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giveaway / driftaway coffee
driftaway is a coffee subscription service that’s tailored to your taste: they send you a few different roasts to try, you tell them which ones you like, and they continue sending your preferred roasts month after month. they switch out coffees every 4 weeks, so there’s always new flavors — and today you can win a three month subscription!
not only are their roasts delish – but their packaging is right up my alley.
all you have to do to enter is :
visit their website and choose the roast you wanna try most + leave it in the comments
the winner will be chosen on may 1st at 10am PST
giveaway is only open to us residents.
*** the giveaway is now closed. congrats to the winner #27 : isabelle! ***
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our wedding : sources
to wrap up the entire week of wedding posts, i thought it would be fun + helpful (?) to share the sources of everything.
our custom cocktail napkins were printed by for your party, they were sooo helpful when i called multiple times to ask questions and make changes. and they even helped us save on the napkins using the same top image and typing in the facts themselves. and YES. both of our names are in lyrics on the white album! clearly it’s meant to be.
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everything else we made for our wedding
because i didn’t have process shots for the remaining things i made, i decided to round everything up in one post (with as much detail as i can tell you)! we were at my moms house working on all of the projects, because no cats and waaay more space to make + store things. (we actually had an entire closet full of all the wedding stuff, which we still haven’t cleared out — sorry mom.)
wood plant hangers
i had wood cut in various sizes : square and rectangle and got some simple woven rope. using my stepdads drill press (you can also just use a regular drill), we just cut four holes in each piece of wood and tied big enough knots on the underside to hold in place. we mixed it up in terms of sizes and layers, and added a large metal ring to the top of each hanger. we made these last minute just to hang at the bar during cocktail hour, because we are cray. and thank you to my brother who helped hold while i tied. -
our guestbook table
for our guest book table at the wedding, we decided to make advice cards vs having an actual book. this way, we thought we could avoid the typical “thanks for having us, love blank & blank” and get some real talk from our guests.
we went with three categories : advice for us, date ideas, and fond memories.
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how we did our own wedding florals
i want to preface this post by saying i am not a florist. that is a given, i just know that i like really organic floral arrangements and the quotes from the local florists we got were just way too high. so we ended up doing it ourselves because we had already committed to destroying our year with wedding planning anyway, what’s one more thing?!
when we ran out of flowers for our arrangements, the bouquets ended up being a lot more greenery and filler than we’d planned, but i think we totally pulled it off!
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diy wood wedding signs
now that the wedding has been posted on green wedding shoes, i’ve been getting emails from you guys asking how i did a few things. so although i don’t have a ton of process shots due to doing 400 DIYs at once, i’m going to do some posts on some of the projects we did for the wedding this week! it also seemed fitting, because i’m out of town this week on my way to my brothers wedding this weekend!
first up is how we did our wedding signs! if you saw the wedding photos, then you know there were a shit ton of them. honestly, these weren’t easy. gideon did the painting and i did the tracing because he has a much steadier hand than i do, and when i did the painting they looked way less perfect. so obviously, he wasn’t happy when i came up with long sayings for each sign. but i wanted to inject our personalities into everything!
here’s how we did ’em!
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happy weekend
this week has been all about prepping for next week for me. my brother’s getting married next weekend and i’ve been getting my best man toast together, while kind of packing because i leave tuesday! my dad, stepmom and i are driving up to his wedding in wine country — we’re gonna stop to visit hearst castle and go to big sur for two nights. anyone have any recommendations?! let me know!
don’t worry though, i’ve changed and i was planning on taking a week off from the blog, but then i decided last minute to just setup a post for every day. next week is wedding week. i’m going to post all of the DIYs i did. all of them. get ready.
⋅ 8 tips for a better looking blog
⋅ eva is aaaamazing.
⋅ can’t believe this is ikea. and i love ikea. and i still find it a big deal.
⋅ these would be perfect for a GNO
⋅ … or for this DIY
⋅ just in case you didn’t see this
⋅ someday i’ll have the space to make something like this
⋅ free this week and perfect for mockups!
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tom collins
a few weeks ago, i tried my first tom collins. and then i was like omg what took me so long!? i’ve decided it’s now my go-to drink for the summer – because it’s sooo refreshing and simple.
2 OUNCES GIN
1 OUNCE SIMPLE SYRUP
(OR AGAVE SYRUP)
2 OUNCES LEMON JUICE
1 DASH OF BITTERS
1/4 CUP OF SPARKLING WATER
1 CUP ICE
LEMON WEDGE AND/OR ROSEMARY SPRIG FOR GARNISHHOW TO MAKE A TOM COLLINS
fill a cocktail shaker with ice. pour in the gin, lemon juice, simple syrup and a dash of bitters. cover and shake until the outside of the container is frosty, about 15 seconds. strain into a highball glass full of ice. top off with club soda and garnish with lemon slice and rosemary sprig.RECIPE VIA ALLRECIPES.COM
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iphone cases
you know that totally blissful feeling when you have a clean + sparkly new phone? before you’ve dropped it or scratched it and you feel on top of the world? i feel like that right now. i switched providers and got a new iphone 6 and i just am obsessed. so naturally… GIMME ALL THE PRETTY IPHONE CASES.
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diy leather luggage tags
you may remember i’ve already made a leather luggage tag here on the blog — but i decided to revamp. in fact, i’m considering revamping a few older DIYs because honestly — sometimes i run out of ideas, and i never really love old posts.
anyway! i saw these tags months ago on pinterest (they seem to not exist for sale anymore) and i’ve been wanting to create luggage tags in the same style forever. so i finally buckled down and made them! also – now that i’m in the mindset that i’m going to be changing my last name – i decided to incorporate my new name onto the tags as well. yes, my new name will be BOOMER. MOLLY BOOMER. is it crazy sounding?
btw – anyone know how to officially change your last name? it seems like suuuuch a thing.
