Hello readers! That is, if there's anyone left still reading after a month and a half without any posts. I am finally able to get pictures off my camera, and there are tons of things I can't wait to show you. So here is a post I started writing a few months ago, before our friends' wedding. Now their honeymoon has come and gone so I changed the tense, added the pictures and here you go! ...
I'm at that age, where everyone I know is suddenly getting engaged. There are many weddings on the horizon, but there is one in particular The Man and I
are were looking forward to (don't worry daddy, I'm not talking about ours!). Ours friends Maria and Daily got married on September 9th and a few months ago her bridesmaids threw her a bachelorette party.
As for the party itself I'll just say, we had a good time, and leave it at that. What I'm really here to tell you about is what I gave as a bachelorette gift.
I saw
this DIY bride kit on
Oh Happy Day! and thought it was a wonderful gift. She made a sweet box and included lotion, mints, bobby pins, nail polish, and other practical helpful bits and bobs. I loved the idea but wanted to make a tad more personal, so I kept the color scheme and added a few details:
I didn't have tattoo paper or a fancy color printer, so I used the old stand-by transfer method from grade school: I printed out the designs I wanted to use, scribbled all over the back of the paper with a pencil so that graphite was covering the paper, then placed my image on the box where I wanted it (drawing side up) and drew back over the lines of the image so when I lifted the paper my drawing was on the box in graphite. Easy-peasy-mac-and-cheesy!
Then I took a regular blue pen from work and filled in the lines on the box by hand. The box itself is from
JoAnn's (the same one used in the
Oh Happy Day! tutorial), and I just grabbed some cheap-o acrylic paint to paint it blue.
My favorite part of the kit was what I put inside. I wanted it to be a little practical but also personal and funny, so I started thinking of various wedding traditions and superstitions, like "cold-feet" and shoving cake in each others faces. I got together a few trinkets and printed little clues for each one on simple gift tags.
This is what I came up with:
Once I got everything wrapped they barely fit in the box, but with a little smushing it closed right up!
This project was so much fun to do, I highly suggest it for a lovely bride-to-be in your life. I recently found out my
best friend in the whole wide world is engaged and I can't wait to think up some fun personal treats for her bride kit!
p.s. Fun Story: The clue for the condoms (though obvious) was my favorite. When Maria and Daily got engaged, Andrew (aka The Man) and I were waiting with bated breath to hear the news. We knew it was going to happen because Daily had called us the day before to ask if we could tell Maria that the party we invited her to was cancelled because it was getting in the way of his proposal plans. The Man was pacing the whole day, one of his best friends was getting engaged, he couldn't handle it! When the call finally came later that night one of the first things The Man said to Maria was "You're not allowed to have any babies for at least 2 years!" This was of course after "congratulations" and "I'm so happy for you" but it was hilarious, the engagement was too much change for him and so he made Maria promise "no babies for 2 years." She's kept her promise so far . . . just one year to go :)!
This was my first time using royal icing, and it's a lot harder than I thought it would be to make them look like those perfect store bought cookies. 
We finally ate the last of the left over cookies the other day, so I think it's time to try again right?? Who's up for some Spring themed cookies!!?
