Yes, I made a bird nest

I was trying to think of an alternative to a ring pillow for Noel to carry down the aisle. I had seen a few cute ideas including a bird nest, so I decided to make one. I still have to put some fake moss or a piece of fabric in it to set the "rings" on, but the nest is done!

Just a whole lot of wrapping wire around itself...

People often also use this idea as a cake topper, which is cute:

( Wedding Chicks )

My mom actually sewed me two little birds that I wanted to use as cake toppers - there is a free pattern online, but I printed it at maybe 70% so the birds would be smaller. You can find the pattern here :)

I'll post pictures of those when I can take some decent ones.

Wedding Bands

We've started looking into different wedding bands and might get something like this..

from Fabuluster on Etsy (woohoo, found out how to put in a link). Pretty cool, they put your fingerprints on them so I would have Bic's on mine and my fingerprint would be on his.

Definitely need to get to a store first and try some things on...sooner than later, but this is probably cooler than anything else we'll find!

Hair

So, of course there is a chance I will completely change my mind about what I want to do with my hair for the wedding, but for now this is what I'm looking into...

I can at least try to look like the movie stars! I really want my hair up so I don't get too hot, but at the same time I want it to be loose ..not slicked to my head and pulled back tightly in a bun. I'm really lucky to have my old friend Ryan doing my and my bridesmaids, etc hair. We're going to have a run through about a month before the wedding ..which will be here soon!

Unexciting project...

pretty colors!

to go with the coloring sheets...

Burlap Table Runners

Not too much new exciting news as far as the wedding. I've been wrapping twine around mason jars and my mom and I went to the fabric store and got the fabric for the newer dress I like. Also, we didn't buy it today, but will be buying burlap to make table runners. Here is the inspiration:

(from http://somethinggreenevents.blogspot.com/2010/04/burlap-table-runner.html ) If you haven't noticed, I don't know how to change the url link into different text on blogspot, but anyway...they used to have a tuturial for these. I don't see it anymore on the website, but here it is. You know, in case you ever want to make burlap table runners...

Materials:

One bolt of 54 inch wide burlap (you can use less, but 21 runners took the full bolt), thread

Directions:

1. Cut fabric in lengths of 14 feet, two inches

2. Cut in half lengthwise so that each strip is 27 inches wide

3. Turn the ends and sides under one inch and hem

4. Stitch with a zigzag stitch (about a quarter of an inch) on sewing machine

5. Iron flat

The woman who wrote the tutorial said her mom chose satin thread, but it probably isn't mandatory...

Anyway, hopefully these things will come together nicely and add to the "rustic" feel of the wedding and not look ghetto :)