Bridesmaid rose hair clips

The most anticipated British wedding of the century is almost upon us**. Yes, my sister in law and her fiance are tying the knot in two weeks time - hurrah!

My two little angels (...please, please let them behave like angels...just for one day) are the flower girls.

They have utterly adorable 50s style dresses by Jasper Conran complete with skirts just crying out to be twirled, satin beaded ballet pumps, ivory butterfly party tights and now finally handmade rose hair clips. I don't know why I put it off for so long as they only took a few minutes really.

The only thing left to do now is to make some sort of cover up to prevent those dresses getting covered in an array of samples from the wedding breakfast. Turns out two and four year olds are pretty messy eaters - who knew?


** Other British (and possibly more Royal) weddings may also be available.

Paper napkin pompom flower

Craft fail. Or at least I thought it was. Maybe it doesn't look quite so bad on the photograph.

I fell in love with the fabulous paper napkin wallflowers at Made this morning and immediately decided to give them a go...

...only somewhere in between "start to peel each layer of the flower up" and "you have a gorgeous over-sized flower", my craft mojo deserted me. If fact, my flower spent a good long while looking suspiciously like a crumpled, folded waste of four perfectly serviceable party napkins.

I think I made my folds too narrow, and the second and third ply of my napkins are white instead of the same colour as the top...and the dog ate my homework, honest Miss.

After much snipping and preening, (and an elastic band around the bottom to bunch the whole thing together), it finally resembles a flower - although it's more of a crazy, giant carnation than the elegant magnolia I had hoped for.

Bah.