Hey Guys.

So…I pretty much haven’t written in a month. I apologize for that, but with the wedding coming up, and with the house closing coming even sooner now, (we had to bump it up two days b/c the first is Labor Day.) I don’t have time to create/post much right now. Case and point:

That is a picture of the mystery plant the people who had our townhouse before us planted. I almost picked it when it was little; thinking it was a weed. I took this pic with my phone and the intention of posting it, asking you guys what you thought it would grow into…

This is what it looks like now. Or rather, what it looked like 2 weeks ago. It’s not so perfect anymore. I still love it though, and I’m really glad I didn’t weed it. Point being though, I have been so busy, a plant BLOOMED before I could post the bud picture. (And coincidentally, the flowering photo took a while to be posted too.)

And so, I’m going on an official break. I could post about my life, but that’s not really what this blog is for. So I’ll be back once I’m married and we settle into the new house. Maybe mid to late September.

In an effort to move less stuff across town, I’m going to try and post some of the things I’ve made on etsy, but that will be the only post on this blog. There will probably be a couple more in the wedding blog. (Which I’m going to also update today, but not with a break/hiatus message.)

So… I’ll see you guys in September!

PS: The Dark Knight WAS AMAZING. Oh man.

BATMAN

I feel like I had something specific to post, but I can’t remember it. Maybe because I’m super excited that I’m going to see THE DARK KNIGHT tonight! Could be… So I’ll just share a couple photos that I had on my hard drive.

1. I bought this sweet little watering can at Goodwill the other day, and it looks DARLING with red carnations.

2. MY LITTLE PONY RIDE! OMG! I found this in the Greece Ridge mall and got too excited.

Also, my boss got a tattoo today. Came out pretty nice, right? After doing Bad tattoo of the day for a couple years, I have become really afraid of bad tattoo artists. I was super nervous for him, and I wasn’t so sure about the orange, but I was proven wrong!

It’s mah biiiiirthday!

I’m 25 today! Crazy. My younger self thought I would have kids by now. We aren’t doing anything crazy tonight; just going out to dinner. It should be fun though.

^ The avails board at work, just so there is a pic in this post.

Wedding Invitations

I know I said that I wouldn’t write about the wedding here, but this is crafty, and since I haven’t posted anything crafty in a while, I don’t think you’ll mind.

Here are my wedding invitations! I originally wanted to use double sided pink scrapbooking paper, but I couldn’t find any, so I went with this instead. It’s two sheets of paper glued together. Bonus: they were only 15 cents a sheet! Can you believe that? Score! The info and the little inserts (directions, rsvp, and registry info) are printed on cardstock, and I only needed one steet per invitation.
Normally I don’t like all my text centered, but it just seemed right for this. I don’t know if it’s because it was for an invitation or what, but…

The little circle you see on the tip of the envelope flap is a silver floral sticker. In case you couldn’t tell, my color scheme is pink and grey/silver.

I should have taken a close up of the knot design. That bad boy is giving the cake designer some trouble. I sent her my design idea and she said that she didn’t know if she could do it justice. Here’s hoping!

^ cake design I sent baker.

And that’s them!  I blurred out the important info so you can’t stalk me, lol.  What do you think?

How I spent my Tuesday Evening

I didn’t buy batteries for my camera until today, so I had to document the event with my phone. Sorry about that!

1. Little scallops, washed and drained & all the ingredients at my disposal.

2. The topping that the bread crumbs and oil made + scallops in butter, salt/pepper, and parsley.

3. The whole thing after it had baked! (Please note new recipe card holder which I got on sale for $2! So cute!)

4. My dinner! Yes, I drink wine with ice & a straw because I am classy like that. I made the pasta salad too, but I just followed the recipe that was on the label of the seasoning. I can type it up if anyone wants it.

5. Yum! (Horrible hair day, lol. BTW, it’s been straight since Monday. It will be curly again tomorrow.)

6. Twilight while I was cooking.

7. Twilight while I was eating.

I used the scallops recipe from here, but changed it a little because I didn’t have everything it required. I don’t know if it’s because I used little scallops or what, but I had TONS of bread crumbs left over. AND I put way too many on top! I would use maybe a quarter of what the recipe required next time I make this.

But over all it came out good, and it was good today for lunch too!

I can has house?

Oh blog, surely you will forgive me for not posting last week. I have big news!

JOHN AND I HAVE A HOUSE!

Here she is! It has 4 bedrooms and 1.5 bathrooms. It is in a neighborhood with young families and on a quiet street. So cute! There is even a secret room (ok, so it’s the attic) in one room that you have to access through the closet. It’s like Narnia…IN MY HOUSE!

Sadly, John wants to turn that whole area into a big master suite, with its own bathroom and everything. That would be pretty great, but…Narnia!

We had our inspection today and the house passed with flying colors. Only a couple changes are needed, and the seller might have to pay for one of them. Awesome! The inspector asked John how we sleep at night since we “stole the house from under them.” or something like that. LOL.

Aaaaand this is what it will look like when we add a front porch next year. I’ll keep the brick and window and all that, but it was easier to photoshop over it all. Heh.

Dryer Incident

A while ago I talked about an incident that happened over the weekend, but I never went into detail about it. Well, I just got around to editing the photos, so here goes. I hope you learn something new.

1. NEVER PUT A PEN IN THE DRYER. It was fine for the washer, but didn’t like the dryer much. It exploded everywhere! I was like OMG, WHAT DO I DO?  So I googled it.  We rent, so I did not want a ruined dryer.

Luckily, it was a load of darks, so the pen didn’t show up too much. (Although both pairs of my jeans have pen marks all over them now. They’re not messed up…it’s couture, right?)

2. The internet told me to try a mix of things.  I used rubbing alcohol, nail polish remover, and bleach.  The bleach didn’t do anything, the alcohol didn’t do much, but the big winner was the nail polish remover!  Oh man oh man did my basement smell!  I got light headed after a while.  Not fun.

3. Most of the obvious marks were gone, and the remaining ones were pretty light.  The drum had a blue hue though…  So I read a little more, and running towels drenched in bleach a couple times through the dryer would help.  And you know what, it really did!  I don’t know why, since the bleach had so little effect before, but whatever!  I didn’t take pictures of it, but I assure you, the dryer is much less blue than photographed above.  John’s mom said she never would have known a pen blew up in it if I hadn’t told her.

4. My shorts were also sacrificed in the process.  Stupid bleach!  Stupid me for not changing into crappy clothes!  I guess I was just in panic mode and not paying attention.

So, lesson learned.  Make John clean it next time he leaves a pen in his pocket. Check pockets before washing pants.

Frienemies!

1. One morning, Dune was VERY fascinated, looking out the window. What could he be so interested in?

2. A TRESPASSER! My mom had said she saw an orange cat in our yard when she was up, but I had never seen him. I don’t know if he is a stray or not, but he was mocking Dune from the outside world. I took video of it with my phone, but the file is a kind I’ve never heard of, so I can’t upload it to YouTube.

PS: New site header! I reaaaally need to find some place to get my sewing machine fixed.

Hello Wednesday!

Something over the weekend happened, and I wanted to post it Monday, but I was too busy getting the house ready for John’s mom. She’s here now, so I’ll just leave you with this little work antidote instead, since I already had the photo edited.

I was printing out pieces that my intern did for her portfolio, and the printer kept printing them wrong. Over and over and over they were all wrong! It even spit an error message at me! I got so mad I tore a bunch of them up and made a little collage. It is now taped to my office door.  Click here to see it full sized.

Makeup

Mary Kay make-over time!

It’s weird, but I didn’t notice how yellow the lighting was in there! Not wearing my glasses makes my eyes all squinty, lol. And I was SO TIRED. Hello bags! I need to get my eyebrows done. I haven’t had them done since I’ve moved here. O.o The eye makeup photographs well, but it looked really heavy (to me) IRL. Weird.

PS: I made banana bread last night and it came out WAAAAAY better than my last attempt.