The Wedding...

"TWO FAMILIES ARE BECOMING ONE"

How could this couple look so cool

on an evening that was almost 100 degrees

with humidity like soup!!!

This was at the Luau or rehearsal dinner the night before wedding...

This was probable my favorite project!

One she picked early on and I couldn't wait to get started on...

It was the one we fought over the most...

I kept telling her it would look so good hanging on my wall

in our family room..

She said no it would look the best in her living room...

So while she was on her honeymoon we took it to their house

and it is now up in the living room.

I just enjoyed giving her a hard time over it.

Besides I would have had to change the letters to hang in my house!

(but wait til you see what I did get to keep in my family room!)

We needed to decide on size-

We were going to be outside and it needed to be bigger than life for

EVERYONE TO BE ABLE TO SEE..

I already had the frame and it was 4ft.X3ft.

That part was easy.

On one of the trips to Grandma Lil's Garage...

Amanda found this really big 3ft Grapevine Wreath.

It was perfect..

Tom cut a board out to fit inside the frame

Out came the spray glue...

And the "Burlap" was added to it.

Now to decide on the Lettering.

I knew I was going to have to paint the letters on...

I just needed to decide the size and font style

This was my first choice I taped it on to see how it was going to look...

Fine I thought!

I painted it and Hated it...

So It got ripped off and I started over...

Here we go a softer look done with oil paint this time..

I LOVE THIS SAYING...

It was perfect...

Now for the "Details"...

If you look real close you maybe can figure out what the roses are made out of...

Especially if you have ever done any reupholstering
The roses were made out of a really stiff jute strapping.
But they made beautiful roses, than I softened the spray with the
Muslin Roses.
Lots of Dried Lemon Leaves
and pearls added to the centers of the roses.
Than on the right side Tom cut out the letters.
I tied a bow to hang them on
with another Muslin rose...

And the most important part...
The Easel!
My Brother-in-Law is a wonderful
woodworker.
Tom took him a picture of an inspiration easel we liked
and the size of this monster frame.
It had to be really big and really sturdy!
You can get an idea how big it is with this 1st grader
Our flower girl standing in front of it!
It worked really well...
And welcomed everyone to
just come in and sit down...
We are all one big family  now...

To Be Continued...
Lynn

The Wedding...

The details...

We knew with a burlap theme it was going to be hard so we decided..

IT WAS GOING TO BE ALL ABOUT THE DETAILS...

This very old suitcase was in someones basement, I think maybe Colleens.

We opened it up and inside it was lined with Contact Paper!

Olive Green and Antique Gold like from the 70's

LOL

I ripped it out really fast...

Lined the whole thing with "Burlap"

I never knew there were so many kinds of Burlap!

Than where the pocket on the lid was suppose to be

 I used a really open weave

Wide Burlap Ribbon and gathered it to look like the pocket

Now for the detail...

Muslin Roses...With Dried Lemon Leaves...

Muslin was Amanda's Grandmothers favorite fabric,

and she had lots of scraps in Tuff Boxes..

In fact she had lots of things we used for this wedding.

Grandma died about 2 years ago and every time we went to her garage to find something

We would say:

"She Just Keeps Giving and Giving"

as she always did.

She would have loved all the things we made and used of hers!!!

I learned how to make the flowers from many hours of watching You Tube Tutorials!

You can learn how to do anything from You Tube!

Than I ran a brown satin ribbon across the top from rose to rose

Made some letters out of card stock covered in fabric

for the words...

"Cards"

Added some antique linens and doily's

and a few more roses...

The ring bear pillow leaning in front, burlap of course with a birds nest on it!

Topped the table with one of Great Grandma's Quilts from the 40's

and that is where all the cards they received were placed.

I think it really did turn out pretty cute!

In Loving Memory...

I know somewhere there is a picture of this up on the mantel at the wedding.

I guess we will have to wait for the photographers pictures on this one...
I found one,but you have to look for it...
On the left where the antique lace tablecloth is hanging off shelf...

This picture gives you a good view of the fireplace area...
The tall racks held all the cupcake's, 190 of them...

Didn't need that fireplace with temps in the 90's

One more old suitcase

(Amanda works at Garfield's Restaurant and they are remodeling

So lots of the things that were up on the walls were up for grabs and she grabbed this one)

This one had tiny decorated bottles

with antique hankies tucked inside

"For Happy Tears"

It was so hot that weekend we

put sunscreen and bug spray

to keep everyone comfortable, being right by the river...

The basket on the right was full of Muslin Squares...

Everyone wrote with markers a nice note for the

Bride and Groom

These will be put together to make a quilt.

In the tall silver vase were sparklers for their send off...

This table also had one of Great Grandmas Quilts

along with a table runner made out of

Yea you guessed it!

Burlap

With their "W"

for

Walls...
I had good time painting all of those. The head table had the ones with the "W" for Walls
all the other tables were just trimmed in white.

On this bench another quilt with a basket of Beer Koozies as favors

and more of the Hydrangea Baskets ...

All of these tables lined the walkway as everyone came in.

It was nice seeing everyone writing notes and adding prints to the tree

and dropping off their cards and gifts...

and as you can see the sun was shinning on them this day!!!

It was beautiful!!!

To Be Continued...

Lynn

Beautiful Weather and a few new Wedding Projects

This was the perfect ending to a beautiful day!!! Wednesday we woke to beautiful skies of sunshine and warm temperatures! I think it got up to almost 85 degrees. Now remember it was March 21 and we do live in West Virginia. I know it is spring now, but it is like no spring I have ever seen. We haven't had our furnace on for over a week and we are sleeping with the windows open. My lovely CRAZY neighbor even has her AC turned on... What is going on with this weather. Today my husband plowed the garden, neighbors are mowing grass and the garden center where I work part time is selling a record amount of mulch for this time of the year!!!

I got off work at 3:45 yesterday and went straight home changed into shorts and an tank top, grabbed my paddle and my life jacket and headed to the river. Popped the kayak in the river and away I went up stream. I paddled for 1 1/2 hours and it felt wonderful. People were laying out in bathing suits on their docks like it was July...

Even School has gone crazy, our county works 8 snow days into our calendar but this year we only used 2 so we have every Friday off until the middle of May. Really 4 day weeks, what could be better. So I hope to get right back in that kayak tomorrow for another trip up that beautiful river...

 It was a well deserved trip on the river because all we have been doing is working on my daughters DIY wedding. But we are getting so much done.

 We are making Hillbilly Wine Glasses out of Mason Jars. All the cups for the night will be mason jars, and all different size jars for decorations.

This will be the cabinet that will have all the mason jars in it,trimmed in grapevine and accented with an old antique door that has the sign that says: "Your glass for the night for whatever tastes right". Tag your cup. Everyone will write their name on the tags that will be on the jars. I popped a couple hydrangea's in the grapevine so we could see how it looked. There will be more flowers and leaves woven in among the grapevine right before the wedding. It is going to be a very Shabby Chic Wedding with lots of  old looking things for  sure. So see we are getting some things done. I will keep posting as time goes on...

 Hope you are all have this great weather too, have a great weekend!!!
Lynn