Wedding Blog

I have two new crafting tools. My crafting guru Martha lures me with her siren song of well-designed scrapbooking gadgets. See, I’m not even a scrapbooker, but something about the smell of plastic flowers and cinnamon combined the tidy order of artful border punches and vellum paper in the first “Martha” aisle of Michaels just exudes “Yes, you ARE creative! Yes, you NEED this thirty…

Step 1. Buy entirely too much adorable craft paper.

2. Toil with a bone folder and a pair of scissors. Realize you probably need to invest in new crafting scissors if you’re going to make a million of these things.

Mr. Snow is a designer. He has some experience with screen printing, and we’d like to put those skills to good use in our wedding for invites, napkins, t-shirts, tote bags, and everything printable under the sun. :)

But our existence in a tiny two-bedroom apartment without access to a printing studio makes this idea a little... challenging to execute.

Prior to actually creating our save-the-dates, I had never done any embossing. But oh, what fun it was! Embossing the return address on our save-the-date envelopes was a quick and easy way to add a little extra touch to the finished product (and justify my heat-gun purchase, woo hoo!).

You will need:

• Rubber stamp
• Pigment ink pad
• Clear embossing powder
• Heat gun (I heard an iron works as well, but…

Anyone get the movie quote? It’s a classic…

Anyways, for the sake of my sanity and in an attempt to be (somewhat) organized, I’m making a list of all the DIY projects I hope (emphasis on the word hope) to complete before June.

1. Chuppah- This is a tent-like structure that couples stand under during the ceremony in Jewish weddings. There is a lot of freedom in…

I have always been a big fan of paper: paper products, paper crafts, anything to do with paper! My neighbor growing up had a drawer in her basement that was filled with scraps of anything from construction paper to scrapbooking scraps and anytime I complained of being bored, Mama Cloud would send me over looking for a project.

It’s no surprise when we got engaged that…

… and also loved (in no particular order) Cooking, NASCAR, Football and GOOD beer. She was 29, her mom lived with her, she was a knitter and she had two cats (one more cat would’ve sealed her single-ness for good!). Things were not looking good for this lass. It was 2007, Miss Pretzel had just started a new job at *HUGE* company and she also…

So when you were little did you like to play with pipe cleaners? I totally did, even though I had zero crafting ability back then, just like now. I don’t know what it is about them, but the possibilities seem endless, and then when Pengy came back from the Martha Stewart Party with pipe cleaner rings, it totally gave me the idea to have pipe…

It’s about time I shared our bouts with you! I gave you a sneak peek of them when I was on Bee TV, and shared my inspiration here. A few weeks prior to the wedding I had not yet settled on the lace bouts, so I flipped through some choices with Mr. Sunbeam and I was surprised when he chose the lacy ones! Woot - lace theme! So during the last two weeks before the wedding, between the favor bags and bouts, I was sewing like a mad woman.

Remember that little Manzanita forest I have going on back home? Yes… the nekkid branches, that’s right. I promised to tell you how we decided to decorate the branches, right? Well…

We’re approximately 50% decided on what to do with them.

And that 50% would be to make a little army of hanging votives. If you remember, I was a bit disgruntled at the beginning since we…

To say that October is a busy month for us is somewhat of an understatement. Not only do we have our impending Hallowedding quickly approaching, but I’ll be heading to Vancouver this weekend to spend Canadian thanksgiving with Mr. Doxie and his family, Saturday night is our engagement party (our first wedding-related event), and then I’ll have to scramble to get my house future-in-law ready…

Je t’aime, you like? Oui oui?

For whatever reason, I feel like these bouts are French and they speak to me in broken English/French – Frenglish if you will. It probably has something to do with the guinea feathers. But don’t tell my Dad, because after Sept. 11, he’s been calling them Freedom Fries and there’s no convincing him that French speaking bouts are funny.

AnyBout, if…

Goccoed Napkins. Beautiful, creative, affordable, cohesive, fun, quirky, a bit sexy? Yes. I’ve been drooling over the idea of making these cute little suckers for quite some time... so... I did it!

I would definitely recommend doing a little Google image research for inspiration - there are a TON of really sweet designs and fun ideas out there! Here’s a few that I came across...

Hi, My name is Miss Lamb and I have a DIY problem.

Though others pointed it out to me before, I didn’t realize I had a problem until I recognized myself in this article about the stages of a DIY project.

I was in between Phase 5 and 6 on my handmade fabric bridesmaids’ pomanders and bouts. I was so psyched when I was buying the materials.…

On my way home from work last night I was thinking about all of the alternative floral options about which I’ve recently blogged, and I realized that I had the materials in my house to make most of them. Or, at least make a mock-up of most of them!

My first attempt at our prospective DIY flowers was a slight variation of these: