Isabel Sive Blogs

Sometimes I wish that you didn’t have to fill out a gift registry. It is really difficult to think of things that future hubby and I could use or need that are in a large enough variety of price ranges that someone doesn’t feel like they have to overspend in order to get us something. I’ve tried the whole, just help us decorate and bring a dish to the wedding, but no everyone wants to know what to get us for a gift and helping us just won’t satisfy some people so I’ve registered at a few places. FH and I decided that we definitely need a new clock. I prefer Westclox, but I kinda want one of the clocks that you can add photos to, but I don’t know if that would look tacky or not.

What do some of you fabulous home decorators out there think about the photo frame clocks?

I know that buying flowers for weddings can be SUPER expensive no matter how thrifty you try to be in getting the cost of them down. I’m sure someone has already posted this idea somewhere, but I think I’ll post it on my blog just because I want to try this out. I am still debating on colors for my own wedding, but at the moment I’m debating red, black, and white (ask me tomorrow and it’ll probably be electric blue, brown, and some form of pale green. LOL.)

So, how cute would it be to take some red buckets and tie a black ribbon around them and use them as planters to grow some white flowers? Hmm..but what kind of white flowers…

White impatiens would be pretty. And in a bucket this color:

With a tied bow black ribbon around it? Aw that would be awsome.

So to use a bucket for a planter you want to be sure it has holes drilled into the bottom of it, about an inch gravel or rocks in the bottom and then place the dirt on top of that. That way your plants can drain and  you don’t suffocate the roots with too much water.

I think the ribbon should not be added until closer to the wedding day, just use a little hot glue and pretty bow on your red bucket and you’d be good to go.

And after the wedding? Well, you can always give these away as favors to your Bridesmaids, Guests of Honor, or whatnot, or you can take them home and have a great yard ornament to remind you of your special day. How cute would it be to have a couple of these planters on either side of your front door?

Has anyone tried this or seen anything like this done for a wedding? And if so where I can see pics of how it turned out? LOL. I always like to see how things look before actually attempting them myself.

I found the neatest table numbers for a wedding on weddinggirl.ca . I just love reading other people’s ideas, blogs, crafts, etc. for weddings. It never ceases to amaze me all the different ordinary every day objects that can be prettied up enough to be a star decoration piece in a wedding.  And there are so many posts online about these. It is going to be hard to narrow down all my options when my own wedding day gets here.

There weren’t any instructions on the blog for making these canning jar table numbers, but it seems like it would be simple enough, so I’m going to write out the steps that I would take in making these.

Materials needed:
Variety of different sized mason jars.
Sand
Paint, or paint pen
If using paint you’ll need a paint brush
Clear coat spray
Number Stencils
Fabric in your color choice
String, twine, or thin ribbon in another color choice.

Directions:

Using the stencils paint the numbers (or letters if you are doing something different with your tables) onto your jars. Let them dry. Spray with clear coat (this will help keep the numbers from flaking off as glass is sometimes hard to get paint to stay on). Fill each jar with sand. If you still have the lids, I recommend putting them on before doing the next step.

Cut the fabric into circles or squares that are big enough to cover the top of the jar with room enough to tie them off. Place fabric over the top of the jar and tie it on with your string or ribbon. Your table numbers are now complete!

See, that doesn’t sound very hard, and it is a lot cheaper than some of the other options for table numbers out there! Plus with all the colored sands out there you can get a neat variety of looks with these super easy mason jar table numbers!

What other DIY ideas have you come across for making table numbers for wedding tables?

I saw the most adorable thing that someone on a wordpress blog has done with her beta fishy:

This gave me a fairly neat idea. I know some people love to do themed weddings (I haven’t very well decided if this is what I want to do or not), well what if you had a beach, ocean, or boat themed wedding? How cute would it be to have fish in jars as your centerpieces, and what a neat favor to give to people to take home. (Of course I think this favor should be reserved for those who played a bigger part in your wedding, as there will only be so many centerpieces, give the other guests neat favors along the fish idea). I bet there are a lot of different types of jars that this would work with, and beta fish or fancy guppies would be great (they come in so many colors that you could coordinate them with your wedding).

If you do try this you might want to only put 1 fish per jar if you are using betas unless you know 100% that they are all females b/c beta males will fight to the death, and well, that wouldn’t be very appetizing or nice as a wedding centerpiece.

I think these would work with the clear glass cookie jars, canning jars, and maybe even larger glass milk bottles, I guess it all depends on the size and needs of the fish.

What do you think about this idea? Is it one that you would try?

I thought it would be pretty handy to use an idea for a wedding decoration that would allow you to recycle stuff in order to have a beautiful ceremony/reception. (Great idea for the pocketbook AND the environment, win win). However, for those of you who would prefer a milk bottle that has never been used there are some out there that can be ordered. (some people worry about a sour milk smell, but if you clean the used bottles really well, this is usually not a problem).

I was looking through Craftster.org when I came across someone who had recycled the Starbucks Frappacino bottles into vases. These bottles are very much a classic  milk bottle shape. And since I drink so many of them, I might start saving them and see if there is a craft that I could do for my wedding with them. What a great way to recycle right?

She painted the milk bottles white and painted on some cute little words to see the step by step go to:
http://www.maizehutton.com/milkbottlevases.html

Adorable don’t you think?  These would also be great if they were  painted up and worded for various holiday parties, etc. I love versatile crafts! What kind of recyclables crafts have you seen at weddings or other get togethers that looked really nice/classy?