A few more DIY projects..........

My Aunt's dad restores sewing machines and he'd set this one aside for me as a wedding present from my two younger sisters.  However, i've been using it already and think it's quite sentimental that the order of services were bound using it.  The machine is 100 years old this year and was made in a factory in Scotland (which at the time was the biggest producer of sewing machines in the world!).  The Singer company has a website where you can type in the sewing machines serial number and it tells you all about it's production date etc.  I wonder who originally owned this machine?  It must have made alot of items of clothing and cushion covers and aprons etc, a piece of history..........

This is my mum doing another repetitive job!  I had to turn the handle for her :)

This is all the favours that mum and I made, we bought the jars and lids months ago and cut the toppers out of the scrap bridesmaid dress material and some other fabric that we bought in John Lewis.  We also made all the jams ourselves and only had one disaster where a pot slipped out my hand (with no lid on) and jam went everywhere! oops!

A close up of our personalised labels complete with the phrase 'David and Abby's wedding, 7th of August 2010'.

I won a bargain on e-bay, a chunky solid pine dining table and four chairs complete with cushions.  We sanded back the table and Dad re-waxed and buffed it :)

A cute photo to finish.....David always has his head in a book except this one is a kids book about dinasours :)

More wedding prep!

David helping Dad construct the photo-booth that will be at our reception.  It will be medically themed and contain props and posters :)

David posting our precious invitations, a great moment!! Just have to wait for all the RSVP's now :)