October was such an exciting month, and it closed with Crystal and Chris’ beautiful wedding!  It was such a beautiful ceremony, and the clutch I made to go with my dress matched perfectly!

And since I can no longer pass up the opportunity to craft up a gift for someone, I spent weeks prior to the wedding looking for the perfect wedding gift tutorial for the happy couple.  After lots of pondering I decided to sew up a set of place mats and matching napkins for Crystal and Chris’ new home!  And I found the perfect tutorial at Sew4Home.com – Place Mats – Napkins.  It took quite awhile to finish these, but the end result was amazing!

To package them up, I used scraps from the green fabric to make ribbon (you can find a great how-to from Mairuru here: Patchwork String).

I also bought these fabulous glass napkin rings to go with the set, and used scraps to make a drawstring bag to package them.

The pouch was simple to make, click here for a tutorial From BunnyBum: Drawstring Bag.

And to finish the gift off, I put two matching personal notes inside that I whipped up in Photoshop.

This project was so much fun!  And I think this acted as the inspiration for the many ‘Home Accessories’ projects that I have been working on the past couple of weeks.

My next post will feature my second in command, Bruce Wayne! (Doesn’t he look so cute here!)

See you soon!