Kids books

While listening to my pharm lectures last night, I worked on a new project (new in that I hadn't started it yet, but was an idea I saved a while back!).  Personalized activity books for kids at the reception.  I had a bunch of pictures and random things saved, so I printed everything out last night!  I don't know how to attach the document, so I'll just show you a few of the pages:

So I couldn't get lots of the coloring pages cause they are saved in word, but you get the idea.  A few mazes, crosswords, coloring pages, and a mini story at the beginning about the wedding and reception.  I covered my sample starter one with purple cardstock and taped a cheesy clip art couple on the front with the words "Sean and Candice's wedding activity book"

It was Nico approved, so hopefully the kids will like them (AKA stay busy during all the toasts).  Sean's grandma is going to help me sew the kids bags with the damask fabric I bought way back before I just bought the table squares super cheap.  And I have boxes of 8 crayons to put a label over then that part is done!

  The plan is to put some baggies of goldfish/cheerios/snacks and a juice box or something too.  And I bought purple mardi gras beads~ basically just cause I couldn't help myself, so each of the kids will get one of those. 

Oh- and of course the kids scavenger hunt!  We've decided against the disposable cameras on each  table, but I still want to give each of the kids one with their postcard I printed from vistaprint.  Mostly cause I think that would be too fun and I love it when kids take pictures =)  I guess these bags may have to be slightly bigger than I thought!  (See how helpful this blog is for me?!?)

~On another note, one shoe disaster and one shoe victory!!  The ivory heels with the bow on the side (picture 1 from below) is a total no go.  Too platform and uncomfortable- a shame cause they looked SO perfect online.  But the PURPLE with the awesome diamante heel~ totally perfect- and the color is SO much better in person!  Slightly big on me, but like my mom told me- my foot will get fat with summer heat, so I should be ok =)  I don't think she would have said it if she knew it would support my purple shoes... But I did go ahead and order the same shoes in ivory, so assuming they are the same, they should fit too.  And they're suprisingly easy to walk in (and will be SO perfect for those pictures where they put your rings on the heel of the shoes...To die for!)  I know my mom will have a mini heart attack from my slip, so I think the shoes might result in a full on hospital visit.  Hence the ivory shoes and the purple.  I have time to figure it out, right?

Flower Ball....or whatever it's called

Here are some pictures of the continuing progress on the new pew decorations! More folding to ensue I am sure!








More fun put together, and the purple is hard to see but I think you can get an idea about them now. Or atleast I get the picture now...so to speak! Candice pick another night and I'll be over again for more folding and such!

OMG

This shoe thing is turning out to be a huge drag!  I had no idea it would be so difficult to find wedding day shoes...The problem seems to begin with my dislike of standard "bridal shoes" and end with my fat foot (some say wide, I say fat).  It is impossible to find ivory shoes that are not the traditional strappy very un-cute sandal style wedding shoes.  Or so I thought until I found these:

Ok so how awesome are these shoes??  The first 2 are actually from the Paris Hilton brand, which kinda makes me cringe but I can't help it~ I love her shoes!  Notice the rhinestone heel on the last 2 pairs?  I'm infatuated with these shoes.  And I'm convinced all the other shoes didn't work out so I could have all of these shoes.  So I ordered the first pair cause they are the most practical, shorter fatter heel so should be easier to walk in and available right away from myglassslipper.com (which is a whole site for wedding shoes- crazy!) .  They are on their way and hopefully will be here soon so I can either be incredibly disappointed or super excited!!  The snag with the other two- totally sold out!  The slide style pair (picture number 2) is completely unavailable in my size ANYWHERE~ trust me I looked!  And the third pair is apparently from this UK company that doesn't ship to the US.  SO I looked on ebay and look what I found there:

Yep its the same as shoe number 3 but in PURPLE!  And yes the heel looks really tall...I think it is like 4"...but I had to get them anyways cause that is how obsessed with that heel I am!!  The brand is actually a different UK brand (purple is "chix" brand and ivory above is "faith" brand) so I'm not sure if they have same qualities as the faith brand when I was doing research~ we'll see when they get here I suppose!  And so I continue my search for the pair in pic number 2 and hope and pray these are comfortable!!   Can I just say thank god for free shipping and free returns?!?  Why would anyone buy shoes in the store anymore? =)

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?

Party aftermath

Hello and good morning (if you are still in your pajamas like I am...)  Ha- it's been a lazy day to say the least!  I missed shopping but I did get a start on Thank you's and homework, so thats ok.

I have a few pics from the party, and I'm going to start with a long awaited Jake and Jeremiah shot as they were finally captured by my camera- so long for now Elvis:

Too cute, right? Just wait till the wedding boys, there will be plenty more picture opportunities...




And here is a pic of the cute couple (right?):

More on my facebook page if you are interested!

Looking back, I should have gotten a girls shot as all the bridesmaids were there (thanks ladies!) and all the boys that are in town were also there (thanks boys!) and all the support ws great with all that family around- Ha!!  Dad's tab (thanks daddy!) and good food- it turned out to be a great party =)  Hope all of you that were there had fun and for those that weren't- we missed you!

I'm back to work (for school and wedding) so see ya'll

Party- woo hoo (or something like that)

Jennie's comment to the last post reminded me I should probably do a post on the engagement party- this sat 3 pm at the club...and No thats not the country club, thats the St Ambrogio club in the ghetto of south rockford.  Truly.  But its a nice place and cheap drinks, so its on.
 And I will need those drinks thanks to the plethora (I think thats spelled right) of cheesy games Mom T is coming up with.  Thanks for that.  I'm sorry but "what first attracted you to Sean" is not something I want to have both sides of the families guessing on.  Besides, she didn't like my answer of "he was the only boy in our class!" =)  Haha
I have my shoes picked out (purple pair #3) so all I have to do is find an outfit to match...Prob black as I doubt I can find the exact shade of purple.  Such is life.  And of course I have one day to find said outfit, along with 2 meetings for my classes and getting as much reading done as possible as I don't see myself having time this weekend!!

And if anyone has lots of extra time on their hands (and nimble fingers!) I have a new DIY project I decided to tackle: origami flower pomander balls to decorate the aisles at church and loose to scatter on tables at the reception for some color.  The technical name for these is kusudama and they are some sort of good luck charm that ensures happiness and good health.  Can't hurt right? =)  So what are these you might be asking: first off look at a few pics I found:

So the first pic shows the individual flowers and the ball, the second pic shows one plain example and the third (red/white) shows a really pretty one with beads that would be awesome but probably not going to happen!

Let me tell you what you're in for if you volunteer:  The "ball" is made up of 12 flowers.  Each flower is made of 5 petals.  Each petal is folded out of a 3"x3" square and then glued closed.  Then 5 glued petals are glued together to form the flower.  Thats as far as I've gotten.  I don't have 12 done to even try the ball, but I guess you glue half together to form a half circle then add your ribbon in the middle with a loop (for going over the pew at church) then glue the 2 halves together to form a circle holding the ribbon in the middle. 

Totally insane, but I hate the tulle bow alternative, so I have now obligated myself to hours upon hours of cutting and folding~ each ball requires 60 squares of 3x3 paper, and yes that means 60 petals folded and glued.  And I love every crazy minute of it and every single petal I've done.  We'll see how many pews actually get decorated...
So who's up for helping?? =) 

Just thinking about this overwhelms me right now, so I'm off and hope to see you all Saturday!! =)

More Shoes...

I was out yesterday with my mom and god mother shoe shopping in general. I came across some cute shoes at shoe carnival flats and low heels. My mom bought a pair of higher purple heels just for fun, probably wear them to the engagement party or the rehearsal dinner. If you go hers are by Delicious, dark purple with a snakeskin purple line around the edge. Like I said shoe shopping must end for me, but I am all about helping anyone else! haha