Prelude to a Countdown...1 month, 1 day til showtime

Tomorrow is one day until one month to go until The Big Day.  That's right, I'm the kind of girl who does a countdown TO the countdown.  Suddenly all those projects I was going to put off until closer to the wedding have come leaping from my to-do list into my waking nightmares of trying to stuff 100 pounds of crap into a 10 pound bag. 

Ok.......first order.........breathe.  Better.

In the beginning, there was a lovely purple pillow that I could not wait to use as for our ring bearer.  So much so, that it became the driver for the color pallette.  Until there were two.  Ring bearers that is.  Which began the search for two pillows.  The purple beaded beauty that had been my inspiration would be impossible to duplicate.  I decided that "closer to the wedding" I would find fabric I loved as much and just sew some pillows.  Yesterday being MUCH closer to the wedding, I spent a fruitless hour purusing fabric at Jo Ann's.  The only thing that jumped out at me was $20/yard, of course.  I went home empty handed.

Today, I started going through files I'd favorited at the beginning of my wedding planning.  Low & behold, I stumbled across this project (right) by Laurie Cinotto of lalalaurie.  Loved it, and I even had spanish moss just begging for a project!

This led me to Village Thrift Store in search of scrap fabric for the pillow's bottom. Instead, I found something that made me scrap my plans and go for simplicity.  Two silk pillow shams, perfectly sized, the exact right shade of sage to offset my purples, with delicate golden embroidered edges.  From India.  For $.63 each!!!  I then searched out a plump, scruffy chair cushion to pull batting from, at the blue light special price of $.45.  That's right, my one-of-a-kind ring bearer pillows will cost me just over $3 (the ribbon will likely be some I got from Freecycle) and a bit of imagination.  Score! 

I also picked up 4 yards of scrap fabric in a deep purple.  This should work for making napkins, with the help of pinking shears.  I know that sewn edges would be lovely, but I only have 1 month & 1 day to go, must get moving!!!