We had so much fun designing our new wedding party banners! They are made in a more casual wedding style, and would be perfect for a country wedding; with the groom and groomsmen in vests instead of tuxedos.




These banners can be made in any wedding colors, and  we can make the dresses in any of our 15 dress styles too!


Groom and groomsmen can be made with either long ties, or bow ties. We'd love to make a banner just for you using your wedding colors and dress styles!




See our new banners here and here.  

Happy bridal shower planning!

~Laurie

Our sweet little wedding dress tags are so cute and tiny, and are perfect for attaching to gifts for the bride, bridal shower favors, thank you gifts for the maid of honor and bridesmaids, and the list goes on.  Speaking of wedding dresses.....



There is a new bride-to-be in our family!  Youngest daughter, Kaitlyn, recently became engaged, and talking about weddings and all the plans in the making has us almost giddy with excitement!  We can't wait for wedding dress shopping, bridal showers, and all the fun we're going to have planning her down-home, country wedding! Yay!

Drop by our Etsy shop if there is a wedding in your future!

~Laurie

Just in time for spring, we introduce our newest bridal shower banner! These would be perfect for an outdoor garden party, a bridal tea, or even as a decoration for a little girl's room! Find the listing here.

~Laurie

It has taken a while to blog about our most recent family wedding.  Oldest daughter, Ashley was married to her sweetheart Richard in August 2016.  Three days before her wedding, my husband; her father, was rushed to the hospital and diagnosed with severe pneumonia.  He quickly spiraled downhill, and Acute Respiratory Distress and Septic Shock was added to his diagnosis.  As a last ditch effort to save his life, he was transferred to Oregon Health and Science University on life support when we should have been going to a wedding rehearsal and dinner for our daughter.

Before he was intubated, my husband asked that our son walk his sister down the aisle in his place, and Ashley tucked Daddy's photo in her bouquet to walk down the aisle with her.



Through the grace of God, a clinical trial, and amazing physicians, his life was spared.  I left his side for a few hours to attend our daughter's wedding.  Our friends stepped up and made sure that everything was perfect, from flowers I'd planned to arrange, to food I was going to prepare.  It was amazing the way everything came together, but it's hard - still so hard - to think about this difficult time.

It had been so fun to prepare for Ashley's beautiful Victorian style wedding!  Her favorite color has always been purple, and we grew the flowers for her wedding cake that another daughter decorated for her. In another post, here you can see the wedding favors we had made for her special day.

We got through this very difficult time, and a few weeks after the wedding, Dad was strong enough to gather with the newlyweds for a second celebration; gift opening, eating the cake top, and best of all, finally the Father/Daughter dance they'd missed. Last fall this lovely union gave us our first grandchild!  My husband knows how close he was to missing this special blessing, and it's made our family closer than ever.

~Laurie

Hello there!

Our Etsy shop, this blog, and all of our social media sites have a whole new look for spring!  What do you think?!

It is acting anything but spring here in the Pacific Northwest! It snowed all day, with sub-freezing temperatures, and we have several inches of snow on the ground.  A far cry from this day four years ago, when Emily and Jacob were married!  It was a beautiful spring day, that was near 70 degrees!

Emily and Jacob had been a pair since 8th grade, and were married on March 7, 2015; exactly 10 years to the day of becoming boyfriend/girlfriend in 8th grade!  We had so much fun working together on their wedding preparations, that we started up Lottie Elizabeth just a couple of months later!

Here are some of my favorite photos from their wedding day! Theirs was a very sweet and heartfelt wedding, just like their marriage has been.  So lucky to have this wonderful couple as part of our family! Happy 4th anniversary, J&E!

Happy (hopefully soon!) spring!

~Laurie

~Laurie

In late August we hosted a fun baby shower for our daughter/sister! This was the first baby to be born into our family for 23 years, so we were super excited! Ashley is a teacher, so we went with a book-themed baby shower. She received a whole-library full of books for her little-one-to-be!


These cute little cake pops were a bear to make, so there were only a few of them, but they turned out so cute!



We found the cookie cutter for our elephant cookies here.