I am really not a very good blogger type of person. I realize that when I look at my blog and expect there to be new content and realize, Oh yeah, I have to put it up there….. details details…..

Well I was at a conference for a week. Then I spent the weekend putting together wedding invitations and trying to get all that stuff organized (thank you everyone who helped with the invites!) When it was all said and done, all the invitations fit into one shoe box. It all looked so simple. Anyways, then last week I got sick and was home coughing up portions of my lung fors a week. One day I thought I was well enough to go to work, but then ended up having this terrible coughing fit and so they sent me home. Probably for the best. Since it was Good Friday on Friday I ended up with a one day week. Too bad I spent most of it sick sick sick.

This last weekend was very productive though. I started my wedding dress. I think I have been dreading it a little, like a little scared about what I have gotten myself into with the whole having to alter the pattern thing but I finally bucked up and started to do it and it really wasn’t as hard as I thought it would be. Of course I am not sure I am altering the dress the “right” way, but as long as it fits, and stays together and looks nice, well then it will be the right way.

We also did our wedding registry. I was surprised to find out that Ikea does not have a very good registry system. One would think that a place like Ikea would be more on the ball. The other place we registered was Target. They have a really good system. Totally on the ball, very user friendly both for the couple and the person looking to buy the couple a gift.

We also had a big Planning session. We put the next 3 months up on the wall and plotted out when everything needs to be done. We wanted then to have a way to check off tasks and stuff. I had been using iScrybe for some of the wedding stuff, but in the end it wasn’t quite right. We are now using the Project Management section of Zoho.com. So far its nice. Its more fully featured from the get go than say BaseCamp or Backpack. It allows for milestones with tasks associated with them, as well as meetings. The reason we are using this is because of the tasks. I wish Google would get with it and enable Tasks. There is an inelegant way to put tasks into Google, and that is in the form of a site called Remember the Milk, but I didn’t like the way it shows up on my calendars, and I didn’t like that I couldn’t integrate it with a specific calendar. So now all of our tasks are in one place, and we can assign them to different people, but its a separate site to check. What ever helps us get to the wedding day without everything being done at the very last minute.

So that turned into more of a wedding update than a general update, but there you go. I guess it just goes to show where my head is right now.

So as many have heard, I am going to be making my own wedding dress. I chose a vintage 50s dress. At that time the patterns only came with one size per package. So since it was the size that it was, I have to alter the pattern to fit me. To help me do this I decided to make a dress form. I think that this will really be helpful since its kindof hard to alter a pattern on your own body. I had seen a dressform post on Etsy Labs about making a duct tape dress form.

DIY Dressform

My lovely sister helped me out with this. It took less time than I thought to wrap me all up in duct tape a couple of times. but we had a good time doing it. Just make sure to go to the bathroom before getting all wrapped up because it’s not easy getting around like that.

My mom took some photos in mid wrap so I will post them later today when I get them from her.

I was a little worried about what I would think after i got out of the silver suit. It is odd to see how much space you take up in the world but from the outside. Its not as bad as I thought, but it certainly adds a new dimension to keeping me motivated at the gym. I now KNOW what I look like.

Well we have come several steps closer to pulling off this wedding.

First, we have figured out the design of the invitations. As with everything we wanted to have our own touch on them. My friend Shannon is super crafty in the paper area. Her collection of stamps and paper punches is unriveled (well at least among the people I know of) so with her help we went to the paper store and found some really cool colors and came up with a nice design. It is simple on the front, and then when you open it BABAM!!!! Color explodes. Mario was very excited when she used the “BABAM!!” in the demonstration of the concept.

Now we just have to put them together. ALthough I think getting the final address list together is going to be the harder part. I have mine all done