Apologies for my absence .. all will become clear if you read on...

So its safe to say I have been a bit lax since setting up this blog. I jumped in with both feet then promptly swam to the shallow end :s

In my defence I have had a busy few days. In mine and the fiancés attempts to start saving up for the Wedding we decided to list (more me then we hehe) all the things we could do around the flat and the films we could watch on a night to avoid going out and spending money that could be best used elsewhere. We started with taking down the Christmas decorations and have started moving through the rooms organising and cleaning. Its going well however has also been put somewhat on hold, much like the blogging by what I promise is a good reason .... we booked our Wedding!!!!

I went to look at a venue with my mam that we had fallen in love with however the price for all the extra bits somewhat priced the venue out of the running so on a whim we decided to stop in at another gorgeous venue on the way home. Now call it fate or what ever but just as we were leaving the wedding coordinator called us to say she was free if we were still on site :D so we went to talk to her and it turns out she had just had a cancellation otherwise wouldn't have been able to fit us in. After chatting with her for a while about what the package includes I made the big decision (texting Fiancé of course) and we have chosen Sunday May 4th 2014!!!! its a bank holiday weekend so can accomodate travel and will fit in with the colours I had already chosen hehe So as you can see since I now have a date, and mainly because I was a little bit over excited,  I have been making lists, scouring the internet for ideas and generally getting fully into wedding planning mode.  The first hurdle was guest list, 99 had to become 81 (wedding breakfasts are expensive), following this was tackling excel to made a budget spreadsheet to keep track of what we want to spend and what we actually have spent. Next up was the fun stuff like bouquet hunting, see I am making my own. I have seen loads of designs online for brooch bouquets and fell in love with one where the brooches are set inside singed petals. As such I have been researching online the best way to make said petals, then went to a haberdashery today to get some fabric to test.

So to end this little apology/explanation/wedding brag, I will give you a little treat, here is a sneak peak at my first attempt of a singed petal flower. Hope you like it!

xx