cecelia Hayes arts and crafts

Here are more images from Kate and David's January wedding.  Most are by their photographer Michael Hanlon, unless otherwise noted.  This is another shot of the cake table.  Kate made a dozen or so little cake plates from vintage dishes and glasses.  I think you can find tutorials for this in the archives of both Readymade and Design Sponge.  

This is my photo of Kate's invitation.  This was made and essembled in about 2 weeks.  We both thought it would be nice to have them hand printed, but worried about the turnaround time with letterpress or silk screening.  We came up with having a huge stamp made by my friends over at CH Morse.  It was the best alternative because in person, the hand printing is quite nice, almost a bit of a watercolor effect.  The design was assembled in photoshop with a chosen font and some hand drawn squiggles and lettering I scanned.  

The pretty ribbon is from Tinsel Trading Co. in New York.  We made the flowers from beads I happened to have and vintage millinery flowers.

Kate made all the boutineres from vintage flowers.  

We made a little satin ring pillow to go inside a jewelry case that belonged to Kate's grandmother. It's displayed here on the centerpiece made by David's sister, Beth.

 

The long main table

We made some drink menus for the bar (this photo is mine) using the table cloth I mentioned last post.

 And place cards designed by Kate. This was such a wonderful wedding to work on, not only because Kate is such a great friend, but because almost everything was handmade!  Personal touches make for the best weddings and this one was full of art and music by friends and local food and drinks.   

My very good friend Kate got married in January.  If you can believe it, her wedding was put together in about 8 weeks!  Kate and I worked together on just about everything.  Here are some images by her photographer Michael Hanlon.   

Kate gave me remnants from her dress and veil which I sewed into these garlands.  One thing I can now check off my "to do" list on Pinterest!  Kate is very into recycling, so this was such a fun way to make the most of all her pretty leftovers.   

Kate found a beautiful vintage tablecloth at a consignment store, so we cut it up and used it in almost everything.  The flags on this garland were cut from it, the flowers are silk- I hand sewed them and embroidered little gold beads from Africa in the centers.   The flowing ribbons are a combination of vintage and new pieces, some from Tinsel Trading Co. in NYC.  David (the groom) had his talented sister Beth make the lovely bird centerpiece. 

This closeup is my photo

Kate made the most delicious peach and basil jam.  We cut up the tablecloth into squares for each lid, wrapped peach ribbon around the tops and hand stamped and cut little tags for each favor.

The flowers were from the Topiary in Pittsford- lots of pretty little arrangements in sepia colored bottles and antique glass cups.  We hand printed all the table numbers on vintage Japanese fabric (circa WWII), then framed them in old wooden frames we painted gold.

Another "check" from my to do on Pinterest- the cake topper.  Kate's cake was two tiers, so we decided it would be best to make a third teir as a topper.  I made it without seeing her cake, so I think in the future I would go and match colors with the bakery.  I wasn't anticipating that the cake would be more antiqued looking than the topper, but it still was pretty.  The cake was from Cheesy Eddies'.  

 

Beautiful, beautiful people.  

 I did Kate's invite too and some more details, so I'll post some photos of that next.  

 

I saw this idea a couple of years ago in either Lucky or Domino magazine and cut it out as a project I thought I would never do.  I am totally afraid of woodworking projects for reasons I don't think I need to state.  I refound the magazine cutout a few weeks ago and challanged myself to try to replicate it by Valentine's Day and if possible, not using wood.  I ended up using foam core and illustration board to mimic the look of wood which made it possible for me to cut the whole thing using a utility knife.  I can't say it was easy to cut, but I am pretty happy with the end result.  In all honesty, after this post I have to readjust how I've hung it on the wall, but I got this far so I wanted to be sure to document the progress!  

Here are two Valentine's I made over the past couple of days. The top idea is a very easy last minute Valentine- I just used a glue gun to stick some green floral wire into two pompoms. The leaf was a little scrap of left over paper that came unwrapped from the purple roses in the cat Valentine.  Micheael's now has stamp sets for $1 which is awesome.

The cat Valentine was instinctive.

I recently found this painting I did from a few years ago and thought I'd save it for this holiday!  

I am kicking myself for not taking photos of all my Christmas time projects, but oh well.  I have a lot of things lined up for the winter.  I am making tons of decorations for my friend's wedding and I have made a little "to do" list on Pinterest... a bit addicting.

Be back soon with some completed projects!

                           

A few weeks ago, Becky asked me along with others to send her some drawings of buildings to create a little "city of craft" to represent City of Craft at Canzine in Toronto.  Here are some photos by Glowing Doll.

Be sure to come by Mercy High School tomorrow between 10am and 4pm for their craft show!!

1437 Blossom Road

Yesterday, this package arrived for me.  I did a trade with Sarah McNeil- a very talented illustrator who lives on the other side of the world.  It made my day.  I can't wait to frame and hang all the lovely little drawings inside.

 

Here is Fred the Fortune Teller- my son.  Ella refused to wear her homemade butterfly costume.  She's been sick all week, so I could see why.  It's funny how sometimes I'll buy things and have no idea how I'll use them, but then the perfect opportunity presents itself.  I bought that star and vintage feathers a few years ago and was so glad to find them in my stash of things.  I also have far too much black velvet, to Fred's benefit.  His cape is the same material I used for Ella's first costume 2 years ago.  

I am doing a craft show this Saturday November 5th at Our Lady of Mercy High School (my alma mater) from 10 am until 4pm, 1437 Blossom Road.  It's a fundraiser so please come!!

Also on Saturday is the Mayday Underground Show.  I keep wanting to do this one, but it always seems to fall on a date I can't do.  Should be good though!

 

This is a custom map I have been working on for a couple on etsy.  We decided on doing a little image of the Chicago Theater for the front.  In the end, this will have a bluish tint to it like the Baltimore map.  I came up with little envelopes for these too- sewn heavy weight vellum.  I want to find some striped tape for sealing the back of the envelopes.  It wouldn't hurt to have a little calligraphy by Kelly Place either :)