I’ve been trying to deal with wedding stuff and my brain is fried, but I thought I’d make a post of some links to distracting pretty stuff I’ve been looking at lately. Hopefully I will be able to countenance posting about actual crafty wedding stuff soon as well.

Martha Stewart DIY flower crap (mostly here so I don’t have to click through a whole slideshow every time I’m looking for one of these templates):

Paper wedding flower favors

Giant paper poppies

Coffee filter roses

Hard flower barrettes

Crepe paper lilies (and bubble flowers)

Giant crepe roses

Cherry branch clip art

Paper peonies

Four-petaled fabric flower template (and ultrasuede pillow how-to; this photo is the most helpful)

Not Martha, but a motherlode of fabric flower info, with pics, including:

Silk organza boutonniere

Felt dahlia

Felt rose barrettes

Kanzashi

Silk lotus

Charles James/other inspirational ballgown-related stuff:

Four-leaf Clover

Clover guts

Pinterest board

Lots of awesome ballgowns (love the Worth butterfly one)

Spiral steel boning

Ombre dyeing

Dharma trading how-to (slowly pulling garment out of dye bath)

RIT dye how-to (dip-dyeing more and more of garment into bath)

Other

How to make the Le Sac dress (50″ wide x 36″ long–1 yard of 54-60″ fabric, or I guess two of 44″)

Awesome scalloped Ultrasuede wrap skirt (how-to from Martha Stewart. WANT! This stuff is like $8 a yard)