Little Touches

This post gives you a glimpse into a number of the little decoration details I worked on and accumulated to make the day a little more fun, a little more pretty, and yes, a little more sparkly. I spent a lot of time on Etsy and Pinterest, getting ideas and ordering little things; with some I had a specific plan for, other things I thought "buy now, make it work later," especially since I was gathering all of the decoration down in Texas, and couldn't possibly envision exactly how everything would be used in the old PA farm. I warped some ideas I saw about the internets, and came up with some on my own as well. The farm is a big place to fill, and it has a lot of character on its own, so I didn't feel I had to fill every open space with something.  My aim, rather, was for there to be little some larger points of focus, and other little touches that some people would care about notice and others might not. I received many compliments on all of the little details I put into the decoration, and it really made me feel good that people appreciated and enjoyed the fruits of my frenzied wedding planning labor! I am usually one of those people who, if I want something done right I will just do it myself, but luckily I had my ladies and mom to help set up a couple days before the event, and they came up with some great ideas for where to place certain things, helped poof the tissue paper flowers, and overall made the daunting decorating process go very smoothly. The farm looked wonderful, I just couldn't get over it.

PS- I will try to source and give info on where I got everything at a later date. I don't have time to right now, but it may be a winter break project!

colorful striped and dotted straws

green/gold BHLDN dot strands donning the large support beams in the basement

random pom bouquet

DIY Doily Flowers, mostly made by Christy. Strung up alternating with heart coasters (BHLDN) with silver glittered clothespins, and custom burned clothespins.

tea lights in the walls of the basement for cocktail hour

custom napkins

tassels to spruce up the Caricature artists loft

 True story: this wax dripped on Kyle's coat a little bit. Whoops!
smile print from The Calm Gallery

I glitter spray painted these Xs and Os from Michael's

You are my Sunshine print from The Calm Gallery

stacked paper poofs to decorate the candy bar

print from The Calm Gallery

with custom clothespins

Our guest "stump" ready for signing

I stamped these little paper bags for the candy bar

drink menu and dinner menu

gold and silver spray pained animals, because they are fun

gift and guestbook table with random decor

chalkboard painted tree slices for signs; lots of mason jars and candles

spray painted letters

custom burlap flag banners

the program I made! 

and our cake topper

All photos by Jana Scott Photography.

- From the desk of Mrs. M

Sorry

I'm not sorry. Aside from this being an insane $69 and the teeny little hiccup of a fact that I have no children, neither in the works nor out of womb, I want this so bad for future kiddo. 

Ah well. When the time comes I'm sure I can make my own awkward cat sweatshirt. What is Pinterest for, after all? 

- From the desk of Mrs. M

The week in Photos

 put up skeleton out front, kitties, yum, Hux in Kyle's motorcycle vest

Halloween! 

I love their raspberry tea, Darwin, Huxley, oy this feels wrong- but I needed a pick-me-up

D bug watching on top of the fridge, chai and homework, napping on Kyle's jacket on his rucksack, late night IHOP dinner

tea time, holiday beer, salad, tree time

blackberry melomel, my first meatloaf attempt, napping kitties

Most of my pictures are food/drink or cats this week. Hrm.

- From the desk of Mrs. M

Long Live Fall

OK, I accept that the day after Halloween all the stores switch the displays of skeletons and pumpkins over to reindeer and wreaths, crank up the holiday tunes and bust out the red cups, and I'm not entirely opposed to it, but my thought is- if we all really love fall, shouldn't we try to enjoy it even longer, while it lasts? Sure our carved Halloween pumpkins are rotting away on the front porch and it would be so easy to switch out the pumpkin spice scented candles on our table with a warm sugar cookie or a snowflake covered pine. But I don't want to rush this season off to make room for even more unrealistic expectations of catching a bit of seasonally appropriate weather in central Texas.  I'm going to give fall a while to really set in, and once my candles burn down along with my will to resist the red and green (oh, I already feel it. and the red Starbucks holiday cup in my garbage can betrays my resolve), I'll know it's time to embrace the holidays. 

On a largely but not entirely unrelated note, Kyle and I drove out the honey farm to claim my prize- a honey nut butter sample pack! We also picked up a few little pumpkins (there it is), a bottle of wine, and a big hunk of beeswax. I sampled one of the butters; I'm not really sure in what manner one is supposed to eat it, but it was pretty good on a slice of bark bread (what Kyle calls my wheat/oat/bark bread).

- From the desk of Mrs. M