Cake toppers - crochet hearts

 

More cake toppers! Little crochet hearts (pattern here) stuck on wire, i used a bit if glue to fix them to the wire otherwise they spun round like weather vane!

 

I also remade the wire word cake topper, with long legs to stick it into the cake this time

Heres the whole selection! Well theres actually one more (4 cakes, i know, a bit ridiculous!) but number 4 isnt finished yet - watch this space!

Hessian 'Just Married' Banner (including a how to)

 

More decorations for the wedding! A hessian 'just married' bunting style banner. 

I just cut out 12 rectangles of hessian, twice a long as i wanted the finished size to be. I folded them in half long ways.

Then i sewed the three open side closed, but left 2cm open on the longer sides, at the folded end (this is to thread the string through). The edges are exposed as I was going for the rustic look

Then, with a sharpie, i just drew the letters on, its hessian and pretty rough so the drawing doesn't have to be accurate. I used a heart in the space rather than leave it blank. I then threaded some string through each letter - hey presto a banner!

Wedding dress hanger

 

 

I made my wedding dress its own special hanger. I just uses a sharpie, added our names one end, the date the other end and 'bride' in the middle. Pretty pleased with it to be honest, might make lovely BM one for his suit...

Wedding guest book update

I finished the guest book! I just used the same 'jenna sue' font as the invitations, cut out our names and the date from some black vinyl on my silhouette and fixed it on the front, looks all nice and finished now!

Henry the cat

My sister's cat is (almost!) as cute as mine!

Iced sugar cookies - wedding favour practise

I'm not brilliant at piping, and ive never tried piping royal icing but i really want to make iced cookied as my wedding favours so i figured id better brush up my skills!

The cookies are these amazing chocolate sugar cookies by sprinkle bakes (theyre so good that 4 cookies didnt make it to the photo opp!) and i followed this icing tutorial by the ever wonderful annie's eats

 

Initially i tried piping with just a plastic piping bag, no special tip, just the end cut off the bag and this wasnt great. The bag makes quite a flat stream of icing, not what i was looking for. I also made the icing slightly too thick. I found if it was super thick the tension of squeezing the bag make me go wonky. So second time around (blue icing) i used a proper metal piping tip, approx 2mm hole, and thinner icing and it was so much easier. I think i might have gone slightly the other way and made the blue icing too thin, as it spread more than i wanted, but it was still a better effect than previously. Next time i just need to pay really close attention to the icing thickness, thats the most important thing...

I also need to check whether the un-iced cookies freeze well, if they do then theyre definitely my wedding favour cookies!

Mini Bunting Cake Topper

Another cake topper! (I'm having multiple wedding cakes)

Isnt it cute! Its just some thick cotton thread sandwiched between triangles, a bit fiddly as theyre so tiny, but well worth the effort. I then split the top 1cm of 2 wooden skewers and slotted the thread in those. Im definitely using this on one of my cakes - yay!

Wire words cake topper

More wedding stuff trialling! Tried my hand at making a wire word cake topper. I love the effect but i forgot to give any of them legs so i can stick it in the cake!! I used 3mm aluminium wire, which is pretty thick and tougher to bend than i thought, so i had to use a pair of needle nose pliers to do most of it. I think i might use slightly thinner wire, 2 or 2.5mm, when i make the final one, so its slightly easier to handle. Just need to decide what style lettering to so, i think the one at the bottom is my fav, love that curly 'e'!

Ribbon bunting

I made some ribbon bunting to see if i like it for the wedding, maybe to hang behind the cake table - marquee walls can be so white! Its just 5(ish)cm strips of coloured jersey lightly knotted onto garden twine. So easy to do and i love the final effect. Its pretty heavy so i'll have to be careful how i hang it. Could make it with satin ribbon instead maybe, then it would be lighter...

 

Anyway, its a work in progress but loving the progress so far :)

Soft kitty...

Soft kitty, warm kitty, little bar of fur. Happy kitty sleepy kitty, purr, purr, purr

(sheldon cooper and cats - two of my fav things combined!)