Needless to say it took a lot of time on each one( 4hrs on “Fawkes”!) and she and I are über proud of them!
But, 💔😓, I showed them to my darling FH and his reply was an eye roll and “Realllllly Jen?! Really? We’re adults!” I was soooo hurt that I snapped back( after 2 weeks gone, 2 days in the ER w/severe neck pain and vomiting blood- all ok now m- from previously broken neck, a horrid 7hr drive back, his brother and his family showing up a couple hours after I got home, him leaving for 3 hrs to do sports stuff- I’d been home for 14hrs most of that was sleep btw, the smoke alarms going off Bc of water leaking into one @3am & then a call at noon that FH Office was flooding his lower unit...) “Well we worked realllllly hard on them and the pix don’t do them justice...” “It’s stupid Jen. We are adults.” And then I broke “Well it’s a good thing you got your stuffy, boring, traditional wedding out of the way with a stuffy, Boring, ugly creature before me. And what the “f” did you expext when you began to date a model who was 12yrs Younger than you( or your creature ex!) and like to do artsy things and has a sense of humor and whimsy?!”
He just looked at me “Fine. But they are still stupid looking, and the Lion should’ve been Gryffindor.”
” I get that! But I wanted to have the YELLOW lion be Hufflepuff. And so he became that.”
My thought was people take Decor, we have 4 kids in wedding party, and they are cute. And saved money by ME( mom) doing them vs Etsy, eBay or hiring/buying premade.
My mom did the Ravenclaw Horse, Slytherin Llama & Unicorn. I did the Gryffindor Giraffe, Hufflepuff Lion & Fawkes.
We did a bunch of hearts in varying sizes in the Sangria/Wine, Eggplant/Plum and Copper Wedding Colours, and then a few in the Lilac and Peach to represent my Grandparents who passed away 9mo to the day, apart after 65yrs of marriage.
But there’s till a TON to do. Most is now in NY, from VA, to paint/make for our NY Wedding September 19,2020!!!!
What do YOU ladies- and get your FH in there too please!- and gents think?!?!?
