"Save The Date" cards on a budget

Probably the simplest and easiest way to save money on your save the date cards is to send them by email!

Send a photo of the two of you and the details of your wedding or
use http://www.wordle.net/ to make a fabulous word cloud invitation! 

Or go to 
http://www.smilebox.com/wedding-announcements.html?partner=google&campaign=search_core_wedding_sitelink&gclid=COKw15jf17sCFfMctAodDVYAfg
For

Creative Wedding Announcements

Let friends and family know about your big day with memorable wedding announcements.

• Choose the perfect design for your announcement.
• Add your message, customize with photos and videos.
• Email, print or post your wedding announcement.
• It's FREE to download and personalise 

Have fun with this great app' 

I'd love to see what you create! Make sure you send me a copy and you may also go into my new book "Bride on a budget". 

Special Spring Bride Offer!!!

So pleased that the sun is making an appearance

and letting us know that Spring is on the way at last!

For all you brides to be, I am currently doing a special deal where if you commission a posy or bouquet from me before the end of March,  

I will create a matching buttonhole for your groom FREE!!

Take a look in my Folksy shop at

http://folksy.com/shops/bloominglovely

or click on the Folksy button at the top of this blog.

Posy and bouquets typically contain antique lace and vintage costume jewellery, buttons and beads - prices start at just £45.00

"Go"..."Create!"

Feeling quite sad that next week is my last week with Hartsholme Community Contact Centre in Lincoln...   won't see them again for a while...until the jewellery making sessions in January  :-)

Janet, Pam, Andrea and Caz have shared cups of tea and stories with me over the last couple of weeks and I will miss peering over the rim my teacup, watching their delight at creating their own unique style.

Thought I'd share with you, the fab' Christmas table decorations they made today...

They took their usual  seats, (funny how people nearly always return to the same seat week after week), and  were faced with a mountain(!) of (recycled and new), baubles, ribbons, buttons, beads, foliage, embellshments(!), indulgences(!) etc...   

"Take a plate and have a play" I told them. 

I love the way this group just "dive in" to the  materials - they seem to love them (almost) as much as I do! And time goes soooooo fast! We have a cuppa, put the world to rights and create something beautiful too!!!

Anyway, I showed them an example of one I'd made earlier,(just like Val) and said "Go! Create!" and this is what they came up with... 

Janet

 Pam

 Andrea

Caz

The following session we made these lovely boxes from wallpaper scraps and trim, buttons etc...

... I got the wallpaper from my local Interior Design Shop - they gave me an old sample book.

Looking forward to hearing how the two above were received from Pam and Janet's family and freinds.