flanking the dining room window is just the spot for 'em!

Birthday Boy

Happy birthday to the best thing that's ever happened to me!

Sometimes I feel I hardly deserve you, but you stick around through all the crazy. 

I'm the luckiest girl.

I love you babe! Cheers to another year together.

How Inviting

This is what I'll be working with today :

That's right folks. We are all moved in and despite the chaos, wedding plans need to get back on track PRONTO.

So a trip to Office Max was in order, supplies were purchased, and I'll be a printing, stuffing, addressing machine for the next week.

Total make-my-day score on the supplies, however : See those blue boxes? Well, they're print-at-home invitation suites. Now. The actual invitations inside (a frilly brown situation) are pretty uggo, (I'll be using the 'Linen' paper in the photo to print my invitation suite) but we needed envelopes in both  invitation and RSVP card sizes.

And might I add : 8.5 x 5.5 plain envelopes will run you about $7 a pack, and decorative ones end up around the $11 for 10 envelopes mark. Cheaper than having invites professionally done, but still : Ouch.

On clearance for a hair under $9/50 down from $42/50, we decided to scoop up the boxes and pillage the envelopes. Once at the register, the manager (wanting to get rid of them??) knocked the price down to FOUR DOLLARS. So, presto : All the envelopes we need for eight smackers. BEAUTIFUL.

Let the inviting commence!

Girl Crush

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I re-watched Bridesmaids earlier in the week and it made me so thankful for the girls in my life.

Emily, Paula, Rebecca, Melissa - I love you, and cannot WAIT to have you all around me at the same time. Thanks for being so wonderful! I'm so spoiled.

In Like...... Something That's In.

We're moved in!

But it's ugly. No carpet upstairs means nothing can go up there yet.... And with a solid 2+ weeks of back-order, it's going to be a little bit of extra chaos for a while. Most of the closets are upstairs, meaning the majority of our clothes and shoes are in piles, bins, or Forever 21 shopping bags clustered around the downstairs.

For heaven's sake, we haven't even established a laundry basket because all the baskets and bins are filled with clean stuff still!

My dad attacking our gutters despite the breezy, COLD day.

BUT. We are in our house. The chaos will dissipate and my guess is in a couple years we'll hardly remember all this tumult.

Tucker's got the relaxing down - He LOVES the new fireplace!

Hot Doggin'

Thank goodness for selective memory.

 

 

Nate opening goodies

 Happy side note : Even though my mom was sick as a dog and ended up not being able to come slog through join in the moving day festivities, she managed to send along a Birthday-In-A-Bag for Nate, complete with lunch, chocolate peanut butter cupcakes, party napkins, and a gift. The PERFECT end to a frozen-fingered, sweaty-browed morning and afternoon.