Addendum to Let’s Decorate!

In this post, I mentioned a few other decorative tidbits that I didn’t have photos of at the time. For those who were curious, here’s the little umbrella I bought: I picture this in a few wedding photos, and then as a prop at our faux photo booth. And here are the little buckets we [...]

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Let’s decorate!

Here’s a little peak at some of the decorations we’ll have at the wedding. First, we took scrap fabric we had from our Unity Quilt donations, plus some of the fabric and embroidery floss I always have laying around, and made candy favors. We used the nostalgic candy we purchased awhile go. I love that [...]

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Prepping the yard

A couple weeks ago, we got a few of my family members together to prep my dad’s yard for the wedding. I, unfortunately, couldn’t help much because of some issues I’m having with my knees and ankles. But I was on baby duty while my sister, who actually enjoys yard work, played in the dirt. [...]

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Unity Quilt update

The Unity Quilt is taking me a little longer than I had planned. I made the fabric contritubution deadline March 15 so I’d have plenty of time to put the quilt together and be done by mid-May. I wanted to have the last month before the wedding to focus on details, so I wanted the [...]

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The Bachelor Party

First, my apologies for my serious lack of posting. I wish I had an excuse involving a plane crash on a deserted island (apparently people like those), but I’m afraid I can only blame it on personal business, exhaustion, and writer’s block. That said, my bachelor party was Saturday. I don’t have a lot of [...]

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The Bachelorette Party!

My bachelorette party was on Saturday. I got ready for the night with my sisters. Then we met everyone at the restaurant. Including me, we were a table of 20! I was so thrilled to have so many awesome people there, people from the many different walks of my life – high school friends, past [...]

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How to make cootie catchers

First you design them. I used MS Publisher, but those who are more savvy will surely prefer something more sophisticated. Then you print them. I used black ink on red, orange, pink, green and blue cardstock. I worried the cardstock would be too thick, but it worked fine. Then you cut them into squares. I [...]

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Wedding and reception invitations

When we were first engaged, my friend Robin (of Plume Creations) told me she’d design our invitations for us. I then conveyed a vision to her, and even though it was not like any invitation she had created before, she managed to bring my vision to life. Sorry for the ugly black blocks – protecting private information. Anyway, [...]

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Love Letter Box

One thing that Mike and I decided to do as we prepare to get married is write “love letters” to each other. The love letters can be anything really, but primarily they’re supposed to express why we love and chose to marry each other. The idea is that we won’t read the letters right away. [...]

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Bachelorette party invitations

Before I show off our awesome wedding invitations, let me show off the bachelorette party (sort of) invitations that Robin of Plume Creations made (same designer (and friend) that did the wedding invitations). Aren’t they so cute? These were printed and pasted on nice black cardstock, and of course didn’t have giant ugly black blocks [...]

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