found items

As most of you know .. i've been spending most of my evenings and weekends elbow deep in "the bins" at my favorite store: GOODWILL. I've also been perusing all the vintage junk shops and have turned up with the following treasures I like to stare and smile at from my couch at home. Thanks g for indulging my ever-growing junk pile and craft stations ... this wedding is going to be a serious labor of love :)

a collection of "fancy" tarnished silver platters ..

as my adorable mom would say ... fancy cup & fancy tea

tippity type

a collection of different eras .. brands .. colors ..

I'm the proud owner of SIX HUNDRED pieces of silverware :)

My most prized possession: a beautiful set of silverplate passed down to greg and I from his parents

two parisienne bistro chairs I painted white for the bride + groom

and a stellar little shoe find to top things off ... it cost me a whopping fourteen dollars! gotta love buying vintage.

three and a half months and counting ..

I've been terrible at updating lil ole nincomsoup and documenting all of the wedding crafts lately ... but it's not to say that i've been lazing in actual wedding prep. Here's a little sneak peak of what i've been up to in my craft-factory ..

bootie-near for the boys ...

Marigold felt beezlebub tags for the seating chart ... 

Little faces of family and friends ..  

Better late than never .. a HUGE congratulations to my two fellow brides to be :)

chair

... finished champagne wire chairs

succulent wall

here's a mini preview of what is to come! this is a miniature version of what will be the beautiful "urban greenscape" backdrop for the wedding. visualize this version with bricks that will be stacked 23 high and 7 wide (about the size of a doorway for french doors) against a stark white backdrop in the lovely georgetown studios...

this will be a SERIOUS labor of love. I have approximately 25 planted .. and another 136 to go. thank you to everyone who is offering to store some of these lovelies at your home until next june!

thank you to ferg for induging my whimsies .. I promise this is not the makings of a future cat lady ..

champagne champagne

The beginnings of my first non-succulent wedding project! My shipment of champagne wires finally arrived over the weekend. I successfully dis-assembled the little contraptions and separated the "seats", chair legs, and chair backings and am soaking the metal parts in a saline solution ... to hopefully rust the VERY shiny current exterior. The seats will get spray painted a deep emerald once I make my way over to utrecht.

Looking forward to a crafty sunday around laura's new table!

leg base

seats

It's a miracle I got these all separated. Nearly ripped my fingers up and passed several good hours watchin some saturday football and wiggling the wire bottoms out of the "chair legs".

"veuve prototype" - a lil preview of what is to come ... except, imagine a nice emerald green seat rather than the classic veuve widow .. and a "heart shaped loopy seat".

georgetown studios

For those of you who haven't seen it yet ... feast your eyes on the urban decay :) Frost yourselves ...





If the weather cooperates .... possible to transform this space into greenery urban-scape like marvimon house??




bbq ...



Actual photos of the blank canvas space are at ... georgetown studios ...

See you all for Taste of Georgetown!! Yip yip!