Care and P-Diddy

I met my little sister and her man in Irving today to get some pictures done! I wanted to work on my skills and they havent had their pictures taken together the whole time they've been together....soooo what better timing? (warning, lots of pictures)

I also did some maddd organizing this weekend, my closet is wedding central, I have big bins for everything. I finished the cake topper and worked on some bridesmaid-sister gifts ;-)

ahhhccomplishment

This was a wedding weekend! Friday we went dress shopping with my Grandma, Mom, Sarah and of course, Lela and Ayden in tow! We headed to lunch with Audra then to Denton to check out Bridalco.com, a discount bridal store, after trying on lots of dresses, we found *the one*! Of course we couldnt stop there though, we headed back to arlington and hit Davids Bridal and Alfred Angelo...we found a few "close ones" but in my opinion nothing that compared to the one in Denton. Sooooo we went back yesterday and my super Mommy bought it! :-D I feel sooo accomplished! While we were up there we also found some really cute bridesmaids dresses, they tried them on and they are perfect!!!

Also checked off the list this weekend is something that seems soo small, but was a big deal to me, I made the candy bar bags, but wasnt sure what to put those bags in to display them, I didnt want to just lay them on the table. I found a basket on sale at joanns for 5 bucks, dressed it up with ribbon and voila!

Also *kinda* done this weekend is my cake topper...I ordered a wooden "S" and what I thought was all the rhinestones I needed...I'm almost done and realize I'm out of rhinestones! So I ordered more yesterday and they should be here by wednesday!

Candyland

I made my candy bar bags! I bought 5 bags of of 25 "cake bags" from party city, so I had 125...well the printer and I had it out a few times, it ate about 28 of them, either it left big ink spots on the bag or the bag would jam leaving ink all over it....so I'll need to pick up a couple more bags, but after doing all those, I kinda got it down! I seperated them all with vellum so the ink doesnt transfer to the back side of each bag and bagged them all up!!! I'm really happy with how they turned out and they will be perfect for the candy bar!

I can tell all this wedding stuff is going to get really stressful! We ordered our cake she asked if we wanted to do a deposit or pay in full, we didnt even have to talk about it, we both quickly replied that we would pay in full cause we didnt want to deal with who we owe money, and when it's due! On the not so easy side...I ordered my cake topper, a lot of people had recommeded this guy cause he did great work, and shipped quickly, well a month and about 20 emails later I FINALLY got my topper, I already have the rhinestones to decorate it, so i'm ready to go! I also ordered my napkins, the guy said they would be done in a week and ready for pick up...i ordered them May 2nd...and I still havent heard anything....a-hole!

Sooo, that's all for today, we'll probobly head to the park for a little while later before it gets too hot out.

My inspiration cake:

Ours will be 3 tiers the bottom is round, middle is square and top will be round...it wont have flowers and the "squiggly" design around the top of each tier will be my orange color:

AAAND a quick picture of my candy bar bags: