Happily Ever After

I figured since it's been a few months since the wedding I'd add a few pictures. Eventually I'll add some tutorials about how I made all of the decorations. It was the perfect day in June for a vintage inspired wedding. From the personal details to the fun filled reception. The night was completed with a game of kickball with the whole family and Grandma even caught a pop fly to get "The Boys" team out. I found an old vintage bright blue necklace and had it turned into a gorgeous bracelet as my "old and blue." It was the perfect pop of color.

I custom designed the wedding programs. They were filled with our engagement pictures, both of our parents' wedding pictures and a thank you to them, and a small story explaining the canopy that we were married under. My mom is a quilter and she collected heirlooms and pieces from parents, grandparents, and great grandparents of ours that are Christian role models in our relationship. She turned them into a quilt and it was hung over a canopy that we stood under for the ceremony. A few of the items were my husband's mom's wedding hanky, copies of love letters of my grandparents during the Korean war, and fabrics with pictures of things that we both love. 
The quilt is actually at a National contest right now that my mom entered it in. I'll post pictures when I actually get it back! :) I was also brave and designed and made all of my bridesmaid and flower girl dresses. Looking back now I was crazy but LOVED them! I also did this while finishing my senior thesis to graduate with my BA in Interior Design!

The ceremony was just right (even though I have no idea what the pastor said, I was just waiting for the "I now pronounce you...") The dresses of the girls looked the best from the back. I thought this was the most important because that's what the guests see.

We ended the night in a huge game of family kick ball and bean bag tournaments. It was completed with an ice cream sundae bar with soft serve ice cream. I could include a thousand pictures but I thought I'd spare you. In a small town, it was crazy to quickly hear that everyone thought it was a great wedding with fun creative ideas. I thought so too, but I was a little biased! :)

Breast Cancer Fundraiser Donation

This week I was on Alchemy at Etsy and sumbled upon a request for homemade donations. The lady is doing her part in helping the Susan G. Kolmen Knoxville, TN Race for the Cure. The Race is on October 30, 2010 at the World's Fair Park. I'm going to be making a few fun items, and will for sure let you see a peek before I send them off. If you too, are interested in helping, let me know and you can include it with my package or I'll give you the address to ship them to her. I found some pink flannel with ribbons that I'm going to do something with and a pink and brown cotton that I'm going to make a little girl ruffly skirt and matching headband, as well as a mother/daughter set of aprons. Super excited to use the fun fabrics and see them go to a cause!

Wedding Helpers

I have to show off that I had the cutest "Wedding Helpers" ever at our wedding this past June. I had so many little cousins and not enough places for them. So they were designated as "Chalk Hander-outers." Our reception tables had chalkboards on them to keep the guests busy as well as they could leave us notes for our married life. They had a blast all matching and looked adorable as well! 

New Adventures

So it's been forever since I've made a post but life has been busy to say the least. I'm ENGAGED and getting married in 67 days and starting to freak out! I graduation from college with my degree in Interior Design in 4 weeks. I've got a great job at a design firm. Other than being busy, I couldn't ask for much more right now. We have a house that we're remodeling and I finally get my own design/craft/work studio!! So now my new goal is to actually start posting things from my new studio and about the upcoming extreme DIY wedding that I'm trying to do! :)

Stranded In!!!!!

So this weekend I got a new toy as a Christmas and birthday present and have been waiting to play with it. This weekend I also got stranded in with 9 inches of blowing snow and topped with ice. So this morning it was blinding white and decided to try it out in bad lighting! So I clicked a few of my car that might not get out for a few days! Right now I'm hitching rides to and from work and other errands. My whole apartment is stuck in because our landlord is stuck in Minnesota. Hopefully we get out eventually....I need to be home by Saturday! But until then I'll be playing with my new camera before I leave for Australia next week!

Budget....cabinets.....hardware.....sustainable issues...

So I've been working on spec'ing and pricing my kitchen for the past 3 hours and decided I needed a study break! I never know how much work went into a kitchen. Plus the fact that I now see how  much a new kitchen costs....it's outrageous! I have a smaller galley kitchen and my cabinets alone at priced at $15,310 right now! I also have to say that this drafting table is one of my favorite things in my apartment! It's the only thing that I can handle leaving messy because I look at it randomly and will get an epiphany on my project! I'm excited to get this done and all rendered out finally. (I ordered the Candace Olson Divine Design book on Amazon today because I love her renderings and want to improve my skills before this condo is due!)

I also thought I'd include one of the better pictures out of the hundreds from this weekend! It was great having a few of my really good friends up for the weekend. Although Saturday night I do think by building codes we definitely exceeded the amount of people legal in one apartment!

My Life Lately....

So now that school has started I spend late nights at my drafting table or sprawling in the living room watching Grey's Anatomy (my new season of addiction!). Right now I am designing a lofted condo in downtown Minneapolis, MN overlooking the Mississippi River, for a famous sculptor. It has to be sustainable and the emphasis is on the kitchen. If I'm not up late working on research for a project, building a model with balsa wood for building systems, or studying electrical components for lighting class I'm trying to do something creative for myself. This rarely works though! I tried uploading a picture of my plan and the kitchen rendered but it said the file was too large and wrong format! :(

The bird mobile is my garage sale steal. I'm not going to lie, sometimes the shadows are a tidge creepy if I wake up in the middle of the night. But they make cool shadows and keep me distracted when I'm up at 3 a.m. doing something due at 8 a.m.! (my picture won't rotate!)

On my end table is my other garage sale steal. One night I fell asleep in bed with it on while writing a paper and apparently the lampshade couldn't handle the heat and it melted! I was watching Myles of Styles on HGTV the other day and she wrapped a lamp shade in ribbon with loops. It looked really cool and if I ever get time that's how I'm going to fix mine too!