Fancy Pinecones

Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Color palette

Anything similar to those blues.

Peacock. Turquoise. Aquamarine. Cerulean.

Eggplant. Plum.

Bright violet.

Sunday, March 4, 2012

Pinecone flower tutorial

Pine cone flower! It is so lovely. I think I should make some.

Image from http://fabricbowsandmore.blogspot.com/2011/01/my-take-on-pine-cone-flower.html

Tutorial from http://kitty catsandairplanes.blogspot.com/2010/10/pinecone-flowers.html

More pinecone flowers.. these look pretty gorgeous too.

From http://www.craftster.org/forum/index.php?topic=326285.0

Progress report...

Our officiant has been hired. Tomorrow we meet with a photographer.

This week, we will probably be making progress on reception planning. Maybe some trip planning too.

Friday, March 2, 2012

I had a few projects on my to-do list this week, so when a snowstorm rolled through and granted me a snow day I got really excited. Unfortunately, when I went to gather up my supplies I could not find my hot glue gun!

Really, what self-respecting crafter is ever without her glue gun!?

Instead of sipping hot chocolate, watching the snow and making delightful glue string and feathery messes, I ran around my house in a fruitless search for the stupid thing. Then I got bored and started watching Downton Abbey. (Alas, I continued to be bored as I watched..)

But today I visited my mom, and I found my trusty glue gun in a pile of my old craft supplies in the basement. This evening I was able to make these pretties..

The color on this is a little off.. imagine the purple slightly redder and the blue slightly greener and you've got it.

Now I want to make an Edwardian-style formal sun hat for my mom, but with simpler embellishments. Perhaps a felt flower or two, some ribbon or organza tied around it..

Monday, February 27, 2012

To save for later...

Tutorial: Make a book with a perfect binding.

http://www.diybookbinding.com/do-it-yourself-book-binding/

Tutorial: How to knit an i-cord

http://www.wikihow.com/Knit-an-I-Cord

Tutorial: How to make your own Royal Wedding fascinator

http://jezebel.com/5796493/how-to-make-your-own-royal-wedding-fascinator

Hair collage

Flowers or feathers..

Feather hairpin tutorial

How to make a fancy feather hairclip.. From http://seecatecreate.wordpress.com/2010/03/12/how-to-make-a-vintage-inspired-feather-hair-clip-for-under-5/

Sunday, February 26, 2012

Things that are gorgeous.

1) This cake. Absolutely adore it. I want it. In my life. Can it be lemon?

2) This lady's photography. Amazing.

Registry!

(Not really related, but I feel like every blog post needs a picture or else it's boring.)

Everyone loves the idea of grabbing a barcode scanner and zapping barcodes of everything in a really expensive store. It sounds cool, but when the subject of a wedding registry comes up I tend to draw a blank.

I cook a lot, so we have a pretty well-equipped kitchen. We don't have a ton of fine china or linen tablecloths, but I'm not sure we want any. Our house is equipped with secondhand, mismatched stuff and I like it that way.

What we don't have is a garage full of tools. So that gave me the idea to investigate creating a registry through Home Depot or something similar.

I found something kind of better..

http://www.myregistry.com/

You use a bookmarklet to grab items from any site online and it will add it to your registry. They even have an app that turns your smartphone into a handy-dandy barcode scanner that you can take anywhere!

I've been playing around with it, and I already added a couple things. If you know me/us personally, you can search using my name. To view it, the password is the name of our pet (in all lowercase letters.. should only take a couple tries to spell it right if you're not sure).