Happy Friday!

Some things that made my life lately:

-awesome email exchange between me and my sistah. She is the best around and she is almost done with her freshman year at art school! Laura- I am buying you tons of Marylous when you visit.

-hearing from my dad that my grandma is very determined to come to the wedding. This is despite her fear of flying (and she may even be flying alone). I am so impressed and excited to see her (if we cook together when she comes to visit, shortening will probably be involved...scratch the word 'probably'). Yay for Nans!

-watching old episodes of Mystery Science Theater 3000, hanging with my future hubs

***note to self: do not try to assemble invites while watching Parks and Recreation. you will mess up due to the hilarity (anyone else watch this show? it might be my favorite show on now...well except for all the crazy embarassing stuff I watch like 'help! i'm turning into a giant'...I find it hard to say no to shows that are entire sentences long (see also: 'i didn't know i was pregnant'))

Have a great weekend, all! I hope to get some serious wedding stuff done! I'm thinking table numbers (to make it easier for buffet lines, don't think we are doing assigned seating) and some kind of container to hold the flags I made.

invites!

So I am in the midst of assembling the invites ( we don't have all the stamps we got off ebay yet but I figured I might as well get a head start)

This is a pretty crummy picture but basically I made color copies of a random comic book page (it was from the superman wedding issue) and cut that up to use as a liner. p.s. yes, the envelopes are totally from office max and no, I totally don't care.

RSVP postcard front:

(you can't see it on this image but the ones we are sending out have a line for people to write their names)

RSVP flip side:

(I blocked out our address, there isn't just a random black box on it. Its not that I don't want you guys to visit me, its just everyone else. There was an alternate version featuring kryptonite in lieu of Lex Luthor but that was not to be. Also, if anyone was wondering I ended up buying the king & queen stamps for the postcards)

Invite front:

Invite inside:

Is it just me or does sending these out make the wedding feel more real than buying the dress ever did?

what's the opposite of a brideszilla?

So I am a people pleaser. It's just who I am. I hate conflict. I don't like to rock the boat. So basically out of fear of being labeled the wretched b word, I sometimes go so far in the other direction, I get walked all over. But today! I went out of my comfort zone and it totally worked in my favor! Wooooooo! So basically I dropped off my invites to be printed this weekend and when I picked them up tonight they were printed on...computer paper?! I mean really?! So I called the manager and was sweet as pie and she totally refunded me, printed them on cardstock and had the whole thing done in 20 minutes or so. I only had to pay the difference (what it would have cost anyways) which I was more than okay with since they were not expensive to begin with. Also, my invites are double sided and are going to be folded like greeting cards so that means I am investing in what I used to think was the silliest thing going:

(image via martha)

thats right. a bone folder, people.

I hear the craft store calling me.

Am I a snob if...

I think the one available postcard postage stamp available through the post office is hella lame?

(image via usps.com)

I feel like I spent a little too much time on my rsvp postcards to slap a polar bear on them. Especially since our invite stamps are so awesome. Zazzle has most of their stamps available in 28 cents as well but are still about twice as much then if i bought them elsewhere. But it sure is hard to resist zazzle's appeal when they offer such wonderful stamps as this:

(the appropriately named 'cat lost in space')

Thinking I'm probably going to just use a 44 cent one I like a little better. Unless, any other suggestions?? (also, no disrespect to people who like polar bears!)

In other news:

-Talked with my aunt about flowers. She is planning to grown all the flowers for my centerpieces. How awesome is she?!

-Dropped off invites to be printed (picking them up tomorrow!)

What what

stamps for invites? check!

(we bought 8 sheets off ebay since they are only 39 cents each)

hello, is it me you're looking for?

so my friend came over today to make wedding crafts yet instead we chatted and ate cookies. She also gave me great wedding advice (which is always appreciated!) on topics from guests to open bar and so forth. She also made really sweet comments about everything I've made and made me feel really good about our plans so far. I need to see her more (she is also in the selective group that makes me laugh until I cry; also she has an amazing husband who sends us books and the cutest kids around). Who knows what is up for today? I certainly have many things to work on. Tomorrow, like I said before is flower time. I'll keep you posted, kids. Just thought I'd drop in and say hi

(also I totally loooove this hair via cup of jo)

tea time

If I registered for china, I would have registered for these babies:

(all from trixiedelicious's etsy shop..unfortunately all of the above (that I had saved in my favorites) are sold out...but she has more fun things in her shop too!!!)