Secret Holiday

Wonderful old footage

I found this great video tonight while searching around aimlessly on youtube (can't sleep). I'm really glad no one added music on top of it, and instead you just hear the projector clicking. It's nice. The first couple of scenes are the best, the two little girls on the beach, and then playing in a sprinkler in the yard. At the end there's a nice shot of girls wearing yellow swim caps that look really beautiful against the blue-green pool water. I wish I had old footage like this of my family.

Watermarks

Last night I watched Watermarks (on Netflix Instant): "The story of the Hakoah Vienna Jewish womens swim team of the 1930s, their forced separation, and their reunion decades later." (description via IMDB) 

I really enjoyed seeing all the old footage and listening to the women talk about their experiences. I actually think their story could make a really good feature film, about them as young girls, training with Hakoah, and what happened once Hitler came into power. One of the women was actually selected to go to the 1936 Olympics which were held in Berlin that year, where the pool signs read NO DOGS NO JEWS. She made the hard decision not to go. If you haven't seen this documentary, I think you should. Right now.

Our amazing Wedding Invitations

Justin and I already knew how incredibly lucky we are to have so many talented friends, but it has become even more apparent when putting together the details of our wedding. We didn't even have to ask our good friend Bill Hanscom to use his amazing design and letterpress skills to create a unique wedding invitation for us, he offered. Actually, I think he may have just assumed he was doing it for us! We obviously would never turn him down, and we couldn't be more happy about what he came up with. I love that it is a fold out poster! We already have one pinned to the wall above our bed, but I'm really looking forward to framing it and enjoying it's beauty forever. 

Can you guess what inspired the "Let's Get Together"? So silly, but it's from one of my favorite movies, The Parent Trap! It's a really great song, and the best scene in the movie! I get the song stuck in my head every time I look at the poster. I like that! I think it suits me and Justin really well! 

Here's the clip in case you have never seen it (the original version of the film, of course, with the amazing Haley Mills):

You can check out more of Bill's work on his website: Northern Mystery School. The "library book" invitation is particularly amazing in person!! Make sure to click on the images to see all the details. I hope he puts more images up of his work soon! (hint hint, Bill...)

My wedding quilt and a little chit chat...

I'm sorry I have been so terrible at blogging. Maybe I'll be better once the wedding weekend is over, but who knows really! I want to be better, I really do, I just can't seem to get myself to do it most days. I also have this silly thing where I'll find something cool, consider posting about it, and then decide not to... thinking "everyone's probably already seen it anyway...". I know, so silly. I'll try to get over that and just post about everything I find! I think I also need to accept the fact that sometimes I can just post a couple images and not have to say anything about it at all. The images and links would be enough, right? I am always looking at the most random yet amazing things. Oh, internet, how I love you so! (I hate you a little too, so don't get full of yourself). 

Okay, now that that's out of the way, I wanted to stop in here and share a new quilt I started last night. Quite a while ago I decided that, instead of having the typical guest book at our wedding, I wanted to create a special quilt top for all of our guests to sign. After the wedding is over I will embroider all of the signatures into the fabric, and back and tie it. This will in turn be a "guest book" Justin and I can sleep under for years to come, reminding us of that special day which we shared with all those we love.

   I started said quilt quite a few times over the past three or four months. Last night I started over again, on a whim, and finally began creating Our Wedding Quilt! The white squares are large enough to hold a signature, but still small enough to be subtle (Plus they are cotton that was pulled from the backs of Audubon prints by my book conservation/artist friend Sarah. Thanks Sarah! I have gotten so much use out of all this lovely material!). I've been having fun picking out my most favorite (mostly vintage) fabrics from my stash and mixing them all together. I know our wedding is only a couple weeks away now (AHH!) but I am confident I can build this quilt to a nice size by then. Look! I only just started and have completed nearly a quarter already! (Okay, it's smaller than that, but I am still feeling optimistic!)

 (Sorry for the not-so-great photos! It's already kind of too dark to take decent pictures, even though it still looks fairly light outside. But look at my cute blurry-faced kitty!)

Have you seen this awesome tumblr? I could spend hours here oohing and ahhing. Found via Meighan/Wild Horses. 

I still have a great photo of our amazing wedding invitations to show you, but, in an effort to spread out my far too sporadic blog posts, I will show you tomorrow. Maybe.

Heike & Oriol

Custom Wedding Cake Topper / LoveBirds No.65 & No.66 / Completed May 2010