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A Little Creative Therapy Required
A little therapy required for me yesterday!

It was not a good day ....family stuff....but then we all get that from time to time! Anyway lots of little voices going off in my head, you know the sort of thing 'you should have done more', 'you must have deserved it', 'you should have known better' and on and on and on!

Right that's it I thought I am going shopping - ooops opened purse and that little voice in head said 'you've got to be joking'!

Where was my other half? Oh yes he was driving so couldn't bother him with it. Right, next! Text sister - 'are you near your computer' No, she said, but have iPad! Right I need to let off steam! Ooops! was her reply! I sent her an email that I am sure didn't make sense but think she got the gist!

(Thank you dear sister!) It helped .... the voices were not quite so loud now!

But then I shouted at the voices STOP! So moving away from computer hastily (before I found someone else to email with my rantings) I decided to get my creative juices working which is always very therapeutic for me!

Fortunately I am a hoarder - not bad enough to be in that programme on the TV - but quite bad! :(

I found some pretty pieces of wallpaper which I had left over from my interior design course (that was about 11 years ago and I actually found doing that course incredibly therapeutic and rewarding).

Anyway I digress once again.........I then proceeded to do something that I have wanted to do for ages but haven't had the time......didn't have the time now, of course, but this was absolutely necessary if I was to keep my sanity!

First I opened an old envelope - opened it up completely to use as a template to make my own envelopes! This thought came into my head last year when someone won a Makeover Voucher and I looked everywhere to find a pretty envelope for it!

After I had made a few I found there were triangles left over. So I went on to make DIY cones. These would be lovely for wedding confetti and what a lovely idea to make personal envelopes for wedding invitations and cones to match. You could even make pretty envelopes for children's party invitations and then with the leftover triangles make cones for sweets!

Ah I feel better now!



Oh and much better after the chocolate treat of maltesers - well I couldn't put them back in the packet could I! :)

Natural delphinium petal confetti courtesy of
The Natural Confetti Company

Wedding Yurts

A big warm welcome to our new follower Lizzie Jones from www.weddingyurts.co.uk. There are four gorgeous handcrafted yurts to choose from for your special day or why not just have them all and link them together. Take a look at their website for more info!

Simply confetti

These words were recently posted by our favourite photographer www.essentialimages.co.uk

So what does Confetti mean?

In English.......


Small bits of paper, usually coloured, thrown or dropped from a height to

enhance the fun of a festive event, such as a wedding or even a New

Year's Eve party.



In Italian........

"Confetti" is sugar coated almonds and usually

given out at

weddings, often wrapped in a small organza bag and used

as favours for the guests. The little bags of sweets are

said to represent the hope

that the new couple will have a fertile

marriage.

The Natural Confetti Company make fabulous biodegradable dried confetti

from real flower petals and can be bought online all year round.

Visit http://www.naturalconfetti.co.uk for more information






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The Corn Barn

We supplied the confetti this weekend for the lovely Lisa who was married in a church in Teignmouth Devon. She chose a mixture of red and ivory rose petals and blue and raspberry delphinium petals. The reception followed in this beautiful barn in stunning rolling hills of mid Devon near Cullompton. A full wedding service can also be provided here in the gorgeous Corn Barn.
www.thecornbarn.co.uk

HALLOWEEN WEDDING

  A sneak peak into this fantastic REAL halloween wedding, photos courtesy of www.essentialimages.co.uk

Who would dare to get married on the scariest day of the year!  This couple clearly did and look at this lovely dress.  Glad to see they didnt forget the all important confetti!!

I wonder if they flew off on a broomstick to a suitably haunted honeymoon location????

Buckets and Baskets

Lovely little rustic baskets with organza bags filled with ivory and raspberry delphinium petals.  Lovely for bridesmaids to hand out after the ceremony or why not have a vintage pail with a blackboard area to chalk the name of the bride and groom.  Great for a rural wedding .....

Organza bags of rosebuds

These lovely organza bags of rosebuds, delicously fragrant, would make ideal favours for your female guests, doubling as place settings if you attach a name.  These are now available for just £1.25 each on our website www.naturalconfetti.co.uk.

Many thanks to www.essentialimages.co.uk for these fantastic pictures!