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After spending ages online searching for candies that might be suitable for party favours it was a trip to Newry that lead to the discovery and purchase of fruit flavoured rock candy! We cleaned the store out of their supply for less than twenty Euro! Unfortunately, I could not find anything like it in Dublin…now maybe I wasn’t looking hard enough, although I did spend WAY too much time Googling for sweet shops.
The baggies, however, we did find in Dublin, and for the grand total of five Euro we walked away with about a thousand of them. Not that we need that many but they couldn’t get rid of the damn things! Perfect for us. The tags, which will feature a decoration, possibly a message, or double as seating name tags, were found in London and purchased for under two pounds…per hundred, so there’s some leftovers of those too. And the ribbon is from a little Dublin store, A Rubenesque, in Powerscourt for around five Euro. Easy peasy!
So, the main organisation is pretty well complete for the big day. After Friday most things will be in hand, with just the wait ahead of us! In the meantime my creative juices continue to flow and I have made myself some 40-odd pinwheels for guests to decorate the day and for them to take a little bit of cheer away with them. You see, we can’t really decorate the official government venue, but I can ask our family and friends to hold up a little bit of colour while Mister Emmet and I walk down and up the aisle! Anyway, below is my handywork…anyone having a kids party in the next little while want to commission me I’d be more than happy! Just looking at them sitting and waiting in their boxes makes me smile!
After weeks of stressing over whether or not I could do it I’ve finally found the time to make my own hand tied bridal bouquet! If you’re interested in trying to make your own I’d encourage you to check out YouTube for its abundant instructional videos!
Okay, so it’s not perfect, but not too bad for a first attempt either in my own humble opinion. Hopefully next time the roses will be a little more even in their size (but hey, for a tenner I really can’t complain) and how I arrange them.
Sometimes I’m a sucker for cute things, and these fellas I just could not resist…
Once again, Etsy is my friend, with the bears specially made for me by natbears!
Woohoo! Excitement plus. We have ordered our rings. Again, via Etsy, but this time they’re from one of the jewellers we actually looked at when browsing for my engagement ring. Victoria Buckley has a fabulous little boutique in upstairs in The Strand, George Street, Sydney, where she does some wonderful things with filigree and gemstones, unfortunately a little too much for what I had in mind for my engagement ring, but beautiful none the less. I found myself deliberately taking the long way back to Ultimo just so I could stare through the window of her store admiring her handy work and the sparkling jewels!
But, she als does a collection of posie jewellery. Now, as her website explains, a posie is a little poem or verse that can be engraved onto the outside of rings. Pocket Full of Poesy is Victoria’s Etsy store specialising in these types of rings, primarily in silver but also occasionally in shades of gold.
We’ve chosen a poem of our own…well…courtesy of Molly Bloom and one James Joyce, but we’ll make it our own!
