Saturday 23 February 2013

Woodland Animals & Vintage Suitcases

The loose colour scheme for our wedding is orange and brown (and any other autumnal colour I fancy throwing in), and the idea is that there will be some pumpkins lying around, so I thought it would be quite cute to have tiny, bright white woodland creatures dotted around to add a bit of contrast. Woodland creatures also feature on the invitations etc so they aren't completely random, it's all a bit rustic! So I bought a bunch of little plastic toys and spray painted them white (and a few gold). I think they look quite effective. Admittedly some do have 'made in china' on their sides, but that's just the classy kind of look I'm aiming for! 
And the award for the dullest blog image ever goes to... a reel of copper wire is frightfully dull, but it's also very important, it means I can get on with flower making! Hurrah! 
I've also been taking on those vintage suitcases I bought a while ago. Aside from the big rip, the paper inside looked a little like a troubled child's expressive scribble, not exactly cheery. So we raided Paperchase for some bright (and a little bit retro) paper (below). There was some measuring and rulers involved initially, but you can only do so much with bent and warped suitcases, in the end I just had to shove the paper in and try and make it fit. It isn't my neatest work ever, but it will do the job. Both cases look much happier now. I know some people are a bit over suitcases at weddings, but they are so useful, and I think they look neater than a box wrapped in paper with a slot cut out, and more individual than actual little postboxes.

So now it is back to petal making. I have a jar full of cut squares ready for folding, and another jar slowly filling up with folded petals that will then need to be glued... and then the process will undoubtedly start again. Fingers crossed I have enough by October! 

8 comments:

  1. You make me very, very much looking forward to the pictures of the wedding! :). But i see we are still months away from it, it must be fun having so much what we call 'voorpret' in Dutch! I love the white/golden animals!

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    1. Thanks Karen :) Yes it is a lot of fun, but just a little scary as far as the flowers are concerned, as I haven't actually worked out how many I need! Eek! :)

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  2. Bet those woodland animals look much classier since you sprayed them. I'm thinking of making some of clay... Will they look as good as yours, I wonder. Nice job on those suitcases too :))

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    1. Oh clay ones would be lovely - Do it! :)

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  4. Hello, where did you buy the animal figurines?

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    1. Hi! They are toy plastic animals by Wild Republic, I got them from amazon, then sprayed them white :)

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    2. Thank you! They look darling!

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