struggles, work and favour boxes!

Well these past few weeks have been a bit up and down wedding wise, lots of planning and lots of stress, with going back to work

It all started about a month ago when I decided to go from a ten-hour contract in a city an hour and a half away on the bus, back to bank work so I can work closer to home. It turned out that due to working time regulations, that even though I am still working for the same company I had to take an unpaid break from work. The company managed to get this break down from 4 weeks to just one, but I also had to redo a CRB check. And I couldn't start work again until it had come through. The 1 week break then turned into three!

So I've been cracking on with the wedding, but have now become addicted to the website I posted in my prvious post. Lots of ideas have been popping into my head whilst looking through the posts and a lot has been acheived. The site is so helpful I have even found a Wedding Fair coming up very shortly :)

So my centrepieces have now been completed and these are the ones for the "normal tables" :)

I am very proud of these indeed and the flowers were a "fate find"

After I'd made these I was in a crafty mood and have now started on my favour boxes. This is where the stress came in as I couldn't decide how to decorate them with the ribbon. I tried just putting the bows through the hole on the boxes, but the bows wouldn't sit right at all!! Every try I just kept getting more and more stressed and the more stressed I was getting the harder it became!

Then one night, me and H2B were sat watching "Amazing Wedding Cakes" on Food Network UK (a must-watch for all you B2Bs) and all of a sudden an idea popped into my head. So, at midnight on a cold rainy bank holiday Monday, the craft bag came out, along with the rather blunt scissors and a roll of cellotape for a practise run. I decided I would try and wrap them like parcels, with a seperate piece of ribbon on the top shaped into a bow. I made the first box and showed it to H2B, who then said "how's it gonna open?"

Well I could've slapped him!! He was right of course it wouldn't open because the ribbon was wrapped around the whole box. so bake to the drawing board it was and then H2B said "you can keep it in that style, just cut the ribbon at the joins" (who knew he was so arty?!?!?). So I tried, and here was the finished effect:

Obviously it's only a trial run (hence the cellotape) and I have since made one properly after going out and buying 20m of different coloured ribbon, superglue and some new scissors, and was well intending to make the rest, but haven't got round to it yet due to now being back at work. Next day off, I swear!!

N xx