Summertime

Playing with the Macro setting on the way home from dog walking 

Admiring the moon from my balcony

I might do these individually as you can see much more detail upcloe

Car shells

Typical Daisy view :)

Flags of of the russian Sailing Ship Pallada

A seagull shows a float plane how flying is done

Love the colour of this flower

I'm a sucker for sunsets

Everyone loves the symphony splash

Pickle boats at the inner harbour

I have also updated my SPCA photo blog as well. You can check that out here:

Shoes

So, the shoes that I wanted for my wedding (red sequin hightops) proved impossible to find even with the internet to help me, so I decided to go dressy and the shoes i ended up deciding on came in the mail today:

They're even nicer than i thought they would be and even the box they came in was lovely. I love them!
In other news I went for a second opinion about getting contacts for the day of the wedding and even though my eyes are too bad to get an exact match it looks like i might have a decent pair for the day of. Hizaaa!!!

Ooh I also got my assorted 10 embellishment buttons to use on my bridesmaids fascinators. Now to wait for the feathers to give them the final touch. I feel like such a 'do it yourself' wannabe! Good times. Almost two months to go. Geez!

My first "how to" video

I decided to make fascinators for my bridesmaids to wear. I decided to make a video to document it for any other people who are craft challenged like me. I still need to find some sort of shiny embellishment (i'll look on etsy) but other than that i'm pleased with how they came out!

Here is the video, let me know what you think!

http://youtu.be/FyXOlYhRTBc

Next on my list is the birdcage veil!

**It now says that it is copyright infringement because of the use of the song but it should be viewable in Canada and the US. Go fig.

Also, in non wedding related news....

I made spaghetti and meatball cupcakes for trevors last day!

Nothing says "I'll miss you! Don't forget me!" like sending your friend to their new home with diabetes. 

I got the instructions off of this website:

http://www.kitchendaily.com/creative-cupcaking/

Invites finished

With 3 months left to the wedding (oy-vey) we have finally finished the invites for the most part and sent the majority of them out. We've gotten some great feedback already which makes me really happy :)

On the inside of the card we have a R.S.V.P postcard that i designed and corner punched. On the back next to the guests names we have two options for guests to choose from:

-will be at the wedding, possibly dancing the robot on oct 1st.

or

-is not able to attend in which case this postcard will self destruct in 10,9,8,7,6....

 I adhered  the postcard to the card with one little square sticky so that it's easy to remove. Then i hand wrote in white pen surrounding it "I am a R.S.V.P postcard. Fill me out and mail me back please".

The bottom of the card is just the information for where to come for the wedding with an additional "Fancy hats are encouraged". I LOVE hats. And it seems to be a good compromise for me and André since i wanted it to be a costume party for the guests and he wasn't into the idea lol.

We also included a ghetto photocopied map as our ceremony location is a little random. I used the sticker that i showed in a previous post on the address labels. All in all i'm really happy with the invites and André is as well :)

Other than that I bought some feathers to make my bridesmaids their fascinators and some for my veil as well although i don't know exactly what i want to do yet. Ooh i also got my birdcage veil supply from etsy today! It was really cheap and came super fast! now i just need to work some crafty magic. I hope that it turns out okay! 

Stickers!

So i got the stickers that will seal the wedding invitation envelopes. They're not as red as i was hoping they would be but  i think that they are quite nice!

The Wish Tree

Instead of doing a guest book we're doing a wish tree. I think that it is a tradition that was popular and may have started in Japan. 

André is trying to get the metal workers at his job to make us a tree. If  that doesn't work i'm just as happy spray painting some willow branches to be honest. 

I once again checked out Etsy to find what i needed for the individual tags. Guests will write down their well wishes for us on the tags provided and then hang them on the tree for us to enjoy. The shop that I got the cut outs and bakers twine is called Ready2QuiltShop.