Onesie Ties

I had seen these adorable onesies with ties on them all over blogs and on etsy.com, so I decided to take a stab at it.

The first time I tried this was for my best friend's wedding. I wanted my baby boy to wear something super cute but also something that matched the colors of her wedding. So I found some material that seemed to match and got to sewing. It took me two attempts to get it right...the first one was awful but the second was very cute.

The second time I did it was for St. Patrick's Day. I have been buying onesies for each holiday but when it came time for good ol' St. Patty's Day, I couldn't find one in his size. So I decide to make him a St. Patty's day tie for a plain onesie he already had. I think it turned out absolutely adorable.

These are very simple to make. Just download the tie pattern, get yourself some Wonder Under or any other appliqueing material, and start cutting and sewing.

Wedding Flowers

To help save some major $$ on the wedding, my cousin and I decided to make her flowers. She got all most everything needed to make the flowers on sale at Hobby Lobby. It took lots of flowers, ribbon, glue dots, and patience to make them. But it was a lot of fun and I'm glad she trusted my enough to let me do them. I think they turned out great, even better than I had imagined.

Here's the bouquet we based her bridal bouquet off of:

Here's Her bouquet:

She wanted daisies for the bridesmaids. The centers of the flowers were not the prettiest so she found some "gems" online and we glued them in the center of the flowers. We used the same ribbon and pattern on all the flowers to make them match and to add in more of her wedding colors.

 

She wanted her toss bouquet to be a little different but to still have her wedding colors. So we had a little fun with these and threw in some colorful flowers instead of just white like the other bouquets.

 

These are the boutonnieres and corsages.  The one on the left is for the men in the wedding and the male family members. The one on the right is for the female family members.

 

These are all the flowers we did:

This was a fun project, I really enjoyed it. I love the way they all turned out and I think she truly saved a lot of money doing them this way.

High School Sweethearts Bridal Shower

Wow it’s been a while since I’ve posted anything. Guess I better get on it. I’ll start with my biggest project I had been working on: My Cousin’s Bridal Shower.

Since my cousin and her soon-to-be hubby had been dating since high school, it only seemed fitting to have a High School Sweethearts bridal shower for her. It took a lot of planning and creativity to make this happen. Here are a few of the highlights of the shower and some pics to help tell the story.

My favorite thing about the shower was the cake. I contacted the groom and asked if he could write a note to his bride. But he did one better; he “stole” one of the notes he had written to her in high school. I then had it scanned onto a cake. I love how it turned out. 

I had the bride give me some photos of her and the groom through out high school and some mementos from school.  We used these as decorations along with some “team spirit” decorations we found online and a few spiral notebooks with some doodles.  Yes, one of the mementos was the bride’s varsity cheerleading uniform…tiny isn’t it?

 

Our favors were personalized pencils that read “H.S. Sweethearts: Casey & Kyle”. We had these scattered out on the tables along with an index card. We had the guests write a special note to the bride and groom, that was later read out loud and placed on a Memo board I made for the couple.

Since the theme was high school sweethearts, we went with a “sweets bar”. A big thanks to my friends at Sweet’s Fudge Kitchen for providing most of the goodies!

I think we had a really good turn out and I hope that the bride enjoyed it. I sure had a lot of fun planning it with all her bridesmaids.