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i miss my two boys.

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so last night i was going through all the paper i have left in 4 years of art supplies. and surprisingly with the exception of my seed paper i bought a year ago, i should have enough to make the invites, the programs and the escort cards! sweetness! the envelopes are due in the mail today and they will be the brown kraft paper. 100% recycled! which is great for our 'natural' type wedding style we seem to be going for.

also something extremly exciting..... lol once again, maybe to me but you might be stifiling a yawn....we got in our 'H' wax seal stamp as well as the metalic sage color wax! whoo hoo. i played with it last night and it looks swell!needless to say last night i stayed up way too late in the midst of paper and it was awesome.

i'm including a glimpse of another project i'm working on for the little ones. check it out:

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STL Today engagement announcement....finally

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what a perfect time to discuss cakes! on my birthday, one hundred seventy two days before my wedding day.

Simple, elegant, with flowers, or quilt-like patterns, or dots. That is my love. Here are a few from bakeries here in the STL. who knows what my cake will look like but maybe something like the following.

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veils:

why are veils so ridiculous looking? Seriously, the only ones that look good to me are the retro netting ones, i think they are called birdcages (see below)

however my problem is that I don't think this will go with my dress. i'll have to mock it up in photoshop but i think i will have to stick with traditional.

Since i am attempting to make my own veil i have been doing some research and have found that there are all these rules that go along with veils. a lady has seriously made a webpage dedicated to how people wear their veils all wrong. for example i have seen a lot of brides that wear their veil under their hair bun. according to this lady that is wrong... who knew!

then the whole length deal. i could get one that was to my shoulders or one that is longer than my dress train. the rule of thumb here is that if your dress has decoration of any kind on the back it should fall above or below it. if the veil ended right in the middle of the back deco then it would be too busy and you would loose the detail. ah

i do know that i do NOT want to look like a snow beast with the veil perched way atop my head like this poor thing:

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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