Showing posts with label Homespun Happiness. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Homespun Happiness. Show all posts

Friday, October 8, 2010

Get The Look

Image Style Me Pretty

I just love the weddings on the Famous Style Me Pretty wedding blog, as do most brides to be.  The details, the colors, the feelings that arise from just looking at such prettiness.  Often when I look for inspiration on the site, I do more that just look, I tend to dissect each picture and find the one thing in the picture that really makes it stand out.  Then a mental process begins....How to re-create that look, on a budget-a tight one.   Every bride wants her wedding to provoke feelings, to be beautiful, to evoke the senses.  Not every bride can afford to do that, or they just don't know how to do it with in their means.  That is were I come in handy, I and the internet snoop you could say.  I fully believe that I can do the same thing, for less.  It might take a little bit of elbow grease, sometimes a lot.  But, it can be done and I will show you how.

Image Style Me Pretty


Image Style Me Pretty

What stands out in these pictures?  Candlesticks.  Costly? They can be if you purchase them table ready.  But purchased unfinished they can be detailed to match your wedding exactly.  With all the options available in the spray paint isle at your local craft store, the options are endless.  Check out this amazing site for unfinished goodies. You don't have to stop at the candlesticks, keep on going and style your wedding on your terms and budget.  Craftparts.com

Thursday, September 30, 2010

Wedding Fonts

I found a wonderful collection of wedding fonts over at Custom Paper. So many to choose from and the prices are not to shabby!

Friday, May 28, 2010

Home Grown Wedding Flowers

My Flowers








I have to say that growing your own flowers for your wedding day is such a treat.  These flowers are gorgeous and I get to enjoy them every day!

Vintage Shopping Expedition


I am so excited to find these old glass bottles.  They make the prettiest bud vases.  I have a little DIY project in mind for these.  I'll update this post when they are done.  I can't begin to tell you how exciting and rewarding it is to find something in a vintage store that you are looking for.  These bottles can be hard to find sometimes and also pretty spendy.  I happened to find a store that had a whole bunch of them and gave me a great deal for buying so many!   I found these at  Schroeder's Furniture Collectibles  220 East Main Street Medford, OR 97501 if your local check them out, they have some amazing things!

Thursday, May 27, 2010

Vintage Art

Today I came across some really neat vintage artwork over at Suzee Que's Flickr site. She offers these images free to use for personl art work.

DIY Wedding Menus

Love love love these DIY Wedding Menus from the Wedding Chicks! Cant wait to do this, got my fabric for this project today :)

Tuesday, May 11, 2010

DIY Flower arrangement, not bad for an amature!



 This arrangement was made for my mom for Mother's Day by me.   I had a whole lot of fun with this and give credit to the great DIY  Tutorials I posted earlier.  I plan on doing all the flowers for my wedding next year and this bouquet was great practice.  I have confidence that the wedding flowers will turn out lovely.

Tradition Revision...These ring pillows are so adorable.



SheLovesDaisys.etsy.com

When I first started looking for inspiration and wedding eye candy,  I was attracted to modern ideas and designs.  While modern can certainly be beautiful, nothing says " I do" better than tradition. 
One thing I noticed while planning my wedding is that more and more elements are becoming traditional and less modern.  It started with the venue, then the dress and after a while I really started to embrace all the traditions.  They have meaning and history, and " If it's not broken, why fix it"?  I started looking for traditional inspiration and found that "main stream" wedding accessories and decor are so....blah.  I found nothing fascinating about finding the same ol' same ol' around every corner.  I was looking for a unique twist on tradition.  Out of my google adventures and some etsy browsing I came across some inspiration in the form of ring pillows.    I have a few hand crafted favorites and I also started hand crafting my own.  Something that was suddenly important was passing things down.  Thinking about marriage and the meaning, children, grand children.  I started to yearn for the things that my children would want, heirlooms and heirloom quality possessions.  I think these fit the bill.

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 DIY Tutorial Linen Ring Pillow (here).

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Monday, May 10, 2010

Hand Tied Bouquet Tutorial





Flower Arranging tutorial







This is a great you tube video tutorial that I came across.  Click on over to you tube and check out howdini for more great inspiring tutorials!