Updates

I will be making a post very soon about how we made our coasters. I have been working almost nightly on cleaning jars for our tree favors. I will also be posting a how to for that because it has been a process removing those labels!

The next couple projects we would like to do are:

Large wood slices
Finish the jars for tree slices
Moss table numbers


We have been purchasing lots of apothecary jars at Michael s the last couple days. They will be for our moss terrariums for the centerpieces. We did make two tester terrariums about a week and a half ago to see if they would survive and for how long. I will also post some pictures of those and how we made them up quick.

Check back for updates!!


Brittany

How to Make a Grape Vine Wedding Arch Final Steps

The arch is finished!!! Sorry it took me a month to update this blog but it literally took me the entire month to finish the arch. It ended up being a lot of work for one person and I only had the weekends to finish it. Justin's back is pretty bad and he can not bend forward so this project became mine from a certain point on due to the sitting and bending involved. If you are attempting this at home, I would definitely recommend using sawhorses to raise your arch up to hip height. My back started to get sore while working on it.

Weekend after weekend I continued to wrap the vines around the arch. I will post pictures in the order they were taken to finished so you can see how we progressed. I apologize ahead of time for all of the pictures. However, I wanted to show you the progress of the arch the best way I could. I basically continued to attach vines to vines and vines to metal until the thickness was where I wanted it to be and even. Once I got to a certain point I started to cut the vines long enough to cover the sides separately and the top separately. It made more use of the vines so that I would not run out and it helped the vines stay more consistent with thickness throughout the entire arch.