shopping

is fun. we went to the annual forest hill neighborhood yard sale yesterday. i love all of the houses in this neighborhood, so i knew i could find something. we showed up late, but we made our first wedding purchase... an old milk jar! for $2, i was literally, jumping for joy. j thought i had lost my mind. we originally said we'd make one trip to the thrift store, buy a cheap set of mix-n-match vases & call it a day. starting early will obviously give us time to find unique ones like the one we bought. i was proud of my find. :)

i have to post this before i forget about in a year. we're not going to have a lot of ceremony decor because making an arch, buying a bunch of flowers to stand at the end of the isle is just not something i feel like dealing with. enter: pomanders. easy way to decorate by just hanging a pomander on the end of each isle. i have no idea how much these typically cost, but i came across this post on handmade, paper flower pomanders. score. kind of like the martha stewart paper poms, but i think using the styrofoam balls will make them a bit more sturdy. i just want to make these now in my spare time**, but i guess i don't want to have 20 paper balls sitting around in our apartment.

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not sure what color i'll use, but this was her finished product. saweet.

**i think i have more spare time than i really do. i have a to-do list a mile long already for school starting up soon, but this stuff is just way more fun.