DIY means dumb in yo-yo’s?
Creating things in my family is given. And if you know me at all, you know that I got this gene many times over. Its completely in my blood (I’m even slowly trying to make it a profitable business–www.thepinklemondesigns.etsy.com). My dad’s mom and sister have painted dinner china, porcelain dolls, and done awesome wood crafts! My mom and her sister have made so many awesome decorations (holiday, party, etc) I can only hope to be as talented and them. My girl cousins on mom’s side, same thing! From drawing, collage-ing, crafting, and scrapbooking, we all compare notes on how the other one did that. So it’s really in my blood! Plus it is one of my favorite things to do in my free time.
Now all that lead up was to say, I’m going to be doing a lot of the wedding preparations myself (this means MOB, MIL, Aunts, bridesmaids, and all other creative people I know). It’s a very DIY wedding! I’m making invitations, all wedding related stationary, bouquets, boutonnières, decorations, and anything else I/we can think of. I’ve been talking about all these projects to Matt since we started planning, mentioning DIY all the time. He nodded his head in acknowledgement with everything I said (I am highly aware that I ramble on about a lot of crafting and he nods to say he’s partly listening, and that’s ok with me because I just like to talk about it.) Then finally about 2 weeks ago, I was babbling on about something and he said, “What is DIY?” I stood shocked. I forget sometimes that not everyone knows all of my different acronyms. DIY means Do It Yourself! I explained, and he replied, “Oh, that makes a lot of the other stuff you’ve been talking about make a lot more sense.”
I love him. He makes me smile.
All this to say, we’ve gotten started on making everything (invitations are this week). I started on bouquets last weekend, (NOT EASY)! Thank goodness, I only have to make 5 (four bridesmaids, and my throwaway). I also made the boutonnières. Those were way easier!
Of course while making the 2nd bouquet; I’ve realized I wanna change something on the 1st one so that one will be taken apart again. This is the only frustrating thing about “crafting” (I think we need to think of a new name for it, crafting as a verb sounds so flippant. Its much more of an art than people realize, whoops, that’s a whole ‘nother discussion!) I will update this with a picture or two of my bouquet making soon.
And two more things:
We got our cake topper in! A rhinestone T! Isn’t it pretty!
AND………………… we get married in 2 months from today. Insane!!
