diy personalized napkins & cups!!

Wooo i finally got around to doing my napkins!!
while doing my napkins i had 1 pack of cups laying here so i decided to try and test out my stamp on it and i loved it. once it dried and i made sure the ink would not rub off i had decided, i found another project!!!
We'll start with my napkins, i done about 100 since there will only be about 50 people at the wedding (small wedding i know) I did a mix of blue & orange with black ink!

Heres a pic of my cups once i stamped them, i love em!

welp hope you enjoy my projects so far!! Till next time...your reading the diaries of a hillybilly princess!

Garters & Hangers-CHECK!

My mom made my garters!!

& i finally got around to finishing the hangers for my bridesmaids!

Diy Pomander Centerpieces tutorial.

Okay so i forgot to take a pic of the vases before i started but i got them from the dollar tree $1 a piece.
1. Glue Ribbon to my vases! I took blue ribbon & wrapped it around the bottom and super glued it, then i done it again right above it to make it wider but u cant even hardly tell.

 
2. Make Bead Strings. I seperated my beads i bought about $2.50 a pack (2 packs) from walmart. i decided how long i wanted my beads to hang in the vase, cut the string and tied knots on each end & super glued the knots so they wouldnt come undone.

3. Glue beads to Ball. I hot glued the bead string into a 3" styrofoam ball (6 pack/$3.67 @walmart). I had one bead off to itself that i could glue into the ball to get it to stay.

4. Decide tissue paper sizes. ive heard of all different sizes to cut tissue paper for pomanders so instead of fighting with it and measuring i just folded it up to a size as close to 5x7 as i could, (thats not how big they turned out) but it was close. so i wouldnt have to worry about screwing up the sizes and they would be all different.

5. Cut them out. i just cut along the creases that i had folded, it takes a few times of unfolding and cutting.

6. Arrange Tissue Paper. i wanted my pomanders to be a mix of blue & orange so i put mine, blue-orange-blue-orange & vice versa.

7. Fold Tissue Papers. Then i folded them like an accordion, u can see better instructions on how to do this in other pomander tutorials.

8. Wrap floral wire around the folded tissue paper accordion. ($1/pack @ dollar tree)

9. Unfold the tissue. i just pulled the tissue up and kinda flared it out, it dont have to be perfect.

10. Glue Paper Flower into Ball. after making enough pomander flowers to finish a full pomander i put super glue on the wire on the bottom of the flowers & stuck them into the styrofoam ball rearanging the tissue paper so no white from the ball shows.

11. Finish Centerpiece! One u cover your ball in your pomander flowers put them on the vases and ta-da! Done!!!

 

Signs/placecards for Food & Markers!!!

Okay so i seen the idea on the knot where a bride left crayons on her paper table cloths for people to write messages, i loved the idea but instead of keeping a bunch of table cloths im going to have everyone sign the head table (bride & grooms table) im buying regular plastic table cloths from the dollar store and we are going to leave out Sharpies with a sign that lets them know to use them.

Also i hate when i go somewhere i dont know what exactly each dip is or the food is, so i made placecards to put in front of the food so everyone would know what everything is.

....Oh & also i got my full playlist made today, YAY!!! 3 hrs and bout 15 minutes of music for the reception, 45 minutes of music for when people are coming in and taking their seats, and also ive picked a song for the bridal party to come in to at the ceremony, my song, our first dance, a father daughter song, & a mother son song. im sooo proud and dear god i hope i never have to do anything like that again!!! it was an on and off time workin with it but i think i like how it turned out overall that people will enjoy the music.

2 PACKAGES TODAY!

I got my stamp i will be using for my personalized napkins today. i dont have a pic of it right now but its totally cute. I also received my maid of honor dress in the mail today. Fits her perfecttttt. i love it & its the perfect color. we couldnt have picked a more awesome dress its even better then i imagined. big props to ebay seller open_shop88 i loveeee it :)

Diy Mr & Mrs Chair Signs (how to)

I am going to show ya'll how i made my Mr & Mrs chair signs for the reception. in alot of cases you wont need one cause your back will probably be turned away from everyone, but in my case, my table will be center of the room. so its nice that the people behind me have something cute to look at too.
1. First i started off by Printing a "M". a "R". and a "S". (keep in mind you will only need 1 M & one R for both the Mr & Mrs since this will just be a stencil.
2. Cut out your stencil. 
3. Get your material you will use for the actual sign. (im using a peice of cardboard that was originally a book of velv-it color pages.)

4. Trace your stencil onto your board. I just used a pencil.

5. Cut out the letters from your board. (i used an X-acto knife cause the cardboard was too thick to cut through with scissors without killing my hands lol)

6. Paint your letters. (i painted mine blue & added little orange polka dots around the sides which u cant really see in the pics)

7. Let dry.

8. Figure out how much ribbon you will need to wrap around your chair
9. Figure out where your letters will go on the ribbon. (usually its centered)

10. Crazy glue your letters to your ribbon.
11. LET DRY. if u try to fool with it before it's dry the letters might pop off, i left mine sit for a day or 2 just to be safe.

lots of diy projects, done!

My mother made my 'toss' garter (the keep one is still to come.) spent a total of about $4 on thread, elastic, & ribbon and we already had fabric.

Invitations-Check! made at cvs was about $20 for 40 of them. they are very simple just the way i wanted em. (sorry i couldnt get a good pic i dont have a scanner and the flash kept makin it glare)

Honeymoon door hanger-done! $2 for the actual hanger at dollar tree and for the scrapbook sticker letters

Ceremony Chair Reserved signs-doneee! $0 i already had all the supplies

Diy personalized bridal party wine glasses!

Another easy cheap DIY doneee!!! I thought since the bridal party & their significant others will all be together at special tables reserved just for them i could give them a little something. So i painted the names (or nicknames) of everyone on a glass that i plan to set out on their tables. they can use it the day of the wedding and keep as a little gift as my way of saying thank you! Total cost: (ALL TOGETHER) $2.24.
they are plastic ($1 for 6 glasses @ dollar tree), painted with acrylic paint i already had, decorated with white ribbon i already had (but im probably gonna change the ribbon and put blue & orange ribbon on it)
there's alot but thats because all the bridal party AND their significant others are all getting one so no one feels left out.  Happy Saturday!!

Anxious for the mail!

I just love the sight of this when i log into my ebay account.

Woo everything ive ordered is in the mail on its way to me! I find myself superrr excited to check the mail everyday now hoping my packages are here! Ill give you updates once they arrive =)

2 MONTHS TO GO!!!

Okay so i know i havent really got the chance to get on here and just blog, it's mostly projects. So today iv'e reached a special point in my engagement, the 2 month this wedding mark. gosh its so close. My fiance' however seems to think we have plenty of time lol. But i got alot done last night, so recently this week ive bought a few things to use on a couple of projects, im waiting for it in the mail. But last night i went to walmart and spent $12 on things to make my centerpieces, and then i spend about $70 online buying things i needed. One of them being my cake topper which i will show a pic of.

My cake topper! My man lovesss his fishing, so i thought this would be totally cute on the top of our cake. once i get it i have to take it to my sister (who makes awesome wedding cakes) so she can use it for practice runs and figure out how she's doing my cake.

I also ordered (what i hope is the last) of the flowers i needed. So all together on flowers i've spent about $50. which isnt too bad since that includes 6 bout's, my bouquet, my throw away bouquet, my 4 bridesmaids bouquets & the corsages. I found a good deal online for the flowers i need at efavormart.com where i spent bout 16 dollars on 84 orange roses! and i bought my white and blue flowers from the dollar tree (they didn't have no orange)

I sent out a bridesmaids newsletter which the girls loved. i got the template from http://lauralee1.weebly.com/diy.html Pics below pages 1-5.

I showed a few of my projects to one of my friends yesterday and it got her uber excited. So today i am getting together with her to work on a playlist & were going to my fiance's cousins house to talk to her about the wedding. Wish me luck on my planning mission to plan the awesomest wedding ever in 3 months time! so far so good. Bye lovies!

Reception table reserved signs!

Instead of making escort cards & telling everyone where to sit I'm taking a more casual approach and just have tables for the bridal party & there significant others, and the rest of the guests can choose where they would like to sit. So i made reserved signs for the bridal party tables so they know where they are supposed to sit. I used clear plastic picture frames i bought at Walmart for .95 a piece (5'' x3.5''). so i bought 5 of them & printed out reserved signs, glued them to construction paper, and to add some little touches i added ribbon and leftover jewels. I think they turned out alright lol

Some i put peoples first and last names & on some i just used their nicknames.

Here's a pic from front and back angles (srry they r not good pics)