Tuesday, April 7, 2009

new plan: jars! not cans

OK I think instead of doing those sort of labor-intensive daffodill planter things with the cans and the moss, and my ten million other random crafty project ideas I've seen around the blog world.. My new idea is just to Simplify and have just bunches and bunches of glass jars (mason jars, jam jars, whatever else comes in glass jars jars), and fill some with fresh cut flowers, some with button flowers (and instead of water we'd fill them half-way or so with loose buttons), and some with candles. eh? We'd put several jars on each table to make the centerpieces, and then hopefully we'd have enough to scatter around on the buffet table, at the bar, etc.. And if I/we FEEL like it when the time comes, we can paint or in some way decorate some of the jars (like these lacy luminaries).. Or maybe not.

For the tables, I was thinking stick with the white linen the Hall provides, and then possiblyyy make our own little linen table accents or whatever you call them. Not quite runners, I'd just want them to be in the center of the tables, to put the jar-vases on.. maybe doilies, maybe brightly colored but not too tacky looking hankerchiefs.. maybe just plain linen squares or rounds.. maybe a combination of all of the above! I dunno! I'm thinking I need to take a trip to a few thrift stores and/or Michael's/Joann Fabric and see what can be found in the way of inspiration.

Also it's coming into yard sale season, I'm about ready to go trolling if anyone wants to join me!

Also a note on the button bouquet - I realized after looking back at the original inspiration for my button bouquets, the ones for sale on Etsy actually have many many more buttons per stem than mine do, which probably helps make the bouquet look a bit more full when you put them together.. So I'm going to go back and add more buttons and see how that works for me.

8 comments:

  1. love, love, love this idea! I'm a huge fan of jars and you should be able to find a variety at yard sales, thrift stores etc., and, if you don't have enough random ones by the wedding, they're pretty cheap to buy new (~ $1 each).

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  2. I love it, too! Of course, I've got a stack of cans now, all washed and pretty for the recycling bin! ;) I have a couple antique bottles, like old medicine bottles, that I like to stick a couple of dainty stems into once in a while... I'll show 'em to you sometime and you can let me know if you want to use them. Might not go with the jar theme, I just thought I'd toss it out there.

    At Joanne's Fabric you can get remnants of every fabric imaginable... we can just hem them with fusible tape (all you need is an iron!) to make the little centerpiece cloths... and it's CHEAP. :)

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  3. P.S. Um, is it just my old eyes, or are those luminaries actually decorated paper bags? 'Cause when I first read your post, I thought you were saying that they were jars... I was confused. :)

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  4. oh haha yeah I guess those are paper. When I first saw them on marthastewartweddings.com I thought they were decorated glass vases. But yeah they're probably just paper!

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  5. Haha, good to know my eyes haven't gone *completely* belly-up! (Which is an oddly-worded statement, now that I think about it! LOL)

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  6. Are you still gonna have jars with fresh fruit like oranges and limes inside? I liked that idea, too. :)

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  7. Ooooh, I forgot about the fruit-in-glass-jars idea!! Easy to have some of each: buttons, fruit, and flowers! Very bright and cheerful option. :)

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  8. we'll see about the fruit. I'm trying to simplify here, that may end up being one more step we don't need/want to do.

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