Weddingbee Blog

My FBIL (and Mr. High Wire’s best man!) and his girlfriend came to visit in celebration of FBIL’s 21st birthday. I assumed the boys would want to engage in some boy-like activities (AKA video games), so I picked up some wedding-related crafty things for us girls to do while that was going on.

We spent the day at a golf tournament in Ft. Worth and took a little refuge under a tent during a little rainstorm.

My prediction was pretty off about the whole video-game thing, because by midnight FBIL was coloring in my princess coloring book (anyone else have super special coloring books that they break out on occasion?) at the table with us, and Mr. High Wire was busy directing and critiquing our painting endeavors. Who needs video games anyway?

We were mid-project when I realized I hadn’t gotten a good camera shot of our goodies! Here is a shot in the middle of our work at the kitchen table. I picked up some wooden letters that are each of our first name initials (B and R) and our new matching last name (E). I also picked up three bottles of acrylic paint in our wedding colors, a couple of birdhouses to paint, and some assorted brushes.

Mid-midnight crafting! Getting a good start on her birdhouse.

Here’s mine under construction.

After one coat of paint things were looking a little funny, but after two coats everything really started to pop.

S even took advantage of some stencils I had in my craft drawer and did some awesome designs on the side of her house!

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I was too chicken to experiment with the stencils. For my artistic endeavors, “less is more” usually keeps my projects looking their best. I’m glad she was willing to take the risk, because her birdhouse came out looking awesome!

I’m not exactly sure where these will go on display for the wedding day, but I can’t wait for them to make an appearance, and she can point them out and say, “I MADE THAT!” I plan to do the same.

Do you have a craft drawer? Tell me what you keep in it.