I’m very fortunate to have a hairdresser for a sister, and she keeps telling me to think about how I want my hair for the wedding, and I have no idea!
Luckily for me, I think she has a few ideas, in the meantime, these are a few of mine.
I think I have decided that Augusta Jones is my favourite wedding dress designer! I love all the pretty flowing fabrics and the detail, even in the most simplest of dresses.
Yum Yum Yum!
I am also very very muchly loving Ian Stuart too, although not sure on the real life wearability….but very pretty!
Who is your favourite designer?
So I did, I’ve tried on wedding dress and I can honestly say it was the best experience ever! I have never had a day where I have felt so thin…Whats going on there? All that pulling in, pushing up, the wonders of a corset!!
I loved it!
I, also, couldn’t have asked for a better experience when I went to the Stephanie Allin shop in London, although it cost me £30, it was worth it. Laurie and I had some lovely scrambled eggs before we went, both feeling extremely nervous, especially when we realised you had to ring a bell to get into the shop…! However we were made to feel at ease straight away, I think the fact it was 10.30 and we had a glass of champagne in our hands totally helped. The dress I went to see, it was no good, I looked like a pudding, however it was so worth it, just for the experience.
However I have come down a peg or two since then, and the current dilemma I am having is all about how much these dresses cost?! Whats going on, I am sure that as soon as people mention weddings, they chuck an extra couple of zeros on the end. Now I am not saying that I want to be totally frugal about buying my dress, however I am not sure that I can justify in my head that it could cost me about £1000 (that is my limit – I could not live with the guilt of spending anymore)!
Does anyone else feel like this? I am already worrying about people wearing make up giving me a hug, people standing on my dress, me spilling food on it (I have a tendency to do this) and grass stains-they could be an issue-and I haven’t even got a dress yet! How do you deal with it? Should I just forget about how much it costs, should I not even let these thoughts enter my brain?
Anyway, I know that at the end of the day the dress isn’t the most important thing, us getting married is!
So before I go and waste money on some dodgy chinese website for a dress to come that’s luminous orange when it said it would be white and fifty sizes too small, when I sent them my measurements - ANY advice that any brides to be or wives have, I would be very very grateful.
Anyone who knows me knows how much I love cats, I do love cats lots and lots, but I wont be that crazy cat lady at the end of the scary lane, with only her cats for company!
I wont!
Here are a few of the cats in my life….I’m feeling a bit cat sick 
I received my first Elevated Envelope – whoop!
My post was sooo much more exciting than normal, and it was a hand written note! Go Barbie Hull! I love Post!
Doodles on the back
Loving the glitter
Handwriten note
WOO HOO!
I have just done my first morning run, mostly spurred on with guilt as fellow bloggers telling me to ‘do it!!’. I feel great now, although I did feel rather sick when I got back in, but luckily that feeling has passed. I feel energised and wide awake – whoop!
All I am thinking about now is whether I should sign up for this 5K run on the 25th September. That gives me 6 weeks, can I do it?
I am also feeling extremely inspired today by a blog I found through girl worth weighting for, called One Twenty Five. Anyone looking to lose weight, must read this blog and look at the photos – I doubt you will need anymore inspiration than that.
So I have now decided I have the running and weight loss bug.
I WILL DO THIS!
I’ve been saying I will get fit and commit to it for, well for as long as I can remember actually. I’m not all that great with exercise, if I feel stupid doing it, then I tend not to bother, if I feel body conscious doing it I make up an excuse as to why I shouldn’t carry on, if I am enjoying doing it, it tends to cost a lot of money and I end up not being able to afford to continue. Or at least that’s what I tell myself anyway…
So I became inspired by my boss as she came in one day and had randomly decided she was going to run a half marathon and I thought, I wish I could do something like that. Now, I struggle walking round the block, so I wont be competing any half marathons but I did decide to start running, and START is what I did. I am very very good at starting things and not finishing them. So I ran maybe two times a week for about 2 weeks solid and then maybe another week after that, then I found every excuse not to go.
This weekend I went wedding dress shopping and realised I have to order my dress by Jan/Feb time so it’s about time I got my act in gear. So for some motivation I thought I would see if I could find some fellow bloggers doing a similar thing and I was very inspired by a blog I stumbled upon, girl worth weighting for, as I feel everything she says. Reading about her progress just made me realise that all the things I think and feel about myself are, well….normal! I’m not alone. I also loved the title of this blog, Move More, Eat Less, it really couldn’t be more true!
So my aim is to lose the very daunting 50 pounds to reach the top end of my BMI weight, and I would love to say this would be by January however I am not going to set myself unrealistic goals to fail at the first hurdle.
So I aim to have lost 25 pounds by the end of January, that gives me 24 weeks, that is a do-able task!
First things first, running tonight with my new 6 week plan…
I am on a blogging mission today, but this post is really fast and short just to say that I have seen the cutest postcards ever by an artist called Lily Moon.
Paper Garden No. 3, Lily Moon
The story of the sleeping red balloon, Lily Moon
I came across her cards via the blog Words & Eggs, which is really very lovely. You can purchase Lily’s cards at her Etsy store and check out her blog here.
BEAUTIFUL!
Just as I was preparing my previous post I had a quick look on my friend Laurie’s blog, and I came across little pictures of banners she had been making for me for this blog!
Truly amazing, I just love them, there is one shown below (Laurie, I hope you don’t mind I borrowed this from your site…) but take a look at them all here.
Laurie's banner for me...
Just perfect! Laurie is also doing our wedding invitations, I just cant wait to see the end results.
Its great having creative friends!
Last month I mentioned that I was taking part in the project started by Tara Bliven of Ephemera, called Elevated Envelopes.
There all done, finally……As always I left it to the last minute and it turned into a rather daunting task but they are finally done and in the post! Just on the deadline…..
A little snippet of my elevated envelope..
I cant wait to start receiving some, I will certainly post them all on here when I do. I will post the full pictures of mine once I know that people in the USA should have received them.
I do hope some are handwritten notes as I haven’t received anything handwritten in a long time, and as Tara herself says, ‘the pen is mightier than the pixel.’
