Headbands and Pillow!

Today I made all three flower girl headbands using a plastic headband, purple & silver sparkly ribbon, and three silk flowers. I got better and faster with each one and I think I might start making items like this and try selling them on Etsy.com since I've seen a lot on the site that look just as good as mine and they sell. The ring bear pillow I used the leftover large petals from my hair flowers and two rose petals as well as a pale purple checkered ribbon, silver wired ribbon, and a green satin ribbon. To make all four items it took me about an hour. I'm really happy with how they turned out and I hope the kids like them.

The Inspiration

A day of wedding to do's

Yesterday, was a busy afternoon. The weather was horrible with pouring down rain and bursts of strong wind! I picked up and Andrea, than my sister and her three daughters. We made it to the fitting appointment just on time at 11 am. My Mom and friend Leah met us there a few minutes later but, unfortunately they missed me in my dress. I only needed to get mine hemmed and everyone else for the most part had to get them taken in some. The seamstress is going to hold all the scrape pieces for me. I want to try and make a tutu or a dress out of the leftovers for our daughter if, we have one. I think it would be cute to wear on her first birthday and than she can pass it along to her daughter and so forth and so forth.

Once we were done with our fitting we drove down to Old Ellicott City and had coffee and lunch at "Bean Hallow". That coffee shop isn't the biggest place so it took some maneuvering of chairs and tables to fit us all. It was really nice hanging out with all the girls and having girl talk. Most of us ordered chicken salad or egg salad sandwiches and chai teas. Once we were done we walked up the hill to the jewelry store so I could find out about our rings and when we need to order them. It was such a crappy day to do at that walking around in the rain but, a least it

wasn't snowing. We walked up the hill to the bakery for the cake tasting appointment and we had to wait since another appointment was going on. The bakery actually

had me down for Sunday and I told the guy I just called when we were eating lunch to see if we could move the appointment up. Since there was so much confusion the owner "Chris" came in and help us. We all got free drinks and he took of the delivery fee if we go through them. The cake wasn't the best that we've had but, the prices were good and I know Angie wanted to try and make our cake but, after pricing everything out it makes sense to take the stress off of her and order the cake so that's what we did and I gave them our deposit a few days later. Angie is still going to make our Owl cake topper.

Flower Girl Baskets

Yesterday and today my Mom and I ran out to "Micheal's" and priced out items that we would need to make the centerpieces and bought a few items for the wedding. I had a really good time with my Mom and I'm glad that she is finally really into all the wedding planing. She throw out a few ideas that her and Dad want to do for the Bridal shower. Yesterday we went to "Victoria Secret" and I didn't like anything I tried on! I need to find what I'm going to wear under my dress! I was glad Mom was with me because it would have been really depressing if I was by myself. I also bought a few gifts for the girls in the wedding! Today we bought the items for me to make the flower girl baskets and I LOVE how they turned out. I think each basket cost about $5.00 to make since, I buy everything on sale or I use coupons!

How to Make a Flower Girl Basket

What you need is a hot glue gun, scissors, lots of ribbon, a basket, a few flowers, and roses petals. It took me maybe an hour to make all three baskets.

The Flower Girls got their dresses!

The girls have received their flower girl dresses! Look how cute they look! :)

Flower Girl Dresses

My sister has flooded my email with so many cute flower girl dresses! It's going to be hard to pick just one! I really wanted to make the Tutu dresses (above) but, with two of girls getting older and growing fast it will be better to put them in a more classical dress. Plus, the time it would take to make them. As you can see I had it all planned out.

So I really like these two!

A night with Lulu

I took Lulu out a few weeks ago to try on some flower girl dresses to make her feel special since she didn't try any on when the other girls bought their dresses and she also, just got glasses that day. I figured we better try some on in case we can't get the tutu dresses made. The two of us had a great time! We shopped at Nordstrom and ate dinner at Panera. Lulu tried chicken salad for the first time and loved it (it's my favorite)! Here's a few pictures and videos from the night.