Remarkable Repairs

A few entries I like from the Remarkable Repairs contest over at Platform 21.

She's having a boy

The bff is having another baby boy. Boys, boys, boys! Braden will be a big brother in the spring time -and such a good one.
Congratulatios Baby Mama!

My man and food

I was just browsing through my flickr and it has now become apparent to me that I am constantly taking pictures of my man...eating.







This is normal girlfriend behavior, right?
*fiance

7-11, here I come

(picture from our trip to avignon, france)
I know "winter" is coming and everything but I've totally been craving slushies.

What are your colors?

That question is going to drive me crazy! I know I've got to have some kind of color palette but I'm having such a hard time commiting to certain colors. I don't want a color themed wedding. I guess I should have thought about that before we started buying wine colored vases. I'll always love that color and I definitely want it in our wedding but I just don't want the place drenched in it. I've been playing around on colourlovers.com where you're able to post an image and it takes colors from that image and give you a bunch of swatches to choose from to make a palette of five colors. I seem to keep choosing the same bunch of colors. A wine color, deep plum, midnight blue, a light pink and a slate grey. They're really not spring colors but I can always choose the light pastel colors that go a long with those, right? I don't really know the rules but they're already annoying.
The photos I put into the colourlovers.com site were similar to the one I put on the galaxy wedding post. I keep going back and staring at them and at how pretty those colors are.

When we chose the barn as our venue I was seeing so many country weddings it was ridiculous. I totally fell in love with that whole look but - we are not country. Don't get me wrong, I love our venue. I just really have to start figuring it out. I'm glad the barn is so bare though. It gives me lots to work with. The stone walls do make me a little crazy. It worries me when I think about decorating.

There it is again!
Can't I just have whatever colors I want? I mentioned that to Ryan and he's afraid it's just going to be a mess of colors. I just dont want to be restricted to a few colors. Ai yai yai!!

Childhood Photos

Insipired by a post from A CUP OF JO!
(a good excuse)



My brother and I as kids. Somebody liked his plaid shirt! In the second picture we're cheesing out with our cousins. I love the last picture. He probably secretly wants to push me off that thing.

Brian has been in Japan teaching english to kids and adults for almsot a year now (I think). He'll be visiting us in Florida for Christmas which is so rad. Can't wait!

Ceremony Venue?

YES that is a picture of Joan Crawford and YES I took it as a sign that I should look into hiring this Little Theatre! Ryan messaged me early this morning talking about possible venues for our ceremony. We can get married in the same barn we're having the reception and we kinda planned on doing that anyway but I've been grumpy about not having a proper aisle to walk down. I'd have to walk up stairs and then just pop out of the floor and get married...and I kinda really want an aisle.
Right when he sent the link to the theatre I could have sworn a little birdie got engaged there - and she did! Such a good story that they were on the front page of the paper!

This place is so cool.

via flickr

Ryan,

Cute but don't even think about it.
<3,
Katie

via oncewed

Hello Novemeber

Halloween was fun.
I started the night off (thinking that I was..) looking like a silent film actress and ended up looking a lot like Edward Scissor hands in a dress...with hands. It definitley had to do with the lips and brows.

Anyway Halloween is over and all the kids stole my candy within an hour. Well, it was their candy but they are getting more greedy every year!

So on to wedding stuff -We are starting to put together our gift registry and "wedsite" because we need to have our invites done by the end of the month! Ahh I get stressed just thinking about it. We still need to order more Gocco supplies,  figure some things out with the prints, and order enevelopes. The Gocco invites seem like more of a hassle than I thought they would be BUT...we will figure it out and they will be beautiful.

I love picking things out for us though. It's fun to have a wish list but I want to keep it to necessities, of course. But this seems necessary, right??

via bywhite
It also comes in red and white. I know, I know. I won't include it...especially because it's 92 bucks. Seriously. I'll keep googling.

This is Halloween

(fever ray photo)
I love this photo and how she looks in the video, so creepy. I thought about painting my face like this but it would never look as good, it's all super stenciled and airbrushed on her.

Argh! I've got The Nightmare Before Christmas songs all up in my head.

I still haven't really decided what I'm going to be. I do this every year. I had an idea but it seems like everyone in the world is going to be that idea this year. Can you guess who?? Still not saying, incase I'm her. Anyway, I told my man he should be Kanye and I'll be Taylor with tears. Mean. Last night around 3am I thought of another costume idea and might go with this one...depends on my mood but I might need to take a trip to Target and Michaels.

Tell me what you're going to be! I promise I wont steal your idea unless it's one of mine...does that make any sense??

Flowerz Plz

Pa-retty! I love love love the deep red roses.
via Once Wed

It seems like I'm the only midnight blogger. I guess people like to sleep and stuff?

Update: Ooo just read saipua made these!

Valley Vintage

My Mom recently emailed me pictures of her newly decorated shop in Duvall, Washington called Valley Vintage! Cute name right? She's still doing some painting but I wanted to share a few pictures so everyone can see VV, stop in and buy everything!

And she's back

I got in last night but I've been too pooped to blog.
Vegas was Vegas. It was good to see old friends and friends 4lyfe. I didn't get to see a few people I promised I'd see but maybe I'll be back before England. The bf's Mom works for Southwest and says they're doing some $25 deal so I'll keep an eye out.

One of the best parts about my trip was trying on Vera Wang, Oscar de la Renta, a few Carolina Herrera's and Monique Lhuillier dresses. Holy crap. I think I fell for one of each but narrowed my favorite down to a Lhuillier gown. I walked in so anti-satin and walked out day dreaming about the most beautiful ivory silk satin dress with a grand trumpet skirt after we left (and now). We googled our little hearts out trying to find a picture of the dress and only found a tiny clip of it. UGH! It just does not exist on the web. It...was...FABULOUS.

It was a good trip and I'm so happy I got to spend time with my preggie bf. Oh oh - my other favorite part of the trip was hearing her bb in the tummy on the doppler. Soooo cool! We're still crossing out fingers for a girl. She was too modest during the last ultrasound so we'll find out next week! Thank you for all the Vegasness!!

The trips to In-N-Out were pretty awesome too.

Remember me?

I haven't broken up with my blog. I'm still in Vegas!

Faux Zoe

HOW FUNNY IS THIS?!?!?!!?
Thank you via cupcakes and cashmere

What if...

...I wore that?! Blaough! Poppies! <3
Haha, my man is going to be so scared to see what I'll walk out in. Poor guy.

Dennis Basso's spring 2010 collection via addicted to humiliation

Galaxy dress

Holy cow!
Atelier Versace 2010
via cinderella

Galaxy wedding

Swan Nebula backdrop

Crazy pretty geodes

Galaxy cupcakes

Pink origami pleated dress.

Purple and grey titanium band.

Lots of metallic balloons.

Ryan would never let me do this in 100 years...which is probably a good thing, mostly because we have a BARN.

Duvet Dreamin

Hey cutie duvet cover...what's your name?

I dunno, something swedish for $14.99***!

O damn.

Bo, k?

I've been thinking about maybe having Sweetpeas for my bouquet. I like how soft and floppy they look. I'd only have a handful and maybe white. My ladies would have a dark color or maybe pink. I've read that they're the most popular flowers for weddings in Spring. Hmm, not lately! All I see now are yellow ball things, sticks and buttons.

I just finished making a facebook countdown thing for the wedding...239 days. Gah.

photo via mamako7070

A Betty Crocker dinner

I would have posted a picture of the meal but I couldn't wait. So yummy and super easy. It really did look just like the picture. Don't you love when that happens? As you can tell it doesn't happen to me very often.

I've been making enchiladas like crazy since I've been here. It seemed like the easiest thing for me to make and they're my favorite.I really wish there were more more mexican restaurants in England. :(

Anyway it's nice to add another recipe to the list.

Wackadoo

This color always reminds me of Miss Spit-mark.

Elisa! Whatever works.

Hair this

Oh my aching back and gorgeous hair!

I've been trying to grow my hair out, foreal, for the first time since high school. I've always heard if you're trying to grow it out you should get it trimmed every couple of months but...how does that make sense?? It does seem like the growing has come to a hault though.

I keep seeing these long locks everywhere when just a few years ago everyone was chopping their hair off into super short bobs. All of the sudden it's to their bums. Fakers! I want pretty pretty longER hair for the wedding. I've got 8 months. GROW!

photo via (awesome blog) wet behind the ears

Cycle Chic

I don't ride a bike. I used to as a kid, of course. But if I did I would like to pretend I'd look like this. Ca-ute.
via Cycle Chic from Copenhagen

Oh and...

Gardenia lovin

Our first plant (the gardenia) update: We bought it, killed it, then Ryan brought it back to life!

Herbal boutts

via Once Wed

(our venue...HMMM.)

Typical Florida day

Notice how all the dip just disappeared. That's because I'm a dipaholic. Also, I bought that glass for my Padre for Christmas last year. No, it does not say imp.

The pool is a little dirty but I haven't gone swimming in years so I jumped in and forced the dogs in with me. They were not happy, but it was fun for a few seconds.

I still can't believe it's snowing in some parts of the world right now!!!