Being all Domestic and such

Well I did it, I made my first batch of bread today. I'm really proud and excited for myself because I did it on my own.  Okay there was some help from my mom with the technical parts of it only because I didn't know what to look for in certain stages of the process. But here is the finished product of 3 hours of hard work.  

Four, what I would consider, pretty awesome looking loaves of bread. My parents are taking 2 up camping with them and that leaves one for me and one for Chris' family. I'm sure I will make up a whole new batch of loaves later this week that I can share with coworkers and that way Chris' family will get a fresh loaf of homemade bread. 

Favorite store closing

I found out the other day that my very favorite store, the only reason I would ever go to Gardner Village, is closing at the end of the month. Luckily they are still keeping their online store Anastasias attic so I can still buy the items I want but hope they keep with the same selection.  I'm really bummed about it because I was planning on purchasing all of my wedding parties gifts there for my line since we are doing a vintage type wedding I figured having vintage type jewelry would be nice.

I just wanted to share in my sadness over this treasure that will never be there again.  If you check out the site I advise buying the room fragrance satchels in Orange, lemonade and hope. they smell the best.

Excitement

Now that we are only a few months away I'm really really starting to get excited about getting married. We have almost everything planned out, just waiting on a few loose ends to come in and then we can pretty much go full steam ahead. 


I do have some questions though, where are some good places to go for engagements that won't cost us anything and do you bring more than one outfit along for them? I know I'm weird but this is how my mind works. 


Oh and Chris and I have chosen where our honeymoon will be.  We will be going with my entire family to Disneyland for a memorial for my sister that passed away last year since we weren't able to go for her birthday like we had planned. I know it isn't the ideal honeymoon to go with your parents/ in-laws but we will have been married for 6 weeks by the time we leave so I'm hoping a lot of the newness and awkwardness isn't there.  But I could be wrong and I probably will be.  What will be nice though is Chris' family is planning on joining us one weekend during the travels in Vegas to celebrate Chris' birthday.  I'm looking forward to spending time with his family there since the last time I went I didn't really see much. 


So if you know of any pretty locations that would be great for an engagement photo please let me know.   


Thank you for reading
~Mary

Wedding Updates

I hope you all are dying to hear about what updates we have so far for the wedding. 
First we found some amazing deals on invitations.  I'm not going to give it away until after the wedding so you'll have to just hang tight about it okay. :) 


Next one of my coworkers is willing to make the wedding cake for cost of ingredients so that's around $100 so that is a load off of us with that cost. 


I'm still looking for photographers, I know that is a huge part of the wedding budget and you don't want to skimp on them but I find it ridiculous to pay $750 or more for just the wedding day itself and then extra for the engagements and the bridals. If any of you know of some decently priced companies that will help us out as well if our guy ends up falling through.  I'm hoping he won't so you can also keep your fingers crossed for us too.


DJ's.  I'm on the fence about them.  I know they can make a reception fun but are they worth it as a apposed to putting together a play-list on mine or Chris' iPods.  


Flowers I'm going to end up doing myself since we still have our wholesale license to florist places and with going the fake route we can save more and get them done up labor day weekend that way they are done and ready to go. 


I also want to thank everyone who reads these posts and leaves comments.  It makes you feel all special knowing that others out there care about you and that have advice that I can use for later on in this new beginning of my life. 


Thank you for reading
~Mary

So sorry

I just wanted to put in a quick post saying that I am so terribly sorry that I have not been keeping you all updated like I would have liked to with this blog. But it has been super busy what with making wedding plans and then coaching Special Olympics.  I hope you all don't hate me too terribly much but I will get back to this on a regularish basis.

Have a wonderful fathers day weekend.

Customized dresses to order?

I know what you are thinking, how can you customize a dress online, I know it's not crazy talk but seriously this website that I came across while finding a dress pattern amazed me.  Customized dresses The cool part about this website is you can take a dress, pick your size, then put in your height, and you can choose what type of sleeve you want on most, the length and the neckline. How cool is that? Even with the skirts, you can choose the length and the separate tops you can choose the neck line, length of the top, sleeves it is pretty awesome. No I am not getting paid to tell you about this website but I just had to share it. I so want to order something, if I had the money.

check it out, you will be amazed.

First Sewing Project completed!

So my three weeks of sewing class have come to an end and here are the results of my labors.

I know the picture isn't much but I'll work on getting a better camera to take some better pictures.

I'm really glad I took the sewing class since it opened my eyes up to a world that I didn't know if I fit into it or not.  I will continue to make more items on my own, I have a coworker that wants me to make an apron for her too but before I start giving things away I need to get better at keeping my seams straight and using pins, I really hate pins. 

I'm hoping my next project will be a picnic blanket throw type thing.  Pretty much it's an outdoor blanket. I'll let you know when I start on that.