Crafts!

Perhaps it's just because it's spring, but I am feeling so happy and sunshine-y! All I want to do is plant flowers, wear bright colors, and do arts and crafts all day. Two days ago I made some adorable paper crafts--homemade envelopes, stationary, mailing labels, etc. I write a lot of letters, and I'm excited to use them!
I found inspiration with some fun templates and printables.
I especially had fun making the matching stationary. I just printed a second envelope and cut out bits of the pattern, glued them on, and used a ruler to make the lines.

Here's another little craft I did yesterday: This is a baby shower gift for my cousin, who has a little girl due this May. I didn't have wrapping paper or ribbon, so I improvised with grocery sacks, hemp twine, and shopping bags.


I found the pattern for the pom poms here. It just uses plastic bags! I have millions lying around anyway.

Then, to make my "wrapping paper", I just took used a paper grocery sack from Albertson's. I cut out the bottom and along one side so that I had a long rectangle of brown paper, then I crumpled and re-crumpled it over and over until it was all soft and wrinkly.
I wrapped up the present, tied it with hemp, stuck the pom poms on top, and used some of the leftover brown paper to make a tag. Voila! Isn't it cute? And basically made from recyclable materials.

Wedding Blogs

I have lately fallen hopelessly in love with bride blogs (don't judge me). I especially love ones that show entire weddings by real couples. Cute stories, lots of flowers, and pretty dresses? What could be better! Anyway, I finally broke down and subscribed to a bunch of blogs on my RSS feeds. After sifting through many wonderful and addictive blogs, I boiled it down to a few favorites:

The Bride's Cafe - Probably my favorite. Gorgeous weddings, as captured by pro photographers (so the pictures are always beautiful). Lots of modern and non-traditional weddings.
Style Me Pretty - This shows whole weddings, like Bride's Cafe. Some really cute rustic weddings!
Snippet & Ink - This has some really cute wedding ideas. It posts daily, some real weddings, some just cute ideas.
{ritzy bee blog} - Some of these posts are just general adorableness, not necessarily weddings. They have cute craft/decoration/detail ideas for home as well as weddings.
Green Wedding Shoes - Yet more cute weddings. Like most of these, it posts daily. I found what may very well be my dream dress here.

I warn you, wedding blogs become addicting almost immediately.
Enjoy!