Category: Creativity
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Preserving My Wedding Flowers
One hard truth about wedding expenses is that flowers add up more than you think they would. I learned that years ago when I worked in the wedding industry, and I was certainly reminded of that when planning our own mini wedding. I consider myself a Budget Bride (have you seen my DIY flower veil?)…
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Wearing My Mom’s Wedding Dress
Like many brides planning their wedding in early 2020, I didn’t get too far with wedding dress shopping by the time lockdown happened. Like many around the world, we postponed our wedding, and dress shopping was put on hold indefinitely. That is until we eventually changed our minds, and decided to still get married this…
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My Flower Veil
Wearing flowers in my hair on my wedding day was pretty much an absolute guarantee. As I’m sure you’ve picked up by now, I am a petal-happy flower child. Once I Said Yes to the Dress, accessorizing my bridal look with a floral headpiece was the next step. But when I started browsing for floral…
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My Bridal Suite
Part of the whole Bridal experience is the “getting ready” part. The pampering, the beautifying, the excitement and the butterflies. Since I wasn’t having the typical wedding with bridesmaids, make-up artists or the coming and going of people, my getting-ready experience was thankfully quiet and relaxed. It was just me and my Mom getting beautified,…
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Our Unofficial Engagement Shoot
When we were finally able to see, hug and squeeze our families after not seeing them for months, we did all of the things. We caught up on life, we BBQ’ed every day, we sat under the moon in the backyard, we shared thoughts, ideas and plans, and during all this, an unplanned “engagement shoot”…
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My Antique Engagement Ring
Like many around the world, we’ve made the decision to postpone our wedding celebration to next year. We began 2020 with excitement, visiting cool venues where we’d envision our intimate wedding while enjoying complimentary champagne and delicious cake samples. In February, we secured a deposit for our venue and photographer, we announced the date to…
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Getty Museum Recreation
If there’s one positive thing to come out of this strange and uneasy time, it’s our ability to turn to creativity for our mental and emotional survival. Through memes, YouTube or TikTok videos circulating amongst our group chats and Zoom videos, our creativity has proven to comfort one another through comedy, relatability, inspiration and just…
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Framed Pressed Flowers
One thing that I’ve realized about myself is that I often feel the need to be surrounded by environments that ignite inspiration. If a few days go by without anything stimulating me creatively, I feel a need to seek it. Those environments can be many things; seasons, cafés, nature, old homes and even images on…
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90 Years Loved: Handmade Gift Idea for Milestone Birthdays
I think there’s a certain aspect of romance to old family photographs. I don’t mean the old family photos at Chuck E. Cheese birthday parties in the 80s. I’m talking about those black and white photos of our maiden mothers, our newlywed grandmothers, or our handsome great uncles in some sort of distinguished uniform. It’s…
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Easter Egg Decoration
This year for Easter, I really wanted to step up my egg game. The past two years I’ve kept the Easter decor to a minimal, gracing our space with only a vase of fresh tulips and a small bowl of Cadbury Mini Eggs. But let’s face it, the tulips never lasted and certainly neither did…
My Turquoise Bag 