May 22, 2014

DIY Wedding Food

We did all the food ourselves, and we were still working on it until the last minute. I didn't get pictures of everything, we also had homemade artisan bread, cheeses, sun-dried tomato pesto (my favorite thing ever), meatballs, and kabobs with tortellini, tomato, fresh mozzarella, olives and pepperoni.  

I'm a really bad at photographing food, I promise it all looked better in real life.

Fruit kabobs with grapes, strawberries, pineapple and cantaloupe.

Wedding Open House Decorations


My brother and new sister-in-law got married this past weekend! We had a little reception at our house on Friday night. They were married the next day in the Boise temple, and we had a family dinner afterwards. We were so glad we planned it this way so that the wedding day was relaxing and focused on the temple ceremony.

DIY Wedding Flowers


When we were starting to plan the wedding, one of the things we really wanted was lots of flowers. Our least expensive option was to order them in bulk through Costco and arrange them ourselves.

Mar 28, 2014

Wedding Planning!

So, my older brother and his fiancée are getting married in May, and they gave us just eight weeks notice. But we love them, so my mom and I have been going crazy planning a wedding on a budget.

Last weekend I took some photos for their wedding invitation/announcement. I'm still figuring out how to use my camera but I think I got a couple good shots. I also got a ton of candids that I actually really love, like these:


Mar 12, 2014

New Quilt on Etsy


I put up a new quilt for sale in my etsy store! This one is my absolute favorite, I'm going to have a hard time letting it go after spending so much time on it! I really love the colors in this one.

Quilted Pillow Sham {Tutorial}


A couple months ago I posted my little sister's bedroom makeover that I made a quilt and some pillows for. I recently did the same thing to my other little sister’s room and wanted to share how I made the quilted pillow shams. The tutorial for the flower pillow is here.

Feb 5, 2014

Fleece Flower Pillow {Tutorial}


Hi! I’m really excited to share this tutorial! I have made quite a few flower pillows out of felt, and it always takes so much time to cut out 80+ individual petals. So, I decided to try making the petals out of strips of scallops and it is SO MUCH faster. I also made this pillow out of fleece which is softer than felt and doesn’t pill as much.  So here’s the tutorial…