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Surprisingly Crafty

As part of the lead up to the Mild Wedding, we've had to put a bunch of things together for the event. I don't mean "put together" as in plan them or hire a vendor, I mean more like assembling items that we'll need. Most of it has involved small things for the check in table, or a small sign welcoming people to our event. As is the case with pretty much everything on this blog, though, there was a little bit of unexpected hilarity involved with the whole thing.

First of all, we had to purchase the supplies for our crafts. The Mild Fiancée and I did a fair bit of this shopping together, but for parts of it, I was on my own. The end result was that I had to wander the aisles of a Michaels trying to figure out what kind of construction paper, lettering, or stickers I wanted.

In these cases, I had free rein to purchase whatever I thought we needed. Of course, the problem with choice is the responsibility that comes with making a good choice. If I bought the wrong color or the letters weren't legible, it'd be entirely my fault. So, I did my best to visualize/imagine what it would all look like as I was perusing the options. That ultimately meant taking a long time, and often times circling back to look at an item a second time. I'm pretty sure I caught a few raised eyebrows from some of the other shoppers.

Then, once I brought all of the supplies home, we had to actually assemble all of them into something visually appealing and befitting of the Mild Wedding. You know, something we'd be proud to show to other people. This apparently involved a glue gun.

It had not occurred to me before hand that we might need such a tool, but at one point, we figured out that the glue gun would speed up the process quite a bit. As a result, our coffee table suddenly turned into an assembly floor of sorts:
We re-purposed the bags, too, to lay down a protective "tarp"

You can't quite tell from the picture, but there are some interesting-looking glue sculpture things that resulted from the glue gun. Those things don't turn off, they're just basically a heat source (maybe there are nicer ones that turn off, but ours most certainly did not). So, we had all sorts of spider web and curlicue decorations suddenly adorning our coffee table. Fortunately they weren't actually glued to our table, but it was amusing as all heck.

So, if you ever want an eclectic decoration, have a wedding. It worked for us.
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