Wedding Ideas

We are about 10 days away from spring and that means that the most romantic season is just around the corner. Along with the first flowers our romantic feelings awake as well. Most of us are already tired of chilly weather and variations of gray color (winter is no longer an invariable part of a Christmas miracle), so we are longing for warmer weather, brighter colors and something new and fresh. We are enthusiastic, full of energy and ready for a fresh start. Yes, spring is an ideal time for a fresh start, a new leaf in life... may be... a wedding?

Cute couple wedding cake topper by annacrafts

Searching Etsy I found that it's full of amazing ideas for arranging and decorating wedding ceremony - something to make the wedding truly unique and memorable. So I've put together some wedding treasuries sorted out by different themes. I think even if you are not planning a wedding, it's just nice to look and all this beauty.
I hope you'll enjoy these treasuries and may be... will get inspired! :)

1. Rustic Wedding

It may seem that rustic weddings are sometimes styled in a deliberately simple and naive way. But behind this simplicity you see the warmth and comfort. Handmade decorations make you feel connected with the roots and earth. Natural materials are used for the decor - burlap, linen, cotton, string, wood, cotton lace, craft paper, cardboard, cans and bottles. All this creates an amazing charm of the ceremony.

2. Beach Wedding

Do you feel the soft breeze from the ocean? It makes the wedding bells ring! You can come up with many ideas for wedding decor, using images of the sea - blue and white stripes, lighthouses, fishing nets, seagulls, fish, crabs, turtles, starfish, whales, waves, ships and pirates.A let your marriage be as strong as a fisherman's knot!

3. Ivory Wedding

Clean colors are very traditional for weddings, because they symbolize purity and innocence. For an ivory wedding all the accessories and details of the wedding decorations are white, so the colors vary only in shades and halftones. Since all the details of decorations are mainly white, you can play with different textures: lace, ruffles, tulle fabric, crystals and beads. Such wedding is a revived fairy tale...

4. Romantic Wedding

Look at this princess... she is becoming a queen. A beautiful queen! The key features of such wedding ceremony are elegance, grace, with a touch of Rococo style. The main colors of the romantic wedding are soft pastels - cream, pink, beige and blue. Bride's gourmet is very sophisticated. The wedding dress is usually something magnificent - with ruffles and lace, crinoline with beautiful accessories: pearls, flowers, cameos, bracelets, refined jewelry. Result: luxurious and romantic wedding.

5. Spring Wedding

And the last but not least - spring wedding! The idea of ​​such wedding is inspired by tenderness, refined simplicity, freshness, sunshine and beautiful field flowers. The atmosphere of a spring wedding is very youthful and light. The main colors in the palette are white, warm yellow and tender greens. And of course a wide range of flowers of different kinds! For example, a bride, in addition to or instead of veil can wear a wreath of daisies.

Oh so different hat!

Truly, not a hat makes a person, but a person makes a hat! ;)

And variations can be endless...

Check out this fun hat in my Etsy shop!

Spinning the wheel

Just this summer we got this wonderful spinning wheel. It is approximately 100 years old! When we got it it was out of use, but now it's completely fixed and actually working! So one more interesting thing arsenal of ideas how to make our hand made things even more unique :) I hope we'll master this new technique soon enough :)

DIY Gift Bag: "Sail away with me..."

hello my dear readers!

I just wanted to share with you this sweet idea for a gift bag! It's very cute and easy to make yourself (only 10 steps).

This is my first DIY, so I'm a bit worried if the explanations are clear enough. If you have any suggestions, please leave a comment, I'll be very glad :)

What do you need:

1. a gift bag

2. a piece of rectangular paper 

(it's better to use thin paper that has the same print on both sides 

OR 

some old newspaper/book/dictionary like I did for my gift bags)

3. packing twine or anything else you would like to use for decoration

1. fold a piece of paper in half

2. fold the top corners into the middle of the paper (it's very easy to find the center line by folding the left side on the right side and by unfolding)

3. fold the bottom of the paper up to the bottom of your corners (do it on both sides)

4. then fold the bottom corners (on both sides)

5. fold the bottom of the paper again (on both sides), so the whole piece would look like a square.

 6. insert thumbs into bottom to make a square

7. fold the bottom part of the square like this (do both sides)

8. insert thumbs into bottom, push and make a figure like shown

9. fold the bottom part

10. grasp the edges and pull them gently apart to create a boat. Voilà! Your paper boat is ready!

here are the boats I've made for the "Sail away with me..." gift bags. You can decorate the bags with packing twine, little seashells. etc. Have fun! :)

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