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DIY Project: Gingham Apple Favors from Chelsea at Frolic!

These easy apple favors are eco-friendly and festive. Cost is less than .50 each.

Supplies:

Waxed food paper. We chose this pretty gingham.

Blank white postage labels

Alphabet stamps

Ink pad

String or twine, if your tags didn’t include them.

Directions:

Stamp the name of each guest onto the tags.
Wrap each apple in wax paper and twist around the stem.
Secure with the tag and a piece of string or twine.

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Tip: Keep these in the fridge until ready for use so they stay nice and fresh!

Buy: Any wedding planner in the MyWedding directory could help you.

Oh, how we love Frolic! Chelsea’s daily inspiration blog is always chock-full of pretty ideas that feel effortless and chic. So, we’re so happy that she is posting DIY projects that are easy to do while packing a big punch.

An Itsy-Bitsy, Pretty Crafty Etsy Round-Up

Just a few cute little finds from Etsy land… Let’s start with an Etsy newcomer, Talent Show. They have adorable totes that would be perfect as a beach tote for summer (and would also make excellent bridesmaid gifts).

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Lately, I’ve been obsessed with these frame gardens. I don’t understand how they work, but I just love the look of them as an alternative to a garden in a small outdoor space. This one by So Succulent is pretty fantastic.

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I saw this from Little Print Garden and just had to share…And yes, I choose both.

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4th Year Studio is one of my new favorite invitation companies, and their Etsy page is just a tiny taste. I love these bright Braille note cards.

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I want these even though I am fairly certain I would just waste them while pretending to be a librarian. I would also need one of those noisy librarian stamps, too, but I digress… Knot and Bow has so many fun things, but these library cards are definitely on the top of my shopping list.

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DIY Project: Paper Tissue Flags from Chelsea at Frolic!

These adorable flags would be charming for guests to wave at the ceremony or as the bride and groom leave the wedding. You can also decorate cakes and cupcakes with them. Cost each is around 10 cents!

Supplies:

different colors of tissue paper

skewers from the grocery store

hot glue gun

scissors

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Steps:

1. Cut different shapes for your flags in different colors. We made streamers, rectangles with fringe, and triangles.

2. Leave some room on the end of your cut-out to wrap it around the skewer.

3. Secure with a couple dots of glue.

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Tips:

The beauty of these flags is in the organic shapes, so don’t worry about making perfectly straight lines and triangles.

Buy it:

Any of the wedding planners in the mywedding.com directory can help you!

DIY Project: Vegetable Starts Wedding Favors from Chelsea at Frolic!

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For a spring or summertime wedding, consider giving these vegetable starts as gifts to your guests! You can start them from seed a few months early to save extra money, or simply buy the starts in bulk. The cost is approximately .75 per favor!

Supplies:

trays of vegetable starts

peat pots

popsicle sticks or plant markers

sharpie

gravel

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Steps:

1. Put some gravel in the bottom of the pot.

2. Plant each vegetable start in a peat pot.

3. Write each guest’s name on the plant marker.

4. Display as centerpieces, at each place setting, or at your entrance table as escort cards (include the guest’s table number).

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Tips:

Save money by starting the vegetable from seed!

Buy it:

Any of the florists or wedding planners in the mywedding.com directory can help you!

Newlywed Perspective: Anne Loves Wedding Season!

Last week warm air and sunshine managed to find their way to Colorado. They spent a few days hanging out, playing it cool and making me think that summer was about to burst through the front door. Then they took off, leaving threatening clouds and very, very, cold wind and I remembered that it’s still spring – and just barely spring at that.

Still, that first whiff of warmer weather did leave one thing behind when it went – something that arrived in an envelope with a stamp bearing flowers and diamond rings…something reminiscent of a rather large even that took place in my own life just last summer…yes, Delightfully Engaged, it was a wedding invitation!

Do you know what that means? It means that even though I’m terrified that I’ll wake up tomorrow and there will be a foot of snow on the ground just waiting for me to shovel (or watch Shayne shovel. Either one works.), we’re headed into one of the most exciting parts of the year: wedding season.

Call me a nerd, or a dork, or a big cheesy sap, but I love wedding season. The flowers, the food, the music and white dresses and sipping champagne and eating cupcakes…there’s so much magic involved in weddings, whether you’re on the planning end or the attending. I’ve discovered that I don’t even care if I’m not the one going to all the weddings! I love seeing the photos and hearing the stories and knowing that people are making decisions together and dedicating themselves to each other and celebrating that choice with the people they love most.

It’s even more exciting to know that there will be at least one wedding this summer that I’ll get to attend with my husband by my side, watching a new couple become Mr. and Mrs. and remembering how much fun it was to take that step ourselves.

And then there are the flowers, the food, the music…oh, did I already mention all those things? But getting to see each season’s new spin on what the perfect day looks like, from elegant to rustic, stone chapel to backyard. The possibilities, when it comes to weddings, are truly endless. Good thing I know a blog that does an utterly fantastic job of giving us all a taste of what those possibilities can look like: the real weddings and the crafts and favors and dresses…

So much to sit back and enjoy. Not to mention an ever-increasing amount of sunshine with which to enjoy it all.

It’s enough to make this newlywed want to renew her vows. Maybe next year.

Newlywed Perspective: Making a Home Feel Like Home

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Making home feel like home can be a long, involved, process. It can take weeks, months (maybe longer – I haven’t gotten that far yet). The name came quickly for me: calling the place Shayne and I live “home” happened easily, a habit by the end of the first month. But making the inside of that place fit the name we were giving it has certainly taken considerably longer!

We’ve been collecting things slowly, accumulating a lamp here, a stack of teacups there, a bookshelf or two…an entertainment center.

And we’ve discovered along the way that one of the things we enjoy most about making home “home” is when we can fill it with things that we’ve built with our own two hands: a coat rack, another lamp and, this weekend with some elbow grease and a couple of basketball games on TV in the background, a headboard for our previously bareheaded bed.

We did learn some things along the way.

First of all, building things is time consuming.

Second of all, building things requires excellent communication skills.

Thanks goodness Shayne likes to explain things to me slowly (especially when they involve semi-foreign materials such as wood stain, drills and screwdrivers). Because that is a language I do not speak.

Making things together is, if nothing else, another adventure to add to our married list. It was teamwork and problem solving and defining what we like and what we need, all in the tangible form of planks of wood and drills and screws. And it was tiring work and play and the best part was finally placing our headboard behind our bed and stepping back to admire our handiwork – and appreciate the effort that each of us took to make it happen.

Making home “home” might take a long time. It might take a lot of work and building things and making things and hanging them, folding them, placing them. But the getting to step back and see it all come together and know that it is ours – that’s worth all the rest.