Finally Off the Couch.

I finally got up off the couch long enough to put the leaves from our wedding in a scrapbook. As you may remember, in lieu of a guest book we had guests sign pretty paper leaves and write messages on them for us. We got really great results with wonderful messages from friends and family as well as a few hilarious ones from anonymous nutballs. It's going to be so fun to look back at these years from now and read them again.

Easily the Best Day of My Life.

Our wedding was such a wonderful event. We can't stop talking about it and recapping. Everything was gorgeous...from the ceremony to the reception. We had the best time. Thanks to everyone who celebrated with us.





We went to NYC for the week for our honeymoon, and as predicted, had a riot. We drove home on Friday to have the weekend to relax. Here's some photos of the trip. More wedding and honeymoon photos can be seen here.

Married!!

We had an awesome wedding weekend. Here's a little taste of the festivities...

Still not nervous!

11 days to go! I forgot to mention in my last post that it's like Christmas over here! There are new packages on the doorstep almost every day! Sometimes more than one! One day I came home and there were four giant boxes on our doorstep. It's been awesome. Today at work one of my patients gave us this gorgeous ceramic platter. I'm so in love with it! It's totally me, and she doesn't really even know me, you know? So thoughtful of her. She also gave us some macaroons from this great bakery in the area, but I ate them. Don't tell Ted.



I also bought myself a present! I've been a fan of Camilla Engman for a year or two now, but have never been able to get my hands on any of her prints because they always seem to be sold out. There was this one with a red fox that I was in love with. Well, the other day she put some more in my shop and I was able to score a four pack of her prints. So fabulous! Can't wait to frame and hang them!






In other news, it's hockey season! Yahoo! Ted and I kicked things off last Friday at the 'Canes v. Penguins game. Good times were had by all...it's good to see the boys back on the ice.

Wedding Countdown: 18 days.

Wow, it's sort of lame that I haven't posted in so long, but I have been busy counting down the days until the wedding. There have been a few projects as of late that I've wanted to post about, but I would have to show pictures of things that would spoil surprises for Ted, so I had to hold back. At this point in the planning I feel like everything is pretty much taken care of and ready to roll. I've been feeling quite calm and ready for the big day to arrive. Ted and I keep talking about how everyone always asks "Are you getting nervous??" with a tone that suggests one of us is ready to bolt. I can say with complete confidence that the only things I'll be nervous about on the day of the wedding is walking down the isle without tripping or making a weird face in all of my pictures, and being able to take a deep breath in my gown without splitting the seams. Other than that? I'm sound as a pound and ready to go. Ted claims that if he was nervous about getting married then we wouldn't be getting married, which is a very Ted thing to say if you know him.
In regards to preparations, boxes are packed and stacked in my closet, dresses are ironed and ready to transport, gifts are wrapped, and supplies are organized and ready to be utilized. We have fairly busy schedules until we leave for the wedding, which is great because I'm so excited I'm might spontaneously combust soon. Some of the girls from work are throwing me a bachelorette weekend, so I have that to look forward to and will get out of town the weekend before the wedding so I don't stare at the clock counting down the hours.
So, that's it on this end! I may or may not have anything to say in the next 18 days, but will surely post pictures of the event when we get back!

Yay!

We started working on the programs tonight! Ted got the innards all printed up today and we got busy cutting and pasting when he got home from work tonight. We had a nice little production line going on and we're making quick work of them. We spent about an hour or so on them and got about 1/4 of them done. If we do a little bit each day this weekend we can probably be finished come Monday, which would be awesome. Now, for the unveiling...


The cover, as seen previously.

The insides all printed and ready to be cut.

T-Bone gets crazy exacto style.

Put together!

The caboose.

MIA

I just realized that I haven't posted in ages! We've been busy with wedding plans, and frankly, watching TV. We got cable hooked up again and I've been overdosing on Bridezilla, crappy reality TV, and Big Love. It's been awesome.

We have been doing some wedding things though. I've been making some fabulous to-do lists. The weird thing is that I had most of my first list crossed off, but had some additions to make, so I started a new one. The new one is much longer than the first...and I had accomplished so much! It's amazing how many little details there are that I'd forgotten about. Good thing they are written down now! Ted keeps complaining about the "list" I made for him...until I show him the 2 page list of my own and ask him if he wants to trade. (For real though, he's being a good sport in my "we're getting married in a month!" frenzy.)

Anywho...the latest?

In lieu of a guest book we will have something that I haven't been able to come up with a snazzy title for. "Wish leaves?" "Good Luck leaves?" At any rate, we found these rad paper leaves at The Paper Source and will lay them out on a table with a sign encouraging guests to write us a little note or sign their names on a leaf. Then we'll put them in a scrapbook to enjoy browsing through in the future. Can you dig it? I even found some cute little plates at Target to put the blank and finished leaves on. Fun!





Mortimer, my "helper," wants to get in on the action.

Birthday Coming Up!

My sister is having her baby, a little girl they will name Bryn, on Wednesday! In preparation for her arrival I made this little onesie (my sister-in-law Mindy made an embroidered onesie for Bella back in the day and I thought it was such a cute idea) for her:



It's been wedding central over here this weekend as Ted and I work on crossing things off the "to-do" list. I'll spare you a photo of my office but Ted claims "it looks like a bomb went off in there." Imagine that in your mind and then double it. I really have blown it up in here. But there are a lot of black marks on my list, so we're making progress.

More RSVPs have rolled in the past couple of days which makes me excited beyond belief!

One last picture of what the cats have been up to while we busy ourselves with wedding projects:

57 Days!

We got our first RSVP in the mail today! I was wondering how long it would take before they started rolling in. My two Great Aunts are old school though, so it's no surprise theirs was first to arrive. I'm so glad they'll be attending!



What other wedding related things am I up to? I thought you'd never ask! (For those of you still hoping for house related news, better check back after 10/20. Perhaps then we'll have the time/money/energy to do something more with the house!)

Well, I decided about a week ago that I wanted to embroider a handkerchief for myself to carry with me in church. I'm a "crier" (to quote Wedding Crashers) and should probably have something to keep my tears and makeup in check. Ted has warned me not to cry because "you'll ruin your makeup..." and apparently he doesn't want to wed a crying fugly girl. However, I'm putting money on him welling up at least once too (the big softy) and I'm a girl who always likes to be prepared. At any rate, I decided I better learn to embroider if I want to embroider my initials into a hanky. So I got a sweet kit from Sublime Stitching and it rocks my world. I opened the kit when it arrived the other day and had this little tea towel embroidered in under 2 hours. They make it super easy to learn and hook you up with all sorts of cool iron on patterns that you can use. Easy as pie.



Those that know me well know that I'm a fairly impatient broad (perhaps even those that don't know me have sensed it?) and I tend to just want to get on with things already. So I decided to just do my hanky even though I hadn't done many letters yet. I didn't care for the letter stencils I had, so I drew my (soon to be!)initials and the little heart freehand and then embroidered them. It came out okay, though I could have centered it a little better. But it's hand made and exactly what I was looking for...a nice keepsake for generations to come (provided I don't slobber on it too much during the ceremony).



I'll leave you with a little teaser photo of something else we've been working on for the wedding:

The Programs

I've been obsessed with perusing the wedding magazines ever since we got engaged. Of course, the best magazine for getting great DIY ideas is Martha Stewart Weddings. I came across the following program idea a couple of months ago and Ted and I fell in love with it. Though the letterpress example in the magazine is gorgeous, we knew we could make something ourselves without having to get a print shop involved.


After doing some research and pricing things out, we got some "Poppy" colored cards from The Paper Source and I designed a cover in photoshop. Just finished printing them and they look great! Once we figure out a few more details about the ceremony Ted is going to do the layout of the inside and we'll have it printed on 11x17 paper. Then the tedious part of folding the paper and gluing it to the cards will begin. I think the end result will be awesome and a bit unique though.


Names have been deleted to protect the innocent...

Only 70 days left! Invites go in the mail next week!

The Countdown Is On!

We had a wonderful time at our wedding shower this weekend...thanks to all that attended! Looking forward to October!


Ted and Eilis

Eilis and Bridesmaids

It's getting closer...

Delicious Fall Wedding Goodness.

Mmmmmm...the fall stuff is starting to come out. Saw these today and had to have them for the wedding. It's a sickness.

The Artistic Duo.

My brother and sister-in-law rock. They are both super creative and artsy and when Ted and I saw this really cool rock-poster style wedding invitation, I knew exactly who to ask to come up with something creative like it.



I showed Mindy the picture and explained that we'd love to have something like it for our wedding, perhaps to display at the reception or to have people sign in lieu of a guest book. My birthday is coming up, and this present arrived on my doorstep today:




I can't even describe how awesome this is. It's beyond perfect. I love it, love it, love it! I have yet to talk to Mindy, so I have no idea how she created it. Teaguer did the framing apparently, which is gorgeous as well. I've had wedding on the brain all day, so it was very fitting to come home to the perfect wedding accessory! Our very own poster! Thanks guys.