Category: Christmas
Winter Wedding Inspiration
Having recently been asked to put together some ideas for planning a winter wedding with beautiful icy blues, silvers and whites we’ve created this Winter Wedding mood board to include inspiration from some of our favourite suppliers and Vintage Dorset props and accessories. Check out the suppliers listed below or if you want help or ideas for venue dressing your wedding just get in touch with us HERE
Picture credits:
Clockwise from top right:
- Selection of blue vintage china from Vintage Dorset
- Beautiful pale blue and white butterfly cupcakes from Nibble & Scoff
- Icy blue hand made fairy lights from the talented Wendy at Red Brick Glass
- Delicate blue teapot from Vintage Dorset
- Wedding place cards with blue china from Vintage Dorset – we can also provide tags with thin coloured ribbons
- Silver teaspoon on blue china Vintage Dorset
- Table flowers (in teacups, cream jugs and teapots) from Vintage Dorset
- White ice wedding cake from the amazing Joella at Nibble & Scoff
- More Vintage Dorset china – dinner plates for hire and blue vintage table cloths
- Winter hand-tied wedding flowers and bridal bouquet’s from the lovely Pygmalion Florists in Weymouth
Pictures are copyright Vintage Dorset or belong to the suppliers listed above.
Christmas Tree fairies
One of the most pleasurable things to do at Christmas is to spend time with your children helping them make traditional tree decorations using scraps, oddments, fabric, ribbon and tinsel. Whilst the expensive gifts we give at Christmas are high up the wish-list, its the memories of time spent together that children really treasure.
My daughters are still very nostalgic about their childhood attempts at making of these old-fashioned tree decorations and it is rather handy having a host of naughty (but cute) tree fairies to blame when presents (inevitably) get mixed up or something goes wrong on the big day!
To make vintage-style tree fairies or peg toy soldiers you will need:
A pack of old-fashioned dolly-pegs Paints for faces Indelible pen Assorted ribbon or felt (thick wire-edged ribbon is very useful) Wooly batting, net or wadding (for underskirts) Wool and scraps for hair, buttons etc Pipe cleaners for arms Glue (Victorians often used hot glue in pots – our modern day equivalent is a glue gun) Silver or gold thread for hangingInstructions
Paint the heads and faces of all pegs in skin tones or leave pegs neutral colours. . Leave to dry overnight.
For soldiers – paint red or blue coats with black trousers beneath. Leave to dry. Draw faces, belts, buttons and hair with indelible marker or glue on sequins and wool. Use pipe cleaners for arms and a scrap of red ribbon glued in a little cylinder and onto the head for a hat. Suspend with silver or gold thread.
For tree fairies – glue a thin band of ribbon around the top “chest” area of the peg. For the skirt, cut about 8″ length of 2″ wide ribbon, (ideally pre-wired at both edges). Glue the cut edges together so they just overlap and concertina and glue one wired edge so that it ruffles into a neat “waist”. Glue directly onto the body of the peg. With small children get them to choose the colours and help them with the gluing as the glue gun gets a bit hot. Use wadding to plump up the skirt. Use pipe cleaners or wired ribbon for arms and silver or gold ribbon for wings glued in a bow at the back. Children love to add hair, faces, hats and shoes – dipping glued feet in glitter – you can use PVA glue for this rather than the glue gun. Suspend the fairies with silver or gold thread.
The end results can be fabulous – and much more memorable than shop-bought decorations.
