DIY Bride™

Are you hopelessly addicted to wedding blogs? Perhaps you’re just searching for new, wonderful, and fun blogs to follow? Well, my friends, let me introduce you to the weddings list at alltop.com. It’s chock full of incredible wedding-related blogs that are sure to inspire, educate, and entertain you.

Alltop is a site that’s owned by the ever-awesome Guy Kawasaki (author, founding Mac evangelist, marketing guru). In addition to weddings, there are a number of other categories to keep you in touch with the best of the blogging world.

Both Liene from Blue Orchid Designs and photographer Christine Tremoulet alerted me that DIY Bride was on the alltops list. I’m humbled to be included in such amazing company.

I’m very proud to be featured in two of the hottest wedding magazines on the planet right now.

One of the projects from the book, a super fun save-the-date, in the June/July issue of Modern Bride.

For those of you in the UK, do rush out and grab a copy of the June/July issue of Cosmopolitan Bride. The magazine re-design is gorgeous. I have a tiny section of tips in 50 Fabulous Finishing Touches article.

Hey, everyone:

I’ve been hit with some pretty nasty database problems that are just now (cross your fingers) resolved. I’ll be extending DIY Cake Month to run throughout June instead of cramming 30 posts into the next few days. Thanks for your patience and understanding while I worked the bugs out.

Hey everyone,

I’m having Wordpress problems that are preventing me from posting articles with images. I think I found the source of the problem and am working with some WP gurus on a fix. Once we get everything working properly, the articles will start flowing.

Do expect some downtime today while we’re working.

Thanks for your patience!

Hey DIYers,

There’s a big, fat omission in the directions/illustrations for the Couture Silk Invitation in The DIY Bride: 40 Fun Projects For Your Ultimate One-of-a-Kind Wedding on pages 35 – 41.

It looks like the cutting diagram and info for the pocketfold are missing. If you follow the book directions, you’ll make a pocket fold that’s 6″ wide x 9 1/4″ long. Wrong, wrong, wrong!

The finished size is should be 4 1/8″ x 9 1/4.

So, once you laminate the fabric to the cardstock for the pocket fold, you’ll need to trim the laminated piece to 8 1/4″ wide, not 12″ as demonstrated in the book.

This also affects the insert sizes. Wherever the directions call for 4 1/4″ width (either cutting or MS Word settings), that needs to be changed to 4 1/8″ (4.125″).

I do most sincerely apologize for any confusion this has caused! I know how frustrating incorrect directions can be.

I have a storage problem and I’m calling on you, my clever readers, for ideas.

I have about 2 dozen rolls of paper (wrapping paper, handmade papers, large sheets of paper) that I can’t figure out how to store. They were standing upright in a large vase in a corner of my last apartment. That’s just not going to work in the new space.

The underbed storage boxes aren’t going to work for me.  Wall-mounting might work but I can’t visualize doing that for 24+ rolls. Any other suggestions that’ll protect the papers and keep them accessible to me for crafting projects?

Coinciding with DIY Cake Month here at DIYBride, the Food Network is celebrating Wedding Week. From pre-wedding brunch to easy appetizers to, yes, The Cake, tune for inspiration and recipes for yummy wedding from your favorite Food Network chefs. I’m really excited to see Thursday’s back-to-back Ace of Cakes wedding-related shows. (Is it possible to have a crush on the staff of an entire company?)

Don’t forget to set your TiVO or VCR for Saturday’s all-day wedding fest!