Being a Busy Bee

The past couple weeks I've been motivated to get things done. With 95 days left, I still have so much to do but I think I've been doing well.

 A week or two ago I went into Motherhood Maternity where two of the shirts I had picked out were. Both of them (top 1 and 3) turned out to be more cream than white. The nice sales lady picked out this top. Though I had seen it online, I didn't think I could wear a bra with it. Turns out I can. So, now I have a top.

With the top thing sorted out, I got started on my tutu as well as the tutus for my "flower" girls.

The three tutus, only the small one finished.

My tutu. It's about 1/3 of the way done. This is what 100 yards of tulle gets you.

The "flower" teen's tutu. Hers has 200 yards of tulle.

The "flower" girl's tutu. Hers has only 100 yards

 I also put together all the center pieces, print cool business cards to go into invites, and cut the colored cardstock down to size for the invites and programs as well as printing and cutting all the bookmark favors.

A mock up of the center pieces, they aren't all put together yet for easy storage.

All the hearts on their sticks and my parents' dog who always keeps me company as I craft

Super cool RSVP cards with QR codes

Paper all cut. L-R programs, bookmarks, and two layers of invites.

The Dress Part Five: The Return of the Dress

I spent yesterday with my future mother in law, Maria, and her SCA friends. I had tons of fun and got to talk about the wedding with Maria. She agrees with me that we can easily self cater and is very willing to help. Now I just have to convince her son that it's a good idea. Maria's SCA friends turned out to be helpful. One of them is going to help me make earrings for me and my bridesmaids. Maria also bought me felt to make dahlias in lieu of corsages. While doing all this, I had this epiphany about my dress. It's going to be super hard to sew the dress I picked out ahead of time and it would be super stressful to do it close enough to the wedding that we'd have accurate measurements. So out the window with that dress idea. New idea is this: purchase a white maternity top and leggings and make a long, white tulle skirt (aka tutu) with a tie waist and wear it right under my bust (you know, empire waist). It has room for the baby, I still get my tulle skirt and I can make it any time between now and the wedding and it'll still fit.

So here's the question. I went in search of cool, white maternity tops (you know, not plain tanks or tees) and found some. I narrowed it down to three choice. Which one would you choose? (If you click on the picture, it'll go full screen)

112 Days to Go - With Pictures

Holy crap, we're almost down to double digits.

As you probably know, Lawrence and I are expecting our first baby! This does mean that I'll be about six months pregnant at the wedding. So I've had to change (yet again) what I'll be wearing at the wedding but that's about all we're changing because of the pregnancy.

The new choice in dress is a high-waisted mix-n-match McCall's pattern.

The plan is to use bodice 2, probably midriff 6 (but I don't really care which), and skirt 9 cause I still watch my tulle skirt. I'm just super worried about when we should start work on it. I'm sure mom and I could get it done in a weekend so maybe the weekend before the wedding will be dress making weekend. I'm also wondering how hard it would be to make the midriff out of something stretchy.

In other wedding news, bouquets are done, bouts are half finished, and I've gotten work on the flower girl wands and center pieces. 

Over a month ago, on my spring break, my mom, sister and I had a craft day. My dad even tried to help till he got too wrapped up in trying to make things perfect (which mom and I kept telling him wasn't important) and got frustrated. Pretty much all we got done was putting Christmas ornaments and tulle on wire then mom assembles it all into bouquets.

I often spend my Friday afternoons at my parents house so I usually manage to get some wedding thing done while I'm there (since most of the supplies live there). One Friday I got the ribbon  boutonnieres mostly done, I just need to sew on a button in the middle of each and maybe get pin backs to glue them to.

Lastly, my aunt lent me her Cricut. OMG has it made making the center pieces super easy. Mom and I had to play around with it to get the right sizes for letters and things but we figured it out. Now I just have to glue all the letters onto hearts and glue the hearts onto dowels.

Here are the materials for the bouquets

Bridesmaids bouquets assembled

Bouts waiting for buttons in the center

My bouquet

The signs for the flower girl wands

As, Ls and &s cut out for centerpieces