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Outdoor Pillows

Stephanie — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 07:16:03 +0000

Danny and I recently had our backyard redone, jackhammering out concrete and adding in grass (I will post pictures tomorrow or the next day!). We got two really comfortable reclining outdoor chairs so we could sit outside in our new backyard and enjoy it. The chairs are sooocomfortable…but not that attractive. So I decided to make some pillows to decorate the chairs! I went couldn’t find any actual “outdoor fabric” that I liked, so I got standard “interior decorating” material, and scotch gaurded the heck out of it with the outdoor water repellent spray. What do you think?

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Wedding Search-A-Word

Stephanie — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 06:37:00 +0000

by Stephanie
I hate when you go to weddings and it takes forever to get everyone seated and situated before the ceremony actually starts. You end up reading through the program 10 times trying to kill some time.

That is why Danny and I decided to put a “wedding search-a-word” puzzle into our program packet! (Yes, I said “program packet” you will read why it is a “packet” later…once I finish the programs and can take pictures).

I decided to do a search-a-word instead of a cross word puzzle for two reasons. One, I thought it was more fair to those people who wouldn’t know the answers to the “clues” in the cross word puzzle. Not everyone at the wedding will know all the same things about us as other people. Two, my grandpa loves search a words and I always remember watching him do them, and helping him out with them, which was a lot of fun growing up.

Here is a picture of what it will look like (I made it a really small picture so people don’t find all the words now instead of at the wedding ceremony! No cheating!)
What do you guys think? Do you think it is a fun idea? Do you think anyone will actually DO the search-a-word?

And they lived happily ever after…

Making the Save the Date Magnets

Stephanie — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 00:10:00 +0000

by Stephanie
All the save the date cards are finished and sent! Yay! We really wanted to do something fun, cheerful, colorful and different. We ended up making refrigerator magnets that matched the header image for this website. The only difference is that they have the website address on them and it says “formal invitation to follow.” My friend Dana did refrigerator magnets for her save the date cards and I thought it was such a great idea. That way instead of just being a piece of paper that gets lost or thrown away, you have a reminder every time you go to the fridge.

Here is a picture of all the stuff I needed in order to make them:

Paper cutter, scissors, exacto knife LOTS of glue sticks, the magnets, envelope liner template, the save the date cards, a huge list of names, stickers, and of course…a movie rental card and the entire first season of “Angel.”

Once my camera battery is charged I will take some pictures of the finished save the dates.

And they lived happily ever after…