Handmade Wedding {contest closed}

I had the pleasure of contributing several projects to Handmade Wedding, published by Penguin Australia, and the book is finally out! I was so excited when I got my copy - obviously, contributors have no control over how projects will be photographed or how a book will look once it's all finished, so there's always a high level of anticipation/fear. I love the way this one was put together - it looks gorgeous and has plenty of good projects in it and I approve of all the fonts. That's huge.

{Handmade Wedding}

I have an extra copy that I'd love to share with one of you, and I'm also going to include the shoe clips that I made for the book. The clips are particularly special to me because they were made with a pair of vintage earrings that I'd been hoarding for years in the hopes that they would someday prove useful. And they finally did! They're entirely handstitched and made of blue silk chiffon and wool felt backing. If you're getting married soon, they could be your something blue. Or you could, you know, just wear them.

{shoe clips, vintage earrings}

{shoe clips - these types of shots always make me even more bitter about our cheap carpet - someday i'll have hardwood floors and my life will be complete}

{shoe clips, vintage earrings}

I also made these little fabric topped bags, which I'm fond of, along with a couple other projects that I didn't manage to get shots of before mailing them out.

{fabric topped bags - for holding favors or tossing confetti or whatever}

Leave a comment on this post to enter and I'll choose a winner on Monday. It's a holiday weekend here, so that might make the pool smaller and give you a better chance at winning!

International readers, I love you, and normally I would include you on this as well, but international shipping requires a special trip to the post office and I just can't face it when I'm staring down my wedding in one week (!). Next time, I promise.

Sadly, the book doesn't have distribution in the US at this time, but if you want your own copy you can order it from Australia.