Daisy, Daisy.....

Good Morning!

Bare with me this morning as this is a longish post. I'm aware I've been MIA from blogland for about a week and that's due to two things. Firstly, issue's surrounding my unemployment - which I won't go into, but will just say have had me fuming and taking a stance against government. On the other hand, a happier note was this year's Church Wedding Preparation Day. At our church, any couples wishing to get married in the year ahead have to attend a prep day to discuss the realities of the service, their reasons for wanting a church service (if not regular attendees) and various other bits and peices.

It's the 5th year that this has been run and if you're a regular to my blog you'll have seen various cakes and favour boxes I've made in the past. Well this year I decided to do something a little bit different and went with a daisy theme. But who just wants pretty flowers for their favours, it was time to add  sweet twist to the design and I made these:

Using 5p lollies and a Sizzix Daisy Die (the irregular daisy) and a leaf die from a different flower die set I created the daisys. The stands were just printed card which I scored and created a triangle fold with a small slit in the top for the stick to go through.

Having finished with the favours I needed to make the centrepieces, which really needed to be small and so came these:

More daisy's in white, with a couple of yellow daisys up top and some green crysthanamum styled heads to give the whole thing some colour. So when the table was laid, this is what it looked like:

 But you can't have a wedding preparation day without a cake and this year mum created this.....

..... which she was still icing at 11pm on Friday night! lol!  The whole thing was a huge success and I only wish that I had taken before and after shots of the buffet - it's relatively scary what 30 people can munch their way through! lol!

But as mum and I started the endless and thankless task of washing up (as the industrial washing machine had packed up - again!) the heavens opened and the forecasted snow began to decend. So at 3:40pm, just before we finally managed to leave I took a couple of shots of the church with it's white dusting:

Thank goodness we left when we did, for an hour later - after having a cup of tea this is what our back garden looked like:

Nearly 5 inches in total! but sadly it's nearly all gone. Oh well.

So that's about it - I'd like to enter the favours into Allsorts Challenge of Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by and happy crafting!