I Do Wednesday! - DIY bride!

I have had such a blast looking at DIY things to do to keep costs down on our wedding day!
here are some of my fave DIY looking items!

Place Cards! From Here

Keeping little ones entertained from Bridal Musings,

Engagement Party Decorations (I am thinking of some of these at mine)

 

and a little bit of honeymoon DIY LOVE with this little postcard book

Every bride needs a little DIY at her wedding...I think it saves money and means more.
xx Courtney

I do Wednesday - My fortnightly Wedding Post.

Hi there!
I thought is was time I started sharing my ideas and inspirations for my Winter wedding next year. Yes yes I am very EARLY but with a small budget and big ideas, I need to hash our how I'm going to make a beautiful wedding happen, on such a small amount of money! So every fortnight I will be posting a Wedding entry...who doesn't love a wedding right?

John and I, only picked colours like a week ago, and this was after I was frantically picking colours all over the place, from reds to mustards, purples and vintage blue, before I knew it I was drowning under a rainbow of colour combinations. I needed my husband to be to step in and calm blue ocean me!
We decided that Green and Grey would be our theme. Peridot green and grey, more to the point.

I am loving the idea of my Bridesmaids wedding lovely grey dresses with a pop of colour in their
shoes.

 

the artist in me would love to sport these under my wedding dress, but I think both mothers would be mortified heheh.

 

So that is where my head is at the moment, next post will be about our engagement party invites, which I am currently working away on myself to save money! I just needed the colours first before I could create anything! So you will get to see how they turn out, and how I used our colour combo to make it work.

I hope you enjoyed the first wedding post, there is a lot to cover! enjoy your day
xx Courtney

Project Life Update.

With all the fuss over being sick! things have been slow with project life, so today I opened up iphoto and started trying to get Organized!   I did this by making albums for 3 x 4 images and 4 x6 images so I could print them in batches. I print at home so I have more control over what my images look like, it costs me more to do this, but I wouldn't change it. I ended up printing 4 a4 pages filled with 3 x 4 images 

I'm not that great with a cutter...so I hand cut all my images. Yep I'm crazy but I like the control of it all, so I sit on the couch with something playing on youtube and have a cutting marathon!

I looked through my kit cards, and to be honest, I am not totally in love with the cards that came in our kit, they didn't speak to me! so after being inspired by Elise's cards that she makes herself, I opened up photoshop and got busy.

I used some of my fave quotes that I've found in pintrest, and added them as an overlay over funky backgrounds.

I also decided I wanted to make some custom cards for our engagement part of project life, at first I wasn't going to make a big fuss, just the picture I used the announcement and be done with it...but then I sat for a moment and thought, this IS a BIG DEAL! why wouldn't I want to document our engagement/proposal!  so I started making a few cards for that....

I got a little carried away, which is why my spreads aren't finished for me to show you, because I got caught up in photoshop  hehe.

I also made the decision that all my 'handwritten' cards would be done in photoshop using typewriter font for a cleaner look. John liked that idea so Ill run with it.

If I make enough 3 x 4 I might make them into a set to download...baby steps at the moment though.

so that's where I am at with my project life! I am almost all caught up, and tomorrow in my Around the nook post, I'll show the two finished spreads.

have a beautiful weekend.

Courtney

Happy 2013!

 

 hello my darlings! 

the new year is upon us, and the nook is going through some changes over the coming weeks, with daily posts, new topics, a lot of art and a lot of photos along the way! I want to kick start the new year with a bang! Have a look around, as some of the changes have started already. The little nook is now offering advertising at a really low rate, so if you are wanting to get your blog or site out there, I have a decent following and readership, have a think on it, for as the blog gets more traffic and a little more press, the rates will slowly go up. So get in fast!

There will be daily posts following certain themes, such as Monday Mantra, a paleo recipe day, workspace Wednesday, a project life post a week, as well as many other things! I want the nook to be buzzing with activity and good vibes!

speaking of good vibes...on the 31st of December, the man of my dreams got down on one knee and asked me to spend the rest of my life with him, and of course...without hesitation I said yes! Many have seen the photos of have seen my post on Facebook, but for some of you who are just good old blog followers here is the picture I used to announce my engagement.

with such a fantastic start to my year, it can only go up! so this years word for myself...is
organized that is my world for 2013, I have my planner ready, I have posts already waiting to be deployed into the blog! I am embracing it with an open hard and busy hands!
welcome to the new little raven ink, enjoy the ride! love the art, and have a fanstastic day
xx Courtney