Weddings!

It's almost that time of year again--Wedding Season! For me however, it's getting started a little earlier this year. Last year I wrote a post about wedding shower invitations and this weekend is the wedding of the same bride!

I never knew how much work actually goes into planning a wedding until this one because I am the maid of honor and I have had lots of responsibilities in the past few months! 

I've done lots of crafts, gone to tons of meetings, dress fittings and recently I've stayed up way too late crafting. Hopefully it will all be worth it once the day arrives!

Since I've been horrible about taking photos of the crafts, I have only two that I'm allowed to share with you. The bride doesn't want anything to be posted before the wedding because she wants it all to be a surprise!

One of my responsibilities has been decorating the "vestibule" or entrance room to the reception. For this we are using my wine crate shelf and a few other pieces of furniture as decoration. We are also doing photos, painted letters etc., etc. I can't go into detail or else I'd be in trouble, but it's going to look really vintage-chic!

To surprise the Bride and Groom, I have painted them a wedding chapel (we decided against a birdcage). I can't decide if I'm going to put wreaths on the doors or not. 

Here's the before and after!

Next week I will post a bit more showcasing the decorations and handmade items from this wedding!! 

Christmas Gift Painting

One of my friends asked me this Christmas to make her something to give to her Mom. She had seen my picture of the words on canvas that I had painted several months ago and wanted me to do something similar. Except she said she would like it to be a painting of the Fruits of the Spirit and she gave me specific colors to use. 

I decided, however, that since the Fruits of the Spirit are so short, that it would be better to use different fonts, paints and sizes to take up the canvas she had purchased for me to use. 

I remembered this print I had seen a while back on Pinterest and I decided to show it to her. She said she loved it! 

The only problem was that she had purchased a square canvas instead of a rectangle canvas, so I knew the scale was going to be off a bit and that it wasn't going to be exact. Nevertheless, I decided to go for it! 

I had never painted block letters before. So, I knew this was going to be a challenge for me. If you read my post about the words on canvas, you heard me express the patience it takes to paint words. This one required even more patience!! 

First, I had to sketch out the block letters on the canvas and then I painted the letters one color at a time. 

All in all it took me about 5 hours to paint. Definitely a labor worth doing because I can now say I know all of the Fruits by heart!! 

I don't know if I'm in love with the final product. There was one font in particular that I am not a big fan of. But my friend said that her mom loved it! She paid me probably too much for it, but it was still nice to be commissioned to do something and get paid for it. 

For her moms birthday we are going to build her something out of old barn wood. I'm looking forward to it because wood and I are much better friends that paint and I :)