Sneak Peak...

Just a few little teaser pictures on how the wedding plans are coming along. The burlap and jute theme is coming along quite well. I am really learning how to make roses out of just about anything! There are some great places to find just about anything you want. Inspiration and the best place to find it is at Pinterest.com

I typed in burlap wedding and WOW the things I found!!!

And just where do you find all this burlap, especially when you need yards and yards?

burlapfabric.com

This site has everything hundreds of yards of burlap for the table runners and more, go take a look!!!

Jute Webbing is what these beautiful roses were made out of. It was just stiff enough to make these big roses beautifully. Even he rosebuds turned out great with it!

This saying is going to be painted on burlap,you will see later how all this ties in with the roses.

Little touches of burlap ribbon behind the ribbon rose looks cute on this candle...

And this jute raped handle and muslin cabbage rose is so cute...

You will see the rest of this picture later too, but it looks really nice lined with all the burlap! I am having so much fun trying new things with burlap and jute along with some other textures and things are really coming together I think. So keep watching for more updates and you'll get to see it all after the wedding in June!!!

Mason Jars...

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...

The Veil...

Well we are in full Wedding Mode...

My DIY daughter wants to make everything. I guess if she weren't so much like me I would say she is crazy but we are just alike and we are having fun. But it is a full time job for sure. We are down to 4 months now and I think we are doing pretty well. One of the first things she got done was buying her wedding gown. But she couldn't find a veil she liked and of course she wasn't about to pay $100.00 and up for a veil she said she could make for $10.00... LOL So we have looked and pondered over lots of different styles and we chose one she liked. Now we just needed to make it.

My mind was working over time...

And the light bulb came on!!!

My veil was huge and very long, so we drug it out of the closet and gave it a look!!!

She loved the idea!!! So away we went...

Here I am modeling my veil from May 18, 1974...

We started measuring and away I went with the scissors. I wanted to make sure if I was going to use this that I had enough left over in case my daughter Colleen if she wants to do the same there would be enough for another one! There is plenty. I didn't remember it being that long...

So here we are veil in hand and ready to put it together. I finished sewing it onto a comb last week and now for the time consuming part... We are going to bead it like the trim on her gown... as soon as the sequins come in we will start, her on one side and me on the other...

So now she has her "Something Old"!!!


I can't wait to show you some of the other projects we are working on!

Full Wedding Mode from Momma Lynn

Hi this is Amanda's Mom

Just thought I would share with you what we have been up to

that I posted on my blog this week!!!

Well we are in full Wedding Mode...

My DIY daughter wants to make everything. I guess if she weren't so much like me I would say she is crazy but we are just alike and we are having fun. But it is a full time job for sure. We are down to 4 months now and I think we are doing pretty well. One of the first things she got done was buying her wedding gown. But she couldn't find a veil she liked and of course she wasn't about to pay $100.00 and up for a veil she said she could make for $10.00... LOL So we have looked and pondered over lots of different styles and we chose one she liked. Now we just needed to make it.

My mind was working over time...

And the light bulb came on!!!

My veil was huge and very long, so we drug it out of the closet and gave it a look!!!

She loved the idea!!! So away we went...

 Here I am modeling my veil from May 18, 1974...

 We started measuring and away I went with the scissors. I wanted to make sure if I was going to use this that I had enough left over in case my daughter Colleen if she wants  to do the same there would be enough for another one! There is plenty. I didn't remember it being that long...

So here we are veil in hand and ready to put it together. I finished sewing it onto a comb last week and now for the time consuming part... We are going to bead it like the trim on her gown... as soon as the sequins come in we will start, her on one side and me on the other...

So now she has her "Something Old"!!!

Hope You Enjoyed!!!

Momma Lynn

More projects and Great finds...

         We have been working very hard and now we are down to 4 months. It doesn't seem like it should be this soon but it is. We have all been working on about a million things trying to get stuff perfect yet we keep finding ourselves starting new things. I honestly think we are crazy! And mom of course has been hard at work painting all kinds of stuff. But i thought maybe you would like to see some of the new things we've been working on including my dumpster diving finds that I am sooo happy about. nothing like seeing something and asking someone if I can dig through their trash to get it. All they were going to do with it was burn it the next day but nope their trash is my treasure. And I also  have been recently trying to get back in shape, maybe it was the wrong time to start that because I put my dress on tonight to see if something would go with it and it's now to big. I guess its better then being to small. Although I'd love to tell you why I had to try my dress on I think I'll keep that one a secret. But here are some more pictures hope you like them, I just can't wait to see the end result and how everything looks all together...

Starting the decorations...

     The past few nights we have been working on different decorations for the reception, it's been alot of fun doing them all different. We have been collecting bottles for the past month or so and they are adding up and looking very nice, and yes i said bottles. Wine bottles liqure bottles ect. and no it's not tacky well atleast I don't think so. We have also been working on the invitations and a few other things and I have to say if it wasn't for my mom I wouldn't know where I'd be right now. For those of you that are not blessed to have a mother you are close to or have lost your mom I'm sooo sorry because I have been blessed with the best parents I could ever ask for. I wouldn't be anywhere with this wedding if it wasn't for my mom she has been the best at everything for me, shes been there through all the good and bad things and has spent all of her spare time working on things for me. These are the memories that will stay with me for the rest of my life and I just want to thank her for all she does. I love you mom...

Coming up fast...

        Ok, so we are coming up on the 5 month mark it just doesn't seem possible that we are getting this close. I went to my moms tonight to work on some stuff and I think we might have the invitations we want and maybe even my bouquet...Yay. I'm going to post some pictures of the bouquet and the throw away bouquet but mine isn't quit finished the will still be some live flowers added to it along with baby's breath and the ribbon might be alittle different but for now it's just the rough draft but I LOVE IT!!! There is just so much going on right now I really don't know where to start and what needs done now and later and I'm just crazy...But I guess at some point it just has to work out right? Well here are some pictures hope you like them just keep in mind it's an outside wedding in just and very country and laid back...                                                       

        The extra white rose just shows what it will kinda look like with a real rose in the bouquet, plus it will have baby's breath and a few other things in it...