Little sister's wedding

When my little sister announced that she was getting married I was obviously more than a little excited!

 

I offered to help in any way I could, and my sister darling that she is asked if I would mind making some bunting.

 

NOW

 

My sister probably didn't expect me to go to quite the lengths I did in order to make this bunting just a tad special but it was for my only sister so I went the extra mile.

 

I went online and got the dimensions of the hall they were using for the meal and worked out how much bunting would be needed to fit it perfectly.

 

The room had steel struts (builders of the world unite in correcting me in the terminology but for the purposes of this they are struts!) so I counted them, worked out (as best I could) the approximate length of said struts, multiplied that by the amount of said struts and got on ebay...........

 

No not to buy the bunting!!!!!!

 

I bought tons of bias binding and some fabric that I knew my sister would love. When the fabric arrived I poked around in my scrap fabric stash and came up with more than enough fabric.

 

I cut the flags and because I was in extra mile mode decided to trim each one with bias binding so that they were all neat and tidy with no rough edges and looked just that little bit more classy than a pinked edge (crafters know ok they just know!)

 

I am not ashamed to say that this took weeks, as I was doing some and leaving it when I was seeing bias binding in my sleep.

 

Also in my wisdom I decided that I'd take care of the confetti situation...........To be fair I did see a picture on pinterest which totally inspired me and I got all excited and possibly bulldozed my sister into agreeing but................confetti cones it is!

 

Meanwhile.....

 

The bunting flags look suspiciously like a stack of thongs.

 

 

 

I ordered some card for the confetti cones, swore a few times when it was a completely different shade to that described and ordered another lot of card.

 

When it arrived I drew around the dish that sits on my scales cut the rounds into thirds (as accurately as I could eyeball it) glued paper doilies to the outside with my fantastic new discovery the glue mouse! Glued them into cone shapes, trimmed rough edges, stuck little polka dotted satin bows to he front and sat back quite pleased with myself.

 

I filled them with a mixture of Asahi rose petals (dried) lavender, jasmine and pink heather. All chosen for specific reasons. Roses because they are beautiful and smell gorgeous, lavender for the scent, jasmine because when my sister was growing up she always wanted to be Princess Jasmine from the Disney film Aladin and Heather for luck.

 

The finished result wasn't bad at all :D

 

I got a much loved (code for a bit battered) white basket, wrapped ribbon around the handle and glued tiny rose buds around the rim. put wadding in the bottom and tucked some lovely fabric over and around the wadding to provide a cushion to sit the confetti cones on to prevent spillages and packed everything away for transportation to the wedding venue.

 

I finally finished the bunting by attaching the flags to long lengths of bias binding (for that finishing touch and professional look) and to prevent it looking like knickers on a washing line as my younger brother so kindly put it I added tiny lengths of polka dotted ribbon between the flags. I was quite pleased with the finished result!