November!

I always feel old when time moves by too quickly.  It's been an amazing fall this year with great weather and many blessings!  I'm ready for the Thankful/Grateful season of November.

Here is a fall themed table scape I did the other day.

My napkins are folded and sitting up in a wire basket that I found in the Target $ spot area.  It was $3!  I feel particularly proud of that this year.  

My favorite part was using my tree slices as a charger.  I used these tree slices as part of centerpieces for my wedding (4 years ago!!) and now they are spread throughout the house with all kinds of things like vases and candles on top of them.

I also always like to add different heights of interest at a table.  So I turned my brass bowl upside down and set up a dessert plate on top.

I love mixing grey/tans/browns/gold/silver tones together.  I think it makes for a warm comforting feeling.

If you like the printable table decorations you can find them in my etsy shop!  They are so easy to use, you can print them at home and just write names or sweet messages on them and add that extra finish to your fall or Thanksgiving table!

Fall Paper Goods

During my watercolor painting kick I got inspired and started to mix all of these fun fall colors.  There is an artist that I admire who is always sketching with black ink and then going back in to paint with watercolors.  I wanted to try out some of her method here.  I came up with some fall party paper goods with geometric shapes and a floral design.

Above are some food labels.  I just cut inside the gray lines and fold them over in the center.  This way your labels can be double sided and you can mix and match the floral with the geometric sides.

I always cut inside the gray outline here and tape two together with a toothpick in between as another food label.  Or you can hole punch it once at the top and another at the bottom and insert a straw and use it as a name tag for drinks!

Of course I had to have two different options for cupcake wrappers.  The background is a natural watercolor paper texture to give some interest to the fall or thanksgiving table scape.  To print off your own high quality pictures you can purchase them at my etsy site here.

Wedding Flowers

One of my favorite things to do is look at flowers when I'm at Trader Joe's.  They are always reasonably priced and usually there is a great selection.  It reminds me of the flowers I had at my wedding.

My sister-in-law Erika put together all of the flowers, had the vision, and ordered the flowers for me.  She was a Godsend!  She did an amazing job and even was a bridesmaid.  She was one the MVPs of the day for sure!

Here is what she ordered at a local wholesale florist...

3 Buplereum

2 Queen Annes Lace

2 Ranunculus [red]

1 Dahlia [red or burgundy]

2 Cosmos [chocolate]

1 Calcynia [white]

1 Lysmachia [white]

3 Poms [red or burgundy]

2 Daisy [white]

1 Agganis [brown]

Total Price...$143.22!

SCORE!

It was beautiful!

Tuesday Fashion Cravings

I've been really wanting a vintage carpet bag.  Here are some I found on etsy. 

LUXoutlet

eclecticgatherings

ReviveByDragonfly

itsthelittlethingsut

WheatsDryGoods

Some Floral Inspirations

So I made a little inspiration board.  This is what I am thinking for the flowers at the wedding.

In the board I have a variety of mums, grasses, wheat, weeds, pine cones, twine, herbs and apples.  Don't get me wrong I am also very open to some one who knows more about fall flowers than me.  (That could be almost everyone!)  What a mix of colors!  I might need to calm the look of the wedding down a bit with more subtle colors.

Day 3

Another shirt dress. I really was on my computer even though it looks like it's not on.

I thought I would love wearing a dress everyday but I think I just love the option of wearing a dress everyday. I dress on emotion, and I definitely don't feel like wearing dresses everyday but it's still fun.

Martian Child

I've been taking a break from my Project lately and doing things that I really love. This would be stalking craftster.org. I came across this today and decided to make one of my own. I walked out the door went to Walmart and bought two dollar fabric. I came back home stuck in Martian Child and started to cut and sew.

It is a convertible dress, sometimes called an infinity dress. It is basically a circle skirt with two long straps that you can tie any way you want.

This is me in the dress and I'm wearing it crisscrossed in the front. (Martian Child is on the TV in the background)

One of the ways to tie it. Yeah, I kinda got that 90's floral feeling too.