knee-knocking, back-slapping fun.

Posted on September 29, 2011 by sorellaaglio

As you all know, I’ve been away takin’ care of the business of my sister’s wedding. Sorry it’s been a while since I updated, but since I have SO MUCH to tell you about, I’ll start by showing you the results of the crafts at the wedding!

Here is a picture of the final seating chart cards. Thanks to Aunt Kathy for writing all the names!

This is the sign that Jon cut the wood for and I spray painted (with Jeff’s help), and Uncle Tony and Jeff nailed. Ahh, family team work.

Here is Lillian, the flower girl, carrying the bouquet we made. She was so gentle with it, which was adorable.

Folding the programs that I designed with Traci and Jeff’s help.

Next up? Some wedding photos, although picking through the thousands is going to be hard…

crafty, craftier, craftiest.

Posted on September 21, 2011 by sorellaaglio

A few more crafts needed to be completed for Nikki’s wedding and I needed a little help. Partly because I was behind and partly because I’m not great at crafts. Luckily, the girls were coming over for Book Club and I was hosting, so I coaxed them into being my crafting buddies. Luckily, Cricket’s mom was in town, and she’s full of crafty knowledge and really did such excellent work I can’t even take credit for really any of the final product.

Here are the beginnings of the bouquet.

Look, me helping.

The lovely Jess, also making flowers.

The magical glue gun that Cricket’s mom suggested we use. So smart!

The silver clothespins to hold the seating chart cards.

sisterlove.

Posted on September 20, 2011 by sorellaaglio

When I was home this past weekend, seeing family, crying with my cousins, and saying goodbye to a wonderful uncle, I also got to see some of my sisterloves. They are scattered on the eastern seaboard, but we all gathered in New York on Saturday and Sunday morning to snuggle and love each other. And it was exactly what I needed.

We snacked on burgers, we drank Blue Moon by the river, “It’s just New Jersey,” we laughed as we watched people take pictures across the river. We ignored people we may or may not have known from a previous life. We walked far and wide to find the right thing for the right person. We stood a little too close on the train and laughed and talked a little too loud everywhere. We celebrated fall temperatures will pumpkin ale over cookbooks. We ate a plate of cheese. We laughed, and laughed, and laughed. We walked Lola the dog, and took a ride with Frank to our countryhouse stay. We snuggled three in a bed. We got up, we went to breakfast to gather our fourth. Or rather, she gathered us. We got breakfast and laughed some more. We stopped for cider donuts, feeling the crisp air on our arms, and we contemplated another visit, and soon. We took a very forced picture, because gd’it, I need a picture of my girls every few years, and NO I still do not think it was SO much to ask for you to take off your sunglasses, K.

in which we craft our way into wedding week.

Posted on September 15, 2011 by sorellaaglio

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.