Secret Holiday

Anniversary!

I forgot to mention that last Sunday, June 12th, was our one year wedding anniversary! We didn't get to do anything extra special to celebrate as we were at Renegade, but maybe we can still go out to a fancy dinner or something this weekend.

Sunday night, as we were falling alseep at our friend Kristen's house in Brooklyn (with Ned & Anna on the pull-out sofa, me on a small couch and Justin on the floor), Anna pointed out that it was just like the night we got married, having a sleep over with our friends. Except on our wedding night our friends John and Karin were in the room too! Ha! Super unconventional married couple!

I am trying to plan a little trip for us to go up to Burlington, VT early in July. I'm calling it a birthday trip (my birthday is on July 1st) but that's really just an excuse to actually do it. I am dying to go to the Shelburne Museum. We were going to try to take a trip with some friends, but really we should just go alone because we never take trips alone. Have you ever been to the Shelburne Museum? I like the prospect of it being so big you NEED to go two days in a row (and your ticket is good for two consecutive days because of it).

Happy Anniversary Justin! I love you more than ever. Bring on another 50 years!

We're moving!

Again! But just into the bigger and far nicer apartment on the other side of the wall. We found out just three days ago that our neighbors are moving out, and we immediately called our landlord to secure their apartment :) 

As much as we have loved sharing this intimate 3-room studio with each other, Justin and I are both really excited about having a bedroom AND a living room again (not just a combination of the two), oh, and a separate room for our studio! No more sitting on the bed most of the day while sewing. That has gotten old! Though it's mostly because 1) I like to watch movies while sewing, and I can't stream Netflix on my old eMac and 2) because our side-room shared studio is so small and crammed with art things, my desk is constantly a disaster, with huge towers of STUFF threatening to topple over at any moment.

So, now, I am spending all my free time daydreaming of 3-4 weeks from now when we can walk all of our precious belongings around to the front of the house and up into our new apartment. I am daydreaming of a new (or at least new-to-us) couch in our living room, and tall ceilings and big windows. I know we just looked at the place a couple days ago, but I hope I haven't already built it up too much in my imagination! We're both looking forward to making this next place our home, not just another temporary space that we never finish decorating, no old boxes stacked in the closet, still waiting to be unpacked from the last move. Or at least this is the plan! Fingers crossed!!

Oh, hey, did I mention here that we got married on June 12th? I've been so bad at blogging, I don't think I ever did an official "We're married!" post. Well, you'll have to wait for that! I want to do a little wedding weekend re-cap, but it's already far too late tonight to start pouring through photos. Soon, promise!

Goodnight!

Weekend SALE!!!

Hello everyone! Did you know I'm getting married in just 10 days? TEN DAYS! I can't believe how fast it's coming (or how many things we still have left to do!) We'll be going up to the mountain just one week from today. I'm little overwhelmed, but super excited too!

I've been working feverishly to finish as many custom orders as I can before the big day, but I also managed to add a couple great little birds to my shop. This weekend I am offering a 15% on everything in my shop (excluding custom orders) to celebrate my wedding! The sale runs through Sunday June 6th. Mind you, there are only three birds still available, so if you've had your eye on one, don't hesitate! 

I will refund the 15% once the order has gone through. This discount is exclusively for my blog readers and twitter/facebook/flickr friends - especially for you to help me celebrate my big day! Please add happywedding! in a message during checkout and I will send along the refund promptly 

I have adjusted the prices to reflect the 15% off. Prices will switch back at midnight tonight! :)

Hope you're all having a wonderful day! I'm hoping to be back to post at least once more before heading out on our special wedding weekend. Take care!

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.

We're getting married (!) at Stump Sprouts

We already knew this place would be perfect before we even saw it in person. It has a spectacular view of the surrounding mountains, and, being a cross country ski lodge, it has a great camp feel, with lots of small bedrooms, packed with bunk beds and lofts. 

We'll have the whole place for the entire weekend, which is exactly what we were seeking. Instead of putting lots of time and money into one single day, we'll get to spend four days on top of a mountain with our closest friends and family. 

I can't wait to go back and see it again when spring finally comes around and everything isn't quite so brown. Here are a few sneak peek photos to get an idea:

And here are a couple photos I borrowed from the Stump Sprouts website, so you can see how beautiful it could be in the spring (sorry the photos are so tiny):

     

Needless to say, we are super duper excited! Now, there are just a few details to pull together...

Here are a couple more dresses I'm interested in, from Anthropologie. I don't feel like I have found "the one" yet, but I'll have to try on a few soon, to get a better idea. I want something pretty, but really comfortable too. Obviously, I also really really like the idea of finding a dress for under $200. 

 

Or maybe I could find some one who would want to trade a handmade dress for a quilt? Hmmm... 

Oh, also, I just got a reminder about Renegade in my inbox. We won't be able to get this wedding together AND do Renegade this June. Justin and I tried to plan things out, thinking we could manage to bust a ton of product out, go to Brooklyn for the weekend, and then get married less than a week later, but really, that's just too much! I will be terribly sad to miss it this year, but next June will be here before we know it - we'll be back at Renegade then. This summer = Wedding Weekend Extravaganza!

I want one of these

  

 

As a wedding present? Anyone out there taking note? They are so beautiful! 

Made by Wood & Wool Stool. Images borrowed from sfgirlbybay, decor8, and Wood & Wool Stool. 

PS. It's official - our wedding date is set for June 12th 2010! 

thinking about getting married...

Looking at Mod Cloth today, trying to find a simple party dress that could pass for a casual wedding dress. Really I'd love to find a vintage dress, but I'm excited I've finally found some new ones that I really like! Here are some favorites I'm thinking about:

     

We're going to check out a wedding location in the hills today. If we love it (I think we will!) and can book it, our wedding date will be June 12th!