#254-245 Sorry I suck

Wow. I've been terrible at posting anything at all. There has been quite a lot going on in our lives non-wedding related, but that's really not a good excuse.

So where we are in the planning... Geesh the days keep slipping away so quickly. We went to visit an absolutely gorgeous facility last night. The Columbus Athenaeum. My fiance is in love. We're both very visual people, which is sort of funny. We're the type of people that have a vision in their head, but find it very difficult to verbalize to another person, we just have to see exactly what it is that we're looking for and when we do we buy it. I hope someone else out there understands what I'm talking about. My mom experienced this for the first time ever this past year when she was shopping for an outfit to wear to my brother's wedding. In her head she knew exactly what she wanted and didn't want to settle for anything else. She called me one day and said "I finally understand why you're so difficult to shop with." Well any way WE just loves this place, and I do too, but I'm a bit more practical about it than he is, I think we should see a couple more places and then decide for certain. http://www.columbusmeetings.com/index.php?PageID=14

I've also finished all my puff balls, well I think i have at least. I'm not considering buying yet another color, a sort of Magenta to go along as a intermingler from the red to the purple. Have I mentioned that I'm an artist. :) I'm not famous or anything, but I do paint and draw, and things have to be visually just right as far as colors go, especially when they're analogous like reds and purples are.

I'm also considering making a small print/ painting as the favor to our guests. Something meaningful to the wedding but not something cheesy with our names and wedding date that would just get tossed out after being in the garbage drawer in the kitchen for a number of years. We're doing the Beatles sort of theme for music, and I think I want to have the base theme be "I Want To Hold Your Hand" so maybe something with hands. I did a art therapy project on hands in a metaphor and meanings class in college, they've always sorta meant something special to me.

Last but definitly not least I've ordered and recieved my paper flower kits as well as a paper butterfly kit from Paper-Source.com the most amazing site ever I think. I haven't started putting them together yet, but I'm extremely excited about them. And I'm considering using the butterflies for my bouquet.


These kits only run about $14 a piece and come with the patterns so you can make them any colors you like. There's also assorted flowers and such on the web site.

Okay, I'm off, to all of you happy planning.

#258, 257, 256

Apparently I got a little distracted over the weekend and forgot to post. Football season is in full swing you know, and my beau who I thought was only a hardcore baseball fanatic apparently thinks that all we will do till February is watch football on the weekends. At least it gives me time to go out with my girlfriends dress shopping and crafting and whatever else.

Since this is a 3 in 1 post I'll fill you in on our weekend if that's okay, as if you had a choice ;)

Friday we went to dinner with WE's (that's my fiance) cousin and his wife, both of whom I love. They're older than us, but you'd really never know it, and they're just the coolest people I think I've ever met, we really don't get to hang out with them nearly enough. They have also helped qualm WE's fears that we can't do our wedding without spending a gazillion dollars. It's setting in more and more in my own head that we can have our wedding however we want it, and it really doesn't matter what anyone says at all. You should have heard the fear in my mom's voice when I mentioned that I was thinking of wanting some color in my wedding dress. It was worse than the paper flowers idea.

Saturday was Notre Dame football day (well and OSU, but we really only watch in hopes to see them lose.) WE was about to lose his mind after they lost. I agree that there were definitly lots of bad calls against ND, but I had no idea of the drama it would cause. I did get to spend the entireity of the OSU game making pom pom flowers. They don't look like much right now, but I think they're going to be great in the end. I'm thinkint of doing different center pieces at different tables. Some with the pom poms, some with over-sized paper roses (which will also decorate the aisle), and some with fabric flowers, but that's probably getting really ahead of myself. I'm also thinking about candles, with rice paper paterned covers......hmmmmmm.

Sunday while the boys were watching yet more football, at least it was professional this time, I went to the book store and also the craft store. To my dismay I've discovered that none of the craft stores (and there are a few) carry large crepe-paper. This means I have to order online, I don't really like this option because I can't see the colors first hand, and I have to wait for shipping, and quite frankly I've never played with large sheets of crepe paper and definitly not double sided crepe paper. So if anyone knows anything about crepe paper I'd appreciate the info.




The first one is my pile of pom poms that I have so far, I'm going to start working on red, white, lilac. The second are from Martha Stewart.com, I want to hate her, but she posts templates on her web page, that means they're free, and on my budget that makes me love her. Happy Monday everyone.