Why I haven't had a life for the last two weekends . . .

Here's why I have been getting up early on Saturday and Sunday mornings.

A lot of sewing . . .

And a lot of paper crafting (is that what making invitations from scratch is called??) . . .

A couple weekends ago Mama and I spent a crazy Saturday hunting down this fabric:

Who knew everyone and their mother was into green toile besides us?? We went to three different fabric stores, one all the way out in CR (a little road trip for us), just to round up enough of the stuff. Here is how the story ended: two women in an SUV with a new touch screen phone and GPS that we didn't know how to work = we got lost!! What a night!

Here is what transpired the next morning and the rest of the day . . . .

Preppy "Wild Cat" decided she would join us.

Mama spent an afternoon ironing . . .

And I learned to sew! Yay!

The weekend after that was dedicated to paper and putting together our invitations.

We were prepared for a looonngg weekend as you can see. Yum, Sloppy Joe fixin's and Puppy Chow! So much for that dress fitting coming up! :)

Everybody pitched in.

Even FOTB had fun "scrapbooking" with us! He was actually a BIG help and designed part of the invitation :)

We also had some assistance from my Nana and Aunt and Uncle L (PS- Uncle L totally got into it!)

We had so much paper stuff going on we needed a map!

Here's to another weekend of rolling out of bed, hair in a pony and headband! But it's all been worth it :)H

Oh my!

This wedding is sure creeping up on me!

This last weekend Mama and I were on a mission to creat pretty homemade invitations. At first we wound up here:

http://www.epartypaper.com/

Oops, they definately did not have the paper we were looking for! We thought we had gone here:

http://www.paperdepotinc.com/

The nice boy at the store pointed us in the right direction and when we walked in, were we relieved! There were isles of coordinated papers, envelopes in all shapes and sizes, and any number of card making accessories!

The Paper Depot was great! You gather your paper and envelopes in the colors you want and take it all up to the counter where they put together a mock up for you. Then you just tell them how many you want to make and they will calculate out how much you need, gather it all together for you, and send you on your way! Yay :)

Next, there will be a weekend with plenty of this:

where we will have to get up early to actually put all these together!

Can't wait to send one out to you!

H

Wedding Dress Inspiration

Yesterday Mama, MOH and I attended my 2nd dress fitting. They were still able to button me into it, oh the relief! It was also Bustle 101. You won't be able to see it, but the buttons have to be color coded because there are so many and so many layers!

Without giving it all away, I will admit that I did add a little something extra . . .

Perhaps I was channeling something like these famous dresses:

This is Melanie Hamilton of Gone With the Wind, or rather a doll of her. This was the dress she wore to the Wilkes barbeque. I immediately thought of the skirt on this dress when I saw my wedding dress . . .

I was feeling a little bit like this (Princess Diana), skirt-wise, as I paraded around the floor at Kim's Tailoring.

I just can't wait for you all to see :)

H

A Wild Week

I am not usually a crazy hockey fan, but when offered tickets to a Wild game I'll go. Last week I was at three games. What a WILD week!



My advice when you sit in the suites, be patient. The dessert cart will come to you, it goes door to door. You don't have to try to track it down like I did :)

Anybody have a favorite sport that they like to attend? Hopefully you actually watch the games (unlike me who is more concerned with her Diet Coke and where are the chocolate covered strawberries?!).

H

Valentine's Day decor part II

Good afternoon!

I finally got creative and figured out what to do with the two gold picture frames hanging in our entry way.


I carried the paper heart theme into the frames and hung them from cute (preppy!) pink polka dot ribbon. Here is a picture of both:

Looking down the entry way:

Of course I had to make sure my apothecary jar matched

So I made up this little vignette. Isn't my little monkey cute?! His heart says "Wild About You". I got it as a Valentine's Day present from J I forget how long ago :)

Here is the whole "scene":

Complete with the banner, and you can see the frames in the mirror :)

If anybody would like to share how they decorate for Valentine's Day I would love to see it!

H

Jackpot!

Oh my, I think I just died and went to french bakery heaven!

http://www.frenchpastrychef.com/pastry/pastrychef.htm

Obviously I will be working my way through each of these recipes, one weekend at a time! *sigh*

:)

H

A Domestic Saturday

Yesterday I got all my chores done pretty early and decided that I wanted some Valentine's Day decor since I have taken down all the Christmas things and the house looks a little bare. I thought about going out to the craft store to pick up a pretty wreath or something, but was just too tuckered out to go anywhere. Instead, I got out my scrapbooking box, pulled out all the pink/red paper I could find, glue, scissors and yarn, and make this cute little banner/streamer (whatever you want to call it) :) There, the entry looks much better now!

After feeling so motivated using things I had laying around the house I decided why not make breakfast for tomorrow too? Looking into the pantry I was able to come up with this:

A pretty little "Everyday Cake" (recipes for these are so simple and are online everywhere if you look) topped with lemon icing (could not believe all this takes is a cup of confectioner's sugar and two tablespoons of lemon juice, it is Heavenly!).

Of course I had a little slice for breakfast today (I absolutely consider cake to be a breakfast food!) and the rest will be packed with J's lunches this week for his "sweet" as I am all out of cookies!

H