Back when Greg and I were planning our wedding (and crazy), we decided to save the extra $2 per invitation and make 175 pockets from scrapbook paper… ourselves. Pre-made sets didn’t come in the color we wanted and we’re all for cutting corners (and corners and more corners). The time-consuming part of this project is …
My shoe hunt (like all my wedding-planning hunts) was a long one. I wanted shoes to match all the fuchsia in our wedding (actually, any shade of dark pink, magenta, just something bright). I was looking for low heels, gorgeous and reasonably-priced. I was out of luck. Enter costume jewelry shop. Two brooches + Target …
Greg and I ruled out a standard wedding cake pretty early in the planning process — they are often bland and usually expensive. Besides, we were having a dessert reception! We did think that having a cupcake tower would be a fun way to serve people the expected treat and to incorporate our wedding colors …
In honor of our second anniversary (which was Monday, woohoo!), I’ll be posting a […]
My future sister-in-law just marked the end of her second year in optometry school with the university’s white coat ceremony (yay, Michela!). I made a special card for the occasion. Don’t get it? That brown circle is my pupil! And thanks to her, I now know what it looks like. Earlier this year, I sat …
A treat for my chocoholic mother-in-law on Mother’s Day: homemade truffles! […]
Ta-da! I recently finished a collection of circles over our bed and am quite happy with the results. We needed something over our low platform bed to break up the big, neutral wall and I was looking for earthquake-friendly ideas (Late night shower of glass and metal? No thanks!). I first spotted “swatch portraits” over …
I’m not exactly an expert at frosting cakes, but I won’t let that scare me away from […]
I admit it: like (seemingly) everyone else these days, I had to have a chalkboard paint project of my very own. I had to. I’ve been searching for a bargain on a fancy old frame or mirror at thrift stores for at least a year, planning to make one someday. I was never lucky enough …
I first spotted this dessert version of my favorite food on the flickr blog. Could they actually be as cute and easy as they seem?! Yessss. Two boxes of cake mix and three frosting tubes later, I had tiny, scrumptious and surprisingly realistic cheeseburgers on (ok, in) my hands. I even made a double for …