Here’s a graduation announcement I did for my sister:

And reposted is our party invitation. It’s a flat card printed front and back.

I did our marriage announcement, too, but it’s very plain and boring (and nice). No image necessary.

These are the flowers before they were put together to make the balls:

*Updated- here is the only photo in existence of the finished piece:

Here’s the stack of invitations:

Invitation, my design:

I do have photos of my dress.  The material is a sheet that I got from Salvo’s years ago.  (Anthropologie belt, Marc Jacobs shoes, jewelry handmade.)

Testing the photobooth:

Sisters:

Trying to show our matching mouse shoes:

Here are my unintentionally-matching gifts- totally awesome.

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A couple weeks ago my boss asked me if I could do some signs for the break room at work, and I immediately thought of working with felt:

I cut all the letters freehand, then just used glue dots to attach them to some black ribbon.

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It snowed a bunch this one day:

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I didn’t make these truffles, but my sister did!

I took a class at EmMi Beads from Lisa Oristian and forged this necklace.  Just the chain, not the circles at the bottom.

I had pieces left over for earrings:

I cut the lily of the valley from a Martha Stewart template using an X-acto blade, painted the white bits with acrylic, and went over it all with mod podge.  Same deal for the monogram, except I cut it without a template.

For Derek and Meghan’s wedding – Adam and I put together this bottle opener (available at EmMi Beads) and also made them a “Jamaica Me Crazy” scented candle (not pictured).

This is my first candle ever!  The top half is macintosh apple, the bottom is pomegranate.

Here’s the rest of the amethyst chips:

Inspired by Lanvin fall 08 jewelry.  These are Swarovski pearls stitched onto dyed silk.

Crystal-pearl-ribbon bracelet:

Just some cute leaf earrings:

Some rings I made at work.  Clockwise from top they are made with 1. a mirage (mood!) bead, 2. turquoise, 3. unknown semiprecious, 4. Swarovski pearl, 5. and 6. Swarovski crystal.

Also at work, a valentine-ish necklace.  Brass, freshwater pearl, and Sw. crystal.

These are sister bracelets for Sarah and me.  The chips are our birthstone, garnet, and the other glass beads represent our numbers… mine has 13 total- 6 on one strand, 7 on the other.  Sarah’s has 10 total, because her best numbers are 5 and 28.

I made myself earrings with the leftovers.

On Monday everyone from EmMi Beads had lunch and exchanged gifts.  I gave out my tote bags from the previous post, and I received some really great stuff.

Lisa (Kissing Dog Designs) gave me a bunch of really cool beads.  I’m very happy to have these in my stash!

Denise (Whirled Peas Beads) let me pick this bead out as an xmas gift (plus four more small beads for earrings- I haven’t used those yet)…

…and also gave me a goddess!

Kim (EmMi Beads) gave me a beautiful Whirled Peas bead that I had been eyeing.  I don’t know whether she knew that or not, but either way I’m thrilled to own it.  It makes me think of turtles.

(I really love these czech glass petrified wood-looking beads! )

From Karen (EmMi Beads) I received this awesome personalized beading tool pouch.  If only I had a sewing machine that embroidered…  and serged.

Then that night I went to work at my other job, EmMi Beads.  I was putting out new items when I found beads that looked pretty similar to what I had seen earlier, so I decided to recreate it:

Not bad!  And this only cost $10-12.  The chain isn’t as fine, and the beads are glass (I don’t know if the originals are semi-precious or not, though they ought to be), but the look is the same and I like it.

“St. Louis Gonzaga Church of Utica annual “Festival of Baskets” will take place at 2 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 21, at Hart’s Hill Inn, 135 Clinton St., Whitesboro.

The event is similar to a silent auction, which allows attendees to place chances on a variety of gift baskets and gift certificates. Each basket is unique, includes handcrafted items and has a theme such as Christmas, Halloween, seasonal, collectibles or money trees. The gift baskets range in value from $25 to over $100.

To mark the festival’s 10th anniversary, a raffle will be held for a 50-inch plasma television.

The festival has grown from an offering of 30 baskets at the inaugural event to more than 200 baskets in 2006.” (source)

The other day we put together a basket.  This means that we picked everything out together, Adam paid for it all, and I arranged it artfully.  If it’s not obvious enough, this is a Clinton Cider Mill themed basket.

This was my first attempt at making a bow from ribbon.  I think it came out okay, considering I had the widest ribbon ever.  It helped that it was wired.  (Not a print I would have chosen myself, by the way, but it works.)

So what was inside?

-an apple slicer
-maple sugar candy
-apple cinnamon pancake mix
-pumpkin bread mix
-mulling spices
-sun-dried tomato and basil vinaigrette
-strawberry rhubarb preserves
-apple salsa
-apple butter
-maple syrup
-$20 gift certificate

And for good measure, we included little pamphlets on apples and syrup.

Okay, so at work today I was sizing/pushing mens’ underwear and came across… the iBoxer:

What can I even say?

Here are the digitals I took today at the laundromat.  I like doing laundry once I get there.  I listened to the first part of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets audiobook and took pictures when no one else was around.