Wedding Blog

So, Mr. L and I had penguin cake toppers on our wedding cake, but I know that if Mr. L had been in charge, we would have had hamburger cake toppers. On a hamburger shaped cake. Scratch that, they would have been on top of a giant pile of hamburgers, because the man does not really care for cake.

So, the flower arrangement from last week was a little bonkers, and not the easiest thing to arrange or maintain. So, in the spirit of giving out actual useful information, I’ll talk about some simpler flower arrangements made from the same bouquet.

This project would be good to note if you’re thinking about doing your own simple arrangements for your/anyone’s wedding. I could have saved myself…

I like being able to put flowers in unexpected places.

When I’m working on other people’s weddings, sometimes I have to stop and remind myself that it’s not my wedding. Case in point: the vases above. The mother of the bride purchased about 8 narrow glass vases and a handful of silk roses, one or two per vase. She wanted them to be the centerpieces for each table.
My oldest brother-in-law (again, not the one getting…

Our next big wedding task was to purchase and make all of the floral arrangements. The farmer’s market is an awesome place to buy flowers for cheap if you go at the right time of year. My oldest brother-in-law (the one not getting married) and I managed to get all of reception flowers and greenery, seen in the picture above, for about $60. $60!

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I’m spending this weekend in Omaha for my brother-in-law’s wedding. The bride and groom are pretty relaxed about planning the reception, so me and my other, oldest brother-in-law will probably be doing a good chunk of the planning, at least where it comes to decorations.

Being a type-A, hyper-organizer, immediately upon arrival I took out my research notebook and grilled everyone on what needed to be…

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Usually there are two criteria that must be met for me to find a LOL-cats image to be funny:

1. It must feature an animal that is not a dog or cat. The more exotic the animal is the more I love it.
2. There must be gratuitous profanity.

I don’t know. I think I’ve seen the picture above a hundred times and it still makes me chuckle.

Plus, anteaters are…

I’ve never understood why wedding cake toppers are so effing expensive. Even the boring plastic ones run more than $30 for a set. Plastic birthday cake cowboys, however, are about $1 each, further proof that anything involving the word ’wedding’ comes with a premium attached.

I learned how to carve linoleum blocks in high school, and I’ve made a new one every year since. I used last year’s to print our post-wedding thank you cards. Linoleum takes a little more muscle to carve than rubber blocks, but you can put a lot more detail into a smaller space. The result looks a lot like a wood block print and the…

My last post was about burning a screen using the power of the sun. Today we’ll talk about using that screen to print on some fabric.

Screen-printing is one of my absolute favorite hobbies. I think I’ve burned close to 100 screens in the last two years alone. It’s a little cheaper than buying a print Gocco, and you’ll be able to print in a larger format. You’ll just need to buy a screen, some photo emulsion, a squeegee, and print out a transparency of what you want to print. In…

I think one of the low moments of planning for our wedding was sitting next to several tealights one afternoon with a stopwatch and pouting when I realized that they would never make it through a four hour reception. I then bought enough supplies for a whole wedding of LED lights and never used them (dumb!) except for in some magnetic lanterns I built for…

I bought a book at Kinokuniya in New York that has hundreds of 3-D packaging forms, covering lots of shapes and purposes. I think it’s one of the best book investments I’ve ever made. I put together one of the forms as packaging for the boxer shorts that I gave to my husband for Valentine’s Day.

I’ve made penguins like this at least a few dozen times now and they’re pretty fun to make. I also had a whole flock of them on my own wedding cake. Today’s set is the largest so far. I made them for someone who requested penguins of a certain height.

These penguins are easy if you want to make a set for yourself.

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There are all sorts of shopping experiences that are one of a kind in New York, especially for those who are always on the lookout for unique crafting items. One of my favorites is Metalliferous, a purveyor of all things that are both metal and crafty. It’s a favorite of jewelry makers.

The store is located on the second floor of a building just off Times…