April Shower

Ok, so the month of April was a very busy crafting one for me. I was working tirelessly along w/ Selina to create and display our hand crafted decorations for our good friend's Bridal Shower!

We went with an Aqua and Red color scheme and carried it through from the invitations (envelopes in Pool, anyone?) to the decor of course, those awesome tissue poufs made famous by Martha herself, and to the Sweet Treats which we had no hand in making but certainly took time to enjoy (made REALLY extra special by Priti B)! Oh, and let's not forget the guestbook and then coordinating description cards for the food, and advice cards. (All hand written and laboriously created by Selina!)

Let me catch my breath here for a second, I'm getting tired all over again just writing it all out.

So, needless to say, we were some busy crafters. Here are some pictures of the fruits of our labor... We went to great lengths to hide the blood, sweat, and tears that went into making everything. :-) We have to thank the good people at papersource, for having what we needed in stock, without which this shower could not have been pulled off.

Since we crafted together, we kind of mirrored our blogs too...here are her takes on the invites, the food, and everything else. Since it is true...the devil is in the details. :)

Martha, can you hear me?

I don't know how many times I've watched the Martha Stewart Show, and shockingly, it had never dawned on me to try to attend a taping. I thought I should start with a lesser known show, so I had secured 'tickets' to the Nate Berkus Show which I actually do record, but I don't watch as diligently. I used quotes around tickets b/c it turns out they were more like reservations in the ether. Whatever the reason, they didn't have enough the day I showed up, with my 'confirmation' in the freezing cold. No matter, I soldiered on and hit mood for a friend who loves PR even more than I do.

After I was able to get back to home base and defrost, my sister suggested that we go for broke and try to get into a Martha taping, as standbys no less. Well, clearly the cold weather had gotten to her head, but we took a chance, and with a LOT of help from "Lisa is bossy" 's blog which gave us the ins & outs of standby for MS show. So this is where the freezing cold temps played in our favor, b/c they actually had space for us and at least a half dozen others. That was AWESOME. Then, they had even more standby tix available for the afternoon taping. My sister couldn't make it, but I didn't have any other pressing obligations so I went to that one too! Now I know what Vidal Sassoon looks like!

In celebration of NATIONAL CRAFT MONTH (yes, I have to yell it!) I'm going to do the seemingly impossible and post everyday in March!! I must hurry as it is 11:55 pm now!