Sunday, March 17, 2013

Mint Matchbook Wedding Party Favors


Wedding favors can be something that sends your mind whipping in circles. It can be difficult to find that one something that not only thanks your guests but also celebrates your event. Our mint matchbook favors are 100% customizable and a great way to give your guests a little treat and a special memento of your big day. Have a selection of them at each table or at each place setting as an easy way to distribute your favors.


I recommend ordering at least two mintbooks per guest so everyone gets to eat one and keep one.


You can order either the bunting design in the color selection shown above or you can fully customize your favors like below.
In a hurry? Have too much to do already? Just not a crafty bride or groom? Let me do the work for you with a fully assembled order! Just open the box and start giving them away!


Have a limited budget? You're a crafty craftster? Order a DIY listing like the ones below. You get the same customizable designs but will receive a printable PDF to assemble yourself and stuff with your favorite treats.


View an array of custom designs before ordering!


Also great for business cards, like the one shown above! With full customization your choices are endless!



Sunday, February 17, 2013

You've Got Mail...

Picture this... I was working at a company last year bringing in over $25,000 in revenue per month and for Christmas my boss gave me a tiny silver charm (no chain, even) that was a computer, circa 1993, that said "You've got mail"on the screen. I couldn't find an exact replica of the charm online and it was too strange in the moment that I didn't even take a photo of it. A strangely small token of appreciation for five years of hard work but... that's another reason why I'm not at that job anymore.

Anyway... so I had dinner with my friend Jennifer Lisa who is a jeweler and I showed her the charm. It was too comical. She offered to make it into something fabulous and I was all for the reconstruction project. Luckily, the charm was actually silver (kind of a shocker!) and she was able to transform it into a sweet little bee pendant. She even included a chain! 


Jen is a great friend... she later made the wedding bands for my wedding. I've blogged about her a few times but you know... you can never have enough of a good thing! Visit her website here:



Monday, January 7, 2013

Colors, leaves, weddings, and rings


Looking back at our wedding photographs I can hardly even believe that it was real. Time really does fly by the day of your wedding. We had so much fun (and many tears and frustration) planning the wedding and it's difficult to imagine that it's already passed. But, of course there is a huge beautiful future in front of us!



My sweet husband and me in our getups. Bryan got this gorgeous Robert Graham embroidered shirt on eBay! The hat is from a fabulous hat shop called Darling Delisle in Damariscotta, Maine.


Our custom made gold wedding bands were made by our good friend Jennifer Lisa of Quench Metalworks. Bryan's ring had a stamped bee on the inside, which is his nickname for me. *cute!*

We are in love!

Photographs are courtesy of our amazing friend and photograher Laurie O'Neil.

Thursday, December 20, 2012

Wedding Decor

It's been three months since our wedding and I'm just now resurfacing enough to start posting some images of the big day! Having a backyard wedding was absolutely a dream!!!
Photographs are courtesy of our amazing friend and photograher Laurie O'Neil.

Our wedding cake was made by our friend Terri Lynn and it was AMAZING and delicious and more than we could have ever dreamed of. It's her special Swan Island Pound Cake... ooooh!
Cake Toppers: Han Solo and Princess Leia Pez People by artist Kelly Weingart of Spindleworks Studios in Brunswick, Maine.


I had the insane idea to made pickles and wine jelly for the guests. Making 100+ cans of goods was pretty tiresome for the bride-to-be to do at the end of a long summer of wedding planning, gardening, and more... but I'm so happy with our guests' reactions to the homemade favors. Well worth it. I would highly suggest having some good buddies on hand to help!


Thank the heavens for an amazing mother-in-law-to-be and bridesmaids and friends who helped sew about 100 yards of bunting! It was exactly what I was hoping the tent to look like and we were able to lighten our load of fabrics that my sister and I were hoarding for the last 15 years or so!

I turned an old suitcase into our card collection box. This was a fun and easy way to add some fun to the decor and to tie into our registry wish for a dream honeymoon fund! 


Sunday, November 11, 2012

Giveaway Alert!


Time for a good ol' fashioned giveaway!
Head on over to my facebook page and get in on the contest!
Simply "like" the post on facebook, comment on the photo on facebook, and/or share the post on facebook and get up to 3 entries in the giveaway!
**Please note that commenting here will NOT get you entries into this contest (although you're welcome to comment here, too!). Please head over to my facebook page to enter the contest.
Best of luck to you!

Sunday, November 4, 2012

Something Blue

A little something blue from our wedding:


My Great Aunt Josie was a very big part of my life. She was like a grandmother to me so when I was searching for my something blue, a swatch from her old house smock was just the thing...




Thursday, October 4, 2012

Mintbooks - Wedding favors

Oh hello there, my blog-lovin' friends! It's been a wee while since I've posted but there's very good reason... in April I got engaged and then on September 22nd we just got hitched! So I've been in wedding la-la land for ages, it seems like, but I'm back and ready to craft! And post more!

The good news is that with the wedding came a lot of new crafts... many of which I've been eager to share with you on my blog! So stay tuned for more posts!


Today's post is all about a very special project that was one of the first we created for our wedding. Mint Matchbooks or Mintbooks, as I like to call them. We made these way back in May and kept them right up until our wedding at the end of September. They were a huge hit at the reception. We also created some mini cake stands (which will be featured in another blog post coming up soon) that were part of the table decorations. We had these mintbooks on the stands at each table as an extra favor for each of our guests.


I'm now offering these mintbooks for special order in my Etsy shop! Customers can customize their mintbooks with their own names (and wedding date if they like!). Simply visit my shop listing and contact me if you'd like your own order (or leave a comment here).


Wedding crafting may have become an addiction for me...