i have become known as something of a “saver,” “coupon queen,” “knower of all discounts” among our group of friends and families. they bring up a product / category of product / int...
please forgive my brief sabbatical, i wanted to keep nana at the top of the page there for a while. the irish blessing she read at our wedding was one of many personal touches i tried to incorpor...
https://coltempo.wordpress.com/2012/04/13/wedding-crafts-personal-touches/
another wedding craft i took on was our favors. i loved the way a candy bar could incorporate your colors, some extra dessert options, and was just plain fun, so i decided early on to go with t...
https://coltempo.wordpress.com/2012/03/26/the-anderson-collection-candy-shoppe/
just ordered these through the Foundary for the house with the last bit of wedding money we received. we got four of them for our dining table….i have wanted these for.EV.errrrr! so excited...
https://coltempo.wordpress.com/2012/03/21/oh-my-cheeeeeeeeese/
this is the corner where my husband lives when he is home. he takes the ampersand pillow and the anniversary date pillow (both wedding gifts, Crate & Barrel and ihavenoideawhere respectively) and...
so remember in that post i wrote oh, i don’t know, almost a year ago me telling you cryptically that i was punching a quadrillion circles for a wedding project? and i was all teasing and lik...
one of the biggest challenges when decorating a large event space is to decorate proportionally. you don’t want a dinky little vase on each table in a room with 12′ ceilings, it gets swallo...
the start of wedding DIY projects has commenced! we are trying to keep wedding costs as low as possible by doing a lot of the decor ourselves – and also i might be a bit of a control freak? s...
being that i just realized that christmas is, um, next week, i figured i ought to show you what i’ve put up for the season at the new house: the mantel: target stockings from several years ago ...
last sunday we had a couple friends over for brunch. i like to put out some kind of small centerpiece or something to enhance the table and my pottery barn paisley runner (man, i miss my discou...
https://coltempo.wordpress.com/2009/10/09/grocery-store-bouquet/