sketch

This is a sketch of my wedding gown by Veluz last 12/28.

stitching an itch

I began itching with my needlework. The picture was taken very, very close up as I could barely see the holes of the fabric while I was stitching these. This was my 3rd attempt. 1st attempt: wrong strategy with the fabric. 2nd attempt: wrong thread used. 3rd attempt: see picture above.

It took me an hour to finish that (plus some commercial chores in the middle hehehe) . I don't know if all the words I wanted to sew would fit on the tiny piece of fabric but I'll let you know. I will also experiment on other thread colors and borders as well.

Good luck to me and I hope to finish everything by august.

ps. I ordered some bead parts today, good for around 40 trinkets. I'll try to make them and see if I'll have better luck. I hope everything will be done befoe I go back home for good.

clover it is.

For creating the souvenirs, I made another trip to the DIY shop in tsudanuma and decided to buy a kit, try to make 1 myself to check if I will be able to do all of the souvenirs all by myself.

So here it is.. I managed to finish this one in around 2 hours, I think. Experts should be able to finish this one faster. It was easy and maybe I can manage to make 80 of these. The design I had in mind is not as simple as this one but give or take, maybe it will take me a 3-4 months to finish everything, if I make 1 a day.

I'm still wondering how I can attach our wedding details on the charm. I already bought a cloth for it and I'll try to come up with the design this week. I'm still boggling on how I'll have it attached on the charm. I found a metal part with a hoop that would hold the cloth and still be able to attach it to the charm but I am still to find where I'll be able to buy them.

Entourage Lineup

I'm still at a loss on how to arrange the entourage lineup. I wanted almost everyone to have roles and not just stand there all dressed up and just watching the wedding, not really participating in the celebration. I only have a small crowd of guests and I will feel nice if all my close friends and family gets to do something. Except maybe the elders.

I'm currently drawing up my entourage, at the same time trying to allot what I can shell out for their clothes. I'm still at a loss!

So, to keep my mind off the dilemma for a while, I started surfing for buoquets and I decided to have orange roses for my buoquet, and green/orange flowers (locally produced flowers are OK, as long as its in green and orange) for the rest of my entourage. Maybe corsages for the sponsors and the mothers. I want all the flowers at the church in orange and green only, including my flower girls.. for the loose petals, I wouldn't mind other colors. Colorful petals looks nice on pictures.

I hope I find a florist soon. Bert called 1 florist today and they felt that booking for 1 year in advance is too early. What's so early about that? It's called being prepared.

Now, all the other things that needs to be done starts popping on my head suddenly. It's 1 year to go and I'm already beginning to panic. I was just panicking yesterday for thinking about all the documents needed to be submitted to the church 3 mos before the wedding. I created a timetable in securing those documents and I hope to finish all other preparations before then so we could concentrate on the required things that needs to be done.

Wedding favors

I'm not much of an artist so before you ask, that picture is a trinket.

It's my first rest day this year here in Japan and I've begun to look for ideas on my wedding favors. I went to this DIY shop in Tsudanuma and found many things and then I came up with a trinket as a wedding favor. I thought of having 3 varieties: key chains, clipped charm and a strap. Although the design will be the same, I thought of creating the trinkets in 2 colors: green and orange. (I just don't know if a clover leaf would look nice in orange though, hehehe.. maybe the other charms na lang) I wouldn't know how to put me and my future hubby's name and wedding date in beads so I'd just hybrid it with another charm (either printed or cross stitched, depending on the size), laminated in plastic (I am yet to find these plastics).

It's hard work but I have this full year to finish all these. Next step is to find the materials. I don't know how much this will cost me but I hope I won't go over the budget. I still have to make a feasibility study if making these will be worth my time and my money. And to surf the net and scour DIY shops for the materials.

I also managed to look at the pile of invitation samples at the shop. I was hoping to make some DIY invitations too, since I have the resources. I am not much of an artist so, I'm still boggling on the design. I found some nice samples at the shop, and it gave me the idea of using clovers as motifs on the stationeries, favors and maybe the entourage dresses too, if possible. Japan is a good place to look for these items since clover-themed supplies are quite popular these days, and popular means a wide, wide variety of choices.

I don't know how to make trinkets so I also hope to acquire this skill while am it. I hope it will be of good use in the future.