DIY- wedding bouquets

I love wedding planning because you can add your own personal touch to everything. Last night I bundled up these beauties and secured them with tulle. No glue, no pins!

I just cut the stems to preferred length & cut off all the green leaves. I fixed the flowers to the shape that I liked, remember that it does not have to be a perfect round shape.  When you're creating the bouquets you have option of placing them how you like them, personally I like them slightly uneven.

Flowers were bought at my local craft shop along with the tulle.

DIY - Unique wedding favors

If you have ever planned a wedding, you must at some point ran into the same road block as I did, on what to do for your wedding favors?! 

My fiancé had a brilliant idea and he suggest we incorporate into our navy & pink theme, a movie theme, because that's how we met. We didn't want a red carpet or an Oscar theme, we want a simple movie theme with famous movie quotes, miniature movie posters, popcorn etc...Upon looking up ideas we found that it can be overwhelming, so be careful not to over do it!

So for our wedding favors we wanted something unique but fun! 

We came up with a popcorn gift box that will include a popcorn bag, a box of movie candy & a red box movie gift card.

We found these on Amazon and purchased 100 for under $30.00! We are working on personalizing them ourselves (example pictured) with our color scheme and a sweet thank you note to our guest.

This is a unique idea & can be personalized in your own way! 

I decide to use a lace punch hole cut out to soften my edges. See below for the product I used. 

I made a wrap with a different pattern paper (found at my local craft store) 

I took a small pink ribbon and looped it behind the box and secured it with a bow.

This has been a fun project and we just love the idea that we get to share a part of our lives with our guest.

Below is the product that I used to soften my edges on my thank you card. It is a lace punch edge. You can find this at any local craft store.

Stay tuned for some more wedding ideas!

Is your 4th grader struggling with spelling?

Have you struggled with ways to keep your child interested in spelling practice. I have some ideas that may help you at home. I had a struggling student and now her grades range anywhere from an 80-100 weekly on her spelling test. 

My thought is keeping it entertaining enough to keep her engaged, on a weekly basis. 

These are some of our weekly rituals.

We create our own flashcards!!! 

You might be thinking, I've done that! Well we don't stop there...I also have her do one practice test to see where she stands, most times she gets 9 out of 10 wrong. 

Each word she gets wrong we practice again and again multiple times until she gets them all right. 

We usually have 4 days to practice before the spelling test. Once she has them on paper, I then use my flash cards to test her memory. When she can spell them all out without writing them down, I give her a final test. 

I found this dry erase cardboard at the teacher store and thought "how fun!" 

( you may be able to have one laminated for the same effect)

She loves to work sitting on this exercise ball and spell out her words. 

She stays engaged and I always have the confidence that she will pass her test.