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I love this time of year…
Probably because I’m obsessed with writing lists and setting goals, and this is the time of year when I’m supposed to do just that. I also like looking back on my accomplishments, writing a “done it” list, and giving thanks for what I’ve come through. I’m always striving to move forward, but sometimes it’s good to sit back, enjoy where you are, and reflect on where you’ve been, which is what many of us will be doing this evening.
We’ll look at 2010, and think, wow, what happened to the time?
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I consider myself to be a creative person. I always have. However, I have learned over time that creative does NOT equal crafty. This has been a lifelong lesson for me, taught by heartbreak after heartbreak as I mess up crafts and see all my pretty visions smashed to pieces. Seriously y’all, I am a crafting fail. This is something I’ve come to accept about myself and just move on from it. Well, until now.
Now I’m on wedding blogs a lot. I’m looking around for fun, inexpensive ideas for our wedding. I’m trying to find pretty things that won’t cost us an arm and a leg. It’s a job. It’s a big job. And I’ve been working hard on it like the incredibly type-A bride that I am. But what happens is that I constantly see these awesome ideas…for crafts. These days you ladies are DIY (do it yourself) divas. I am constantly impressed by all of the awesome things I see people making. You probably see what is coming here…
And now I want to DIY stuff for our own wedding. For a multitude of reasons. Because it can save money. Because it can insert personality into our day. Because it can be fun. Because we can create something that is uniquely us and that we and our guests will remember for a long time. And because it can save money. (Yes, I said it twice. Because the money is rapidly becoming a HUGE deal!)
Photo by yours truly - Supplies by Michaels and Dollar Tree
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Today’s review comes from gigiram77 of her photographer, Phoebe Joy Photography in California!
Hello! I booked Phoebe by finding her reviews on Weddingbee, and other than her portfolio, booked her sight unseen, and it was the BEST decision we ever made. Not only is she super friendly, responsive to emails, affordable, and professional—but she’s also super talented and personable to boot.
As the last of the RSVPs trickled in recently I couldn’t help feeling a little…sad. Because there are always going to be some people that can’t make it and, in our case, that number of people is fairly high. I guess that is what happens when the majority of your friends and family are spread around the world.
Our final guest breakdown is as follows:
Almost every single person not attending is either a mutual friend from overseas or from Mr E’s side of the family. Including his brother—who was going to be his best man, but then had to cancel his flight because of personal reasons. Which just sucks on so many levels.
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Mr. Cheetah and I have spent a couple New Years apart in our tenure (or tenyear, ha ha, I’m so punny) together, but for the most part we’ve been lucky enough to start each New Year together with a New Year’s kiss. But not this year.
Due to our schedules (and needing to save time off for other things, aka the honeymoon) our only engaged New Years, where the new year will be the year of our wedding, will be spent apart.
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Happy New Year’s Eve hive! Mr. Penguin and I will be taking this opportunity to clean out our closets and start anew for 2011. And…play a little Michael Jackson Experience on the Wii! 
image by Jessica Claire
Posting will be light this weekend as we ring in the new year. See you in 2011!
Create the honeymoon of your dreams.
Way way back, at the beginning of this whole process, over nine months ago, I wrote about how our goal was to have an amazing wedding that celebrated us. By celebrating us, I mean celebrating who we are, what we stand for, how we live. Our lifestyle. A lifestyle of living simply and lightly on the planet.
The Veggies on 350 day last year (personal photo)
It’s almost time. The impending New Year is coming, with the year of 2010 having come and gone ridiculously fast. With the New Year it’s time to make some resolutions. But more importantly, did you watch the premiere of I Used To Be Fat last night?
(source)
I can remember this time last year very clearly. It was 10 months before the wedding and I was convinced, “I’m never going to lose weight!”
I had been slightly overweight since high school.
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Our original post-wedding vacation plan was pretty loose: a minimoon within driving distance immediately after the wedding, and a bigger trip somewhere later in the year.
Well, for the minimoon, we’ve decided on the Finger Lakes. Mrs. Socks’ honeymoon recaps helped clinch it. We can’t wait!
But for the big honeymoon later on in the year, it was a much harder decision. We’d considered Greece, Spain, Argentina and Thailand, but now we think we’ve narrowed it down to two entirely new honeymoons.
Option #1 - Iceland
We’d spend 9 days exploring the island by car, staying at inns or B&Bs. We’d see Reykjavik:
After all of the drama that I had with the sewing machine earlier in our engagement, you’d think I would never want to use one again.
But I guess I’m a glutton for punishment because just a couple of weeks ago I found myself busting out the sewing machine again for another project.
What? I had leftover fabric scraps that I needed to use! I paid good money for the fabric and dammit, I was going to use it!
But, luckily for me (and Mr. Cardigan, and everyone else who has to interact with me on a daily basis) this project was much, much (much much much) easier than the napkins.
I’ll admit that I probably didn’t do this the “right” way, but with my new attitude of “if it stresses me out, it’s gone” when it comes to wedding-related things, I knew I had to keep things simple.
What did I make, you ask?
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Having my dress hanging in my guest room closet has its disadvantages. 1) It takes up a lot of space. 2) I’m even more terrified of fire than I used to be. 3) It’s really hard to stop myself from taking it out, and my hands always have food on them, so that’s really dangerous.
However, the situation certainly has some positive sides. In addition to being able to pose my shoe choices in front of it, I can also test out color combinations. Since coming up with my flower plan, I’ve been obsessing over whether light-colored flowers would look strange against the “caffé” fabric. As a reminder, this was one of my favorite inspiration bouquets:
Do you hear that?
Is that the sound of wedding fairies singing?
Because we finally have an invitation design! I still need to add the finishing touches and get it to the printers ASAP, but at least now we have a plan.
Now that the design plan is in place, I’ve been thinking up ways to address these bad boys.
Option 1: Calligraphy
I have a thing for slanted formal calligraphy. Too bad my handwriting mimics that of a 10 year old and there isn’t room in the invitation budget for a pro.
Option 2: DIY or Faux Calligraphy
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I still can’t believe that Mr. Eggs Benedict pulled off such an amazing surprise. Well, I can believe it, because I had NO idea that he was going to propose when he did. I thought it was going to be months before he asked, and I had reached the point where I was actually completely OK with it. (I’d had hopes earlier on in the summer during our second trip to Hawaii together that that might be the time, but he didn’t want to do it then. Remember how I said we don’t like being hot and sweaty? That factored in to when he wanted to propose—hence waiting until December.)
Mr. Eggs and I moved in together after he graduated from law school. I had graduated the year earlier and had been living in Portland for a year at that point. About a month prior to his graduation, I moved into the apartment and then he moved in in May. Anyway! The point of all that is that sometime at the beginning of November I started telling Mr. Eggs that I wanted to get a Christmas tree. I’ve never had my own Christmas tree before, and it turns out Mr. Eggs had never had one of his own, either. I’ve been in school for what feels like forever, so now that Mr. Eggs and I were living together and starting our family together, I really wanted to start our traditions together! And one of those traditions I was determined to start would be cutting down our own Christmas tree together.
Of course, that turned into a slightly bigger ordeal than I was first anticipating. See, since neither of us had ever gotten a tree before, we didn’t have a stand, or lights, or decorations. And do you have any idea how hard it is to find a tree stand the first week of December? Yeah, neither did I. So we had to go to three stores to get a stand, some lights, and a few ornaments. By this time, I was getting a bit, um, cranky. So—refuel with a latte and head out to the Christmas tree farm!
Because when I say I wanted a Christmas tree, I mean going and cutting one down ourselves. My family’s been going to the same Christmas tree farm for years, and there’s just something way more satisfying about cutting down your own than just picking one up in a parking lot.
I’ve had a behemoth Yudu screen printing machine taking up precious space in my closet for two years. I’d dream up projects for it, chicken out, and change my mind here and there about using it. (I particularly wanted to use it with Robin’s invitations, but with any gadget, there’s a learning period to using it, and I didn’t want to tackle someone else’s project learning on the machine.)
This year for Christmas I decided to bite the bullet. Back in October I ordered 150 flour sack towels from the American Chair Store with high hopes and intentions to put together a small package for our Christmas cards. In December it was a mad dash and a few long nights of ironing and screen printing, but I’m happy to report that my first foray into Yudu screen printing was a success, and I would love to print some invitations on fabric in the future…a good excuse to throw a party!
I had to wash and iron all of the towels first to get rid of lint and give myself a nice flat surface to print on.
OMG ANNOYING IRONING OVER 100 TOWELS. YAWN BORING LAME TAKES FOREVERRRRR.
Then, the fun begins.
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Mr. E and I have been lucky enough to spend every New Year’s Eve together since we started dating (which isn’t always easy when you’re dating someone who works on holidays).
Out in Dallas ringing in 2008
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