Sweet Memories

Memorable keepsakes

I know we all come into this life with nothing and we pretty much leave with nothing too. And how our greatest pocessions should be nothing but our family, friends, health, happiness etc. and believe me...

my most favourite thing in my world is my family...

...but i would be devastated if i lost my most valuable possessions, and when i say valuable i mean to my heart and most certainly not my pocket.

My Dad (and my future husband) go on about how much 'junk' i have in my room. My hubby to be complains because he wants our future home to be minimalist and clear of clutter (his marrying the wrong person) and Dad moans about all the nails i put into his walls and ceilings to place my 'crap' on.

I Love My Room...so much

I long for my family home just for me and Luke to grow old in and raise children in, filled with all our stuff and photos and keep sakes and memories. But oh how im going to miss my room.

I love clutter and the way its decorated and how homely it feels, its my space full of my things and my memories. Pretty much every item in my room can tell a story.

Coke glass bottle taken from some bar me and Luke were at, filled with 3 dried roses from the first bunch of flowers Luke ever bought me. Standing next to a ostrich feather quill Luke bought me on my 23rd birthday (the day he asked me to marry him)

Engagement party keep sake

This mirrored frame is something i made. i bought a plain white frame and asked my sisters boyfriend to smash up some mirrors i had

'im very supersticious so wouldnt even contimplate doing that myself'

with the pieces of mirror i placed them in a mosaic style around the edge. I wanted a special frame to place a special picture in. That picture is the one shown below...

I apologise for the bad quality

We held our engagemnet party at a pub on the island, which just so happens to be one of the oldest buildings still remaining. With in the pub on the wooden beams around the building, there are photos hung up showing regualars and staff etc through out the years.

There was even some photos there of some of our geusts.

Well i saw this one and thought it was so romantic and loving, i just fell in love with it. Standing with my soon to be sister in law under the photo at the time, i showed her and said how it would be nice to have as a reminder of our engement party.

Next thing i know, shes taken it down and shoved it down my top.

I dont think i will ever forget that moment, priceless...

I want to try and incorporate this photo into the wedding somehow, maybe on the invitations or centrepiece decorations. Im not sure, but i will keep you informed.

This is my most recent keepsake to be hung on my wall. I saw the vintage style frame and just had to buy it, what for i didnt know at the time. Well im glad i did purchase it, as now it is a home for the photos that were taken of the week me and Luke had off from work, to celebrate his 30th birthday.

And its also given me a idea for decorations to have placed around at our wedding...

Corner 1

Corner 2

Corner 3

Corner 4

Wall 1

Wall 1

Child hood teddy and new ones from Luke

Piggy collection

Piggy and Queen collection

More queen and Royal family collection (books)

Collection of Art books

Disco Disco Disco Disco

Dance, Music, Friends, Family and Good Food...

What more could you ask for when it comes to a party.

I know I have talked about our engagement party on here before, but I've just been given photos by my uncle that he took while it was all happening, and luckily it has some lovely ones of our engagement cake

Thank Christ

I really thought i didn't have any :(

Cake table (with my nephew Bailey poking at the cake)

Lovely photo YAY! ( http://nattiscupcakes.blogspot.com )

I'm so please that i have a gorgeous photo of this, it really was something, pretty huge and really heavy, but oh so scrummy.

And no i didn't eat the whole lot, it was shared out between mine and Luke's family.

The usual Luke

This photo was taken after we cut the cake. A sort of pre wedding practise scenario. We didn't even think about doing this, it was our DJ Neville the Devil who suggested it...

And I loved it

I don't want to sound vain or anything, but it was real nice having all our guests watch us cut the cake, it made it so special, and it was only our engagement party

imagine the feeling at the actual wedding!!

Fred and not quite Ginger

Luke LOVES to dance, its unreal, I've never known anyone to move like Luke, his a right Fred Astaire on his feet. He loves to grab someone and spin them around

Hence the picture above...

Salsa!!

I cant say a bad word about the DJ we had, he was fantastic!! All our family have asked if his going to be the DJ at the wedding...

YES

He did everything we asked of him and much more. He made people get up and dance by Salsa! His a trained salsa dancer so he pulls everyone onto the floor and teaches them some moves then we all go for it.

So.Much.Fun

Fabric and Frustration

You've just got to keep at it

So...its been a very busy time since I last posted on here, finding material, researching dress makers and not to mention actually looking at venues to do 'the deed' in (getting married).

I've been itching to get started at trying out the task of making these fabric flowers i talked about in the last post. Well last night I finally started. Oh my...

didn't realize it would be this difficult...

I found a tutorial on the good ol' you tube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnGdX7_5Rds

I really liked the look of the flowers, the shape and the petals, just the image i visioned for the look of my flowers.

Here's my first attempt...

I can hear the laughter as i type. Absolutely nothing like the tutorial flowers. It looks much easier then it is. But i said practise makes perfect. And that's what i did.

side view of first attempt

My second attempt turned out 10 times better, but still along way to go. I was much tighter with my twisting...

Really pleased with the straight on view

A lot better, but still some more practise needed.

My third attempt just went downhill from the second, enough to make you give up...

But i still carried on...

Not too bad

Just ridiculous

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I just could not get my head around this technique, with the twisting and the triangle tips, so i looked through the Internet so try and find a simpler one. AND I DID :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53sVo-K6peg&NR=1

This was nearly almost exactly the same as the previous technique, but the way she twisted with the ribbon, not worrying about tips of triangle or anything like that, made it so much simpler, and i just kind of got it, from the get go...cue a much needed *sigh*

All Hail...the fourth attempt

This gave me hope...

Just much more neater and tighter

This makes me smile

Onto the fifth attempt, i wanted to create the depth in the flower, so i twisted higher and tighter at the bottom, and this is what i got...

Very Very Very happy with this

Not to happy with this, must...twist...higher...

Sixth Attempt...THERE IS HOPE

Exactly what i wanted

The best so far

Last attempt, before stitching it all together.

Im happy with the shape of the rose petals

Could be better, but still one of my best

A little bit loose after stictching. Need to be more careful next time

Final Finished One...YAY...im really really happy with this

So after my first few attempts, i feel i didn't do too bad, im excited about trying some more, especially bigger ones

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