Miss Coyote's Guide to DIY Envelope Liners

Step 1. Gather supplies. Spend about 15 minutes searching your apartment for scissors only to realize that you had already placed them with the rest of your supplies. Smack head on table and do not move on to step 2 until you have poured yourself a nice, big glass of wine.

Supplies I used: Scissors, pencil, paper trimmer, wrapping paper, double sided tape (I eventually stopped using tape and switched to glue dots), envelopes, bottle of wine and one very interested kitten

Step 2: Trace your envelope on to whatever you would like to use as your template. I used a piece of cardboard.

Step 3. Cut out your template and stick it in the envelope to make sure it's how you want it to look. You can cut it to go to the bottom of the envelope, but to conserve paper mine went about halfway down.

Step 4. Start cuttin'! Because I used wrapping paper I cut strips with scissors then went back and cut the strips using my paper trimmer.

Step 5. Cry because by this point you have finished all the wine. Send your fiancé to the nearest liquor store to purchase more.

Step 6. Stick your liner in the envelope and fold over using a ruler or bone folder. Or if you're ghetto like me and too lazy to find the ruler just use the cardboard template (not recommended). Spend way to much time making sure everything is properly lined up. 

Step 7. Remember that the envelopes will be thrown away immediately and that less than 1% of your guests will even notice that your envelopes have liners. Slap some tape on that bad boy and press it onto your envelope. Try not to wrinkle the paper. 

Step 8. Cry because you keep wrinkling the paper. Remind yourself again that your guests will not notice. Give up using tape and use glue dots instead. Wish you had thought of that 20 liners ago.

Step 9. Vow to never make envelope liners again and immediately look into purchasing liners for your wedding invitations. (Who are you kidding? This whole project cost you $4 and by the time you are assembling your invitations it will be a distant memory. You are totally going to do it for your wedding invitations too.)

If you want more info I loosely followed this tutorial to make my liners. It's a little bit more straight forward, but a lot less entertaining.

Happy lining!

Save the Dates Revealed

Narrowing down the designs for our save the dates was tough. We had finally crossed off all but two designs and just could not choose between them.

So what did we do? We ordered both!

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We waited for a kickass sale to show up through Vistaprint (we didn't have to wait too long... They are always having kickass sales!) and ordered 50 magnets in one design and 50 in the other. I am so happy with how they turned out. Honestly my only complaint is how HUGE they are! Vistaprint gave us the dimensions, but I really couldn't visualize it. When I opened the box I was like, "Holy crap, these are bigger than my face!"

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Hopefully our guests won't be upset that our save the date is going to take up their whole freakin' fridge.

Once they arrived it was time to decide how to package them. My mom picked up the perfect sized envelopes at Staples:

Image via Staples

But I felt like sticking the magnet into the plain white envelope was boring. What to do? What to do? I'm way too lazy to put any effort into packaging them up nice, nice like Miss Hawk:

Photo by Miss Hawk on Weddingbee

So I decided to jazz up the envelopes.

Here's what our friends and family received in the mail:

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Turn it over...

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Oh, what's that? You want a close-up of that pretty sticker I slaved over? Sure, no problem!

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Open it up to see the pretty shiny envelope liner...

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Pull out the pretty magnet...

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And stick it on your fridge!

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I already talked a bit about the magnet design, but just wait til you hear about how much fun it was to assemble these bad boys!

Aaahhh-wwhhoo!!

That's Coyote for "Hello there Hive!!".

I'm Miss Coyote and I am so excited to be here! I saw the email from Pengy pop up right as I was leaving work last night and could hardly contain myself. Thankfully most of my co-workers had left for the day so I'm hoping that no one saw me bouncing up and down like a little kid at Christmas! I quickly packed up my things and ran home to share the good news with the mister.

So who are we anyways? Well, Mr. Coyote and I met many moons ago at our alma mater in Westchester County, NY and have been inseparable ever since! We quickly bonded over our addiction to love for coffee and classic rock.

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Mr. C and I rockin' out at an AC/DC concert.

Now, six years later, we live in Westchester, work in Manhattan and are getting married in Upstate New York. Whew, that's a lotta love for the Big Apple!

So why Miss Coyote? Well, as a lover of classic rock I can't help but think of Ozzy's "Bark at the Moon" whenever I see that little icon.

Oh and I always had a soft spot for Wile E. Coyote growing up. I know he was suppose to be the antagonist, but come on... Can you give the poor guy a break and let him catch the roadrunner just this once?! (I similarly felt bad for the Trix Rabbit and Tom from Tom & Jerry cartoons.)

Generous Matters

What can I say? I like to root for the underdog!

We have a little less than six months to go until our wedding day -- or as I affectionally refer to it: Our big, fat Italian wedding. We're busy planning a heartfelt ceremony followed by a rockin' reception with all of our friends and family. I can't wait to share all of our details with you and look forward to continuing this exciting journey with the Hive!

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Welcome to 2012 everyone!

How's it going so far?

Mine seems to be getting off to a rocky start.

I need to preface this by saying that throughout this planning process I have been the calm, cool and collected bride. Having a long engagement meant plenty of time to plan and make decisions. For the past year and a half I have been humming along happily picking out dresses, colors, menu options - the list goes on.

Everyone I meet tells me they're amazed at how carefree I am. Sometimes I even amaze myself with how easily I've been letting things roll off my back - especially on nights when my mom calls me freaking out over invitations or flowers. Wedding planning has been a breeze and I have been feeling preeeeeeeetty awesome.

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