Sorry for being so MIA lately. I've been making a conscious effort lately to enjoy life and not be so consumed with the fact that I'm not engaged yet. I'm trying to lay off on the comments to DB, not talk about weddings so much, not stare at my empty finger ALLL the time and all that jazz. Although I'm MORE than excited and anxious...I'm trying to be more normal about it. :)

That being said...HOW AMAZING IS THIS (taken from http://www.thebridescafe.com/)?!

Happy Friday!!

happy friday!

I love Fridays. Tonight we're going to celebrate a friend's (my roomate's fiance's) birthday in uptown with some good BBQ and live music (my fav), tomorrow I work in the AM at the store and Sunday we have an engagement party to attend for an old college roomie! yay! Hope you all have an amazing weekend, too!



P.S. I LOVE this photo and need one taken just like it...(I'm pretty sure this is off of wedding bee, but I'm not sure. :/)

Personal Designer

In the last few days I've been reminded of the fact that DB is a graphic designer. I think I forget sometimes!

His current job is at a publishing company that publishes mainly maps and other things for home builders associations. He's on the graphics team and does maps as well as people's ads on the maps/things and designs the covers...oh and he helps out with sales too...and he's the webmaster. I think I focus so much on the fact that mainly it's making maps that I forget that he does really cool cover designs too! He really is a good graphic designer! In fact, he also designed the logo for our drum corps' show this year - cool!

So last weekend I was lamenting about how important and hard it is to pick out a color scheme and mentioned that maybe going to a fabric store for inspiration would help. I'd be able to see the fabrics next to each other and maybe see things more clearly. And he wanted to go with me?!?! so we did - and it WAS helpful! although I still didn't make a decision...it was helpful and I got some swatches. He had mentioned the idea of olive green...which I like. But we both keep coming back to a steel blue type color. Along with ivory. Kind of a victorian feel.

Then - Tuesday night I found a picture of a BM dress that I loved the color of - that blue. And he was like - here, let me play with it. And he imported it into some really techy color scheming thing and came up with all these ideas! I was all "who are you?!"

THEN - last night he didn't want to sit around and I didn't have any errands to run, so he said - let's just go walk around JoAnn Fabrics and see what we see. So we did - and had so much fun looking at all the thousands of projects we can do! And he kept talking about how excited he is to build our wedding website and design the "logo" or main image that we'll use on invites, etc.
AMAZING. I have a built in graphic designer, and that's awesome. Plus it gets him involved and makes him feel important. :) YAY.

I love the idea of a Victorian feel - steel blue...ivory...pearls...candles..a chandalier type image on the paper products? mmm.

Victorian accessories via Etsy's The Storque

Oooh! I don't normally like tiaras...but this is prettttty!

How much do you love this aisle? *swoon*

(I have no idea where I found this! Sorry!)

mane distress

Some people box, others sew...most find something productive to do instead of being hateful. But me - I have one thing in my life that I truly like to take all my hate out on...my hair.

It all started when my very first lock of hair finally grew on top of my head when I turned one year old - one lock of curl. I then grew enough hair to have a perfect head of - what I like to call - "Annie hair." You know - tight curls all in one little round, helmet-like shape on top of my head (that's my least favorite grade school picture - 1st grade). From there on out I had the most tight, spiraly, naturally curly hair that you can imagine. My girlfriends lived to "boing" my perfect curls, it took over 2 hours to "straighten" them (although it was never straight). And I - of course - HATED my curls.

Then I had a baby (another story for another time. just don't worry about it!) and I lost all of my curls. My hair straightens when I blow dry it out - what? A flat iron actually works - huh?! and I can't for the life of me get any curl to happen other than a little one that looks like a minor perm would do or something. and I HATE it. I hate wearing my hair "curly" and I hate how I look with it straight. Not to mention that it's at an ackward not-quite-shoulder length that looks weird (to me!) down and up! OYE!

DB loves when I wear it curly. But it just annoys me. But, it is so much less work.

ANYway - I can't stop thinking about how in the world I will wear it on the big day. Curly? Straight? Up? Down? Half and half? I would like to show some of my natural curl - but I don't trust it to hold up and look normal all day long. But wearing it straight isn't really "me."

Anyone else have ridiculous hair issues like me?!

I love the pretty up-dos like any girly-girl does...

help?

I've gotten word that my comment box may not be working? There was a comment a few days ago though...so I'm not sure what's up. If you can comment, let me know! Or possibly if someone can explain what might be wrong? Thanks!

pretty pretties

I just saw this on another blog this morning but I can't find it - let me know if you know so I can give credit! Anyway...how fun is this - Adornbrides.com lets you rent pretty diamonds, etc for your big day. I would TOTALLY do this. They're running a great giveaway right now - and even just for putting your name in the hat...they give you a promo code for $50 off your next rental! So basically, the simple $100 necklace just got way more do-able. Lovely!