Monday, January 18, 2010

Attention all purple fans- Important announcement!

Ok guys- I spent the better part of my afternoon on this project, and as Sean loved to say I actually finished it the same day I started!  OK before, I get ahead of myself, here is what this project looked like as it was in progress:

And here is the finished project (after about 2 hours of sweat and tears...):


YAY for purple crinoline!!  The color looks a little off in the picture, but you get the idea!  It is pretty purple and I can't wait to see it under my dress! =)  I hope no one has a total cow over this, but it stays hidden until the fun parts anyways- Ha!  I haven't actually been to a wedding where this was done; has anyone else?

As if that wasn't enough excitement for one day, look who came to visit with me and Sophie:



Yep its Elvis ladies and gents.  Check out the black tux~ he'll fit right in!  We will have some logistics to figure out with actually getting him into the photo booth, but maybe he'll have to bend or something...I'll make it work =) 

And since I'm doing updates, here are the pinwheels so far (for those who haven't seen): If you can't tell from the pics, those bins are the huge plastic storage bins so you can imagine the giant puff of pinwheels coming out of those bowls...And there are still more to be finished too (almost done, should be less than 50 left!)- I'm doing extra so I don't have to worry about fixing broken ones!  Sean laughed when I told him I probably needed craft glue in my emergency kit for the day, but I can totally see myself running around re-glueing broken pinwheels or something!  I think I need a coordinator; anyone have a friend who likes stuff like that?? =)

And one last piece of news: I found purple flip flops at Target today (only $1 each!) so I picked up a bunch.  Now I need to figure out how to bling them out or something, so if anyone already knows how, let me know...  Here is a pic of the bag of them:


I think I ended up with about 8 pairs of purple and I got a few in black too (just in case any of the boys wanted them!) including for Nico, Zach and Connor.  They didn't have purple in the smaller size, so keep an eye out for Katelyn if anyone sees little girls sizes in purple!! 

I feel so accomplished, and yet now I've added on another project with the flipflops!  Anyone want to come help with that?


4 comments:

  1. I LOVE it all!!!!! So exciting to see the progression. I just feel like I've been useless bc I havent been over to help.

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  2. Holy purple elvis batman! Love Elvis! He should be by the head table at the reception. I am excited to see what the crinoline will look like! I give you props on starting and finishing a project in the same day!

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  3. ohh, reading these backwards - i have never seen anyone dye their slip before - kudos!!! I love originality in weddings - it is what makes them memorable! Awesome! Can't say this enough. You are an adult - its your wedding - wear the shoes you want! When I tried out being married - i refused to wear white at all! My former MIL repeatedly told me that people would know what a sinner I was for wearing gold. I was determined and it was gorgeous - the wedding turned out soooo much better then the marriage!!!

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  4. Ha- "tried out being married"; sorry it made me laugh =) And I did the same thing it seems you did in commenting on your earlier post about "what slip?" lol

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