NewlyWoodwards

an unconventional home

Tips to make a bridal shower DIY towel cake

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One of my favorite bridal shower gifts to make and give is a towel cake. It makes great decor for a shower, plus it also packs a big punch as a practical gift for the bride-to-be. You may have spotted my most recent towel cake creation in the bridal shower post last week. Here’s a close-up. […]

Easy DIY cupcake toppers

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Today’s fun kitchen bridal shower craft could really be for any celebration – cupcake toppers. Can you believe I’ve never made these before? These were so stinkin’ easy, I’m planning to make them for every party I plan. What a fun and simple way to tie into any theme. For these, I used my Silhouette to cut […]

Think beyond the guest book: a DIY signature platter and recipe box

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So, guest books are fine. But, you know, EVERYBODY does guestbooks. And I’ll tell you what – I never ever look at the guestbook from our wedding or showers. So I set out to come up with some fun DIY guestbook alternatives. And I think I found them. Dum. Dum. Dum. You may have noticed […]

A kitchen bridal shower and cooking demonstration {red and aqua}

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Last weekend, my mom and I hosted a fun kitchen-inspired bridal shower for a family friend who’s getting married in June. It’s like family to us, so my mom and I were happy to spend time planning a fun shower together. We had fun plotting all the details. I shared the invites in April, which I think […]

Home-building dreams turn to plans

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So, I’m told that normal people spend a lot of time looking for a house plan to start building when they purchase property on which to build a house. So, this is yet another way that the Woodwards are not normal. Instead, we took down a 100-year-old-barn and rebuilt it with plans to live in it. And […]

A personalized superhero T-shirt and cape

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It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s …   My first project over at the Silhouette Blog. I’m sharing a customized DIY superhero shirt and cape for a toddler. I modeled it after a shirt Michelle and I saw at a retail store in Arizona. Her son Kenton is a superhero fanatic so I set […]