one ninty seven

we are now officially out of the two-hundreds! we have also just finished the biggest achievement to date, we have booked our honeymoon! here we come st. lucia! seven days in paradise, such a welcome retreat from life. i wish i could head out on it right now. we are staying at a resort with beautiful views of the Piton mountains. oh! i can't wait

two hundred fourteen

i have finished the table runners! finally finally finally. 51 table runners done and put away! thanks to Em, Shel, Mom, Dad, Sam, and Kim. seriously everyone helped. Em for sure has the record, she totals something like: 38 Ironed and 20 frayed. i could not have gotten these done without the help. seriously i would have been working on these up until the day before the wedding. they look fantastic and i can't wait to put them on the tables. so much texture, i love it.

Jordan has finished his table, if you saw what it looked like before in an earlier post... this is a 200% improvement! i love it and i can't wait to see it this weekend! my part of the bargain is that i need to make 4 place-mats before i head down.

Sewing machine, no rest yet!

two hundred twenty one

happy valentine's day everyone! I ordered the save the dates last week and they came today! i couldn't believe it. they turned out exactly the way i wanted, and since they were 'free' i can't complain at all!

so as soon as i finish getting everyone's address' i'll be able to send these suckers out! the cool thing is that they are hinting at something everyone will see at the wedding.. i'm not telling what it is but i am sooo very excited about it. seriously. lets see if you even notice it. my mother says only half of the people who get them will actually notice.

two hundred thirty four

jordan and i have been working on a project. his mom gave him one of their old tables and after a good stripping and sanding it's nice and new. this weekend we began staining it to a "dark walnut" its so exciting working together on a project that will soon be in our house/apartment together. the table is looking fabulous. he just finished sanding the legs and will probably stain them tonight!

the first image is what the table looked like when we got it. There is a fine layer of ash all over it making it look dull and disgusting. the second image is just after we stained it. we still need to polyurethane, but isn't it gorgeous!!!

two hundred forty seven

drowning in burlap... yup that's right. i've taken on another project that is kinda big (no surprise there) no big details but don't be surprised if you walk into the reception to find burlapeverwhere. lol and when you do see anything burlap it was made by your's truly.

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i have recently been compiling a "to do list" and lets say that it is getting longer by the hour. currently i have racked up fifty-five different projects/things to do. from table runners to gathering smooth stones to put in vase's centerpieces... i am currently working on the save-the-date as of now. trying to decide what to do, what to use, etc. this is the part where i will be most critical of myself. worrying about typography, uniqueness, texture, overall design, the way the design is carried across different media. i love it! but i just hope i choose well, i have a tendency of choosing one thing then a few months later thinking well shoot i should have done it this way. i guess that's the way with all artists... continually critiquing their work. ah well.

two hundred fifty four

flower girls and hairstyles. love it.

so from my neice i have been given "guidelines" to the way her dress should be. here is the list
1. It has to be all the way to the floor
2. I really want to twirl in it
3. Can i have dangly earrings?
lol i'm just waiting for more stipulations, and I haven't even heard from gabrielle (jordan's cousin, the second flower girl yet).

two hundred sixty one

it's finally here, the best year in the world. 20-11. this engagement is now on it's official official countdown since we are finally in the same year as the wedding. it's amazing how slow and fast this waiting period goes, it's already been a year that we have been engaged. that just shocks me, yet at the same time... A YEAR! i've had to wait three hundred and sixty five and i still have two hundred and sixty one days left. Lord give me patience.

i know not many are keeping up with this blog (especially me), that's the bad thing about a long engagement. this becomes 'old news' for most everyone, i've already had the comments "oh, i thought you got married a while ago..." HA nope i'm still in the countdown period. since there is only a year left and that this is resolution making time I'm going to do my best to post once a week. this kind of thing only happens once in a lifetime.

another sign of a 'too' long engagement: it has been so long that people have had their feelings hurt because they weren't "invited to the wedding," or they "still haven't gotten an invite yet..." seriously people? we haven't even sent out the save the date (that is coming soon though, i think all the wedding calendars point to 6-9 months before hand so we will be in that time period very soon) let alone the actual invitations. those won't be sent out till around early june. so patience please.

i love you all and happy new year!