from there to here

i've had a few people ask me about my blog lately, even al told me the other day that i needed to update this baby. well a lot has happened since november. i quit my job, suffered through another semester of school, planned our wedding, got married, took a semester off from school, and went back to work. after feeling miserable for about 9 months, i feel happier now than i've felt in a long time!


we've gotten some amazing gifts over the last several months and have had a blast using all our gift certificates to buy all the stuff we never felt we should before. our first wedding present was the beautiful heath shallow salad bowl from jen.


next was the large serving bowl from tricia, in aqua/turquoise -- two of the best colors ever invented.


we received a lot of gift certificates for heath and i bought the yellow vase i'd been eying for years. i was attempting to replace my ben owen vase -- which i broke a few years ago -- a gift from aurin and drew that i treasured. one day i'll get another, but i do love this heath piece.


we received this mustard colored bedspread and used some of our macy's money for these sheets that remind me of cotton ticking (but they are black, not blue).


leigh sent me these enamel ladels from labour and wait.


cristal gave us a homemade wedding cake.


we received all of our heath place settings.


and we got our first le creuset in avocado green. today we're off to ikea so i can buy a desk for the cabin. working up there on the sofa is not so great. i've been cleaning our house and cabin like mad, getting rid of stuff we don't need, organizing, tossing, donating..... i have the bug. but it feel so good to bring all these new treasures into our world.

getting there

things are slowly moving along on the wedding front. we've secured our photographer and last week my dress arrived. it's from the 60s and needs some attention. there were some rust stains from the covered buttons and i was able to get them out using this magic potion mom sent. there are a few more places that could use the potion, and i'll have to replace the buttons. it also needs a new sash.
i had pictured al wearing a forage bow tie or a liberty of london tie, and jen suggested i use liberty for the sash as well. now i'm completely distracted from my digital curation project, drooling over all the possibilities. i'll head over to britex one day soon to see what they have. might have to get my local londoner leigh to do some scouting as well.

it's been a long time

dear little blog i apologize for being a bad blogger. once i came home from my visit with leigh i was just not in the mood to blog. i've had a lot on my mind. a few weeks after returning home, al proposed! i immediately became overwhelmed when school started, work got busy and i began thinking about the wedding. so i'm sorry, i have been spending so much time on my laptop that the thought of blogging just didn't sound fun. so we have a date, and a venue. that's it. so much more work to do. i'm pretty sure i'll make myself a birdcage veil, or i might pop into lovejoy's attic to look over their veiled vintage hats, i saw some really cute ones in the window recently. i need to project manage this wedding and i'm just not in the mood. i wish i either didn't have school or work, but alas i have both. and i have insomnia.