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Jam jars of spring flowers in wooden crates to create rustic seasonal table arrangements
Ok, so I have been saving like a million images over the past month, ready for the end of the birthday month celebrations to finish and for me to return to my normally blogging. I’m a bit baffled by where to start, so bear with me – any advice on what you’d like to see is always useful, so feel free to leave me a message in the comments box below. After much deliberating, I chose the image above to share with you all. Today with the rain coming down, we seem to be stuck somewhere between winter and spring, …
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Crafty wedding and home ideas for decorating with washi tape
Over the weekend Mr Rigg and I have been decorating our living room (the largest room in our house, two small cottage rooms knocked through to one) – a far step from the glamorous world of weddings. I have been using copious amounts of masking tape to cover up plug sockets and light switches and it inspired me to share with you ideas on what to do with the pretty version of making tape, known as washi tape. It comes in all different colours and styles and there are lots of fun and creative ideas out there for how to …
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Tiny lantern place names
This idea of using tiny lanterns as place names at your wedding is lovely in so many ways. Firstly, who doesn’t love the idea of lots of twinkly tealights to bring a warm glow to their evening festivities? Secondly, it would be a fun way of bringing candles to your dinner tables, with everyone collecting their lantern and taking it to their place. And thirdly, they would double up nicely as favours for your guests to take home with them. Image: Rebecca Hansen Weddings via Once Wed
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Transform jam jar lanterns for a seasonal autumn wedding
Recently I’ve been on some blustering walks with the dog and I realised how much I love nature and being outdoors, no matter how cold and windy it is. It got me thinking about couples who are getting married at this time of year, and what I would do if I was having an October/November wedding. If you’ve followed the blog for a while you’ll know I’m an advocate of looking to the seasons and what nature provides. So looking around on my walks I can’t help but notice the abundance of acorns lying around. Then I came across this lovely …
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Rustic jam jar lanterns with string and herbs
What a sweet idea – attaching a sprig of herbs with a string bow around the top of a small jam jar to make a pretty tealight lantern. I’m a bit obsessed by turning jam jars into lanterns, but for me they work so well on so many levels: you are reusing something (an old jam jar) that otherwise would have gone in the bin or the recycling without too much effort you can make it into something really neat and useful (a lantern) and there are so many ways you can decorate them You can also go one better and …
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Our rustic country wedding – setting up the garden on morning of the wedding
It has been so lovely to have our wedding featured on Love My Dress, but I know that some of my readers would like to see more detail, and there’s so many lovely photos it seems a shame not to share more of them. Our wedding ceremony was due to start at 4.30pm, but we’d invited our guests to have afternoon tea in the garden from 3pm. This meant we had all morning to get ready, which for a wedding at home was all about everyone pitching in to help set up. So with less than an hour before people were due to start arriving this is what we were …
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A lazy summer picnic photoshoot with cakes and sweetpeas
On Wednesday I had so much fun. I drove up to Lancashire to meet Mark Tattersall, we had lunch and caught up, then we set up a mini photoshoot. Mark took the pictures and I brought along a boot full of ‘bits and pieces’ from my home, some beautiful English sweetpeas and delicious cupcakes. I suppose in the world of weddings you would say I ‘styled’ the shoot, but it feels rather odd, as it was more just a collection of pretty things made to look nice. With this gorgeous (and sometimes stifling) hot weather we’ve had, I wanted to create …
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