Showing posts with label DIY. Show all posts
Showing posts with label DIY. Show all posts
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
Friday, January 14, 2011
Handy Pops
So, it is a good day when you have a daddy like mine who says "yes" to any woodworking orders his daughter places for her wedding. Today, I discussed with my father several projects/ideas I have in mind of the wood quality for my wedding. He is extremely talented and has made majority of my families beautiful country furniture, a chess set, a beautiful barn window decoration, birdhouses, and my very own grown-up coffee table and end tables!
Before his eyes glazed over from sheer boredom due to too much girly activity at one time I was able to order the following:
1. Browsing etsy.com (<3) I saw and fell in love with a card box that was a little wooden house painted with doors and windows and a little twig wreath attached with the couples name and date. The slot was in the roof for guests to slip those cards into and well, I LOVED it. I saw the price and was a little hesitant because my dad is awesome and he does a lot of wood-making projects or whatever it is you call wood crafts. He is especially great at birdhouses and he made my sister and I barbie houses when we were little girls out of wood (where are those?). So, order placed. Dad will put together said little house, and I will help paint, decorate and attach mini-twig wreath to door. Yay!
2. Frames. My dad has this great old barn wood that he found, scoured up, who the heck knows but it appeared one day at our house. He has made some awesome stuff out of this wood. Sooo, dad is going to help me put together some picture frames out of this wood for our centerpiece table numbers and some aisle decorations I have in mind....
3. Signs? I am not so sure on this one yet. I may have my dad craft me a sign that says "Our Wedding" or "Happily Ever After" to hang somewhere.
As of now, these are his orders. Who knows if more will be added but I am excited. My dad did have a etsy shop at one point which I would totally give a shoutout to but he currently has nothing for sale in it! DAD!
Before his eyes glazed over from sheer boredom due to too much girly activity at one time I was able to order the following:
1. Browsing etsy.com (<3) I saw and fell in love with a card box that was a little wooden house painted with doors and windows and a little twig wreath attached with the couples name and date. The slot was in the roof for guests to slip those cards into and well, I LOVED it. I saw the price and was a little hesitant because my dad is awesome and he does a lot of wood-making projects or whatever it is you call wood crafts. He is especially great at birdhouses and he made my sister and I barbie houses when we were little girls out of wood (where are those?). So, order placed. Dad will put together said little house, and I will help paint, decorate and attach mini-twig wreath to door. Yay!
2. Frames. My dad has this great old barn wood that he found, scoured up, who the heck knows but it appeared one day at our house. He has made some awesome stuff out of this wood. Sooo, dad is going to help me put together some picture frames out of this wood for our centerpiece table numbers and some aisle decorations I have in mind....
3. Signs? I am not so sure on this one yet. I may have my dad craft me a sign that says "Our Wedding" or "Happily Ever After" to hang somewhere.
As of now, these are his orders. Who knows if more will be added but I am excited. My dad did have a etsy shop at one point which I would totally give a shoutout to but he currently has nothing for sale in it! DAD!
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
DIY?
Ok so, I am all for do-it-yourself as long as it does not look do it YOURSELF! I just don't want anything I do or make to look...bad (?) I want everything to look professional but still crafty. So early in the days of scouting for wedding decorating ideas, I happened across this idea on theknot.com. To be fair, let me say I love buttons. I am not quite sure WHY I love buttons, but I love buttons. Strange, I know. Okay, so I saw this image:
And I was kind of obsessed. So I tried thinking about my own spin on things. I wanted to create this idea but make sure it also reflected my idea and theme. So tonight set out preliminary planning of this idea. I wanted to first see if this idea is truly something I could create. In my head I have this vision of a burlap type fabric with purple buttons backed on a weathered wooden frame. So keep this vision in mind when you see my rough design. Remember ROUGH design!
This was just using what I had on hand and the actual buttons I intend to use will be of more similar sizes. The fabric I used was un-ironed hence the bunching and again, so not my colors or intended fabric use. This only took 20 minutes of sewing and was really quickly thrown together. Also, the sharpie marks on the fabric obviously will not be on the burlap design.
Keeping in mind my general idea and concept here, is this idea plausible? Will it look...too handmade? too DIY? Again, remember burlap type fabric and weathered wood frames with purple buttons! My dad has awesome wood from an old barn that I intend to use if I decide to follow this through... Is this effort really worth my sanity and time? I am probably going to have to make 12-14 of them.
The floor is open... Honest opinions!!!!! trust me, I know this rough outline is really crap but try to envision final design. I personally do not think I will be sold on this idea until I get the actual materials I would be using and create the next "rough idea" but what are we all thinking here?
Keeping in mind my general idea and concept here, is this idea plausible? Will it look...too handmade? too DIY? Again, remember burlap type fabric and weathered wood frames with purple buttons! My dad has awesome wood from an old barn that I intend to use if I decide to follow this through... Is this effort really worth my sanity and time? I am probably going to have to make 12-14 of them.
The floor is open... Honest opinions!!!!! trust me, I know this rough outline is really crap but try to envision final design. I personally do not think I will be sold on this idea until I get the actual materials I would be using and create the next "rough idea" but what are we all thinking here?
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