Handmade Decorations and How to Make Tissue Paper Pom-Poms

So this weekend has also been a crafty one, making me very happy (I'll have to get married more often ;)) My lovely bridesmaid came to stay and we got going with some assembling of decorations, very productive! We had a lot of fun together as well of course :)

Using Lace, Ribbons, Hessian, and crochet flowers assorted, we made some jam jar candle holder...

And that's another one of my heart wreaths in the middle :)

We also began assembling the table place cards...

... and made lots of tissue paper pom poms! The barn where the reception is is really big, so I wanted to have lots of bursts of colour all over the place. Tissue paper pom poms are easy and quite cheap to make so we thought that this would be one good way of using the space. 

To make them, you just need 8 sheets of tissue paper, roughly the same size. We used a mixture of colours so that each one is different. You then fold them as if you were folding a fan, over by about an inch and then back, repeatedly until the end

Then tie some string around the middle. We used a lot of string, so that you can use the ends to hang the pom poms once you're done...

... to get the fuzzy effect on the ends you then need to cut a semi-circle at each end...

Then gently pull back the layers from the middle to make the pom poms...

Ta Dah! And now we have a few pom poms around the house... we didn't unfold all of them, but wanted to just check it worked a few times. C is delighted (!)

Hope you are all having a lovely relaxing weekend :)