More crafting
I played fairy godmother again. One of my library assistants was getting married this month. She and her best friend have worked for me for a couple of years, and have been regulars at the library for longer, so I wanted to do something nice for her. She's poor, and has a rough homelife (she'd been staying with her best friend, but that girl's home burned down over the summer, so she had to go home to an unstable stepfather while the friend's home was being rebuilt). She's the same girl I played fairy godmother to at prom, earlier. She's a very sweet kid with her own style (and I wish I'd had more of that attitude when I was a teenager) and she deserves better than she's getting out of life.
I made her a wedding cake topper and a veil. She likes owls, so I made her an owl cake topper. I carved them from foam, covered with a layer of paper mache, and then painted them with my pearly craft paint. Hot glued it all to a Hobby Lobby cake topper base, and dressed them up with some extra flowers and trim I had, then misted it all with iridescent glitter spray and glued a piece of scrap veil on the bride owl. She loved it. Her best friend's mom is making her cake.
The veil I made at school with a group of girls (the bride included). This website is great for veil how-to. I picked up two yards of 108" wide white tulle I bought from a fabric store that time forgot. It was neat looking at the trims and embellishments in original packaging from decades back. I brought the material and two packs of WalMart satin ribbon to school and showed the girls how to make a veil. It turned out great, and the girl was thrilled. Her best friend said she'd tried on one very much like it at the dress shop, but it had cost $70-$80. The one I made cost about $6. One girl looked at me with big eyes and asked "But why do they cost so much in stores?" She couldn't wrap her mind around that the markup on bridal stuff is so high. I told them that stores can pretty much charge what they want for bridal stuff because for some reason a lot of people are willing to pay it, and now that they know how to make veils, that's something they might could do to make a little extra money sometime.
She was so happy she wore it down the hall to go show some of her friends. One girl who'd been in the home ec class that just finished their wedding planning project called out to her "I know where you got that! You've been to David's Bridal! I saw that one when I did my project!" My assistant grinned huge and answered back "Nope! We just made it in the library!"
While I was at the thrift store, there was a cute little flower girl basket and headpiece set for 59 cents. I got that too, and hot glued a few red rosettes on to it to make the colors match better and fill in some empty spots. She loved that too.
I made her a wedding cake topper and a veil. She likes owls, so I made her an owl cake topper. I carved them from foam, covered with a layer of paper mache, and then painted them with my pearly craft paint. Hot glued it all to a Hobby Lobby cake topper base, and dressed them up with some extra flowers and trim I had, then misted it all with iridescent glitter spray and glued a piece of scrap veil on the bride owl. She loved it. Her best friend's mom is making her cake.
The veil I made at school with a group of girls (the bride included). This website is great for veil how-to. I picked up two yards of 108" wide white tulle I bought from a fabric store that time forgot. It was neat looking at the trims and embellishments in original packaging from decades back. I brought the material and two packs of WalMart satin ribbon to school and showed the girls how to make a veil. It turned out great, and the girl was thrilled. Her best friend said she'd tried on one very much like it at the dress shop, but it had cost $70-$80. The one I made cost about $6. One girl looked at me with big eyes and asked "But why do they cost so much in stores?" She couldn't wrap her mind around that the markup on bridal stuff is so high. I told them that stores can pretty much charge what they want for bridal stuff because for some reason a lot of people are willing to pay it, and now that they know how to make veils, that's something they might could do to make a little extra money sometime.
She was so happy she wore it down the hall to go show some of her friends. One girl who'd been in the home ec class that just finished their wedding planning project called out to her "I know where you got that! You've been to David's Bridal! I saw that one when I did my project!" My assistant grinned huge and answered back "Nope! We just made it in the library!"
While I was at the thrift store, there was a cute little flower girl basket and headpiece set for 59 cents. I got that too, and hot glued a few red rosettes on to it to make the colors match better and fill in some empty spots. She loved that too.