Boutonnieres

Boutonnieres made out of paper flowers and brads? Yes, please! These brads were also great as fillers in my brooch bouquets. I originally wanted to make brooch boutonnieres..but this is easier and cheaper.

Paper flowers....

Brads...

Aaaand, together...

Not the most exciting thing in the world, but very easy, let me use up some supplies that I'll never use otherwise, and I'm sure the groomsmen will be very excited to wear them...

I will probably just group two or three together for each person and have some fake greenery on there, too.

Eeeee! Excitement

Ok, so I really loved the first dress I posted...but I just came across this other one and I love it 10 times more. AND my mom thinks it'll be much easier to make. I know there was a reason we hadn't started the other one :)

Yep, there it is. I love it. Although, may exclude the boots...and the bangs...

Gingham

So, I haven't done too much craft-wise recently, but we have gotten our engagement pictures taken and ordered/received our save the dates. Also, my fiance really wanted gingham neckties for the groomsmen, so I looked around on etsy.com and messaged one woman (http://www.etsy.com/shop/MeandMatilda) who seems to have what we need! The groomsmen will be wearing ties to match the bridesmaids' dresses which will be all different colors. (I picked the colors - they picked the dresses) So, we have yellow, orange, maroon and pink. Here are the fabric swatches for the ties we will be ordering (I found it impossible to find all these colors in gingham fabric at the fabric store).

we would be ordering fuchsia, yellow, orange and burgundy. yep yep. In other news, I have finished all 5 brooch bouquets! (pictures one day...) I have also collected quite a few mason jars and antique bottles to use in my centerpieces and I have collected/been given a few tins I want to use - although I'm not sure exactly where I will use them

Can't think of too much else - made a few more cake plates, broke one cake plate, and need to get working making some more decorations :D