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Will and I recently got the copyright to ALL of our wedding pictures. This consists of five discs, each with about 2,000 pics on them. On these discs are pictures that were never posted onilne for designing the wedding album. Sadly, there are quite a few that I would have loved to put in the album but I really love the way we did the album anyway. So here are some of my favorite pictures from what I’ve gone through so far. Just one half of one disc.

When I look back at these I just can’t stop thanking God for that day and all the days since then. It was such a fun day and I feel like it pretty much set the tone of our first year. The ceremony was small, intimate, pretty location, friends helped out with a lot of things like the music and decorations… everything was so great and we were extremely layed back the entire time! Looking through these pictures helps anyone see how much fun we had. I’ve been criticized for not having more formal family shots but we can always get those printed and hang them on our walls instead of only seeing them in our album. Anyway, please enjoy some of my favs I’ve come accross so far.

Sew in Love

I am basically writing this for my grandmother because she loves to sew and I’m pretty sure I get all my creativity from her. I love sewing but haven’t had many opportunities while living in this one bedroom apartment since there’s no room for my machine. I’ve recently started setting up my machine at my parents’ house and spending some time there working on projects. I recently decided to make a traveling case for my work computer. The one that was provided by my employer is one with wheels and a long push-down handle. I decided to make a smaller one with some really cute material that I can just carry around seperately. So I did!

Take a look. I fell in love with this fabric and finally found a reason to buy it and make something with it! I padded the case and a thin wool layer. I actually quilted it with pretty yellow thread and lined it with some spare green fabric which actually matches perfectly. I managed to make a pocket on the front to hold my power plug and things like that. It’s got two things of Velcro to close the pocket. But I may change it a little with a flap over the pocket or something like that. The biggest challenge was the zipper! I’ve only done one zipper before this one and for some reason this one was just really tricky. Oh, and I did a little square with an “X” on the base of the handles to secure the fabric with a heavy computer inside. Anyway, I’m just going to post some pictures so you can see my work. 

Oh yea, check out me n’ Scooter!!

Savannah… the coolest city ever.

On Father’s Day weekend my cousin got married in Savannah, GA. My brother, my dad, and I drove down together on Friday afternoon to the DoubleTree hotel in downtown Savannah. We didn’t make it in time for the Rehearsal Dinner so we ended up just walking around town for about an hour. Well, we found River Street which was lots of restraunts, bars, and live music in the squares. It was actually pretty awesome. Then we met up with my mom and just had some fun in the hotel rooms laughing about who knows what.

Saturday morning we got up and walked to breakfast with my aunt and uncle, my other cousin Jonathan and his wife Jenny. Breakfast was sooo yummy; I had an order of “Scrambled eggs with cheese in a croisant”. YUMMM! Then we decided to just walk around town all stinkin day. It was super warm but thankfully I had packed my new light-weight summer dress from Anne Taylor Loft. It’s one of my new favorite things.

The greatest part about Saturday… besides the wedding… we’ll get to that in a minute but there is something important we have to discuss. The greatest part about Saturday was going to see PAULA DEAN’s restraunt and store! Oh my goodness, if only you knew how much I watch her shows and try her recipes… it was an honor to see all of her little knick knacks and cooking tools in the store. To eat at her restraunt you have to make a reservation three days in advance so we didn’t do that but it smelled good from the sidewalk. Needless to say, I had my picture taken with Paula and purchased a plate to put in my bathroom since it matches my shower curtain perfectly. I’ll probably use it for soap or something like that. Anway, it was a great event!

The wedding was very sweet. My cousin has wanted to marry this guy for quite a while so she was super excited. It was held at the Savannah Yact Club on the water, outside under an oak tree. The weather was beautiful with a nice breeze. They both cried during the ceremony and she was jumping up and down most of the reception. We were all very happy for them. This is a picture of all the cousins excpet Will, which everyone was sure to keep pointing out… I’m in the yellow.

So all in all I had a blast. Will and I are going to go to Savannah for our anniversary next year since we did Charleston this year. I know he’ll enjoy Savannah a whole lot more than Charleston. Savannah reminded me of a larger, more fun downtown Wilmington. Anyway, you should go there if you have the time. Maybe we’ll see you there!