Gifts from Sadie's Kitchen

 

We  made these to thank a couple of friends of ours who helped us with some house repairs.

 Homemade Beer Bread

 Black Garlic Butter

 Bacon Jam with caramelized onions, brown sugar, coffee & lots of bacon

thought this striped piggy was too cute

Thanks so much, Roger & Rose! 

Hope you enjoyed.

Food Dice & Happy Birthday Patrick!

Our little brothers birthday is Sunday

 

And he loves to cook

 

So to celebrate, we made him something fun to help him cook

 We call them Food Dice! Each die has six sides of its own food item category. For instance, the meat die features Poultry, Beef, Fish, Tofu, Pork & a free square. There are also die for grains, veggies, herbs & spices and a couple of special die featuring delicacy items like Truffles, Coffee, Ginger, Lemon, & Caviar.

 No idea what to cook tonight? Give 'em a toss! This roll netted us a dish featuring: 

Poultry, Foie Gras, Couscous, Tomato, Cheese & Cayenne! Interesting, huh?

 This roll denotes we'll be cooking something with Pork, Corn, Chiles, Lemon, Caviar and a free space denotes that we can either stop there or add whatever we want! 

We just can't wait for Patrick to cook us something!!

 Oh, and then there's Fess. He's pretty damn cool.

Happy Birthday lil Pootie! 

We love you tons.

From Sadie's Kitchen

Those are the two words to best describe the happenings of our house lately. In other words, we have been cooking up a hurricane. A category five, to be exact.

A beautiful Turkey Brine bubbling away with aromatic celery, onions, carrots, and herbs

 

 A turkey, looking naked and vulnerable just before we got quite intimate with it, by rubbing in between the skin and meat with a fresh herb and butter mix.

 

Ain't she purty?

Baking to a golden brown underneath her butter and white wine soaked cheesecloth blanket.

 

We used a combination of recipes and cooking techniques from the domestic goddess Martha, herself.

Get on my plate, shredded apart turkey meat.

 

Good.

Now get in my belly with your sexy baked onions and apples.

Good.

 

From scratch Orange Scented Cranberry Sauce simmering away...

Winter Sangria with black cherry soda, sweet-tart cranberries and oranges...makes me miss Mexico.

 These are something very special, we'd like to share with you.

Something so yummy and fun and pretty we couldn't WAIT to share with you.

Bacon Sprinkles! That's right, you heard me. Candied Bacon Sprinkles....droooooolll

 We made them especially for our piece de resistance:

Yes, to answer your question. They are absolutely as good as they look.

 

 Mini size to boot so shove the whole thing in your mouth.

 Served alongside these beautiful dishes made by our friends and family:

Ah yes, another one on the books. 

Now time for a nap.

The Handmade Wedding-Part 2

Welcome to the Handmade Wedding Part Two!

We spent so much time and energy on this event, we hope you enjoyed yourselves and were inspired. More than anything, we hope you came away with a sense of who we are. And although the entire event was about us, it wouldn't have been possible without the love and support of our family and friends.

So thank you.

This is a continuance. You can find Part One here.

I made these for our NOLA shower with patterned paper and velum.

Tutorial here.

Stamps found at a discount store + plain white napkins=

Personalized bev naps!


I upcycled/repurposed my old food cans by printing vintage labels from
the internet and modge podge-ing them

then my AMAZING florist stuck flowers in them

Seriously, how beautiful are his flowers?

I mean, be serious. How can something be THIS beautiful?

The southern dessert buffet was always a part of the wedding plans...

 The signs were designed in Illustrator and assembled WHILE I was packing for the hotel.

I diagrammed pretty much everything...

 

I am multi-tasker extraordinaire

 I even designed my own dang wedding cake...

Inspired by that red ribbon stripe cake seen in Part One's inspiration board #2

These cards, designed in Illustrator were tied to the Out of Town Gift Bags

 

 love 'em

Designed these in Illustrator...

Inserted into mini zip top bags with two Aleve capsules

The tie wrap & suspender sticker turned our "I will buy your ties & suspenders" into a gift!

 

 Our activity book made my friend cry because it was so "us". Here it is in case you missed it.

 

 

 

 

 

 All hand designed, assembled, drawn, by us at HFS.

We promised to entertain you...with board games!

 

and you will play

 and you will love them

They make christmas lights in green specifically so we could use 

the leaves from silk flower stems and make a garland for the ugly iron stair railing

 

I think it looked cute...

Diagram for front table

 I hope someone got a photo of it...

Photo table next to welcome table at entrance...I am a diagramaniac

This small folding book with picture instructions on how to tie a tie took me the better part of a week to design. Then I scrapped it because I couldn't get it to print on both sides correctly. Crappy home printer...

Not handmade, per se but wanted to share because Suzy aka Mama Juju
was reading tarot cards next to the voodoo station

she's so cool

Designed in Illustrator: the reserved signs for the ceremony chairs

seen here in action

 

This is where you sit

A gift for The Efferson's, I cut the tree brances out of foam core board, the leaves and background were really pretty textured paper.  Each leaf has a name...one side is the Mayers, one side is the Efferon's

 

put them together and it makes a whole tree!

Oh yeah, we made the website!

It rocks

Set it up like this please




Let's talk briefly about the backdrop...which is another brainchild of mine

There are these really ugly stairs behind the curtain so I had to cover them somehow.

Isn't it much better than those ugly stairs?

Yes, it is.

Again, not handmade per se but Derek was playing the acoustic guitar on the porch as guests entered

so amazing to set the mood

Even my dress was handmade...well, hand altered. It began as my grandmother's dress in 1950-ish.

then became my mother's dress in 1979

I had the sleeves cut off and the top bodice and lace re-done.

My seamstress was fantastic

Our Thank-You Cards were inspired by online, photographed by Elizabeth and printed by Snapfish.

Again, thank you to all of our amazing vendors, family, friends, support team, cast and crew, and all of the brides who inspired us to create OUR wedding.

We can never repay you.