design tips

today i was watching Oprah and they had a designer doing a "make under" in a too-cluttered den/living room. he had a few great tips for designing the area. i've started a document where i'm going to record all these tips that i think are really awesome and useful, and i'm going to start sharing them here! i'm not sharing any today - i would like to have more than one tip to choose from when i start, ha! i'm excited to start looking through all the neat magazines and blogs that i have to find tips that not everyone may know or have the opportunity to see! so check back, hopefully i'll have some time to browse and collect tips and ideas to share soon! i think i should make my sister do a cute "logo" type thing for all my posts that a designy tips...isn't that a great idea?

wedding inspirations: flowers

my sister sent this picture to me before josh and i were even engaged. the purple, orange and pink has been my desire for the wedding since, and is the current color palette i am attempting to create!



i love these flowers. the picture is from a get-together my parents had in August of last year. I LOVE THOSE PINK HYDRANGEAS. they are going to be perfect. i hope to use a mixture of these garden flowers for the centerpieces at the reception and decorations at the church.



i love this bouquet. i found it when i googled "hand tied bouquets." i can't remember where i got it from, but i love the ribbon, i love the bright pink, i love the simplicity of it. this is my bouquet inspiration.



again, i don't remember where this image came from, but i love the fish bowls and flowers and circle-ness and simplicity. i ordered a sample bowl (cheap, too) from a website, but i'm hoping i can rent bowls just like this for less (cause i really don't want to be stuck with 28 of these bowls). but i love this!!

v-day plans

i'm excited for valentine's day this year. josh and i already "gave" each other our presents (ok, really, we both bought things for ourselves at Best Buy and pretended like we gave them to each other. much easier). i'm staying at my aunt and uncle's* so i have access to there gigantic and amazing kitchen and their formal-ish dining room. i'm planning on lasagna for josh and i, plus i need to make some fancy Italian dessert and get some fancy yummy wine to go with it all. my guess is we'll watch a movie and eat all night, and that's fine with me!

writing that note about my "aunt and uncle" makes me really want to share the story of how my parents met. it is pretty amazing and i really think it could be made into a movie (although i'm sure it would get some embellishments...)

photo taken by josh for me during his trip to NY last year

*not really my aunt and uncle. mum's cousin and her husband. see post here.

baby clothes

i was at my parents the other night and they had dug out some baby clothes my sister and i wore when we were little tykes in dreary England. some of these cute little bonnets and knitted things were made by my Gramma Grace, my dad's mum, who passed away last April. some of these were so adorable! i was trying my hardest to remember them, and i came across this one and i knew i had seen it before...

granted, i don't remember wearing it, but i remembered seeing myself in it...

yep, that's me. super cute and super happy. and there's sissy above me, with her blonde hair and Gramma Grace's nose. seeing this was so cool to me, holding something my Gramma had made for us over 25 years ago...just so awesome.

birdie

this image was on my iGoogle this morning, in the new section i just added, "captions." i don't really get the whole "captions" thing, but the images are funny or super cute, like this one. i couldn't find any credit for it either, but OH MY GOSH, so cute.