Escort card holders & cello bags

I had to stop by the post office today to pick up two packages (Cory's building no longer accepts mail deliveries if it exceeds a certain size). I was so excited! I knew that it was the blue cloth-covered radio wire we ordered from Radio Daze and the cello bags from Paper Mart. You're probably thinking what are you guys doing with radio wire and cello bags?! Well, we're using the wire for escort card holders and the cello bags are for the candy buffet!!! Let me explain the card holders... usually, escort cards are displayed as tent cards but some people like to use holders, which can also serve as the guest favors. I liked the idea of using holders and even found one that I really liked:

But, the hard part about using holders as the favors is not every guest might enjoy what you give them. For our favors, I fell in love with the idea of having a candy buffet (more details about this in another post). As much as I loved these silver balls, we didn't want to spend $500+ dollars on them since we're also having the candy buffet. So we tried to find nice, but inexpensive, holders. Who better to turn to than good 'ole martha? I loooooove martha stewart! I think the woman is a creative genius. There was an article in one of her weddings magazine issues on how to make card holders from radio wire (left pic). click here to read the online version of the article.

I ordered a 250 ft. roll from Radio Daze (right pic). My first thought was, "holy cr*p! am i really going to make 175+ holders from this thing?!" The instructions looked simple and 175+ didn't seem like that many... when i placed the order. I stared at it for a while but realized that I was wasting time and the roll wasn't going to magically turn into holders. I cut a 10-inch piece and started to play. So how come mine didn't look anything like the picture?! I cut another piece (this time 15 in.) and after a couple of more tries, I managed to make a decent-looking one that didn't fall over:

TA-DA! I managed to make 9 more... now 165 more to go...