Stuff getting done.. and minor panics over nothing.

So, yes..

We have small person's outfit for the wedding sorted. You know this is all spoilers, right? ;)

She looks like this (but will have a matching flower in her hair and hair properly done). That flower pin is just one I had around.

The shrug is finished as you can see. I'm not super happy with the rolling neckline, but the front and bottom are ok and I don't hate it enough to rip the whole thing out or anything.

Then, I have been making the "real" flowers (after all those trial ones.)

My ones for the dress are done, except for the beading.

I think they will be like this, going down one side of my dress, just above the hip. They have grey crystal beads to go on.

 

That's a pair of dressmaking scissors for scale. I've started the other flowers for Flower Girl of Cute and Lady of Awesome's hair but my thread is refusing to thread and I can't find my needle threader and its late and I am cross. So I stopped and decided to post here to feel like I am achieving stuff.

Other stuff has happened. His Lordship has his shiny new suit and is stressing over my dress not being ready (hello! I can't control that!). And he got his teeth fixed. I wish I could say it looked nice but I can't because he wouldn't show me. :(

Most of the quotes for the tables are printed, but I might reprint some larger as I had more room than I thought.

I still need to finish the flowers & beading, cut the table runners, try to get hold of my future sister in law to make my jewellery already, assemble those frames, pick music and bake biscuits.. not much, right?

Last couple of days I keep having these odd panic thoughts.. "What if everyone hates the location? What if they think my dress is ugly/weird/boring/unflattering? What if I don't look like me? What if it pours with rain? What if the families argue?" This is truly not what I want my brain to be doing. Most annoying.

Oh, you found some.

Yeah okay, so he was right. He found some vases we are both happy with, and they are in budget.

I spent months, and he sorted it in an afternoon... sigh...

In other news.. the flowers, they are growing...

 

I think I have now tried almost every version of flower making that doesn't require synthetic fabric.

This one is my favourite, despite me repeatedly saying I wanted soft looking flowers, not silk duponi. It's just looks better, and will hold the shape better when on the dress. So I'll be using dress offcuts to make the flowers for my dress more than likely.

I also have been working away on that bolero shrug.I've doing the ruffle. It has sleeves, back etc. And has been checked it fits more often! Ah well if this one's rubbish I've give up on the idea ;)

Argh! I got vetoed. Again,

His Lordship has decided he really doesn't like the bottles.

He'd been waiting to see if they grew on him. (They didn't.)

/sigh

So I'm now hunting down some little vases.. or something similar. I have a lead, or three so we shall see..

I should never have agreed to him having veto powers :-P~~~~

Table centerpieces... I haz a plan.

Here is what I think the centerpieces will look like, pretty much.

I need to go buy some fabric for the runners, but this is the basic idea. There will be different quotes in each of the frames. His lordship thinks the hearts are too big (out of proportion) and while I sort of agree, I dont have a better plan. They basically work though, so I'm going with it.

On the tables they'll look more like the one on the left, but I wanted a close up so you could see them nicely. If I get time, I'll get the stuff to make proper mats for the frames but they are ok as they are, so I won't stress about it too much.

I love my hair.

Well, like it's going to be for the wedding anyway. I love it so much, and it fits the headpiece perfectly I think.

Hair and make-up done in these pics.

(I'm ignoring those crow's feet... where did they come from?? I'm sure they don't belong to me!)

Two months to go!!

So I finished the bolero.
But.. I'm really not happy with it. The sleeves were abnormally over long. I tried fixing this by making a cuff, which was ok, but then I blocked it.

The whole thing.. relaxed... a lot. So now its a bit big, and doesn't hang nicely. I'm feeling a bit annoyed.

I'm thinking I might finish the other crafting I need to and then maybe pulling out the whole thing and remaking it into a simple top down cardigan. If I run out of time, I'll just buy her a new cardigan.

So on that note.. the other crafty stuff.

I've been making felted hearts. Here is that one I showed before, but felted. 

And this is what they look like when they are being made. This is the kit from my handbag.

They are pretty quick to make, a little over an hour for the knitting, then stuffing sewing and felting. I'm planning on doing the last steps as a big batch.

 

I'm also collecting these.  I wanted little glass bottles or white ceramic bud vases. But it turns out its cheaper (and just as nice in my opinion) to acquire them by drinking.  These are the 200ml bottles you get San Pellegrino drinks in (e.g. limonata or aracina rosa etc).

Can you guess what these are? ...

Gloves. I don't know if I'll wear them or not, I am starting to wonder if I'll have too much going on. But we'll see. They are just shorty fingerless ones.

And this is the last of the supplies for the table decorations! When I have everything together I'll set up an example and take a pic.


Oh and I have a hair trial booked next week! Will consider posting photos ;)

Update.. with shoes... and pretties... (really long sorry)

So... it's been a busy few weeks, punctuated with me catching a cold and being sick for over a week. I am in fact, home sick now, after giving up on getting better at work, since that was just making me steadily sicker after being off for several days, then back, and now off again. Stupid cold.

I am hoping that this means I will have an awesome immune system come the wedding and not get sick again though.

But! Onto better things...

Much progress has been made. Let's go through a brief list and then if you're not interested you can skip forward or stop reading or whatever.

• Invites arrived! Yay! And they are nicer than I expected. And will be mailed next week probably. They can stay secret 'til they arrive in mail boxes I think... (people we are seeing in the meantime are getting handed theirs of course.)
• Flower girl dress arrived.
• I bought some shoes.
• The long awaited fabric samples arrived.
• We booked a celebrant
• His lordship ordered a suit.
• I'm nearly done on flower girl bolero.

So... Flower girl dress. She's very happy with it, and it fits which is good. I think the straps are a tiny bit tight, and I may replace them with some black satin ribbon to fit better come closer to the day.

 

This will go with a green bolero and new black shiny shoes probably.  I can't believe how grown up in it she looks!

 

These are my shoes, which I love. I was going to get some granny style grey boots, or some green or grey ballet flats, but these are really nice, fit well and I really like! (Plus were very reasonably priced.. under budget bonus, yay!)

Finally the fabric sample arrived! Hurrah! This has lead to some interesting back and forth. I was able to discount the creams right out as they are very buttery yellow. Almost tea stained colour. So then, I'm picking between and ivory and an "arctic white". Having looked at them at night time mostly, I thought the white was the go, but now looking at them in daylight, comparing to the grey chiffon for the underskirt... I'm not sure. The ivory doesn't look as yellow in this light and looks a bit softer next to the grey chiffon. I'm still undecided. I know I can wear either with my colouring, so I don't know.
(Incidentally, that was another decision. I decided to go for a solid pale grey ruffled underskirt. The thought of the stress of trying to hand dye mottled grey chiffon on a deadline? Yeah, maybe not. If I still have 6-7 months to the wedding with time to fix stuff ups without stress? I'd consider it. But I've decided there will be enough natural gradiation in the colour of the skirt with the layers to still get the overall effect I was going for.)

We booked a celebrant. Yay. It was all very easy, and she seems reasonable. We need to go down in a couple of weeks to meet her and sign paperwork and such.

His lordship is getting a suit made. I'm really happy about this, as I think he will actually be substantially happier with something that is more his style (retro-loving man he is) than just going for a rental/jacket/whatever. And he will at least he wear out of his again. ;)  It's going to be charcoal grey, with retro detailing, but modern cut. Probably with a waistcoat (cos he loves waistcoats). There's a great tailor in Mount Lawley that does made to measure suits, and specialised in period suits, so I think it will all work out well.

I'm also about to start seaming up and doing the ribbing on small persons bolero-so-she-doesn't-freeze. The pattern ended up being very oddly written (thanks Ravelry for the warning!) So I ended up making a LOT of modifications, including redrafting the entire front of the pattern. If I have realised how difficult it was going to be, I could have written a pattern from scratch, honestly. I think I may have overdone the sleeve length very slightly, but hopefully it will all work out. No photo because it's just a big pile of knitted green. (It's knit in one piece).

That is all. It's all pretty much just ticking along. I think not being steadfastly attached to one idea is helping, so if I can't find something exactly like what I want, I find something else. No big deal.