Community Roots & Resources Wedding Part 3: Engagement Party!

Getting our families together has been such a challenge for our entire relationship, and we finally achieved it when we hosted our Engagement Party at my parents’ house in early July. It was an opportunity to test several of my DIY ideas to see if they could work for the larger reception we are planning….

DIY: Frame for Pictures

Have you ever been looking for inspo and stumble across something and think to yourself, “I think I have all the supplies to make that!”? Well, that’s pretty much what happened with this project that I took on for our Engagement Party. And by “I took on”, I mean that I ended up needing Mr….

pARTicipation Trophies

Consider, for a moment, the trophies you proudly collected as a kid, for soccer or baseball or mathletes, whatever your thing was. If you grew up in the 1980s or ’90s (or later), you probably acquired a few. Even if your team didn’t “win”, most coaches distributed small shiny statuettes to their players, and likely…