I know I’ve said this before but if you are new on my blog it bears repeating. Our daughter Katie got married to her Marine fiance last March at the Magistrate’s office in North Carolina before he was deployed to Afghanistan. She’s been living with us during his deployment. We are planning a wedding ceremony with our friends and family and Andrew’s family as witnesses this coming March on their one year anniversary in Seattle. We have a lot of the wedding plans taken care of. Katie’s dress had a huge train on it that she wanted cut off so she used some of the fabric from the train to make a flower girl basket and a ring bearer pillow…
Katie and I will be flying to North Carolina on November 28th to accept her and Andrew’s military housing and to set up their home as much as we can before Andrew returns from Afghanistan. Dear will be joining us on December 3rd. We’ll save any heavy lifting for when he arrives.
Katie and Andrew’s wedding will be in Seattle so she will fly back from North Carolina 3 weeks before the ceremony date and Andrew will arrive the weekend of the ceremony…
Katie’s had time on her hands for wedding creativity and besides the pillow and basket she is painting her cake toppers!
The Marine figure isn’t finished yet since we have to wait and see if Andrew gets any embellishments on his uniform post deployment!
Happy Saturday to you! Today we are having a craft get together to make these for Katie’s wedding shower in November. Thankfully some more crafty people than me are joining us for this endeavor. We are also sampling some shower recipes to see if they are worthy for our guests…
The Happy Wonderer ~ ellen b. 
You will have such fun making these cuties – such a sweet idea to make them for Katie’s wedding shower!
Love the wedding cake toppers, flower girl basket and ring bearer pillow. Very creative! And heirloom potential 🙂
Have a wonderful craft day!
Those mini Matryoshka’s are cute…I love doing crafty things but little stuff like that is not my favorite. YAY, for having help. Life in the military…what an adventure.
What sweet ideas you and Katie have! I can see that we are lagging behind, but then, we have an extra two months!
Oh those Matryoshkas are darling. I think they’d make the most wonderful Christmas ornaments.
What a busy time this is…two major holidays, a wedding, a trip to NC, a bridal shower…ride’em cowboy! I guess that I just hadn’t realized all that was going on so thanks for the overview. I’ll be praying for you all… Hope that the Marine has some embellishments, too. =D
how darling are Katie’s creations!! Did I miss the reveal on the gown or are you not showing Ellen B?
Not showing Cori G.! until after the wedding! :0)
Fun day for you! Those little ‘dolls’ are so cute.
So so so cute — love those cake toppers!
She is creative! Excited for her on setting up a home with Andrew… and looking forward to the BIG DAY!!!
Adorable! I made and painted my cake toppers too. A fun memory. So excited for all of your plans.
Fun cake toppers! And the flower girl basket will be a perfect match to the bride’s gown. How nice is that?
Absolutely charming! Katie sure has been a good sport about being a single girl newlywed for so long. I know she must be itching to make a home for her husband’s homecoming and getting on with the jumbled order of things like having a wedding for her first anniversary. Won’t their lovestory be fun to tell their grands one day?
Darling cake toppers! It sounds like you will be extra busy with all of these preparations. Enjoy all of these moments with Kate before she moves to her new home.
Love the creative little toppers. They are charming. And what a great idea to use the fabric from the train. From the looks of it her dress is going to be gorgeous!
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