Over this previous weekend, Alice and I were busy.

We went to Santa Barbara, did some outlet shopping, almost went to my friend Bryan’s birthday celebration (LA traffic, I’m not a fan), did some price comparison shopping for alcohol for the wedding, looked at invitations, had some amazing cheesesteaks (seriously, amazing) and most importantly, made some paper pomanders.

When you view these now and you’re getting an early preview of some of our wedding decorations.

At this point, we’re not sure how many of these we’re going to make and everywhere that we plan to hang them, but they will play a role in our decorations. (Not just because they take a while to make, but because they’re pretty.)

Here’s the low down: you take a ball of styrofoam, you take some tissue paper (turns out five for the small ones), group the tissue paper, fold it, use some wire to hold the paper together, fluff the paper and then put the fluffed papers in the styrofoam ball.

It’s not overly difficult (except when you forget to round the ends of the paper like I’ve done), but it’s just a little labor intensive.

Still though, they’re fun to make and we’re going to make a few more before the actual wedding so we have more pretty decorations (along with everything else we’re planning on using).