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 The second type of flower I made for my son's rehearsal dinner was an Oragami design called Kusudama. Kusudama is a modular Oragami flower that is made in units. It seems to be most common to make a 5 unit flower however, I made mine with 6. PS I LOVED when my dining room table was covered with these beautiful bouquets leading up to the wedding! Here's how it's done: cut a 4 inch square fold in half as shown • use a bone folder or the dull side of a table knife to make the crease sharp fold...

ok, where were we? Good thing it didn't take me as long to make the flowers as it did to blog about them! I made two types of flowers for the rehearsal dinner. The solid yellow ones were super easy. I used two different yellow papers. One was plain and one had a texture in sort of a linen look with a slight shimmer. I thought this subtle difference would add a little depth. start with a six inch square draw a swirl and cut on the line start rolling from the outer ring to the center Photo 1 I...

Other than June 23rd, 1979, the closest to my heart that a wedding has ever been happened on March 9th, 2013 in Aiken•SC it was the marriage ceremony of my first born son Daniel to the love of his life Katie. Since the wedding ceremony and reception is traditionally planned and carried out by the bride and her family, I took on the rehearsal dinner and a couples shower with joy and anticipation! I had wanted to make felt ball flowers for some time. I was also curious about paper flowers and wondered how I could incorporate them into the...

The baby quilt from Craft Camp 2012 .....goes to... {Madison Grace Haynes} • born October 8th, 2012 She joined big brothers Elijah and Sam, two lucky boys with two sweet loving parents. I loved working on that little quilt. I even missed it after it was complete! I hope Maddie Grace loves it to shreds! Here are some step by step close-ups on how I finished the quilt. Piecing the front of a quilt is always my favorite part. But, to make it a quilt it needs to be quilted! Enter...the batting, the backing, and the binding stage. I didn't...

While Craft Camp was a huge success in both fun and crafty accomplishments, I still had some loose ends to call my projects complete! After the airport run I immediately got back to my kitchen valances. I forgot to take a photo of my old valances but, they were in the background of a few old pics. Not very sharp photos but at least you can see the color and style. {They are much more teal and pink than the photo represents} They were actually pretty awesome when I made them 18 years ago! All I had to go on...