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Rustic Ways to Display Wedding Photographs

Don't let the wonderful memories of your wedding day fade. After the wedding day, many couples struggle to find new ways of displaying their treasured wedding photographs. Though photo frames are functional, they don't always allow for much personality or let couples to show off all the images they want seen. Rustic, homespun mounting methods fit with a bucolic decorating theme or help preserve memories of a casual, outdoor wedding. Use them to integrate a multitude of your photos into your home decor.

Purchase glass lanterns and remove the panes of glass. Place battery-operated tea lights inside. Print copies of your wedding photos onto vellum for a soft effect. Place the panes on the copies of your wedding photos and trace the outline of the glass onto the photos. Cut off the extra paper and replace the panes of glass in the lantern with the photos behind them. The tea lights will produce a subtle glow, illuminating your best-loved images.

Include an old-fashioned dressing screen in your home's decor and affix your photos to its face. To accomplish this, string lengths of ribbon around each panel and knot them tightly at the back of the screen. Slip the photos between the ribbon and screen to keep then in place. If one strand of ribbon on each row is not stable enough, use two parallel ribbons to keep the photos from falling.

String up rows of flexible clothesline on one of your walls and attach your photographs to the line by clothes-pinning them in place. This method lends a rustic appeal to any space, and you can hang dozens of photos at a minimal cost. To secure the clothesline at either end, knot the ends to form a small loop at either end and slip the loops over a nail in the wall at each end.

Paint or purchase wallpaper that resembles a collage of gilded portrait frames and cut out the space inside the frames. Affix your wedding photos behind the paper so it appears to frame your photos. Hang the panels of wallpaper using the clothespin method from section three or attach them to your walls as if they were posters.

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How to Prune a Teddy Bear Magnolia

Most southern magnolias (Magnolia grandiflora) are large trees, sometimes reaching 80 feet tall and 50 feet wide. The Teddy Bear magnolia (Magnolia grandiflora "Southern Charm"), though, is a dwarf variety, growing only about 16 to 20 feet tall and 10 to 12 feet wide. A Teddy Bear magnolia is also well suited for pruning so you can grow one that is even more compact, perhaps for a small urban space. It also responds well to shaping, if desired.

Difficulty:ModerateRagRubbing alcoholPruning shears or loppers1

Wait until after the Teddy Bear magnolia is finished blooming in the fall.

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Wet a clean rag with one part rubbing alcohol and one part water. Wipe down the blades of your pruning or lopping shears to sterilize them. This step is especially important if your tools were previously used on sick or diseased plants.

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Select the Teddy Bear magnolia branches you want to prune. This is not an exact science. For example, prune the longest, most askew branches, cut off the lower branches so it looks more like a tree or shape it so it looks like a shrub. Or, cut the entire plant back by 12 to 18 inches to keep the magnolia more compact.

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Make clean, sharp cuts just above a leaf node or parent branch and your Teddy Bear magnolia should recover nicely when it begins to grow again in the spring.

Do not cut your Teddy Bear magnolia tree back too hard. It's better to shape it over several years than to try to do it all at once.

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How to Make a Bridal Hairband

Embellish a bridal headband with iridescent pearl beads. Bridal accessories enhance the beauty of bridal attire, although too much flair or flamboyance may detract attention away from the splendor of the bride and her special dress. Enhance bridal fashions with a delicate-looking wire bridal headband covered in tiny crystal or pearl beads and small sprigs of pearls. The headband is made from three wires that are gently braided together to maintain the soft appeal of the accessory; rubber end caps are used to provide a comfortable fit on your special day.

Difficulty:EasySoft tape measureMedium-gauge jewelry wireTwo plastic or rubber headband end capsCrystal or pearl seed beadsTapePearl sprigs1

Wrap a soft tape measure around your head --- start just above your forehead. Wrap the tape measure downward to the nape of your neck and continue wrapping the end of the tape measure back up to your forehead. Subtract 2 inches from this measurement. The headband will end up a little bit shorter than this for a comfortable fit behind the bottom of the ear.

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Cut three pieces of medium-gauge jewelry wire to the length obtained in the above measurement.

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Align the three wires side by side and twist one end of the wires together. Slide a plastic or rubber headband end cap over the top of the ends to make a smooth end that doesn't irritate your head.

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Fill each of the wires loosely with the crystal or pearl beads. Leave about 1/2 inch of wire empty at the ends and wrap a little bit of tape over the wire ends to keep the beads in place for now.

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Twist the length of the wires into a loose braid and bend the wires into a headband shape.

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Remove the tape and twist the ends of the wires together. Slide a plastic or rubber headband end cap over the wires.

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Trim the wire ends of the pearl sprigs to about 1/2 inch long. Wrap the wire ends at random places along the length of the headband. You may add more or fewer pearl sprigs if you desire.

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