**UPDATED** Mrs. Undies......I have made so many pairs over this past year that my original pair just felt like it needed to be replaced :) I like the font better on this pair.

Yes, I blinged out my flip flops for the day of. A girl needs to feel special on her wedding day no matter what she's doing :) For this project I just bought a cheap pair of white flips, and glued on 5mm hotfix crystals on them with super glue.

Yes, I may be getting gaudy, but I decided to make a matching necklace for my bracelet. I figured what the hell, you only get to act like a princess for the day once, so I might as well take advantage!

These initals I found at Hobby Lobby for 50% off. They will work perfectly for my head table, going to hang in front of Jon & my seats at the table. They were originally a gold antiqued color so I just spray painted them silver and hot glued 1.5" periwinkle ribbon to the back.

Stacked gift cardbox. The PITA of this project was cutting the holes on the tops and bottoms of the boxes to allow the cards to fall through. I really love how it turned out, the picture doesn't accurately show how beautiful the paint is :)
Supplies include:
1. Stacking hat boxes, came as a set of 5 but I used one for my aunt-in-laws wedding and the smallest didn't look right on top. (ebay)
2. 1btl. Periwinkle sparle acrylic paint (Walmart-craft section)
3. 1 bunch of silk hydrangeas (Walmart-craft section)
4. 4yrd roll of 1.5" espresso satin ribbon (Micahel's)
5. Box cutter
6. Paint brush
7. Glue gun

Arrange the boxes on top of each other in your desired pattern, I alternated the direction of these. Once you find your pattern, trace each box's position on the lid of the one below. This shows you where you need to cut on the lid and also where to replace your box once you paint them.

Paint each box and lid (you don't have to paint the bottoms of the stacked ones or the lids on the inside of your trace marks). I painted two coats.

Once the paint has dried you can now cut the bottoms out of the two stacked boxes and the traced areas on the lids. I did this using a box cutter and like I said it was a PITA. Then very carefully I cut the slit for the cards in the top box and painted the cut edges.

Next I used the glue gun to glue the ribbon on each box and then to glue the boxes together. I glued the lids on each box except the bottom one so that I could remove the cards easily. I then removed the hydrangeas from the stem and hot glued them to the top of the box and the bottom corners.

Here is our wedding directional sign. It is not 100% finished because I am not sure what direction to paint the arrow yet (still deciding on placement) and FI still needs to drill holes in the top so I can string ribbon through. I am also making another one that says Reception.
Supplies include:
1. Tree slab (Walmart-craft section)
2. 1 sheet cardstock
3. Metallic Espresso acrylic paint (Michael's)
4. Exacto knife
5. Very tiny paint brush (All my brushes came in craft pack from Walmart's craft section)

I measured the wood slab first to make sure I made the wording the correct size. Then in MS Publisher (or what ever you use) I typed out my wording in my desired font (Feel Script) and sized according to my measurements of the wood slab. Once I did that I printed it on a sheet of cardstock.

Using the exacto knife I cut my "stencil" by tracing the letters. Make sure that you cut and keep the insides of letters like "e", "d", & "g" so that you can use them to trace the letters.

When you finish creating the "stencil" place it on the wood slab and using a pencil trace your wording onto the slab. Use the inside peices of the letters you cut and saved as well. From there all you need to do it paint! That is by far the most time consuming part especially if you are like me and keep trying to make every stroke perfect :)

Votives for everywhere in my reception space :) These are really only semi-diy I got the template for the votive wraps from knottie designgirl14's blog the Fussy designer http://designgirl14.blogspot.com/

Supplies include:

Votive candle holders w/candles included (Walmart 12/$5.44 in both white and ivory-I'm using white)
Vellum (JoAnns - Translucent paper pack of 50 used a 50% off coupon)
Double sided tape (wally world)

Since I don't have anything besides MS products I just copied the pictures of designgirl14's votive wraps and pasted in MS Publisher. You can fit 4 wraps to one sheet of vellum. Next I changed the color of the wraps to my wedding colors and then I just printed them out! The paper was very quick drying I had not issues with smudging and I did not have to let them dry for long at all (about a minute).

From there I cut them out using scissors and used the double-sided tape to close the ends. It was super easy. I have done 36 so far only about 60 more to go:)

Dyed crinny, before and after. Not all of the parts took the dye so I ended up having to remove the trim from the edge because it was still stark white. Please excuse the wrinkles on the crinny I still have to steam it. When you dye it in the washing machine it does get a little wrinkled.

Supplies include:
2 btls. dark brown rit dye
Washing machine (I ended up using my mom's regular load because I was afraid to try it with my front load, although supposedly you can)

It's actally pretty simple, just follow the directions on the bottle! :)