Crêpe Paper Roses

As I promised in last week's post this week will be Part II of my "Wedding Special" to celebrate my one year anniversary as married. Today I will give you a tutorial to make beautiful crêpe paper roses. I actually made 250 of these roses by myself to decorate the tables for my wedding day!

Water Lily napkin folding tutorial

This Friday, the 13th of June, it was me and my husband's wedding day and to celebrate one year together as married the post today and next week will be tutorials about making things I did last year to decorate the tables for the wedding reception :)
This week I will show you how to fold beautiful Water Lily napkins to give the table setting a bit special touch. I remember how funny it was to see how many of our guest tried to fold it back together again once they had opened it, and how puzzled they looked when they didn't figured it out. But really, it looks much more complicated than it is :)

 

Pink Party Dress

As I wrote in my previous post, this Saturday I attended my long time friend Maria's wedding. And what a wonderful day it was! She was so lovely in her dress, make-up and hairstyle and the wedding reception was very beautifully arranged by our common friend Emelie who was toast-madame. They had arranged a lot of delicious food and fun entertainment during the dinner.

I wore my self-made glittery little pink dress and the flower decorated diadem I showed you guys in previous post :) The satin shoes is the same I wore at my own wedding last year - wonderful when you get to use so pretty things more than once :)

For this dress I mixed two patterns from Burda Style 12/2013, see the sketches for these two models below.

 My pink dress is made by these two patterns. 

The skirt section  of my dress is same as model 130 and the top section of my dress is same as model 122.  

Pink tulle with sparkles in four layers.

A closer look at the flower-diadem in my hair.  

The crochet cardigan is made by my mother - I think it is a true work of art.

White satin ribbon around waist, at the top edges of the heart shaped upper part, 

at backside and around neck.

Pretty Pink Textile Flower

For some time I have wanted to make something special to put in my hair but haven't got the right idea. I have to admit that I LOVE hats, and if I had the materials, the tools and the opportunities to wear them, I would definately try to make my own hats.

Next weekend I will attend my long-time friend Maria's wedding and for this special occation I couldn't resist making something fun for my hair. The diadem is the one I wore at my own wedding last year.
For the wedding I will wear a dress I have sewn by myself - it will be reveald in next blogpost :) The only thing I will reveal for you today about the dress is that the fabrics I used in this flower are the same I used for the dress!

Below you will find a little tutorial how to make this flower. Please note that you need to have about 2 dm long ribbon end when all hearts are fixed on the ribbon - otherwise you won't have anything to use to attach the flower on the diadem.