Stuff The PantslessArmy is Doing: January 2013

This week I have been a busy little future bride. I have almost everything ordered that I need to have ordered minus a few last minute details, I have been doing a few DIY projects for the wedding including wrapping matchbooks and wrapping candy bars. I used some free printables that I found around the internet for these items and kinda adjusted the colors and put monograms on them to make them suit my needs.

These are my matches... my sparklers are still being delivered. I'll update when I get those suited up.

These are my candy bars! Cookies and Cream Hershey's!! mmmmm!

My next project will be making a birdcage veil to go with my reception dress. I will post pics as I make it! I hope everyone has a wonderful evening!

I have never been much of a person to chronicle my life daily, weekly, or even monthly. With this said, this is just going to be a blog to keep up with my life as I feel like logging in and sharing... or if I remember to do so. I tried a few years ago to make this blog to share my opinions on places I go and things I get ahold of but with planning my wedding and all the crafts I am doing I have decided to change things up and make this a place I can show everyone the things I am doing, no matter what that might be.

Just a little about me: My name is Amanda, I am getting married in April. I have been with my fiance for a little over 5 years. I live in Tennessee. I love to craft, cook, bake. I love art and music... and talking about myself always makes me feel awkward because I feel as if I am incredibly uninteresting. So, without further ado I will now share with you some of the crafts I have done in the recent past:

This is the paper bowl I made out of magazines. It was a fairly easy craft. I am pretty proud of the way this turned out.

This is the garter I am going to wear for my wedding. My mom made the actual garter out of red satin and black lace and I embellished it. It is embellished with a small shrink plastic Nintendo controller I made, some beads, some ribbon and some little red and/or black jewels.

These are some of the hangers I made for myself and my wedding party to hang our dresses on on the big day. You can't really tell in this picture but it is covered with black and red glitter and is embellished with red jewels and some flowers. The "Mrs. Brown" and "Shanita" part is made out of black craft wire and is glued into little hole I drilled into the wooden hanger.

I make steampunk style jewelry... These are 2 gear rings. The ring part is made out of a clock hand and decorative part is made out of gears and arrows. Each one made is unique... and yes I do sell this stuff although I have not sold anything in a really long time. I also make other things besides rings too, these just happened to be the quickest examples that I could find on my compy!