Never would I have thought I would be calling someone my husband, but here I am and it feels awesome. :) This week is going to be rough, back from our honeymoon in PEI and him on the night shift at work, but it's only a week and we've made it through worse. Like me going to sea for 7 or 8 days at a time, with no communication to shore. Or him working 9-hour shifts, 7 days a week, for almost 2 months. Those were both during the time we lived 2 hours apart, which makes things difficult enough. No, I know this is supposed to be a lot easier - it just seems worse because we are now officially one and we have been spoiled with being able to see each other almost every day for the past year.
I figured I would take this opportunity to gush over all the projects I couldn't show yet before the wedding! I had so much fun making all of them and look forward to doing more, down the road.
The first is the favors. I knew my theme - nautical - and wanted to follow suit with it without going too beach-y. I can't recall what made me want to do corked bottle favors - quite possibly a compilation of pins on Pinterest, haha. I ordered prints of 4 of my favorite engagement photos and glued them on with gluesticks - surprisingly, they stayed on well, but some of the glass bottles were slightly bowed on the sides, so I had to use a stronger, industrial glue (I think called something-goo) on those. Tied a bow around the necks, with a little heart charm, reading "love", filled them with white pearl candy-coated chocolates from Oriental Trading, and they turned out pretty nicely!
And, of course, Jon and I had to have our own jars of candies, haha. This just took a little silver sharpie on the glass and some more ribbon!
I probably had the most fun with the gifts I made. I had dabbled a lot in jewelry-making when I was young - it was actually most of what I did, while crafting, but it had been such a long time, I wasn't sure how they would turn out. I had already bought the girls earrings, but felt they were doing much more than I initially thought they would. They really went above and beyond - my hairstylers and our ceremony musician - that I wanted to add something to their gifts! I found these cute shell flowers at Michael's when I picked up the beads, toggle, and chain, and chose them to complete the necklaces. It was perfect, because each flower was a slightly different color - gray, white, and pink, just like the earrings I had gotten for them!
I also had so much fun making my own signature wire hanger that I decided to make one for each of my girls - my maid of honor, bridesmaid, and flower girl. I can't really explain how I do this - I just write the letters with the wire, from the picture in my head.
And after finding out there would be little to no flowers in the church for Mother's Day (they give flowers out, but don't display them), I realized I had yet one more project I wanted to take on before the big day...at less than 2 weeks to go, haha. So, I grabbed some fake flowers from Michael's, with the colors and flowers of our bouquets in my mind, and whipped these up in a few hours. Not bad, I thought, and the flowers didn't look fake from the distance most people were viewing them from!
My pride and joy was the parents' hankies, which I spent probably 4 hours a piece on, hand-sewing the ribbon along the edges, then embroidering their names and titles, along with the date and an anchor for good measure. :)
Now that I have no deadlines on my craft projects, I hope I will still finish them - that has always been my problem in the past. If I throw a few things up on Etsy or Artfire, maybe that will motivate me. It would be interesting to see how many of what sells, too. I have no idea what the market is for anything I've made or dream of making!
As always, hope you enjoyed reading - until next time!
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