Flower Girls & Photos

September 4, 2013

Blackeyed susans
Both of my sister in laws are doing photos every day over on Flickr.  Jenny has been doing photography for a long time and her captures are truly inspirational.  My younger sister in law Maureen is just starting out and she is showing lots of talent too!  She took the photo above and the one of Marion below.  These are both with my camera but my photos never turn out this good!

Marion by Maureen
In other news, we are leaving for a family wedding in near San Francisco later today.  My stomach is in knots thinking about how I am going to deal with my very cute but extremely wiggly 9 month old on the plane for so long.  If you are flying to San Francisco from Pittsburgh today, I appologize in advance for the crying baby.  I am excited to see San Francisco though!  I have been working on the flower girl dresses…

Flowergirls
The wedding is in a garden and the bride wanted to keep it natural.  She chose the orange linen and we worked on this style with some photos for inspiration.  I think they turned out really sweet and the girls feel so excited to be part of the wedding.

Flower girls back
I made 8 of them and a matching bow tie and belt for Calvin since he is the ring bearer.  It wasn't as hard as I thought it would be~  especially with my new machine!  Wish me luck on that airplane!

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