Sorry...sorry....sorry

Haven't been here for ages....been so caught up in my niece's wedding which is TODAY!!!

I've finally delivered the rest of my wedding present....Menus,

Order of Service....

Place cards....I've already shown them.

Table Seating Plan......I made it with A2 Ivory mounting board, then A3 dark red mounting board, and printed out the details onto the same card as the wedding stationery. Finished with ribbon round the edges, cuttlebug butterflies and more than a few gems....my niece loves her bling.

Favours.....

Made four baskets altogether, two of the bonbonierre, one with the butterfly boxes and one with the handbags. Was quite surprised how nice the bought boxes were when they were made up.

and Flowers for the tables.

The big one is for the top table, there are 2 smaller ones for each side but the photo is awful.

The tall ones are for the guest tables, I've bought mirrors to stand them on and rose petals to dot round the mirrors.

The photos aren't great but I was up till 4 and then back up at 8. Feels a bit strange having everything done.

All I have to do now is go and get myself all glammed up for the wedding.

If there's a decent photo of me, I might even post it later.

Once again sorry to everyone for not visiting your blogs...I'm on holiday for another week....not booked anything but that's another story....so I'll try and catch up with everybody

I'm off for a drink or two now.

Love

Margaret

xx

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Poor wee neglected Blog.

I haven't been on for a while....been too busy. I should really have made time though.
I'm in the middle of wedding invitations for a client and have my niece's wedding in less than three weeks now and haven't even started the favours. OMG. Menu's, Order of Service, Table Plan, Table flowers....oh scaring myself now.
I've got the week before the wedding off work so I should be fine....I always work best under pressure LOL.
I sat up last night and made a baby card,and put the wrong date of birth on it....agh....luckily the client ( a lady at Wullie's work) noticed it before it was sent to America ...so I've changed it tonight.... haven't even took a photo of it yet...maybe in the morning before I go to work.
I've been playing with Microsoft XL tonight had some graphs to make up for work....I spent ages at work trying to remember how to do them, but couldn't get it.....five minutes at home and it's as though I'd always been doing them.
Better go to bed now...I'll post some pics tomorrow.

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Place cards

My lovely neice's wedding is fast approaching (31st August) and now I have to start on favours, order of service, menus, place cards, table numbers, table plan and flowers for the tables.

Now I've written it all down it seems like a lot, but I won't panic.....much.

I was playing around with place cards today and have came up with a cuttlebug butterfly. I've used them on the invitations (pic further back on blog) and I'll be using them on the order of service and menu too...

I made a table and worked out the placing of my names,

then cut out, folded and put them through the big shot

using my cuttlebug butterfly. Just remember to keep the

card just under the top of the wings to give a hinge.

My next thought was to make it so it would sit on a wine glass...

so on the back butterfly, I cut a slit up each wing from the bottom

nearly to the top...put a little bit of dst on the big part of each wing,

and made a clip.

This is the view from the back..I've put it onto a bit of card to show how it grips.

Now it's up to Annette to decide whether she wants them to be free standing or on the wine glasses. Of course, it wouldn't be me without a bit of bling ...so I always add a gem to the ladies' place cards.

Easy space saving idea

I buy my dst in bulk and have tried storing it in drawers, on a shelf and in baskets...it just seems to take up too much space for what it is.

So.....I had a strong tube from the inside of my tissue paper (which I also buy in bulk..lol) ...and asked Wullie if he could attach it to the underside of my bottom shelf for me.

He came up with this.

He attached a jubilee clip with piece of wood as a spacer

And all I have to do is clip the tube onto it.

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