if you HAD to pick a theme, the timing couldn’t be better

i mean we aren’t holding a costume party, but we are doing a mad hatter inspired tea party/alice in wonderland brunch (more due to some cool disney party pics seen online and the fact that alice and the mad hatter will come to your party. if you pay them.), but with the new tim burton flick looming…. well, the merch oppurtunities are endless! as is the chance to be so burned out on the thing by next january. but i digress….

• i picked up this eyeshadow kit like 3 seconds after meghan sent me a link, kind of without realizing how cute the pop-up case is. i love urban decay so i knew the eyeshadows would be really cool, but the packaging is neater than i expected!
• pal donna sent me a pic of a tshirt from hot topic. they’ve got a full disney line of movie merch, cool t-shirts and lots of wedding favor potential!

did i mention there are wedding podcasts??? #godforbid

• “how to look good in pictures” search this one on itunes – its 2008/2009 and i didn’t easily find a good link on the nikon website – but its hosted by carson kressley (love!) and their is a short (maybe 8 minutes) episode about looking good in wedding pics that was nice – and features examples with a great real sized bride at the end.
• wedding workout - enjoying the first couple of episodes from this 2006-2008 podcast. each episode is kind of an informative bit about a different exercise or nutrition or great sex! passes the time and just the thing to keep you on the treadmill for 30 minutes!
• wedding podcast network – this site and corresponding itunes podcasts covers many fashion/etiquette/planning topics. i am enjoying henry and michelle roth, a brother/sister/family bridal designing team discussing dresses and fashion, beauty tips and planning ideas. a lot of these various topics are things i knew about, but the voices and podcast formats make them like little ear magazines, again perfect for the treadmill or just passing the time. and much cheaper than all those bridal mags!!

i feel like this:

it’s tough being a (nearly) middle aged woman, marrying for the first time and planning a disney wedding (god forbid). the disney wedding blog says it best:

I figured it out the next day. Every time I introduced myself and told people what I blogged about, I had the intense urge to rush in and say, “It’s really geeky, but I like it” or “It’s just a fun little hobby.” This was because every time someone heard the words “Disney wedding”, they looked at me like a design leper. The people at this conference were hip, young, stylish design professionals and throwing the word “Disney” into a conversation caused them to scatter like startled geese.

i hope i get my head right and stop feeling quite so sheepish in mentioning my plans to co-workers and (non-disney obsessed) family and friends. soon!

crafty!

i have fashioned save the date cards (i just can’t keep going with the whole STD thing) and a STD (ok, i got tired all ready of typing that long phrase) magnet! except for the fact that i do not own one of those straight edge cutting things like you find in the teachers lounge in high school, and i didn’t buy one and that i can’t cut a straight edge with a ruler and an exacto knife, they look pretty good! (thank you miss meghan for the printing tips!)

i colored them in by hand with pencil. i haven’t mailed them yet, so it is probably geeky of me to post them, but i thought they turned out really cool! apparently disney has save the date cards or announcements as part of their wedding package, but they are talking about sending those out like in the summer. now, correct me if you think i am totally whackadoodle, but, for a “destination wedding” – and one with an awkward date to boot – i think that the most wanring guests can get the better! plus, we have an extremely small guest list. if there are people who would then know they couldn’t come for a variety of reasons, that would give us time to either try and invite more of the like 300 people we wish could be there and/or adjust our guest list down.

i suppose even saying that last part is just terribly awful. i don’t mean it to be. making a small guest list is very challenging. in any event, the wedding website shown there isn’t “active” as yet and we are only 99.9% sure of the time and date. but here are my efforts – perhaps they can inspire someone out there…

the apocalypse is coming!!!

if you watch the news here, that’s what you’d think. because we might get – prepare yourself – snow. SNOW I SAID!!!!! yes, yes, we heard you. there is definitely crazy weather going on in these united states right now, but i am hardly one to qualify a *potential* maybe 10 inches of snow as the end of the world as we know it……

not that i have always been this way. when i first moved to kentucky, i feared the snow and any news report of potential freezing conditions put me into a tailspin. however, in my own defense, my “tailspin” never included rushing out to buy a lifetime supply of rock salt, milk or snow shovels. after living in snow likely areas, i am familiar enough now with the hysterical hyperbole of weather persons in particular and news programs in general. even if we have the full amount of predicted snow – how long could it actually last? a day? two? would snow shovels and pounds of rock salt really be required?? really???

back on track

apparently our date snafu issue of yesterday is a nonissue. thusly, i can begin to try and actually print the really cute STDs i’ve created. SAVE THE DATE CARDS, REMEMBER? i have gone all crafty and whipped up a very cute, wedding theme appropriate motif that i want to print on some cute cardstock from michaels and then do a little hand tinting with some colored pencils. all this would be fine if i could figure out how to get my printer to print reliably onto the ~ 5.5×5.5, ric-rac edged cards. the paper tray doesn’t allow me to square up the cards, and, other than the test one i did last week, it seems to suck them through all catty-wampus no matter what i’ve tried.

on the further “this will turn me into bridezilla” tip, i am convinced i can make all necessary invites and other paper paraphernalia for the wedding. given that our guest count will max out at 30 (including the groom and myself), it can’t make me that crazy to feed these things through the printer one at a time, right?

unrelated note: paraphernalia has an “er” in it? who knew?