My sister and I were talking about ideas for the seating chart cards, so I did a quick search of etsy for options. We came across this one.

And I said to my non-crafting sister, “I can do that.” And she said, “With birds?”

When I said, “I can do that,” I mostly meant “I can do that with some help of my craftier friends who know how to stencil and the like.”

And so, last night, before I packed my bag for the east coast, Traci came over and helped me make some delightful seating chart cards for the wedding.

First we started with some birds. Where does one get 20 different birds, you might ask?

Well, I was talking to my mom about the idea, and she said, “Oh well. I have a bird silhouette font, I’ll send it over.”

So folk, there you go. We’re bird people, you know.

Then we traced the birds that we had just cut out out onto pages of a book. You may remember this general idea from Nikki’s table numbers.

You may notice Alice Hoffman. We used Illumination Night, because it’s about the east, and my sister loves Alice, and because despite it’s sad tale, it is laced with sweet moments.

I cut traced, and I cut. Traci painted. She’s got talent, like that.

And there you have it! Stay tuned for gilding of the clothes pins…Big thanks to Traci for making this possible (paper cutting and all!!)