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Daisy Ball Centerpieces and Budgeting Tips from the Book, How to Plan Your Wedding

I think I manage to get one post a week that has some kind of flower in it, and today's post is the one. Check out these cool daisy ball centerpieces with a candle on top featured in the new book How to Plan Your Wedding.

If you are planning a wedding or helping to plan one, check out this cool chart made of different sized flowers that shows how much you should spend proportionately based on the size of the flower, pretty cool for a book filled with the most beautiful flower arangements.

Click on this page to enlarge and read the wedding budgeting chart made of flowers.

More about the Jacqui Small wedding planning book:

How to Plan Your Wedding

by Paula Pryke

Illustrated with images of Paula Pryke’s stunning floral creations, this practical wire bound notebook will be an indispensable companion for the bride in the run up to the wedding, and a beautiful keepsake afterwards. Paula offers advice on all the different aspects of wedding planning gleaned from her years of experience, and includes hints and tips from wedding planners she has worked with. Space is included throughout for the bride to make her own notes and keep her own records.

Paula Pryke is a world-renowned florist who has been based in London for the last 25 years. Paula published her first book in 1993 and has now published fifteen flower books that have been translated into as many languages. Paula is passionate about weddings and this is one of the areas she finds the most rewarding. She believes strongly that the role of a florist is to interpret the dreams and desires of her clients and she enjoys exploring the taste and style of her brides and brooms. During 25 years experience of arranging flowers both in the UK and overseas Paula has worked with the very best wedding planners and organizers, and has worked on all types of weddings from intimate register office and civil ceremonies to grand weddings in abbeys and castles.

    

 

Wedding advice and Crafty Links

First up over at 2000 Dollar Wedding- Sara Cotner author of A Priceless Wedding: Crafting a Meaningful, Memorable, and Affordable Celebration

Gives some sage courthouse wedding advice.

QuarrySPOON
Recipe for apple brownies from the book An Apple a Day

Walter Foster
Artist Spotlight: Martin Clarke talented Western Australian artist and author of Oil & Acrylic: Oceans & Seascapes.

RockPaperInk
American Letterpress: The Art of Hatch Show Print

Motorbooks.com
My first Supercar

He Leads Me
Cherie thinks about a favorite Bible passage for a new print.

Infinity Scarf Pattern
Add some yummy alpaca yarn around your neck with this free scarf pattern from Crafty Princess Diaries.

Mother's Day Craft Tutorials
It's not too early to think about what you'll create for Mom or Grandma. Mother's Day is May 12th!

Quilt labels
Did you know that Spoonflower fabric printing can also print out labels for your fiber art works?

Spring Weather Crafts for Kids
If you are looking for a fun spring craft to do with your family, browse through these projects.

ACreativeDream
June's issued a call for mail art! Come participate and join in on the fun!

 

How to make wedding favor seed packets from the book A Priceless Wedding

All brides want a memorable wedding and one way to achieve special memories is to make custom elements like these adorable wedding favor seed packets featured in the new book A Priceless Wedding: Crafting a Meaningful, Memorable, and Affordable Celebration. In honor of the release of this amazing book, we are giving away two copies - one here on Craftside and one copy at Goodreads.com

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Goodreads Book Giveaway

A Priceless Wedding

by Sara Cotner

Giveaway ends February 07, 2013.

See the giveaway details at Goodreads.

Enter to win

 

Click on these pages from A Priceless Wedding: Crafting a Meaningful, Memorable, and Affordable Celebration to enlarge and read how to make seed packet wedding favors.

More about the Voyager Press book:

A Priceless Wedding:

Crafting a Meaningful, Memorable, and Affordable Celebration

by

Sara Cotner

How you and your partner plan your wedding can set a precedent for how you will be as a family. How do you work together to merge two different sets of ideas into something bigger and better? How do you disagree in constructive rather than destructive ways? How do you honor the input and experience of family members while simultaneously maintaining ownership of your lives and choices?

 

In this part-memoir, part how-to handbook, popular wedding blogger Sara Cotner shares how you can resist the pressure to create the wedding of someone else’s dreams and instead reclaim the real purposes of a wedding: community, connection, commitment, and fun.

 

A Priceless Wedding covers all the basics: securing a location, finding a dress, deciding on flowers, selecting a wedding party, planning the ceremony, choosing rings, and everything in between, but it goes beyond the elements of a “traditional” wedding to help you plan an eco-friendly, hand-crafted, budget-minded celebration that will be both memorable and meaningful. Featuring do-it-yourself projects that help you create your own unique wedding favors, sew a homemade wedding quilt, and more, this book will inspire you to begin your own traditions and rituals that will clarify your values and let you live them out loud.

Sara Cotner (Houston, TX) is a popular blogger at 2000dollarwedding.com and is a known resource for those interested in meaningful, budget-minded, hand-crafted weddings. She has been featured on CNN.com, Inside Edition, the pages of the Wall Street Journal, and more.

By entering in this contest you will be added to our Craftside family list.

 

Happy New Year's Eve Crafty Links

I wanted to share with you something incredibly cute on this last day of 2012, because who can't use a dose of cute? This needle felted snow bunny comes from the very talented hands of Laurie Sharp, author of Felted Feathered Friends: Techniques and Projects for Needle-felted Birds.

I also want to congratulate our winners of the "e" book giveaway with Quarry SPOON!

Here at Craftside:

Grand winner of all five books - Hueisei

Brandy M.-Print & Stamp Lab 

Mento- 1,000 Clever Sewing Shortcuts and Tips  

Candace H. - 1000 Ideas for Creative Reuse

 Denise R. - Intertwined

Norma K. B. -The Crafter's Devotional 

And the Quarry SPOON winners:

Shari wins all five books!

Lisa - The Spaghetti Sauce Gourmet

Becky - The Gourmet's Guide to Cooking with Beer

Jennifer - Making Artisan Chocolates

Aaron - The Art and Craft of Coffee

 And speaking of winning you can get yourself in the running for a copy of:

 

Bead Bugs:

Cute, Creepy, and Quirky Projects to Make with Beads, Wire, and Fun Found Objects

over at the blog

Make Something 365

and read a cool interview with the author Amy Kopperude!

And in more crafty links:

2000 Dollar Wedding

Some sage advice about dealing with family.

Quarry SPOON

Maki Sushi recipe

ACreativeDream
Beer and pretzels... and caramel, oh my!

Teddy Bear 1.0
The Crafty Princess reviews one of Craftsy.com's amigurumi classes and shows off her first teddy bear attempt from the class.

Old Book Crafts
If you've got some old books, maps or antique paper around, you can make some pretty cool upcycled book projects. Check out the round-up of upcycled book projects at CraftFoxes.

New Paintings: Hey You
Cherie shares paintings and poetry.

L Thykeson's Uniques
Santa came early, and some arty eye candy for you to look at

How to Create a New Year Photo Calendar
A photo calendar lets you keep memories close all year long. Here's how to design and bind one yourself.

Rock Paper Ink

Red Wing Shoes: Design firm Capsule (USA)

    

How to cover a cake with fondant using texture mats

Today's tasty Friday comes to you in the form of a bit of eye-candy as well as food for your tummy. Check out this cool video by Autumn Carpenter, author of The Complete Photo Guide to Cake Decorating, on how to cover a cake with fondant using texture mats.

If you want to kick your pastry decoration skills up a notch this year, grab yourself a copy of this inspiring and tutorial filled book:

The Complete Photo Guide to Cake Decorating

by

Autumn Carpenter

This book is filled with all of the most popular cake decorating techniques, including piped frosting, fondant, and hand modeled figures! For each technique, there is an overview of the tools and materials used and complete instructions with photos. The organization provides easy access to information with step-by-step directions and 600 full-color photos for clear understanding. Easy projects allow the reader to try the techniques in each section. Galleries of decorated cakes by various artists offer the reader examples and inspiration to pursue the hobby for themselves.

Autumn Carpenter is a skilled sugar artist, demonstrator, teacher, and author. She is a third generation candy-maker and confectionery artist; growing up she worked closely with her mother on books, product development, and classes. Autumn demonstrates annually at the International Cake Exploration Societé and travels the US teaching her craft. Visit her online at www.autumncarpenter.com and http://autumncarpenter.wordpress.com/.