Anything new?

Strangely, I feel like my updates are about less and less actually getting done~ but yet I feel so much busier every day!  I came across one solution to my problem with the paper flowers, and the answer may lie in yet another form of paper flower.  This one much easier and quicker I swear!
So I was searching through "aisle decor" and "per decor" and such for inspiration and its amazing how few options there really are to go non flowers and non bows.  The majority of images were of pomander balls, which I have to admit I had never heard of before wedding planning so don't feel bad if you have no clue what these are!  The paper flowers that were going to be a ball (but now may be reception decor) could be one form of a pomander of sorts, but many are made with flowers, either real or silk.  These babies can get expensive!  I saw everywhere from around $10 to $60 just for the fake flower ones~ and theres no way I can justify that on aisle decor for the church!  Enter the tissue paper flower pomander.  Here is my first attempt (or I guess I should say my second since I took the first one apart...:

Now this was SO much quicker, but I'm still unsure if I like the look of it.  My plan is to bring the finished product to the church when we meet with the musician next week and just try it out and see what I think.  I feel like it's missing something~ and I did add one rhinestone inside each paper flower, but they just seem kinda blah~ what do you think??
I am also debating ivory tissue paper with purple ribbon to maybe alternate or just throw a few small ivory ones in the mix...Maybe I just need to shell out the money and buy some made with silk flowers.  At least it won't look like a big ball of paper...

I'm sure the UPS man is getting very tired of coming to my door but we got yet another package a few days ago, something rather small and insignificant in the scheme of things, but I still love it and am super pumped:

It's our guest book pen.  Yep with a huge black ostrich feather on it!  Ha- completely unnecessary but totally worth it. =)  Makes me smile just to see it








  I've had to take time to work on Nico's upcoming birthday parties (thats right I said parties as in he is having 2!) so hopefully more to come later!