I love that M loves football.  I am a big college football fan so I like that this is something we share.  However, over the weekend M noticed that the NFL Network was having a free preview weekend.  This meant back to back to back football.   He even found a “highlights” channel.  So every 2 minutes or so the game would change.  I had no idea what was going on or who was playing let alone winning.  Sheesh!  We will NOT be getting that package.  Now tonight is Monday night football.  I foresee quite a few chick flicks in the near future.  Don’t get me wrong I like COLLEGE football but I could do without the NFL.

When M vegged out to football yesterday I figured I had one of two options, go shopping and spend money that really didn’t need to be spent or see if I could work on some wedding projects.  Wedding projects won.  M mentioned that I probably needed to start working on the invitations so I set out to find a few more fonts I might like.  Well this lead to near disaster.  I went to a bad website which took out my computer :(  Oopsy!  M messed with it on and off through out the afternoon and finally got it back in working order.  YAY!  (I <3 that he will fix my computer, hehe).

Since my computer was down for a while I didn’t really feel like I could work on my invitations so I decided I was going to start jeweling things.  I bought a hoodie from VS last weekend so I pulled that out to see how many more crystals I would need.  Turns out I need more then I have.  :)  But I did have enough to start working on my veil.  Once I figured out the tulle wouldn’t melt under the heat of the iron I was good to go.  I ironed the tulle to make it flat.  Then I started working on the pattern of the crystals.  I knew my veil would be pretty small so I only did 3 rows across in a staggered diamond pattern.  And let me just say, ironing tiny crystals onto tulle with tiny weaving is a pain in the ass.  It took me about 30-45 minutes to get the crystals on.  But in the end I’m glad I spent the time.  After that I tried to “sew” the top together (which is basically weaving string in and out and pulling it together) but I couldn’t really figure it out.  I just gathered the top and bottom edges together and then tied some string around it.  Worked just fine.  The hair flower I found to go with it had a pin and hair clip option so I pinned the veil to the flower and I can just clip it in.  This also makes me realize this might be why my back is in knots today.  Ughh.  Anyway here is the finished product.