Mel’s Monday: Bad Blogger & Time Management Blues

Hi ladies,

So yes, I’ve been a bad little blogger lately.  I feel like I can’t keep up with my blogging schedule but I have plenty of loveliness to share!!

I am just 31 days away from our departure date and although I have about 90% of everything done, between finalizing a few DIY projects, my full time job, trying to work out in the evenings, blogging, returning emails from every end of my life, to getting ready for a few trips over the next month for bridal showers, bachelorette, and final fittings, yes I am starting to feel slightly overwhelmed.

It’s probably all in my head since when I look at my “things to do” it is fairly short. I’m still feeling like there aren’t enough hours in the day to get everything done.  Trying to manage my few hours in the evening after I come home from work is increasingly getting more difficult. The house- a disaster, the laundry isn’t getting done, our refrigerator is completely empty. I just can’t keep up!!! {BIG SIGH}

Besides all of the above, I am getting excited about this upcoming weekend since it is my bridal shower and girls night out weekend (don’t know why I feel silly calling it a “bachelorette” party weekend at my age- haha! Anyone else feel this way?) Anywho- my cousin (also my MOH) is flying in from California and more family & friends will join me for this fabulous weekend and I can’t wait to see everyone. My sister made the most creative invites for a tea themed bridal shower (pics coming soon) so I can’t wait to see the theme come alive!

So I’m kind of all over the place in this post but just before we kick off the week of what I’ll try to make my regularly scheduled blogging program, here are a few things I crossed off my checklist this weekend:

First our chair signs:

Everyone knows us by M&M or “M8M” so instead of doing the traditional Mr. & Mrs. chair signs, I decided to keep them simple and do the M’s only. I bought the small (4-5 inch) round wooden plaques at Micheal’s and painted them a dark teal color. I then painted small white paper doilies a cream color since I wanted them to match our ivory linens. Once they dried, I painted our “M’s” in grey after penciling them in first. I then decoupaged the paper doilies onto the round plaques and let them dry. I repeated a coat of Mod Podge glue 2 more times just so they would be sealed. I forgot to take another picture but I added grey ribbon to the back of them as I plan to tie them onto pieces of fabric that will hang from the back of our chairs.

Next our fabric flowers:

I finally finished ALL of our fabric flowers for our place settings! Well, moms might have a few she’s still working on at her house but all the “flowers” I brought to Florida to sew are all done! I’m soooo excited to have this little project out of the way. In all we’ll probably have about 55 small and large flowers. My mom thought it might be kind of cool to make a few of these into brooches for the moms to wear in place of the traditional corsage which I think is a fantabulous idea!

Anywho just wanted to give you a little peek into what I’ve been working on these days. I soooo want to show you my invitations but again I’m just a little behind so that might come in another few days or week. I’m sure I’ll have plenty of updates and pics for you after this coming weekend too!

So bear with me folks. Never knew maintaining a blog and life would get tough in the final month before the wedding. Must have thought I was super woman or something. Ha!

Have a great week everyone!