Wedding Journal: October 30, 2007

Wow! It has been a busy week and a totally crazy month! I can't believe it is almost November! I still have so much left to do. Here are some updates:

I got a lot done on the invites last Sunday while it was snowing. I had all of them just about finished by the time Kim came.

My totally awesome soon to be sister-in-law, Kim came to visit me this weekend! We had a wonderful and busy time together! She was looking forward to seeing the gorgeous Rockies, but because of the fires in California, they were covering in a terrible smoky haze.
My bridal shower was on Saturday and it was fabulous!!! The hostesses really out did themselves and I had a wonderful time! It couldn't have been more perfect. I have lots of great photos to share, but first I will share some photos of the card sets that I made for each of my nine hostesses.
Kim and I went to The Bridal Collection after the shower to show her my wedding dress and for her to try on the bridesmaid dress. Kim also tried on some wedding dresses that she looked great it!! It was so fun. The Bridal Collection called me to today to let me know that all of the bridesmaid dresses have arrived and I can't wait to see them! Now we are just waiting for my dress!

Kim and I got all of the wedding invitations finished on Sunday night! It was such a great feeling. Now I just have to print the envelopes, stuff and stamp them and they will be on their way!

I also got hair appointments scheduled for myself to get my hair colored and a trial run of my wedding hairstyle done while I am in Texas for Thanksgiving. I can't wait!

There is still so much left to do! 66 days to go...

Bruised Palms

Bruised palms equal really awesome wedding invitations!

So, on Friday night, I spent 2 1/2 hours punching out circles for the bands on the wedding invitations. Unfortunately, I now have bruised and swollen palms. But the invitations are looking great! Mom and I went to a twelve hour crop yesterday. I was sad that I was not able to scrapbook, but I put together some really cute presents to give my bridal shower hostesses. I can't wait to show you after Saturday. Those took me longer than I expected, so I did not get as much done on the invites as I thought I would. But the list is getting shorter. Today we got our first snow, so I am staying house bound to work on the invites. I am hoping to get them finished by the end of this week! Left to do on the list...

...cut 188 Couple Cards.
...glue 188 photos onto the Couple Cards.
...cut 188 Reception Cards.
...stuff 564 cards into 188 invites.
...cut 188 black bands.
...score 188 black bands.
...glue 188 white circles to 188 silver circles.
...glue 188 assembled circles to 188 black bands.
...print 175 envelopes.
...stuff envelopes.
...stamp envelopes.
...mail wedding invitations.
...PRAY FOR KAYLA'S HANDS TO FEEL BETTER!

Danielle Young Creative Team

Wow! This month is going by way too fast. The month is over half way over and I just finally changed my calendar from September to October.

I haven't had a chance to share yet that I was invited to be a part of Danielle Young's Creative Team!

I am so very excited to get to use her awesome digital scrapbooking products. I finally got a chance to sit down today and make a page with her new kit, Everyday Blessings which will be in her OScraps shop on Sunday! I hope to do a couple more pages by the end of this month! (click image to see larger)

Weekends Aren't Long Enough

This weekend I could have used two extra Saturdays! I began the huge project of assembling my wedding invitations this weekend. Wow, and it is a huge project! With just under 200 invitation to be made, I really had my work cut out for me. I started last week by printing all of the various pieces that would be used for the invitations. By Friday, the pile looked like this:
By Sunday, that pile had only managed to turn into this:
It took me the whole weekend to just to cut and score and begin gluing together the 380 red pieces of paper.
The next steps for this huge project...

...finish gluing together the dozens of red pieces of paper.
...cut 188 Couple Cards.
...glue 188 photos onto the Couple Cards.
...cut 188 Reception Cards.
...stamp 188 Reply Cards.
...cut 188 silver mats.
...glue 188 inner pieces to the silver mats.
...glue inner pieces onto the red invites.
...stuff 564 cards into 188 invites.
...cut 188 black bands.
...score 188 black bands.
...cut another 66 silver circles.
...punch out 188 outer circles.
...glue 188 white circles to 188 silver circles.
...glue 188 assembled circles to 188 black bands.
...print 175 envelopes.
...stuff envelopes.
...stamp envelopes.
...mail wedding invitations.
...PRAY FOR KAYLA TO FINISH!

The SIStv Boutique

Check it out! My new digi frame kit I mentioned in my last post was placed in the New Arrivals box in The SIStv Boutique to been seen when you're viewing any page!! How awesome is that!?! I hope I sell a bunch!

My First Digi Kit

So, my friend Kayla Aimee is a Fashionista over at Scrap In Style TV. She asked me if I would be one of their exclusive digital scrapbooking kit designers! Of course I said YES!! SIStv is an awesome website and I am so thrilled to be one of their designers! I just finished up my first kit and I am so excited to share it! You can purchase this kit by visiting The Digi Boutique. Let me know what you think!

World Card Making Day

This Saturday was World Card Making Day. My Stampin' Up upline, Linda and I hosted a stamp camp. Eight of our customers came and made eight holiday themed cards. We had yummy snacks and gave away lots of fun door prizes! Here are photos of my cards and the ladies making them!

Wedding Journal: October 4, 2007

Only three more months to go! I can't believe it! Where have the last three months gone? And I have so much more to do! Unfortunately, I am not getting much done today because I am sitting at the library waiting for my car's cooling system to be fixed. I figured I should get that done before I move to Texas!

Anyway, on to the good stuff! So, out of all of the wedding planning I have done and will do, the most crucial decision for me to make was to pick the perfect wedding photographer. You would think that the dress is the most important decision...well, not to me. Now don't get me wrong, my dress is gorgeous! But being that I am an artist, designer and amateur photographer, finding a wedding photographer that matched my style and taste was difficult. I am super picky! I spent hours searching Google for West Texas wedding photographers with not much luck (note to photographers: buy some Google Ad words for your websites!). Until I ran across the blog of this amazing photographer. People, met Kristin Bednarz, my totally awesome wedding photographer! As soon as I saw her work on her blog, I knew I wanted her to be my wedding photographer! No matter what it took. I am so excited because she will be there on January 3rd and 4th capturing wonderful memories for Clint and I. Of course, I have to show you some of her work! Kristin, I hope you don't mind!
If you want to see more, check out all the wedding posts on her blog: Kristin's Wedding Blog Posts

Lots of Reading Lately

Okay, so I usually don't post stuff like this, but I wanted to share with you some awesome books I have been reading lately! Some of you may not know that I used to be a huge reader years ago and I would read several books in a week. That was before I got busy with friends, high school and started working. Then through college I was too busy working on lots of projects and working part time to pick up a book. Now that my life has thankfully slowed down a little bit, I have been able to enjoy reading some more.

Last year, an acquaintance of mine mentioned this series, The Mark of the Lion by Francine Rivers and said was really good. So I checked it out and I ended up reading all three books in the series within a couple months! (That's fast for me.) This series was out of my typical fiction book time era of 1750-1900. These three books were set in Ancient Rome and I ended up learning a lot of history while reading this series. It had an amazing and emotional story and I really enjoyed it.

So, I decided to check out more of Francine River's books. On Thursday, I began reading her book Redeeming Love and it was AMAZING! Oh my gosh! Wow! I read the whole 500 page book by Saturday night. I can't remember the last time I read a book so fast! It has been years. I could not put this book down. The story was set during the California Gold Rush and was based on the biblical story of Hosea which I love. This book has a totally captivating and emotional story! It was AWESOME! I highly recommend it. Earlier last week, I also finished Nicholas Spark's book At First Sight which was the sequel to his book True Believer that I read earlier this year. This was a great book and the last chapters had me in tears! I always enjoy his books.