Art Break: Swoon!

OK I love these and am now having a little dilemma. I have my order into the florist - a) do I go with the traditional real flower bouquet OR b) I cancel the real flowers and collect brooches from friends and family and make of these? Yes, they are wedding related but also a lovely piece of art! Learn more about these at Fantasy Floral Designs (all photos from here).

Wedding Wednesday: Let Them Eat CUPcake

Oh yes, you read that correctly CUPCAKES!

While we were home over Christmas we took a little trip to South Bend to meet with the florist and the baker. We picked this baker b/c B had previously purchased a birthday cake for me from them and it was out of this world. Also, other places, after finding out we wanted cupcakes, told us that we could do white or chocolate cake and they would put sprinkles on them....WHAT? They are for a wedding not my 5th birthday! We spoke with the gentleman in charge and I showed him the picture of the cupcakes I had wanted out of a Martha Stewart magazine. At first I think he thought I was crazy but he agreed to do it!

The cupcakes are going to be almond flavored cake with raspberry flavored jam on the inside. The flowers on top are all little meringues. We are still in the process of finding pretty cupcake sleeves and a cupcake tree to house them but that will come with time. In addition to the cupcakes for all to enjoy we are going to have a small cake at the top of the tree so we have something to cut upon my mother'sinsistence. We were ok with cutting a cupcake but that was not cutting it (ha ha) for her.

Below are what the cupcakes will hopefully turn out looking like. They will only be yellow and while flowers though. I think they are really beautiful and are going to be so much better than a frou frou cake!

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Hugs and Love: "Hug Me Again"

The pictures really say it all! Go check out these furry friends and others at

VivianneGalli on etsy!

Shoe Crush: Valentine's Day Heart Shoes

Now I know why I do not own a red pair of shoes. All of the red shoes I like are out of this world expensive. So instead of just red shoes here are some Valentine's Day heart inspired shoes!

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Art Break: Walrus Monkey

Short post today. B and I are taking a bookarts class and we learned about pop-ups today. Here is something I made in class!

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Wedding Wednesday: I am Wishing

No not like Snow White at the well. I already have the one I love. No need for the singing, the well, and the birds.

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I am talking about our guest book. B and I talk about the guestbook and came to the conclusion that if we have a regular guestbook with pages and a pen for people to sign what will we do with it after? Will we read it? Will we keep it out under a coffee table? Will we store it in a box never to be seen again? All valid questions!

Now we are all about being cost effective so I was in search of an alternate solution to a guest book that we would actually appreciate. I saw people with big pictures that people signed the frame but we did not want a huge picture of ourselves (weird)! I saw people who bought old typewriters and had people type their message on the paper, cute but then what do we do with the paper and what if the paper runs out, do I have to go and put a new sheet in? Vetoed. In addition to these ideas there were millions more but none of them really were it.

Then I came across the Wish Wall! Perfect! It is a picture frame with what looks like a honeycomb inside. In addition to the frame you get small slips of paper of all different colors. People write their messages on the pieces of paper and then insert them into the honeycomb wherever they would like. B and I thought this was so cool b/c after all is said and done we can hang it on the wall and we are constantly reminded of the well wishes people wrote to us on our wedding day. It will also be a fun piece of art for the wall. The papers are removable so we can pull them out to read them and then put them back in the frame.

I ordered our wish wall just this past week and it came in the mail yesterday. It is a good size and it really cute! I cannot wait for people to write on the slips of paper and start creating our new wall art!

Sorry the picture is so small I had a hard time finding a bigger one!

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Hugs and Love: 1217

1217 is our house number! I am more than in love with our little craftsman style bungalow and have to share. I cannot wait until April 2nd when they put those keys in my hand and we can start moving in! Here are just a few pics!

(pictures compliments of Cumberland Realty listing)