fun stuff!!!

today jeff called me at work to say, "hello honey!  happy one month anniversary!"  how sweet.  
 :)  
that was a very nice start to my day. 
then, just now I was checking out shannon's blog and look what I found!

Shannon told me about this the other day...but seeing it so puts a smile on my face! 
:)

I got the pictures back from Shannon this weekend, so I'll start catching you all up on all the details that I didn't want to show until I had her super cool pictures.   Now i have them so now i can share...except not today.  
:( 

sorry, but i need to finish addressing the thank you cards, make my thanksgiving grocery list to give to jeff, and move all the christmas tree / decorations boxes into the garage...and look it's 9p and i still haven't eaten dinner! 

toodles for now!!! 

hee hee....i know, i'm a dork

but it truly makes me giddy to see blog posts about us. 
:)

I know...soon the day is going to be here that the pictures are in the past, the wedding and all the hard work will be only long ago memories, so until then I'm going to sit back and enjoy the times that I have left.  :) 

so, why am i a dork, you ask???  well, because shannon added a post about the various things that I have made...how cool!! 
her pictures are so much better than mine, so it makes it that much cooler. 

anyway, check out the post over on her blog.

thanks Shannon!!! 

if I were an invitation...what would I be???

while I didn't have many meltdowns, thankfully, during the whole planning process...the invitations were mini-meltdown #1.

When I first started planning the wedding, early on, I designed invitation #1.  I was so excited because, I thought, "wow, that was easy...this stuff is going to be a piece of cake." 
Then I made my save the dates. 
I absolutely loved my save the dates and then suddenly invitation #1 wasn't good enough, in fact, I hated it. 
I thought over and over...you can't follow up the save the dates with this!!
so back to the drawing board I went, over and over and I think over again. 

one day..an invitation magazine came in the mail and it had some invitations with chandeliers on it and I fell in love with them.  I immediately started searching for all sorts of cool chandeliers on the internet.  i made a mock invitation, walked into the living all proud of myself and said, "honey, look what i made"
...and then it happened...that face.  
the unmistakable face of "I don't want to tell you, but I really don't like that." 
uh oh!! what would i do now??

well, this just wasn't going to do, because for the first time since the invitation saga began, I really liked what I had created.  the next day I added a little bling and some ribbon...and voila!! the little invitation that could finally won over jeff!

I would end up changing my mind one more time..not on the design, but on the chandelier. 
Originally, I had the same chandelier on the invitation, rsvp and accommodations.  I settled on a different chandelier for each and those same chandeliers ended up being the inspiration for several other elements at the reception.  I'll share all of those later, but finally, here is the complete invitation set. 

can't wait to check the mail next week...

I'm so excited! 

My friend Naomi in Sarasota did a blog post about little ol' me! 
how fun!

the best part though is that it's about this super cute card that she made for Jeff & Me....check it out!

She is an amazing card maker!!
Isn't it adorable?!  Can't wait to see it in person. 

thanks Naomi!!!   :)

the pictures are done, the pictures are done!!!

ok, so I don't have the cd yet, but I wanted you to see one super hot pic!

Shannon is truly amazing and I can't wait to share more of the pics, but until then...check us out!!
:)

finally - i can unveil "the dress" scrapbook pages

a while back, i posted the scrapbook pages that I made of the day my mother and i went dress shopping.

it had all sorts of boxes over the pictures and journaling because I didn't want Jeff to see or figure out which dress it was.

now that the wedding is behind us....here is the layout!

let's go back a little, shall we??

I had lots of fun pre-wedding activities, but I never got around to posting my last day at work before taking off for the wedding.  Some of my co-workers took me out for lunch and to get our nails did!  :)

First, we had lunch at Verde, a cute little restaurant in Brookhaven.  yummy tacos!
can't wait to go back again!

Next stop, let the pampering begin!

I'm telling you, I don't know what took me so long to get a pedicure.  My boss Jana took me for my first one last Christmas.  I had no idea the little piece of heaven pedicures can be!

We went to a nail place also in the Brookhaven area.  They were so incredibly nice and really did an awesome job.   
It was such a fun day!  I think we need another excuse to do it again soon! 

thanksgiving mani/pedis anyone?? 
 :)

the colors that I used

"baby, it's coal outside" for toes and "tickle my france" for my nails