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Showing posts with label DIY. Show all posts

5 days

Labels: , , , , , , , , - Monday, May 17, 2010

5 days to go :)

Here go my updates:
1) had a successful trial bouquet run for my bridal portraits Friday & my flowers are still gorgeous today!


2) finished up our programs Friday afternoon/evening



3) finally finished the ring bearer pillow Saturday morning


4) finished up the escort card display last night

5) started separating everything into ceremony/reception totes/boxes for delivery on Friday morning

6) Bought all the plates, cups, and silverware at Sam's this weekend. 
7) printed the vellum for memory candles and attached them to glass vases (forgot to take a picture before I packed them up).
8) I finished up the pomanders today as well...but I didn't take a picture of them either!
9) Printed the labels for our centerpieces
10) I also made the guestbook sign

PICTURES....Finally

Labels: , , , - Wednesday, May 12, 2010

I decided since I can't ever stop at home long enough to show you some pictures that I'd just bring my camera to work and add them to the blog before everything gets so busy!

We'll start with the ring bearer pillow flower. I bought it at Hobby Lobby (50% $1.47) and decided to try and tea dye it. It worked perfectly! Here is the flower that will be added to the ring bearers pillow in the next couple of days:

Here's the garter that I bought from a fellow knottie that didn't use it. It was white & boring when it arrived so I decided to srpuce it up a little! This will stand in as my something blue (along with my flowers). This isn't a very good picture showing the true color but you get the point. I used Dylon Bahama Mama dye to make this beauty!

I have pictures from my 'final fitting' but I can't share them...FI would see. I'll share them after the wedding :)

And lastly, I have pictures from my bachelorette party!
Meet my sister & MOH, S!
Meet my childhood friend & bridesmaid, A.
Meet me...the bride :)
Meet my childhood friend and bridesmaid, Lail, trying to show me how to work that lingerie!
And here's Lail in her normal state :)
Meet my childhood friend and bridesmaid, Lis.
And this is my high school friend and attendant, aMa.
My other attendant (Mia) wasn't able to make the party because she was sick...SHE'S PREGNANT and we're so excited for her & her husband!

Now that I've finally showed you all the pictures from my camera I can stop feeling guilty for not having good updates with pictures :) FI is going to be painting the house today, I'm pretty sure...so hopefully I'll have pictures of our newly built (the inside at least) house with some color/personality to it! :)

11 days to go...

Labels: , , - Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Yes, you read the correct, 11 days until we say "I do." It's safe to say that I'm still not nervous, only full of excitement, and that FI is still nervous. hehe

The sheet rock team finished up yesterday morning by sanding all the sheet rock mudd to give us a nice smooth level surface to paint over. We made our trip to Lowe's yesterday afternoon to get all of our paint (we picked out our paint colors before we started having showers because EVERYONE was asking what colors we were going to use) and primer and ceiling paint, etc. After a heartbreaking $413.00 bill, FI left headed to the house to start painting. We completed painting all of the ceilings and are pretty pleased with our progress. We don't have the power turned on in the house yet, or I could have started wiping down the walls and priming them when FI went to fire meeting. On the agenda next: FI is working his 24-hr shift at EMS so he won't be working at the house any tonight, and I have to take his pants to exchange them tonight & get his best man a shirt, so I MIGHT get back in enough time to wipe the walls down.

As for the wedding, planning has pretty much been finalized. I fully intended to finish printing the programs last night until I ran out of ink :-\ I am putting below my last to-do list before now & the wedding 9**I HOPE**).
- sew the flower on the ring bearer pillow
- finish printing page 4 of the program
- assemble the programs
- buy tablecloth roll for rehearsal dinner (Party City)
- print & attach vellum to memory candles
- print the labels for the centerpieces
- finish fluffing the tissue paper flowers (which I do during my free time at work)
- complete the pomanders (stick tissue paper flowers in the styrofoam ball & attach ribbon)
- get lights from Lauren for the aisle (buy more if needed)
- finish BM bouquets (put ivory ribbon on them)
- make sure everything is boxed up according to the location it will be used (ceremony/reception/rehearsal)
- trip to Sam's (silverware, plates, cups, food for rehearsal & reception)

I believe that's everything I have left to do. Hopefully it doesn't grow, because I could get most of this stuff knocked out in no time as they are such small tasks. I have pictures to share with you, at home, on my camera...they just can't seem to find there way off the camera on to the blog! Hopefully in the next couple of days I'll get you some pics of the DIY progress I've been making.

Update

Labels: , , , , - Friday, May 07, 2010

Hello everyone! I'm so excited as the time quickly passes getting me closer to the day I get to marry my love. As this time is quickly passing, I'm left with less time to get my projects done. Currently on the list: printing programs, dying the garter and the flower for the RB pillows, assembling programs, and fluffing out the tissue paper flowers. Tomorrow will be 2 week left until our wedding day; I'm oh so excited because I really don't have that much left to finish and FI is nervous, at least that's what he says. 

As for the house, the sheet rock is all hung, and will be sanded by the end of today. They will be back to do the ceilings and knock them down Monday. Now, we'll be painting this week coming up. I REALLY need to get the wedding stuff finished and put on the back burner until the wedding so I can be helping with the house as much as possible. 

I don't have pictures to share right now, but I will later :)

Paper Progress

Labels: , , , , , , , - Monday, May 03, 2010

Here we go. 
I finished the escort cards this evening.


I also am still in the process of printing programs, but I printed all of the first and last pages. Next step, print the inside pages and assemble!

I bought the flower to go on the ring bearer pillow and will be dying it soon (with tea/coffee, I hope) to make it ivory. 

I bought a garter and some bahama blue dye to make it my something blue. 

Bought scrapbook paper to use as our 'guest book' (stole the idea from my sister-in-law).

The labels for the centerpieces came so I need to design them and get them printed.


Tablecloths for Reception and tulle for the aisle came today.
Progress...it feels so good! :)

Working In Progress

Labels: , - Friday, April 30, 2010

I'm working on today:

Table Name Cards
BM Bouquets (wrapping the stems)
Maybe the card box since FI keeps putting it off :P

I scheduled my bridal portrait session and hair trial this week, so that's something else I can mark off the to-do list! Hopefully I'll be back with pictures this evening of my accomplishments! 

Table Names

Labels: , , , - Tuesday, April 27, 2010

I was talking to my sister this morning about the escort cards and table names and I decided that I'd do something very unique to FI and I for the table names. For now, i'm going to keep it a secret. But if you know how to get to my planning site, you can see them there (link in siggy on theknot.com). I'm very excited about making these and everyone seeing them! Hobby Lobby even has their pape ron sale this week, so I'm probably going to head down Friday to grab more of my brown & ivory paper to make the table name cards as well as get more blue & purple paper for the programs. I took pictures last night to add to the post below, but I never added them; I'll try my best to add them tonight :)

Weekend Recap

Labels: , , - Monday, April 26, 2010

I did NOT want to get out of my bed this morning, which I can say is the first morning I've felt that way in what feels like weeks! My bed actually felt oh so comfy for the first time in several days (if not a couple of weeks). I did manage to get myself to roll out of bed, get ready and I was surprisingly the first person at work this morning and I was on time! I come bearing updates from what seemed like a one day weekend.

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Friday, FI was at work (for his normal 24-hr shift) and I was at around town during the morning running errands. The first, and most important errand to me, was getting my hair trimmed and from there I stopped by the jewelry store where our wedding bands were ready to be paid for/picked up. Check number one for the day! I now have in possession three wedding bands (two for me, one for him) that will make our marriage official in 26 days! I also ran by Staples while I was in town and picked up some ivory paper to go in the middle of my blue/purple paper for the programs; check number two! After picking up our bands& stoping by Staples, I headed home to start on some wedding projects while watching the remainder of Season 1 Disc 1 of Grey's Anatomy. Check number three was sewing the ribbon onto the ring bearer pillow! This took longer than expected because the ribbon kept fraying at the ends where I was sewing, but I overcame that obstacle for another DIY task completed! The last bit of DIY that I can successfully put on the COMPLETED list is the layout of our Programs. I started printing the front and back pages on the blue/purple paper (check number four), but I'm holding off on printing the inside pages for a couple of different reasons of which we hope to finalize/settle this week.

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Saturday I was pretty much lazy most of the day just because I could be and I worked semi-hard getting some wedding things done the day before. I went to the PO to hopefully find more RSVP's waiting for me (and there were three there). Took a nap, then it was off to another shower being hosted by my lovely sister & mother. We had a great time, lots of people, lots of great food, and LOTS of presents which filled up the rest of the basement at my parents house. I'm not real sure where we're going to put anything we get at our church shower this weekend because seriously, we have been WAY too blessed with the generosity of our friends and family! We received a tons of great things, here are some I can remember off the top of my head:

- another set of our dishes (we've got two sets so now we can host up to 8 people)
- 2 sets silverware from Target that sure does look good with our dishes
- the small glasses to match our dishes (his family got the large glasses match our dishes)
- our stainless steel kitchen canisters
- a set of pyrex dishes
- dish towels (FINALLY! We hadn't gotten any until now)
- sheets for both our bed as well as the guestroom bed
- a lovely shower curtain (thanks to my sister-in-law who obviously listens well, since I was admiring her EXACT one a while back! :D)


I could go on and on and on...but honestly you would be here all day listening. I was overwhlemed at the gifts we recieved. Immediately leaving the shower we headed to the store to get gorceries to make food for our homecoming at church the next day.

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All I can say about Sunday was that is was an awesome day in the Lord! And today, I'm at work, reluctantly, but I'm here. I hope to add some pictures to this post as well as the previous post this evening.


I hope everyone has a great Monday!

Friday Progress

Labels: , , , - Friday, April 23, 2010

I have a ton of exciting updates to share...well at least they're exciting for me! 

This week we hit our 1 month mark (yesterday actually). I'm still very excited and he says he is nervous :) Sweet huh?

I had my hair trimmed this morning for the first time in over a year!

I went to the jewelry store and picked up (paid for FI's ring) our wedding bands! I got him there last Friday to have his finger sized, they ordered the ring and it had arrived by Monday! I'm so excited about having our wedding bands! :)

I sewed the ribbon onto the ring bearer pillow and now I just need to find a cute flower to put on the top with some ribbon to hold "the rings."

I bought some ivory paper to start printing the programs, but I haven't actually started printing them yet. Hopefully I'll get started on those this evening since FI is working today. 

I ordered a photo book from Shutterfly (I had a 50% & free shipping code) and it arrived this week as well! It's great!!

I ordered two pieces of attire for myself for the wedding day and it arrived yesterday! :)

I also hope to get started on Thank You notes for the two showers we've had because we have another tomorrow and I don't want to be writing thank you notes the week before the wedding or on the honeymoon at that!

I found some cute shoes for the wedding day online at JcPenny! I also had a coupon code for 20% off as well as a $10 credit from where we spent so much when we bought the GM's outfits! Total for my wedding day shoes = $12.87. Successful in finding cheap shoes!

I'm ordering the tablecloths for the reception tonight!

I'm in the process of purchasing a normal guestbook and garter from another bride that decided not to use them, only $4!!!

I'm also buying our Unity Candle Holder from another bride in the next day or two! 

I've been making tissue paper flowers throughout the week, so I'm making progress with the pomanders. 

My RSVP deadline is quickly approaching (only 8 days to get it in the mail guests...PLEASE send them back! We want to have enough food for you to eat at the reception) and I'm anxious for the 207 remaining people to send in their meal choice or regrets!


Wow...that looks like a lot of progress! :) I love it! Now I'm off to get some stuff done! I hate that I don't have any pictures to show you...maybe I can come back with some tonight!

Band Together

Labels: , , , , - Monday, April 19, 2010

This weekend was one with little progress house or wedding wise. We were busy with a bbq fundraiser at the fire department where my love works and then yesterday was his birthday and church. Needless to say, we did accomplish a few tasks!

House:
- FFIL finished the plumbing in our house so now we are ready to hang sheet rock. :) yay!

Wedding:
- I finished stringing and glueing on the beads to our serving set (see a seperate post about that here).
- I FINALLY got FI to go to the jewelry store to be sized for his band. We went ahead and purcahsed it Friday while we were there. Needless to say, it was MUCH more expensive than we thought it was going to be, but still half the price of my two bands.

Here is the site with full information about and I didn't get a real shot of the ring, but here is the stock photo from the makers site.


I do have to say that the ring we seen in the store was no where near this shiny; it's tungston carbide and has a lifetime warranty. I have to admit that I got giddy in the store when he decided which band he wanted :) Today marks 33 days until I marry my love!


This evening I'll be working on tissue paper flowers and deciding exactly how I'm going to do the programs. I have the template created, some blue & purple paper, but I'm not sure how/what I'm going to print them on. Hopefully I'll have more updates tomorrow!

Serving Set

Labels: , , - Friday, April 16, 2010

Wow...I'm relieved to be finished with these! It wasn't that bad to string all the beads on the fishing wire, but it was a pain trying to get them on the serving set. Nonetheless, I completed the knife today and can wash and throw these things in a box and forget about them until May 22. Now I'll be working on tissue paper flowers to finish up the 8 pomanders I have to make! :)
EDIT: I forgot to mention, in case anyone was wondering) that the server set was bought from Ross (I think) by my mother who came across it one day and picked it up for me!




Labels: , , , , - Monday, April 05, 2010

I have wedding project updates for everyone!

I began working on my cake server set; I'm stringing beads onto fishing line to wrap around the handles. I've completed one of the two. Here it is just before I finished it up:

I'm getting ready to start on the ring bearer pillow, so I should (hopefully) have pictures of it tonight. EDIT: Here are the pictures of the mostly finished product. Now I just have to add some pretty ribbon!


Haha...I wouldn't let Daisy in the chair with me while I was stuffing the pillow, so she just crawled up in the basket of clothes by my feet and took a nap! :)

I've finished up separating all of the candies for the favors (I'll post pics later!). EDIT: Here is a picture of my favors all zipped up tight in a baggie so they stay fresh!

I finished up making all of the tulle poofs (through step 2 - ready to be hung). I stopped putting the fishing line through them because they were getting tangled. We'll save that part and the fluffing for the week or two before the wedding. EDIT: Here are the pictures of my tulle poofs (some finished, some unfinished).

I think that's all for now. I'll bring you pictures this evening!

I feel like sharing a helpful (to me anyway) blog today! Visit here for craft store coupons! It's always nice to have a quick link to visit to get all the current craft store coupons for a quick trip to pick up something wedding related.

Invitations: Ready 2 Go

Labels: , , , , - Saturday, March 20, 2010

Thanks to the help of 4 sweet women and two little boys, my invitations are stuffed, sealed (and will be stamped Monday). I can't tell you what a relief it was to get those things ready to send out. I often wondered when I read other girls' posts about their invites if they could really be a labor of love; absolutely. They have certainly been a labor of love and I'm kind of sad to see them go but very excited to make the wedding official to all of our guests! As I sit here typing this, I'm excited to start seeing the RSVP's come in and begin imagining with whom our special day will be shared.



I'm sure my future mother-in-law (pictured above) will be thrilled to see that I posted this picture of her :P

Lisa, Angie, Cindy, Nikki, Ty, & Zack...I appreciate all of your help (and putting up with my picky ways) Thursday evening and trust me...I will appreciate your help when it gets down to 2 weeks until wedding time and you're all helping make tissue paper flowers!!! :) I love you guys!

Belly Band Success!

Labels: , , , - Thursday, March 11, 2010

I am here to announce that I have had achieved victory over the belly bands. I'm thrilled to have knocked all of these out! Of course I have pictures...and I'll be adding a tutorial to my bio tonight or tomorrow.


Check out all those belly bands...wow...so glad I'm finished making them. Here's one by itself. Pretty good for a last minute decision to make these!


I also made some more poofs, but I don't have any pictures of them yet. I'll be helping plan a little party most of the day tomorrow, so it's a good thing I made so much progress tonight!


Looking forward to tomorrow...hopefully a post showing some of the progress we've made on our house! It's very exciting and I can't wait to share!

Invitation Victory

Labels: , , - Tuesday, March 02, 2010

::sigh:: I'm please and thrilled to inform all of my bloggie friends that I have accomplished a HUGE DIY task. Last night I finished printing the envelopes for my invitations!!!!!! The invitation process has been a very huge work-in-process for months now. The last thing(s) to be completed for these babies is to put the RSVP cards inside each invite, close them, tie a piece of ribbon around them, maybe add a monogrammed square atop the ribbon and stuff them babies in an envelope!


I have mostly enjoyed this process, but I will be ecstatic to throw them in the mail box (and by throw, I mean gently & carefully carry them into the nice man at the post office so he can just throw them in a bag!).


I do have to apologize to my bloggie friends as I have been lacking on not only posting here but also putting pictures with my posts. I'm taking the pictures, but somehow they aren't making it from my camera to here. Maybe I can get caught up on adding pictures tonight.



For the girls on theknot who have May weddings drawing ever so close, (ever so quickly!!!) I think we need to take a day away from planning and relax. I feel like I should be finished planning by now, after all, I did start planning over a year ago. Once these invites go, it'll be all DIY decorations till the wedding! :)

Missing In Wedding Action

Labels: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , - Thursday, February 25, 2010

Hi everyone! I am very apologetic that I have been missing around here! We had our church revival all last week and it was late every night when I got in. I woke up last Friday morning with sinus issues and have been down and out with that until my meds really started working yesterday. I have made a pretty good little bit of progress along the lines of wedding planning progress, and we also have TONS of action along the lines of house progress. FI and his dad have really been working on the house the last couple of weeks. We did find an issue in the one room of the house we had planned to remodel after we moved in so we are now remodeling every room/aspect of the house. I'm very excited for everything to be finished so I can show you before and after pictures!

On the wedding front:
~ I finally paid of my wedding bands (first post about them can be found here)! Good pictures to come when I can get a good picture of them.

~ I completed the printing on the back of the majority of our RSVP postcards (I'm waiting on a second batch of 100 to arrive from Vistaprint).
~ The brown paper that Hobby Lobby had to special order for me came in and I finished cutting all of those earlier this week. I get the rest of the invites assembled.
~ My sister and I found the coolest decorating idea for the fellowship hall windows! I'm anxious for the tulle I ordered from CODWholesale to arrive so we can experiment with these!!! We plan to use fishing wire to hang 4-6 individual tulle poofs at varying lengths from the tulle covered curtain rods.


~ We also nailed down how we're going to decorate the pews at the ceremony!



The Sanctuary we're getting married in looks almost IDENTICAL to the one in the above picture. I love the lights in the tulle and will probably go with that look!



On the house front:

Since we're having to fix the bathroom now as well (this was unintended; we planned to wait and build on to the back of the house where the bathroom is when we started a family, but we found a few things and decided it was best to go ahead and tackle this project now as well). I made a quick little layout of the the house for it's before and after layout:

So Close I Can Taste It...

Labels: , , , , , , , - Tuesday, February 16, 2010

I am so close to being finished with assembling these invitations! I have about 60 more to assemble and I can get that done pretty quickly if Hobby Lobby would call me back letting me know if they have my paper in yet. ::Sigh:: I can't wait to be finished with them and get them in the mail, out of my sight & reach. They have been a labor of love! I hope to get my RSVP Postcards from Vistaprint this week so I can start printing the backs of them. Then I'll be printing envelopes, lining the envelopes, then stuffing them. Oh yes...it's so close I can taste it!

YEAH!

Labels: , , , , - Friday, February 12, 2010

Yea girls! Guess what today is??


That's right...it's only 99 days until I get married! I'm very excited; not only about the 99 days, but because my friend aMa helped me cut & put together some invitations, it's snowing like CRAZY here right now, I paid off and got my rings today, and I'm getting ready to go out for a Valentine's dinner with my FI's mom, dad, and two cousins. I had a very exciting day and I can't wait to share pictures with you later! Trust me, there will be pictures later. If I don't get back this weekend, I hope you all have a spectacular Valentine's Day with whomever you choose to spend it with!

I am finally delivering those pictures I promised :)




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