Gobble Gobble

My lovely boss has a window in her office. It looks out onto the backside of  some cubicle. :) Last Thanksgiving our team decorated her office window with hand print turkeys. We have kept it decorated all year long. Sometimes we get creative, and we do some crafted item and sometimes it's just those gel cling things. We didn't have any easy gel clings for Thanksgiving on hand, so we had been thinking about what we were going to put up on the window. One morning, I saw this post from A Girl and a Glue Gun. Have you been over there yet? Love her!!

I was inspired! This was a crafty project that even the least crafty on our team could get behind. I headed into our lounge, and grabbed an assortment of severely outdated magazines. (People magazine from March anyone? It has Kim K's engagement on the cover!) I gave everyone a magazine and assigned them a color. We went through and made a collage of that color, cut out a feather shape, and then created this masterpiece!

Crepe Paper Flowers

One of the bigger projects I had for the wedding was the flowers. After looking at several different options, I decided to make all of my own paper flowers instead of getting real flowers. I picked up this kit to do a little experimenting to see its done and how long this would take me to make all of these.

It actually came with supplies to make some of these flowers, and after trying them out and seeing how they came out I decided to go for it. I ordered more crepe paper sheets and get the wire and LOTS of floral tape and went to town.

These were a little tricky at first, but once I had a system down of cutting and taping it went faster. These were a cut and tape individual petals, and you just have to be okay with your hands being all sticky from that wonderful tape. I was very happy with the result of them, and while they were time consuming they were worth it. Here are some pictures of some of the completed flowers. These aren't the way the final bouquets looked, but a good idea of it. I actually don't have a picture of the final bouquets at the moment, but I'm sure someone has one that I'll get soon enough and can share.

Martha has lots of paper flower tutorials on her website, and my original intention was to just pull her off of there. But, once I saw this kit for $12 with supplies to experiment, I thought it worth it for the testing. And, there were enough types of flowers in there that I didn't need to print and figure out the online ones. 

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