Alligator Pinata

It was birthday time again and this year that called for an alligator pinata.

The candy went in an opening in the mouth.  The alligator is based on the one from Oh Happy Day.  If you'd like to see more photos look on my Instagram.

xoxo,

b

The Happy Hair Conclusion

This is my after.  I love it.  Also the 90's called and asked me to come back and be a proper riot grrrl.

On Saturday my fabulous hair and I went to a little man's 3rd birthday.  I took him this pinata.  This wasn't the design that I originally intended to go with, but My wrist was not very happy Saturday and I was running out of time.  I did a quickie style round pinata to go with his Superman theme.  This pinata goes together in under 2 hours.

Happy Day, Happy Hair

xoxo

b

Almost...

The wedding is 3 weeks from today and recently, I introduced myself to Bridezillas via Netflix.  That behavior can't be normal and why would you take on new projects 5 days before a big event?  Anyway, that isn't the point.  The thing that I have noticed is that the brides in the episodes I've seen find it very important for everyone to see them and want people focused on how they look.  That really isn't my goal.  I want to look nice and have nice pictures.  I want to be appealing to Future Husband, but what I want people to see is the decorations.  I want to create an environment and mood through a visually driven experience; add in the music and food and we can bring along the other senses.  I think of the wedding as an opportunity to create a large scale art installation.  I'm not sure if that's good, bad, or normal; it just is what it is.  It isn't my day to be a princess.  It's a day to celebrate everyone we know and mark Team Merry-Miller as going official.  There is no perfection and that is fine.  The amount of decorations will have no bearing on the wedding happening or not happening, but if there's an opportunity to make fun things, I'm going to take it.

Above are pictures of my dining room table.  It hardly ever sees food, but it does get a lot of traffic from cutting mats and glue guns.  There are 160 tassels now and I am closing in on my goal of 200.  Pre-fluffed and trimmed tassels on the table and finished pieces on dowel rods.  The fifth pinata is silver, white and grey and most importantly, close to completion.  I am working to control my "just one more" impulse when it comes to DIY's.  If I would quit doing that, this would be it for projects (except that i decided to make three chalkboards and cut some fabric).  I'll work it out.

I will have so many tutorial posts starting at the end of the summer.  I hope you enjoy the photos until then.

XOXO,

b

Quickies

Oh, so nice... and tall!

The sandals arrived last night and they are quite nice.  I had hoped for some cushion in the sole; there isn't any, but they fit well so they stay.

Centerpiece extravaganza

I am zipping through the centerpiece pinatas.  Number 3 (the yellow fellow) is complete.  The less exciting tan tissue for number 4 will get snipped tonight.  The pinatas will end up as Geronimo-esque pieces.  I still have tassels and glittered bobbles to make.  Look at this DIY; it's sort of what I'm shooting for.

Do you see the message?

And finally...  

This is where I've been sitting and working at night.  These are the tools I have been using (except for the Smarties-they were just sitting there).  I ended up going to bed while Future Husband was outside on the phone.  I felt kind of bad about not saying good night so I left him a message.  Unfortunately, he didn't see it.

And now to end this post by popping in a few more finds for my honeymoon wardrobe obsession:

shorts

harem pants

(yes, harem pants)

dress

Smooches,

B