Taking a relax day

Its been nuts lately so I decided to take a relax day today and update my DIY instructions with my latest completed project, the wand I made for my flower girl to carry down the aisle.  It was surprisingly easy and Ryan says it doesn't even look like something I made but more like something you'd buy in the store which made me even more proud of it :) There are a couple more pics of it on the DIY page, but I wanted to share one here too since I love it so much.

We met with our DJ yesterday and he is awesome.  He was so receptive to the requests we had and seems just like a genuinely nice guy.  His website is www.djalpha.ca in case anyone is looking for a DJ in London, ON.
Everything seems to be finally coming together.  We're having our contract signing meeting with our cake decorator next weekend which I am excited about.  We met with her originally about a month ago and her cake was DIVINE!  This is the inspiration for our design, although we're going to make it 3 tiers and with green fondant gerberas at the sides where the swag switches directions and our cake topper is a football groom with the bride tackling him

My mom and I were super busy yesterday making all of the adult favours for the reception.  We made 40 jars of mint chocolate chip jelly bean jelly and 48 jars of apple jelly bean jelly which both turned out great!

The recipe for the jelly can be found at http://www.bernardin.ca/pages/recipe_page/51.php?pid=319 and I made the custom labels at http://www.stickeryou.com.

Its only 2 months today until the wedding so I'm starting to get extremely excited and equally extremely nervous about everything getting done!  I really need to bite the bullet and set up an appointment to get my dress altered.  Not that it needs much done, its just a matter of getting the appointment set up!  Wish me luck and pray that I don't lose my mind in the next 2 months!

The last 2 weeks...it appears I've been slacking...in reality I've just been busy!

Well my beads finally arrived, and they are awesome! I can't believe the deal I got on them, especially compared to the $5 strands at Michaels for half the beads!  I ordered the rest of my supplies from The Beading Room, an online beading store from Nova Scotia and they got here super quick so I started on the necklaces for the girls (which took no time at all, I was done in an hour or so) and the earrings, which were substantially more frustrating, hence why I haven't finished them yet...they're on a time out! I did manage to get 2 done and they stayed pretty long enough for me to take one picture before one of them fell apart.  I think I need a way to hold the pearl while I try to hook the loop through the stud...we'll see how those turn out, but I love the necklaces :) That's all 5 piled together btw, not a massively huge one!  The necklaces and earrings will be part of the gift for my girls but I'm a little stuck on what else to give them.  Two of them in particular have been incredibly awesome so I want to do something special for them.  If you have any suggestions please leave me a comment!



I am massively happy with my table numbers as well, although I'm thinking they could use some sprucing up a bit...thoughts?  They're just a little plain but I don't know if adding stickers or something would be too childish.  Also, you can't see it but the frames are double-sided so there will be a picture of the two of us on the other side, for our guests to gaze at fondly of course!

We have all of the ingredients now that we need to do all of the adult favours for the reception so that's going to be our next big project...Jelly Bean Jelly!  The recipe is from the Bernardin Website and we're packaging it in 125ml mason jars with custom stickers on the top from StickerYou that have a green daisy and have our names/wedding date and the jelly flavour.  We'll be making half of them apple flavour and half of them mint chocolate chip flavour, both tinted a different shade of green.  The flavours were the hardest thing to find, but I used Golda's Kitchen which is just an awesome store, they have everything, including the flower mould I used for the crayons.  Once these are done, I'll post a DIY with pics and the recipe.  Thats all for now I think, sorry bout the long post!!

DIY Crayons

In all of my searches for DIY things and what to do with kids at the wedding I kept coming across these awesome DIY crayons that people have made so I decided to do my own.  I found a cute silicone daisy mould at Golda's Kitchen and grabbed 2 64 packs of crayons at walmart and voila, 24 awesome multi colour crayons that I'm going to package them up in sets of 3 with some cute 'from the mr. and mrs' brown and green ribbon and put with colouring books at the kids seats for the reception. They are super cute if I do say so myself :) Instructions are posted on the DIY page.