Sarah Hearts

I’ve been slowly trying to add a subtle fall touch to our home one room at a time. I decided to start with the dining room since that’s where most of our guests like to hang out. A few thrift store finds, candy corn, and spray and you have the above centerpiece! It was inspired by Sherry and John of  Young House Love’s awesome centerpiece.

I picked up the milk glass parfait bowl (not quite sure what you would call this) at the Salvation Army store for $1.50! I filled it up with Clementine tangerines since they are in season and delicious.

Our little owl napkin holder is always on our table. We love it’s kitsch-iness. It was given to my grandmother by her cousin a very long time ago. I always wanted it and last year she said I could have it!

I picked up some shellacked gourds and small pumpkins at the grocery store for $.99 each and spray painted them white. Now they look like little ceramic West Elm inspired finds.

It’s not too late to pick up some awesome Halloween inspired art for your home! Or if you’re heading to a Halloween party, one of these prints would make a great host/hostess gift!

{My favorites clockwise from the top right: Halloween Party, Old Man Winter Was Here, Pumpkins, Mr. Poe Your Friend is Here}

Image by Hotes Trinkets.

Image by Jessica Nichols.

Image by Jessica Nichols.

Image by Spar6.

invitations:

 

our invitations were completely diy. again we ordered the folders, cardstock, envelopes and labels from paper source (i absolutely love that store, i wish there was one in florida). i created them in adobe illustrator and then we hand screen printed them at kevin’s office. they were definitely a labor of love. the probably took around 15 hours to print… but we love the results! we both love the screen printing process and i was adamant about not printing these on a inkjet printer. we did use an inkjet printer to print the labels that sealed the envelopes and for the address labels as well.

 

detail of the invitation.

 

reception card.

 

response card.

pocket folder. 

program fans:

The next DIY project we’ve done is make program fans. Since the ceremony will be outside in Floirda we thought our guests would appreciate a fan. To cut costs we made fans that were also our programs. I designed our programs in adobe ilustrator. IF any one is interested in what fonts I am using for the wedding… Futura medium in all caps and buffet script (from veer) for our monogram and names. I bought this cardstock from paper-source and printed it on my little hp printer at home. We purchased the fan handles on-line at a great price. We used PVA glue to glue both sides and the stick together. Then we finished with a 1/4″ gray bow around the handle.

You can create custom wedding invitations cards, like the ones above, with PsPrint.