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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.