lesson i learnt today...

...I suck at icing cupcakes. Oh well. The kids will still eat them!!!



At least my flags look cute!

diy projects!

Today I'm going to give a little run down of what was keeping me so busy last week (aside from the invites and the wonderful blogs I was reading!) and prevented me from posting much!

I've been working on some DIY for the engagement party and I have to say, these projects have made me realise how much I love making things, and how much I'm going to miss working on all of this after our wedding! I'll have to find something to keep my hands busy as a newly wed I think!

First up, I made a whole bunch of little flags to decorate the cupcakes I will be making for the dessert table. There's heaps of them, but here I've just included one of each design. (Please excuse the terrible photos, they were all taken on my iPhone in bad lighting!)



Then I started working on decorating the jars for the flowers and/or tealights (we have a bunch of different sizes, the extra small ones are likely to have tealights in them!). I'll let the pictures speak for themselves. All the jars have an individual design and I have to admit that I like the look of the ones I made AFTER taking these photos best, but I couldn't be bothered taking more shots! Will include them in photos from the actual party :)

This was a simple and straight forward DIY, but I think they turned out well! Very easy for everyone to do themselves, little instruction needed. Just to note, the paper in the first few shots is actually a light grey and a peach colour, however the lightening makes them look pretty similar!







And lastly, I jumped on the computer and used Photoshop 5 and our new snazzy printer to make these cake toppers for our engagement cake! Not sure which one/ones we will ended up using, if any, but again a really easy DIY that I think turned out pretty well! What do you guys think??

the engagement party!

Ok, so I am still working on the invites - they are done but I can't put them on here just yet! I'm still waiting for a few addresses, then they will be sent out and I can share them! I would love to hear what you guys think of them.

But what I CAN share, is what I've gotten (or am getting!) organised for the decor for the party!

We're having the party in a local hall, connected to my sister-in-law's family church. The hall is MASSIVE compared to most of the local halls around here, and trust me, we are going to need the space! So far, we are planning on having all the tables lined up in long rows (as opposed to smaller round tables - I feel like everyone might get chatting more and mix up the groups a bit more if they are all together!) with kid-friendly grey table cloths (we are having a LOT of kids there, so they may have to be plastic!), glass bowls with gold stones and peach (or as close to the peachy/pink I'm after as possible!) floating candles, and mixed size, decorated glass jars with some blooms inside. The glass jar decorations will be a DIY project so there will definitely be more on that soon (right now I'm still collecting jars!)

The reason I'm having the glass bowls with the floating candles is that a) I wanted a smaller centerpiece that people can talk over and that also won't take up too much room on the tables (since we are having so many people!) and b) I plan to recycle them at the wedding for something specific...but I don't want to go into that just now!

So that's all pretty simple and straight forward...I'll be picking up some blooms the morning on the party and just popping them in the jars myself. Nothing too fancy. The part of the decor that IS getting me very excited though, is our dessert/cake area!!!


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A DIY Ice Cream Parlour!!! If you go to the source link, you can see the full, amazing layout of this parlour and all the freebies are there! I've downloaded them all and I'm SO excited for this part of the night!

Given that we are having so many children at the party, my mum and I had already decided to have a big ice cream dessert area. Finding this DIY project was icing on the cake! I'm so excited to decorate this area, and also the cake table and slushie machine area that will be near it. It will all be decorated in a similar style! I've already printed off THIS amazing freebie from Heirloom Paperie, to go over our cake area:



I have also downloaded these cute-as-pie mini flags for some cupcakes I hope to make:

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Lastly, I have also bought these cute little flags, which I'm sure I'll find a home for, from Wedzu:



I just hope that it's a nice, fun and relaxed atmosphere and it looks good :) Thinking about trying to find some grey, peach and white paper lanterns to hang or sit around the room as well...And we managed to work some bunting into our invites so I think they really reflect the look I'm going for for the room!

What do you guys think? Is it going to work? I always get so nervous that things will just be a flop...

some odds and ends

This post is mostly just for some cute bits and pieces I've found online and wanted to share!

First up, how cool are these STD's:


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So cute! I would have loved to have tried something like this but I think they are a little too fiddly...I would have gotten annoyed! Hehe

A fun "Bridal Party Survival Kit" template can be found here! I definitely want to make some bridal party survival kits so will be keeping this template in mind.

A cute tree-themed STD!

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And a just-as-cute invite!

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And lastly, some cute little flags! I love these and think they would be fun in photos...it's a cute little DIY!! What do you think?

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