caitlin elizabeth photography | just for fits and giggles | wedding DIY | DIY boutineer

my aunt betsy is has a way with flowers - i love when it's her month to do the altar flowers for church  because they're always so attractive.  some folks just have a knack for that kind of thing.

generally, i'm not one of those people.

it's been so warm lately that the flowers are blooming at the house!  so i decided to try my hand at making a boutineer :)  i used things that i found in the yard and in my craft box for this little DIY boutineer project.  brides be warned: i don't know next to nothing about flowers or how you're actually supposed to put these things together, i'm not claiming to know the first thing about floral arrangements, i just thought this would be a fun project!  

i used my trusty hot glue gun, twine, a clothespin and miscellaneous plant life i found in my back yard.

there was a bit of a frost the night before, so the majority of the camellia flowers were actually very brown and yucky looking, but i found this little bud that i thought might work well:

  

i think this is cedar - not all of the tree had these little blue berry-like things on it, but i liked the colors so i decided to use one of the sprigs with the berries!

i cut 3 separate sprigs and hot glued them together:

i then hot glued the flower to the front and then wrapped twine around the bottom to hide said hot glue (which at this point was gushing out all over everywhere from gluing 3 sprigs and the flower together)

then i hot glued everything to a clothes pin!  not the most sophisticated thing in the world, but i think it works.  this could definitely be incorporated into a more laid back wedding - nothing too fancy: a backyard, barefeet, tie optional for the groomsmen kind of wedding.

finished product! not too bad for my first attempt:

i didn't have access an attractive young man (will was working... sorry ladies) for me to put this on so i had to take a shirt and just hang it on the china cabinet haha

 

DIYers beware: you can't put the flower too far up the clothespin, otherwise it is too heavy and won't actually stand up.

and to top it all off: this bad boy has been in the fridge for 4 days and it doesn't look weepy at all (i don't think that's a term used to describe things that grow, but you know what i mean) so you could make them in advance and they'll keep for a bit!

so much crafting on the blog this week!  i'm ok with it though :)  

PINday | just for fits and giggles

it seems like everyone has some sort of alliterative weekly blogpost and i've been feeling MAJORLY left out.  much to my disdain all of the good alliterations seem to have been stolen away before i could jump on the bandwagon (wedding wednesday, things i love thursday, mixed tape monday... the list goes on) 

SO. i'm stepping outside of the box and MAKING UP MY OWN WORD. mostly because that's what mama told me to do when i was little and no one would let me play the games they were engrossed in on the playground.  i can hear her plain as day: "if they won't let you play with them you should just make up your own game sweetie!" unfortunately that usually just meant me, sitting on the grass, shoes off, eating dirt and talking with my pre-school's resident lab, shadow... [although i'm sure you loved that little insight into my not-so-long-ago childhood, i digress]

BACK TO MY NEW (hopefully) WEEKLY BLOGPOST: i've recently become ABSOLUTELY OBSESSED with pintrest - as is half of kingdom come.  i've already planned about a bajillion styled shoots, categorized every possible facet of the wedding day, constructed an entire board devoted solely to women who are skinnier than i'll ever be and compiled a list of food i will more than likely never take the time to make. BUT IT IS SO MIND BLOWING-LY AWESOME.

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long story short: 

i wanted to start some sort of 'themed' post 

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all of the cool titles were gone 

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my most recent love for YET ANOTHER social media site 

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the creation of a new installment on the caitlinelizabethphotography blog 

aka:

PINday will consist of taking something crafty from pintrest and seeing if it can REALLY be done or if it should continue to sit on your wittily named crafting pin-board 

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i'm totally open to SUGGESTIONS - tell me what you want me to craft!

we should probably connect on pintrest too ;)