Pickin' Wildflowers

With "the wedding" coming up in a few weeks, the MIL and I are in a full out “run” toward preparing her house for the event. It is going to be an outdoor ceremony, but the girls are going to be getting ready at the house and we have a few special things planned for them, not to mention some new décor for the house.

One thing the MIL wanted to do was to put old pictures of the bride and her family around the room and her thought was to put them on picture clips instead of in frames. We looked and looked at various clips and holders, and even at place card holders, but nothing was right.

Then I got an inspiration.

The wedding is going to be all bright colors and there is an underlying floral/garden theme. And so, I dug through my craft supplies and came up with this idea.

Aren’t they cute? And inexpensive to make. You can’t tell in the picture, but I have green glass marbles in the pots, resembling grass and holding the wires in place.
Too fun. I can't wait to see them set up around the room!

Let there be LIGHT!!!

As if I don't have enough projects at home right now (what with the siding going up, and a new deck, and cleaning out the whole house....not to mention a baby quilt that is driving me to drink), I have just added another one to my list.

Donna at My Tasty Treasures turned me on (if you know Donna at all, you know she'll get a ckick out of that) to the idea of making a light box for my kitchen, and ever since then, I have been pissing and moaning about needing one so my foodie pictures look better. Every single picture I take in the kitchen now has terrible shadows, horrible contrast, and in general, they just suck. (ok, that's just a personal opinion and maybe a rationalization for me to spend the money on supplies to build the light box, but hey, the materials are bought and paid for, so its too late now!)

(Donna references this site for the instructions on building your own.)

Here is how it went together:

Using 5 sheets of craft foam board and some masking or duct tape (I even found WHITE Duck Tape at walmart, so it will look nice from the outside, too.), form a box with one open end.

Put 100W Daylight bulbs in 2 clamp-style shop lights and clamp them to the top edges of the open end of the box.

Plug in, and VOILA!One cozy little studio for capturing the essence of all my future culinary materpieces.

Like this:

To be posted about later.....