Weddingbee Blog

This past weekend we finally finished one of my favorite projects: woodware sets!

[Photo by yours truly]

And event thought it looks like a “piece of cake” kind of project, we had a lot of people involved in the process.

About 4 months ago my Aunt J gave me a HUGE jar and a bag of buttons. From the minute I saw them, I knew I wanted to make something for the wedding with some of them, because they are SO CUTE! So, a week later I had Mr. Poodle and Groomsman Scott help me separate all of the brown, purple and green buttons from the jar.

They complained after the first half hour!

I was a happy girl in a sea of buttons!

After a couple of hours we had this bag full of buttons, and step one was complete.

Then I selected a few different colors of fabric to make the ring napkins out of.

My MOH made a soup with water, flour, and glue to give the fabric more body and to prevent fraying.

We let them dry in the backyard.

Then, we cut little strips.

I wanted to sew the buttons and make button holes with the sewing machine, but after sewing all of our invitations and labels, my enthusiasm for sewing little details started to fade. In the end I chose to sew all the buttons by hand and just glue the fabric on to the backs. It might not look like what I originally imagined, but at least I still have a love for sewing, so it was for the best. I don’t want to end up hating my sewing machine!

This weekend, with the help of Mimi (Mr Poodle’s grandma) and more family members at the ranch, we sewed all of the buttons to the little strips of fabric.

We made 210 of them! After that we assembled the napkins and the awesome bamboo-ware!

[Photo by yours truly]

The only catch is that we had to buy 1000 sets of bamboo-ware because that was the minimum, so now I have to find a way to use the 700 that we are not going to use for the wedding.

Do you have any ideas for what we should do with the rest of the bambooware?