A first trip of many...

Sorry for the silence around here... we are still alive, and we are still getting married!  Between a family emergency, school finals, the Holidays, and a few other things we have been super busy.  However, we have crossed a couple of tasks off of our ever growing to-do wedding list.

Today, I want to tell you about the first trip of many that we will undoubtedly be making to Jo-Ann fabrics.  My beautiful Maid of Honor, Victoria was in town from LA, so I stole her away for a few hours of girl time on Christmas eve.  Our goal was to get all of the fabric we needed for making the tent bunting, as well as all of the fabric for our picnic blankets.



We totally scored on the fabric for the bunting.  I wanted 5 different colors/patterns that could be alternated, but still look great together.  Our color scheme is green and blue, with white/cream and brown accents.  We found the perfect fabrics, and I couldn't be more pleased.

When it came to the fleece for the blankets, we ran into some snags.  All of the fabric we selected looked to have more than enough left on the bolt.  However, when we went to the cutting station, one of the bolts had been constructed from smaller pieces of the fleece!  They did not have 2 that were big enough for our project, so we only left with 2/3 of the fabric needed for the picnic blankets.  Part of me is sad about this, but the other part is extremely glad that that was the only problem we ran into.

All in all, our trip on Christmas Eve day was an utter success.  And while we didn't get everything we went in for, or even everything that is on our list, we did get a lot of the things that we need.  Next task?  Start crafting!