Wedding Challenge

 

This weeks Tuesday Alchemy challenge is about weddings!  I chose to share a scrapbook page from a scrapbook that I am making for one of my besties!  The page featured, is pictures of her coming down the aisle and walking to the front to her groom!  This is the second book that I am making for her, the first book was all things leading up to the wedding, the bridal shower, bachelorette party and the wedding rehearsal.   Hop on over to the challenge blog to see all the wonderful creations the team has made.  Wanna join in on the fun?? Link up your special wedding creation as well!!

Home is where the heart is

 

I have been wanting to do this project for a while now, and finally got a chance to do it.  It was actually pretty fun and wasn't as time consuming as I thought it would be.  For those of you that don't know, this is the island of Oahu!  The heart is the part of the island where I'm from!  It actually looks bigger than it's true size, and I actually wanted to make it a little bigger.  I guess it's all trial and error!?  I went to the hardware store and got this wood circle, took it home and painted it.  While I was letting it dry, I drew out the outline of the island and placed the heart where I wanted it.  Once the paint dried, I transferred the image to the wood circle.  I used pins instead of nails for this first run, it was something that I had a plentiful supply of.  I started hammering the pins around the image, spacing them out not too far and not too close.  Once I had them all where I wanted them, I got my hemp for the island part and started stringing.  It was actually very therapeutic!  When I had it where I wanted it, I moved on to the heart.  For the heart I actually used baker's twine!  I was going to paint the hemp red, but found the twine and decided to give it a whirl!  Still not too sure if I like the pink?!  Still deciding what to change for the next run!  I know for sure, the next one I will make larger to show off the heart better! I will also experiment with painting the wood in different colors and also more than 1 color.  Trying to decide what to use for the stringing part?! Any suggestions?!!

Pin & Tack Purple Romance Giveaway

Pin and Tack is having a Purple Romance Giveaway!  Aren't these so pretty!!  These are handmade mini cards and envelopes that you could win!! Hop on over to Pin and Tack and join in on the fun!! This is a progressive giveaway, so the more people that participate the bigger the prize gets!  Check it out, for all the details!! The contest ends June 6 and the lucky winner will be announced on June 7!  That gives you a lot of time to enter, so what are you waiting for?!! Get out of here and hop on over!  

Love Mom

I hope everyone had a great Mother's Day! I just wanted to wish all of you mom's out there a happy day!! I am so grateful to have such great women in my life, and I just wanted to show all of you a little love! A Mother's love is something so special, and I hope everyone had a great Mother's Day!  I believe that in life, one of the greatest gifts that one could ever receive is to become a parent!  

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What's old is new

 

This is an old picture, but I wanted to share it anyway.  I made this bouquet last year for my cousins senior prom.  I love making bouquets, it's a passion of mine.  It's so fulfilling to create something like this, it's not exactly like paper crafting.   It is a little harder because it is using fresh flowers and your time frame is at a quicker pace.  The overall planning process is similar, but the execution as a whole is a little different. Even though I enjoy it, because I'm self taught, I'm a little out of my comfort zone.  In the end it comes out exactly how I want it too.  Do you think that it matters how you get your end result? Or is it okay, just as long as it comes out the way you wanted it to?

 In this arrangement I used my fav feathers, added some bling with the jewels, and some silver ting-tings, as for the flowers it was very simple with roses, ranunculus, baby carnations and alstromerias.   Tying it off with a shimmer silver bow.  To my surprise, this style of bouquets are not the rage anymore?!  The last time I made a prom bouquet was 2 prom seasons prior and it was still in trend.  Within that short amount of time, things sure did change.  What's in now, are wristlet arrangements!  A little throwback, that was the trend decades ago.  I guess everything does come back again?  

Word.

"Work for a cause, NOT for applause.  Live life to express, NOT to impress.  Don't strive to make your presence noticed, just make your absence felt."

-Unknown
Just wanted to share this quote that I found on pinterest awhile back.  I think it's such a great quote!! Words to live by!