{Monday Moods at DIY Weddings} Hot Air Balloons

This high-flying inspiration board at Postcards & Pretties inspired me to search the web for more weddings with a hot air balloon motif. I love the vivid poppy red paired with soft blue in this board. Very striking!

Get sweet inspiration for a dessert table like this beauty featured on the Amy Atlas blog that sports a travel theme with hot air balloon decor and treats. This entire post is filled with gorgeous details you must see!

I’m swooning over these pretty-in-pink hot air balloon centerpieces featured at Love & Lavender! This celebration had the theme “the sky’s the limit” and was held on the hotel’s roof top. You’ll enjoy reading more about this lovely wedding here.

Need some wedding invitations with hot air flair? A simple search on Etsy yielded 125 options for you to peruse! The print-it-yourself suite from Green Cherry Factory shown above caught my eye immediately! I love the vintage vibe and the soft mint sky background. But there are many beautiful options to consider in a variety of styles and colors in the Etsy Gallery.

Searching for some ideas for a hot air balloon cake? Check out my Hot Air Balloon Wedding Cake board on Pinterest for inspiration!

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I have a complicated relationship with my embroidery needles. Which is a fancy way of saying I don’t really take care of my needles at all. Even though I know I have embroidery needles to use for cross stitch and sewing, needles that are certainly still in their packages, I can rarely find them when I need them.

So when I saw this post from Crewel Ghoul about how to store your embroidery needles, it hit close to home for me.

It doesn’t really say anything I didn’t already know, but it is good advice that might also serve as a reminder for you to take better care of your needles when you cross stitch or do other hand-sewing projects so that you’ll be able to find your needles again when you need them.

It would help me a lot if I had a dedicated place to keep needles I’m not using, including the needles that are still in their packages from when I bought them. You’d think I would keep them with my embroidery floss but apparently you would be mistaken about that.

Another good idea for me is to have a place to put needles I’ve been using when I am done with them. Because goodness knows I’m not going to put them back in the package. (Which may actually be a good thing because then I know which one I’ve been using and which ones are fresh. Not that I replace my needles regularly, but still.) I own pincushions but I don’t really use them for anything, which is silly.

Check out the post at Crewel Ghoul to see all the options available for storing your embroidery needles properly. I’d love to hear what you do, especially if you have a better system than I do (which, honestly, would be any system at all).

[Photo: Crewel Ghoul]

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