More Boxing!

I have completed the painting of my boxes for my card box! I'm excited! I already had the green paint, and I got the blue paint from Michael's with a 40% off coupon, so it was about $2.91, I think. The blue looks black in my cell phone picture. Hopefully it will look blue with a real flash.

Now, I don't know exactly what I want to do with the box! lol. And I really don't know how to cut the holes in it and all of that. But I guess I'll figure it out. I have a couple other checks, but I want them to have their own posts because they are all very deserving! LOL! Any ideas for my box?!

Boxed In

I've been searching for paper mache boxes for quite some time, now! I've been to about 3 Joann's looking for them, but they only seem to sell them on their website. {That's dumb!} Michael's only had really little ones. Hobby Lobby never had the sizes that I wanted. So, I started to get really angry! So, today, I took my aunt's dog to the vet to get his shots. I had to leave him there, and there's nothing to do in that area so I drove to Baytown to check Babe's P.O. box.

I'd been waiting on my swatch from Henkaa to come, and it finally arrived!!! I like the shade of navy blue that they have. I will inform my bridesmaids probably tomorrow that they are clear to order their dresses!

Back to real matters:
While in Baytown, I stopped by their Hobby Lobby. What a great call on my part! THEY HAD THE BOXES!!! I bought 3. None were on sale, nor did I have a coupon, but I only spent about $14. I'm ok with that. I'm going to wait to have a coupon to buy my acrylic paint, which is on sale now for 25% off... so I MIGHT go get it.

I think I'm going to paint the boxes navy and lime, 2 navy, 1 lime. On the navy ones, I think I will add the same lime ribbon from the invitations and add navy ribbon to the lime one. Or I might decorate them some way and use the wide ribbon to tie into a bow at the top. I don't know what I'm going to do exactly. We'll see.

Here's a pic of how I think I want the boxes to be stacked.


Well, I do plan for them to be centered! LOL! I actually want a bigger square box for the bottom, but I can't find one. I hope I end up finding one because I have a GREAT idea for the large bottom box!

I Want a Convertible...

DRESS, that is!!! I want one AND my bridesmaids will be wearing them! Thanks to one of my AA Knottie sisters for referring me to Henkaa. I already ordered a sample swatch from them so that I can make sure that they order the correct color. They mixed up my shipping address, so it will be sent to our P.O. box, which is NOT in this city. Hopefully it will be there by next week. I can't wait to get it! I told the girls that they can order their dresses in their own timing, as long as they have them by the wedding day. No sense in me stressing over them getting their dress. I want these dresses for my girls because they can be uniformed but not identical... if that makes sense. I'm allowing them to pick how they want to wear their dress. That's another something that I'm not interested in allowing to stress me out. I also like these dresses because they're something that the girls can wear again and again. Don't you hate those stupid bridesmaids dresses that cost a lot of money and you can never wear them again? What a waste! Here are some of the wraps I like, in no particular order.

Hopefully my girls can successfully tie these dresses! LOL! I know I'm not going to know how to do it. I was telling Babe that there are tutorial videos on the website. So, I need them to practice ahead of time. They better buy those dresses in time to get about a weeks worth of practice in. lol. I'll let them know that!

Some Paper Work

I've finally sent out my beautiful STDs!!! I still have some more to put in the mail, but they are signed and sealed... just need to be delivered to USPS. I've also started the construction of my lovely invitations! Here's how I saved some money... as I talked about earlier.

I bought a package of 250 sheets of lime green paper {$13} from O-K Paper. I also bought a package of 250 sheets of natural white, classic linen paper {$20} from there. I printed out my invitations on one sheet of paper, as well as my RSVP card. Babe took the invitations and RSVP card to Staples. He got copies of the invitations and the lady cut them. He also got the RSVP cards cut to size. {The lady forgot to copy them first, so I'll just have to print them myself.} Then we went back with the green paper and got it cut to size. {$4+$6=$10} Then I assembled the invitations {natural white paper} to the mats {lime green paper} with a glue stick. {$1 for a pack of 3} When I glue the rest of the invitations together, if the invitations are coming up from the mat, I'll use Goop {$3} from Big Lot's to glue it. I did all my assembling last night. This morning, I ordered my blue folds and matching envelopes from Cards and Pockets. {$74}

So far, I've spent about $121 on my invitations, including the ribbon that I bought a while back.

My cut invitations and mats.

My completed stack.

Side shot.

As you can ALSO see, I changed the graphic on my invitations! The one that I had previously looked as if my printer was running out of ink when printed. I didn't want that. So, this is where I am in the invitation process.

THE Place

So... as of Thursday, January 24, 2011, our venue has been BOOKED! Like, booked for real... like we actually gave them a deposit!!! Yes, I've talked about 2 other venues in the course of this blog, BUT this is THE ONE!!! When I first stepped in the place, I KNEW I had to have it! This place has everything that the last place had AND SOME!!! I didn't want to post the name, but why not?! My venue is Bella Elegante located in downtown Houston! It is such a beautiful venue! And there's a beautiful park across the street for great pictures. I'm so happy about this check! It's one of the biggest checks ever! Oh, next post is about my dress shopping experience!

Revised: Here're my pix!

This is the beautiful chandelier when you first walk into my venue.

This is the mirror right outside of the door to the room.

This is the view of the room when you first walk in.

Another view.

This is the back of the room. The pretty bookshelves over the fire place and one of two flat screen TVs.

Some things in the room will be changed before my wedding! New carpet and the construction of a wall where the servers come out. I'm so anxious!

I'm SUCH a Loser!!!

Yeah, I'll admit it! I haven't posted in AGES... it seems like. I do have A LOT of things to post, but since I don't have the pix that I want on this computer, I'm trying to wait. Here's what's happening:

- I OFFICIALLY booked my venue.

- I'm blinging out my cake table letters.

- I've started constructing my invitations.

- And I'm sure there's so much more! I'll be updating stuff tomorrow! {I hope.}