My Son's Wedding

What a whirl wind this last few weeks have been! We frantically got the main bathroom completed on the Wednesday before the wedding for our family and guests. The weather called for 70% chance of showers on Saturday but we had sunny and hot weather! It may have rained a bit during the reception but we never noticed. Since the reception was an earlier one, 4:00-7:00 pm we decided to have an after pool party at our home and the weather was cooperative then as well! The hot and humid weather allowed for some great pool volleyball games! Just when you think everything will fall apart it all comes together. The ceremony was beautiful! We picked 1000 zinnias at a friend of my son's farm Friday morning to make centerpieces, corsages, boutonnieres and the wedding parties' bouquets! My oldest daughter played the flute with a pianist before the ceremony and the recessional song. We all walked down the aisle to a violin piece. My favor boxes added color to the tables. I had made 353 and they had put out table seatings for 352!!!! Whew! Just made it! My picture board that was at the shower was displayed on the gift table. I added a "Just Married" car made from the Sweethearts cartridge to the board. Maybe now I can get back to some crafting! I know I need to make some thank you cards for some very helpful friends!!!!




My three daughters and soon to be daughter-in-law (on left) cutting flowers the day before the wedding.

The colors of these zinnias were beautiful!!!!!!




My Boxes!




The centerpieces!

My son and I before we left for the church.

The Mother/Son dance.

My husband, Larry, and I.

The happy couple, Danielle and Andrew!

Bathroom Remodel

I know that I have been non-blogging but lots has taken place. First was a remodeling of our main bathroom, then my son's wedding, next the master bathroom. Here are the before, during and after pictures of the main bathroom. I am happy with how it turned out. They are going to replace my faucets to free standing instead of pedestals as I had ordered but they are on back order. These got me through the wedding since we had family home with guests. My summer has just been flying by!!!!!!!!!!!!





BEFORE!!!!



STRIPPED DOWN!

AFTER!!!! QUITE A TRANSFORMATION!!!!!

Wedding boxes

Well, the wedding is next week. I have made 353 favor boxes and filled them with candy. We are expecting 335 people at the wedding so I will have a few extra to decorate with. Whew! This took some time. I haven't had any time to do blogging as of late since we are getting ready for the wedding and I am having two bathrooms remodeled and a kitchen light above my island remodeled! It has been a non stop summer!!!! They finished the main bathroom in time for my family and guests but I told them to wait until after the wedding to start the master bathroom. So I have been creative in different ways!.....I will post more after the wedding.

I am soooooo busy!!!!!!!

Whoa! I am soooo tired! I have so much going on right now it is just crazy! My son is getting married this August and his fiance's father's church, yes, he is an associate pastor, put on a lovely shower for them at the end of May. Her mom asked if I would make a tri-fold board to set behind the cake at the shower and it will also be at the wedding. Well, it became the largest layout that I have ever made! Everyone loved it and I was pretty happy with how it turned out. I used an EK success punch to make the lacey dividers. She loves purple and that is the choice for her wedding party so I had to do it up in purples! I used a lot of the cute cut outs using the Sweethearts cartridge. I am also in the midst of having two bathrooms remodeled so I am back to scrapping wallpaper that seems to be soaked into the drywall and has become one!!!!! The guys will be coming in a couple weeks so I have to get the paper down before the tear everything out. I also am making the favor boxes for the wedding. I have 204 made so far. I need to make as many as 400! So needless to say.....I have been busy! I miss my blogging world!

Perfect Pearls and Copic Markers

Something was bothering me about the cover of my recent book that I made. I had used a mask before applying my distress inks and the color of the grunge showed through. I decided to color in the mask using my copic markers and then I sprayed the entire cover with a teal colored perfect pearl mix. The sparkle is subtle and I love how it turned out. I posted the before and after to show you the difference.

Home from the Scrap Get-away 4 day weekend!

Wow! What a great time we all had in Sugarcreek, Ohio. I attended a four day scrap get-away. This was the first time that she held a four day crop. They are usually only three days. Well, it was well worth the extra day! Since I am making the favor boxes for my son's wedding I used this time to cut at least 351 boxes using Tags Bags and More cartridge. They are ready to be assembled. My cricut was humming the entire time. I never had to change the blade and I multi-cut 2 times to be sure of a clean cut. I used the 12 x 24 mat and was able to cut six boxes out in one cut. We are inviting around 400 but I don't think that many will show. Therefore, I thought that 351 was a good number to stop at until the rsvp results come in in July. They are going to fill these boxes with pastel M&Ms. I went to Hollo's paper store to buy paper in bulk. I only could get 8 1/2 x 11 in a purple marble. There was no 12 x 12 in her color of purple! This is as close to the purple that I can get but that is no problem because she loves all purples! A few friends have offered to come and help put the boxes together. It is something that I can do while watching TV with my husband. I also am posting some of the fun layouts that I made along with a Tim Holtz product book that I threw together the last night. The papers are from his new paper stack called Crowded Attic. I used sticky back canvas on the front cover. I really like this product and will use it again and again. I will probably add more photos or journal in it but I thought I would share it with you for now anyway. Now to get some much needed rest! I don't sleep much while on a crop get-away. I don't like wasting scrap time by sleeping! Ha!

Easter!

I thought I would make some Easter boxes and filled them with paper grass that I bought at Target and candy of course! I used Tags, Bags and More cartridge. I cut the handle box the biggest that would fit on a 12 x 12 paper. I made two cuts. One out of a pastel cardstock and then one from Easter paper. I glued them together, tied ribbon in the holes on the sides and added a tag. I welded the letters together on my kids' baskets using lyrical letter cartridge. I simply glued their names on a darker shade of cardstock for contrast. I used the "popcorn" style box for my husband and some nieces and their husband/fiance and the "cup" box for the Grandmas and my sister's box. The tissue paper added some flair and I filled them with all kinds of goodies!