Here's To You, Steve

 

 

Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently -- they're not fond of rules...  You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things...  they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do. 

                                    -- Steve Jobs (February 24, 1955 - October 5, 2011)               

Wedding Plans

I can't apologize enough for my long absence.  Sometimes my life is just so crazy that to blog about it seems even crazier.  I will try to neglect you all less in the future.

For those of you who don't know me personally, here's the lowdown: I get married in T-minus 17 days.  For those of you who DO know me, you know this realization is being met with no small amount of freaking out.  The main reason behind this is that J and I decided when we got engaged to plan this wedding with none of it going on credit.  Since we had M within the last year, this placed our budget firmly in the area of $500, and we quickly realized we were going to be doing a lot of DIY.  Like, "let's do our own flowers and bake our own cake" kind of DIY.

Now, I'm no Bridezilla, and I don't generally squeal and go on and on about my wedding plans, but for the next two weeks I suspect some wedding talk will be unavoidable.  I will try to keep it as craft-oriented and un-mushy as possible, but if you just hate this kind of thing, consider yourself forewarned.

I decided pretty early on that I didn't want to do actual live flowers, but I also didn't care for the look of artificial flowers (also, my mother was in my head, shrieking "FAKE FLOWERS?  You're going to have FAKE FLOWERS!?!?).  After some internet searching, I found kusudama flowers (I'll post a tutorial in the next few days, but there are a number of good ones online).  Not only are they easy as pie to make, but they look like I spent ages on them, which is my favorite kind of project.  I am in love with my wedding flowers.  I am also covered in hot glue burns and dreaming about my damn wedding flowers.  I am not a skilled hot-gluer.

My hope is that we can transform this (excuse the phone photo)

Into a whole bunch of these

in the next few days. 

Thank God J volunteered to bake the cake.  I don't think my nerves could take it.

Peace be with you.