Weddingbee

Thank you so much for all of your warm welcome wishes! I am so excited to be a part of the Weddingbee community and I hope that you find my blogging to be interesting, thought provoking, helpful and above all entertaining!

One thing that I have realized while planning my wedding is that I may be in a very different place with very different options, but the basic ideas are the same. So even though I know that 99.99% of you will never even visit Regina (although you should, it really is a pretty and very friendly city!), hopefully some of my DIY and more universal ideas and advice will still help you!

Now, to answer Iris’s question on why I chose a pumpkin as my character, you may know that 2007 is the year of the Veggies on Weddingbee. So I chose pumpkin from the list of possible vegetables because I think it is a cute name, my body sort of resembles a pumpkin and I was very close to having a fall pumpkin themed wedding - so it seemed appropriate.

It says that I love scrapbooking in my profile, so Becky asked me to share some of my scrapbook pages. You can check out some of my favorite pages here.

And now, 6 Random Things About Me!

1. For the life of me I CANNOT make instant rice. I have tried many many times and I always follow the directions to a T, but it always comes out either too mushy or not cooked through. I think I am a reasonably intelligent woman but rice baffles me every time. I even bought the Pampered Chef rice cooker (basically an idiot proof rice cooker) and I still can’t do it. Damn you Uncle Ben’s!

2. Before I had contact lenses I used to cut my eyelashes because they would hit the inside of my glasses every time I would blink. I know, I know, poor little me with the too long eyelashes but it was really annoying, I swear! Thank God they grew back.

3. I buy make-up like crazy (I LOVE Sephora!) but I never wear it. I buy it because it is all so pretty, but I really don’t know how to put it on properly and I always feel like a clown when I actually do myself up. I have a closet full of all of this fabulous stuff and the most I ever wear is tinted moisturizer, some concealer where I need it, some loose powder to de-shine and some Carmex. If I am going out at night to a function or the bar, I will add some mascara and maybe some very light lip gloss. Oh how I wish I knew how to make sexy smokey eyes without looking like a reverse raccoon…

4. I love board games but I am horrible at them! My favourites are Scrabble and Monopoly and I am up for a game whenever I can find someone who will play with me. But I NEVER win.

5. I am extremely organized and plan to have everything done well ahead of time EXCEPT for my school work. When it comes to school I am always disorganized and do things at the very last minute. I am sure that there is some sort of psychological explanation for that but I don’t know what it is.

6. I rarely swear *except* when I am playing video games. Something about Playstation turns me into a trucker with a potty mouth. I will put expletives into the craziest combinations that you have ever heard when I can’t make the Cat in the Hat float on his umbrella, or when Chad Johnson drops a pass I have thrown him in the end zone.

• Hair Trial Numero Dos
• Make Me Up, Scotty