Sweet ruffle lamp shade tutorial

Those Crafty Texas Girls come up with the cutest things!  I'm thinking of a more neutral color scheme for my bedroom and these sweet ruffled lampshades are just the thing!  With such a great and simple tutorial on their blog I'm going to have to try this!  I'm hoping to get to this on my day off wednesday since it's supposed to rain :(  I'll post some pics when I get done.

Easy Earring Display Tutorial

This will be my first year participating in a craft show and I've been looking online for pretty display ideas.  I found this one on a random google search and it has that great vintage feel I'm looking for. 


This tutorial is by twinkle-studio and you can find the full tutorial on her blog here.

Trying new things!

Here's some new pieces I made last night while my honey was working. I'm really intrigued by the wire post earrings and can't wait to play around with different designs.

I love love spoon pendants and have been wanting to make some for awhile. I think these turned out really cute. The cross is actually a decorative spoon handle that I made into a pendant. Sorry I'm keeping that one for myself!

I love checking items off my to do list!

Today I finally got all of my save the dates addressed and stamped! whoo hoo! About time....if I waited any longer I could just put them in the invites!! oh wait....

Aren't they cute? They were a group effort. My awesome friend Jeff took the pics in my front yard and my maid of honor Jeana and friend Brooke made the signs, and my mom photoshopped the pics. I made them on Vistaprint for about twenty bucks! I'm so proud.

TheKnot.com

Since starting to plan my own wedding the knot website has been unbelievably helpful.

Being my first wedding and all I had no clue where to begin. I honestly had no clue on how much is involved.........and don't get me started about the politics of it all!!

Seriously I thank God for this site! After entering my wedding date and location upon registration I have all of these great tools to help me plan my wedding down to the last detail. Details that I didn't even KNOW I needed to plan! Bridesmaids tea anyone?

I love signing on and seeing my "count down to the wedding" every day. And the tools are really great. It has a handy dandy budget calculator, guest list, and a notebook that you can save ideas and images to that you've found on the website!

The real weddings posted are beautiful and actually do-able. But the truly most helpful part of the site is the message boards where you can TALK ABOUT YOUR WEDDING TO YOUR HEARTS CONTENT! and the girls there are actually interested! unlike your mom, sister, best friend, neighbor, co-workers, mailman, grocery clerk, etc. Happy planning!