If there is one thing that I want most next to having a bigger kitchen it would be to have a decent sized Micheal's in Bay Ridge. Come on Brooklyn! Join the craft bandwagon and get us some chain stores! Apparently Staten Island and Long Island have a Michael's and there is a rinky dink one on the Upper West Side, but I would prefer not to haul my goods on the train. There is definitely a market here!
Anyways, Michael's is heaven and Dan probably had more than his lifetime fill of that place while Mandy, my mom, and I ran around filling carts. I had to leave a lot of stuff behind simply because I couldn't fit it in my suitcase. (Side note: for those of you that plan to stay at the Holiday Inn in Hillside where we have a block reserved for our wedding guests...there is a Michael's, Home Goods, and a Target in the same parking lot!!!)
Our primary goals for the day were to get supplies to make the mason jar candle holders for the tables at the reception. Both of the ideas we got from Pinterest (follow my wedding board or search chalk and mason jar). The first one is to take a mason jar and place a cutout of a heart from blue painters tape on the outside of the jar. Then paint the outside of the jar with chalkboard spray paint. Once it dries peel off the heart shaped tape and tie a ribbon or twine around the mouth of the jar. We still have to draw a chalk outline around the heart and put the candle inside, but you get the idea. When the candle is lit you can see the flame through the heart! Thanks to Dan who did all the spray painting!
The second candle holder is made from a short jam sized jar. Take Elmer's glue and water it down so it can be easily painted. Coat the inside of the jar with the glue and shake colored craft glitter to cover the glue. Tie a ribbon around the mouth of the jar and that's it! Mandy made these start to finish, no helpers. We still need to add the candles.
The last craft that we got to was the favors. I ordered the custom squished pennies WAY back in January, it was like the first thing I did for the wedding planning. They arrived as simple pennies and we needed some way to display them nicely as take-away favors. The idea was to use those paper punchers and cut out a scalloped square from black card stock. Then we found a variety of papers with pink and white patterns. Dan and I hand cut out smaller squares from these and glue tapped them on top of the black paper. We took sticky tack and put the penny on top, put it all in a little clear baggie, and tied with a ribbon. I am really happy with how they turned out. They will look so cute sitting on the place settings. AND since we used sticky tack you can still remove the penny if you want.
Other supplies we got but ran out of time to create were the chalkboard signs. We needed one on the first floor of the reception venue to direct guests upstairs and one to put on the guest table that says something like picking wherever you want to sit since we have no seating chart (dude I'm not dealing with that, just put your bum in a chair and we're good...hey maybe that's what the sign will say...just kidding). We went to Home Goods as well and Mandy and I found an adorable rectangle chalkboard with a cream distressed scalloped frame around it. We are trying to come up with an idea to use this for some sort of guest interactive. Stay tuned.
I really liked crafting and although we spent a lot of time going to different stores looking for just the right mason jars, and Mandy drove us everywhere, I still really liked spending time with her and for all of us to do something creative together. We got Dan his Sonic grape slush along the way because he was such a trooper.
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