Productive DIY Weekend ***With FLASHES***

Pew Ends

To go on the back of our chairs for the ceremony

Place Cards

Table Name

The are great! You are so creative, I'm really impressed, it all looks so professional! I love the birdcage and the bird theme throughout. Also impressed with your bi-linguistic abilities!

WOW!!! You are really good at making things!! I love it all! What are you doing for you make up and mishaps basket?? I think thats a great idea!! xxxx

They are Brilliant I love the birdcage!

Crikey! You have been busy! It all looks lovely, I like the pashmina idea- that's lovely.

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You really have been busy!!! It all looks lovely! Love the signs and the pew ends...in fact, I just love it all!!

Really pretty and I love the theme

Well done everything looks fab x

Thanks for all the lovely comments ladies!

BrogstarBride - for the bathroom basket I´ve bought:

Travel size hairspray, hair serum, hair brush and comb, deodorant (spray!), make-up blotting sheets, cotton buds, tampax, safety pins, mini sewing kit, chewing gum, mints, face wipes, tissues, scissors, nail file, clear nail varnish (for tight ladders!), plasters, some heel protectors (the wedding will be outside, so to stop ladies sinking in the grass!), hand cream, sun cream. That´s all I can think of for now, but there are probably a few bits and pieces I´ve forgotten!

icklelea - I´m not sure any more how much the pashminas were. I think they were about 2 to 3 pounds each on Ebay.

Wow you have been busy, it all looks amazing!

Thanks for the pashmina idea - I've just ordered some from ebay for our November wedding!

Beachbum x

Looks liek you had a very very busy weekend! it all looks great

Wow ! very productive indeed ?

everything looks amazing, lots of personal touches.

Wow, all looks gorgeous!

Love your birdcage for your cards and pew ends, can i ask where they are from and how you decorated them?

Wow how beautiful! You are indeed very crafty

I'm looking for some pashmina's for my bridesmaids and there's loads on ebay less than £3 each. It's a good idea having a few more. I'm doing a basket for the bathrooms too, deffo a brilliant idea

You really are very clever and these ideas are all ones I plan to steal!! You should set up in business making lovely crafty things - I would buy from you!! :o)

The birdcage was just from Ebay - I live in Germany so had to find a seller over here who had one to avoid the extortionate shipping costs. There are quite a few places that sell them in the UK though:

https://www.lavendersoflondon.com/product/364/3058/Decoration/Bird_Cages/Cream_Metal_Bird_Cage___BC4008.html

https://weddingmall.co.uk/spare-categories/bird-cages/round-cream-bird-cage-44-5cm-/p2360.html

I then bought some ivy and paper flowers from this site to cover it:

https://www.papertree.co.uk/paper-flowers-gifts/paper-roses.html

It's really easy, I just used white sewing thread to tie the ivy in place. The flowers were on wire stems which I just twisted round the birdcage.

For the pew ends I bought these wicker hearts (small ones for the pew ends and larger ones for our chairs):

https://www.lavendersoflondon.com/product/343/2225/Decoration/Hearts/Willow_Wicker_Heart___C518.html

I wasn't too impressed with the quality of them to be honest - they are a lot more rustic in real life than in the website pictures, and they were all slightly different shapes and sizes. You can't really see now that I've covered them though.

I covered them using paper flowers bought from here (I bought both cream and pink):

https://www.notonthehighstreet.com/

You will need a pair of wire cutters to cut through the garland, as well as some pliers to wrap the cut ends in neatly. I have jewellery pliers which I used for this but you could probably use some out of a tool box!

I'm not sure it would be a very profitable business, as it's taken me ages! I love making stuff though - normally I never have the time, but with the wedding I've had so many ideas of things Id like to do that I've just made myself do it. I'll probably sell some of the stuff off afterwards, as I don't know what I'll do with it otherwise!

Sooo very impressed with your crafty skills and such a considerate idea to have in both languages I will be stealing. well done I am looking forward to your wedding report already ?

Sounds like a plan - let us hitchers know if you do decide to sell any of it! When's the big day? xxx

I will probably try and sell a few bits on here as I don't like stuff cluttering up the house! We're getting married on 26 August - not long to go now and I still have LOADS to do! Oops.

Wow! Everything loos lovely!! x

Shame your wedding is the week before mine, or i would be asking to buy your gorgeous DIY goodies off you!

Wow, that all looks fab!! And you've been very thoughtful about your guests and their needs, that's a lovely touch

Hi,

These are lovely. You should be very proud of them. They look so pretty. I like the idea of a pashmina basket. The bird theme is original too.

well done

Lynne

Everything looks so lovely.