And so you won’t hear from me this weekend… have a lovely one, and I’ll see you all on the flipside of singledom!

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Wow.

Just two more weeks until the big day! I have been busy organising and crafting – not to mention ordering some lovely handmade goodness from my online friends.

Here’s a sneak peek at some of the lovely things I’ve gathered together for the big day!

The paper flowers I blogged a tutorial about are mounting up… I bought some more tissue paper today, so who knows how many I’ll end up with!

At first I thought I might hang these from twine… but now I’m thinking I might scatter them on the cake table with a pebble hidden in the middle to weigh them down… will have to think some more – maybe both if I get enough!

I’ve also made some hair ornaments – but another dilemma has presented itself! I first made this lovely little comb to wear…

But the other day I was chatting with some friends online and one of them mentioned hair vines. I looked them up and thought they looked pretty, so I made one. This has a mix of glass pearls, glass crystals, moonstone and labradorite.

I don’t want to wear both, though – and I can’t decide which one I want to go with! I might have to do a test run and see which I like most.

Also, the other day when I showed you all my wedding jewellery, and the earrings I made for my matron of honour, I forgot to include this. My matron of honour is my best friend from school, Penny, and she sent me this a while ago to be my ’something blue’. I’m going to wear it as an anklet under my dress.

Now, a few of the lovely things I have found online! First, I am getting a custom felt wedding cake from the lovely Kathleen at Felt Food Creations! It will be on a cake on the day, and a lovely little keepsake in the future. Here’s the one she has in her shop as the example cake – ours will have some lilac tulips and our initials embroidered in the top.

I also decided to order some custom bunting – and so I visited Amy over at Giggleberry Creations! I got it in the post the other day – and it’s gorgeous!! I’m envisioning this strung between some trees in the park during the morning champagne and cake reception..

I also went and got some good old balloons and streamers today, plus a white tablecloth and tablecloth weights. Its getting very exciting now – only a few things to do next week – most of the organising now will be in the day or two before!

Finally – a very important purchase made yesterday…

Waterproof, anyone??

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So, a few months ago now I bought myself an embroidery hoop, needles, and a few colours of thread.

Not much happened for a while.

This weekend just gone I suddenly found the urge to embroider overtake me. I started by drawing a free-hand sketch on a piece of calico, and got to work.

I decided to make all of my flowers different, vibrant colours:

It’s almost finished! I just had to buy another bright colour today to finish it off… which I will do tomorrow.

Here are some more embroideries that I have made over the last few days…

Fireworks

Yes we are!

Violet Branches

I thought I might do a cute little embroidery for my wedding (next month, eek!) which I’ve only started, but you can see what the final piece will look like…

I’m thinking we can put this with the cakes? Not sure yet – but it will be a nice little keepsake!

I also found this awesome embroidery pattern site!! This is not what you find at the local craft store… check out this sassy little craft bunny…

As you can see, I’ve just traced this onto my fabric, rather than using transfer paper. I printed it out, put the paper underneath, and traced onto the calico with pencil. I like doing this – the lines are not as dark as using a transfer, and it works just as well!

Here’s the finished bunny -

How freaking cute is this?!?! Go check out Urban Threads to see more – no doubt I’ll be showing you more designs from this site in future! (P.S. their hand-embroidering patterns are only $1 – pretty sweet!).

I’m going to be framing these in wooden embroidery frames, ready to hang on my wall or prop up on the bookshelf…

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