(Re) Chic

The bouquets for my wedding were beautiful, full of my favorite flowers in my favorite colors with all the texture and wonderfulness you expect from a professionally done bouquet. I really wanted to have my bouquet freeze dried but for $150 just to dry it and then more to have it mounted it just wasn't in the budget to have done.  Not to mention the anxiety I felt about having to mail someone my bouquet.  So we researched an alternative option. I read this tutorial , which was super helpful and it convinced me that this was doable.  So we went to JoAnns bought our Silica gel, and went to work. Here's the product we used-we bought 6 jars We didn't want to have to drive back to JoAnn's half way through the project so we bought 6 jars of product, you'll probably need more than that if you do your whole bouquet (more on that in a second). First, you'll want to take your bouquet apart, I waited WAY to long, seriously I would recommend doing this the da...

This post is dedicated to Maggie. Not because of what I found here that I want to make REALLY bad. But because I found it through a link to a wedding website.   The project I'm lusting after.   As you can see the above project is totally me and I am determined to try it out with their excellent step-by-step directions .  Although I must say they seem like a little more work for just an ordinary candle holder so they may have to hold out for a special occasion.   The tutorial was posted on www.WeddingBee.com which is why it immediately makes me think of Maggie.  And while the blog interests me little because it feeds from the whole site what's great is the bio tab because it has buttons that lead to these lists of ideas and articles on how the couple met to the honeymoon.  For example if I go to www.weddingbee.com->click on the "Bio" tab->click on "Bouquets" I end  up at this page full of photos of bouquets each with a link with a post...