The "Buttonholes"

Alright! Here is the wedding order continued! These are the "buttonholes" (the order is going over to England! ha) Here I guess they would be called boutonnières.

Going from left to right: Groom, Best Man, Mother-of-the-bride, Father-of-the-bride. I felt the mother should get something a little special. I really like how that one turned out. And the best part...they LOVED them. (From the pictures anyway :)

Below is also a picture of the finished bouquets. She requested that the bride's bouquet be in gold ribbon also, so they all match. I am working on doing a photo shoot with some local artists. It will a great way to capture these flowers!!

New Additions

So, there were a few things in the craft room that I felt were needed. I had this random space by my desk so I bought some vinyl wall stickers and placed them there. I am loving the little purple flowers! It just adds a little color to the boring white walls (since we decided not to paint at this time.)

The next addition is for all the ribbon I have! There is so much of it. I wrap all bouquets in a colored cello wrap and tie it off with coordinating ribbon. I always find myself rummaging through a big plastic bin trying to find the right color. It still looks a bit messy (trying to figure out how to keep all of the ribbon under control. We'll see what I come up with) The ribbon on the pole isn't even a fraction of what I have. I just decided to pick 1. The ones I use the most and 2. Pretty ones that will at least look good hanging on the wall! :)

Custom Flowers for a great Etsy friend!

I made this bouquet recently for a fellow Etsy seller. She is redecorating her little girl's room and wanted some flowers! I can't wait to hear about her reaction to the flowers! She sells AMAZING dresses on Etsy, check it out here: http://deconstructress.etsy.com

Here are a few pictures of the bouquet!

Custom Wedding Bouquets

So this order has come a long way from when I started on it in January. It went from being something very simple and somewhat boring to a stunning color combination and festive bouquet! I took some quick pictures (will be trying to get some professional ones taken soon) so I thought I would put one up here now.

The middle bouquet (with white ribbon) is the bride's bouquet. The one on the left is the flower girl's and the one on the right is the bridesmaid bouquet. There are some other pieces (for the groom, best man, mother of the bride and father of the bride that I am still working on).

More pictures will be posted soon!

Craft Room: Finished!

Here is the end result. It is great. There is a nice area for me to work (my computer is up on my work space now too) and my mom also has her own desk. The wire storage bin is organized and there are many fabric bins with things tucked away so it looks a lot less messy! It is fun to see the difference between the two work spaces :) Check out the pictures! There are still a few things misplaced when these pictures were taken but it is pretty close to being done in the pictures.

Craft Room: In the works

So...this really isn't the best representation of what it really looked like in here during the process. In reality, I was stuck in the room at one point (the worst point) and was unable to get my camera to take a picture.

Craft Room: BEFORE

So this weekend we decided to redo the craft room. To make it a more efficient work space was the original goal. We ended up with a great work space and something that is quite nice! It was a lot of work, a lot of hauling very heavy furniture, many bruises and cuts. As a whole though, it was a lot of fun and it looks great!

Here is what the craft room used to look like. It was more of a storage room than anything else. The only thing that was used in here for crafting was the sewing machine. Everything else that I worked on was hauled to other rooms and hauled back in. It was a pain!

Another Front Page Day!

My garland made it on the front page today! The treasury was made by the lovely waysideviolet! Check out her shop here: http://www.waysideviolet.etsy.com

I missed this one, I was either still sleeping or getting ready for the day. I had one sale from it and many hearts! What a day!

Custom Wedding Bouquets

So my most recent custom order is for a whole set of wedding bouquets. It is huge; I am still in shock! I am still working out the details but here are a few pictures.
The theme is 'sunflower'. I added in a few brighter colors to use as contrast but it is loosely a sunflower theme :) I am making 3 bouquets and 4 bououtonnières. Check it out: