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I'm not sure what to title this post since it's not

really about anything in peticular.

I'm trying to plan a honeymoon.

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I know NOTHING about travel.

I know I should hire a travel agent, but that involves

finding one.  Did I mention I live in a small town?

Very small.

Hard to find anything.

Also, in this whole process of getting married,

finishing college,

getting a full time job,

and growing up,

I've realized theres a lot to do.

And a lot I want to do.

Like make reusable snack bags for future hubby.

and reusable stretchy bowl covers.

and make washable swiffer covers.

and a home organization wall.

and homemade laundry detergent.

and everything reusable cause I'm cheap and

I want to save money.

Sometimes my brain is just so full of things I want to do

that I can't seem to actually do any of them.

Like right now.

And with everything that has to do with the wedding.
I don't even know where to start.

Poop.

Hope you guys have a good day :)

These are a few of my favorite things...

Hey everyone!!

So, this is NOT a wedding post.

Whaaatttt??

I know, I do have a life other

than planning, blogging, and pinning

ideas about and for my wedding.

This post, is about my new FAVORITE etsy shop.

I'm sure I'm a bit late on this since they seem very

popular.  But anyways, here it is...

alissa jacobs

I know its bad quality, but thats the only size.  I could get it.
I take no credit for this photo.

This shop is amazing. 

I would post pictures of my favorites but

it would be about 50 pages long.

They have shopping list organizers, that also fit kindles, yay!

Reallllly cute bridesmaids gifts.

Ipad cases.

Card holders.

Amazinggg fabric choices. Where can I find

some of those prints and patterns??

Did I say they have AMAZING fabric choices?

I mean seriously, go check it out.
The picture is a link, so click and look at all the

amazingness.

And the poppies on the clutches are soooooooooo

cute :)

Also, a little update on my life outside the wedding planning...

I am finishing up the semester at both my schools.

Sociology at the local community college and my full time

Private Medical Assisting school. I say "private" lightly...

I'll be starting my internship soon at an OBGYN office.

YAY, I love babies and pregnancy, I think it's amazing.

One of the doctors there actually

delivered me, it's a smalll world.

So I'm super hopeful this might turn into a job :)

I have been unemployed and my awesome parents

have been helping me out, aka supporting me financially,

since I'm going to school. I can't wait until I'm

financially independent again.

I get to apply to nursing school in May.

this is the first year I am able to apply and I'm SOO excited

to get the ball rolling on my future.

It's taken ALOT of hard work to get here, if

I could do it all over again I would go out of state

and get my nursing degree.

California has such a screwed up and complicated system.

Also, future hubby and I are on the hunt for a perfect house.

We won't be moving in together until

after the wedding and honeymoon, but

we want to have it all ready, moved in, and painted

before the wedding.  And since it takes FOREVER

to but a house these days, we want to get started soon.

Things are just working out so well

right now and I feel so blessed to have  

found such an amazing man.

Anyways, I'll talk to you guys soon.

Have an amazing day :)



Life Changes

So, I'm pretty sure a couple months ago I mentioned

how I got pretty sick with some digestive problems and

stomach problems?

This resulted in a trip to the ER and

a really miserable Thanksgiving...anyways,

every since then, I've been enjoying suffering through

a wheat free diet.

I don't enjoy it, in fact, I hate it. I love food.

I love pizza, pasta, all things italian, and cake.

Well, I don't feel that much better...WTH!!

So at this point, I'm seriously considering going with a

completely gluten free diet.

YUCK. But anyways, I wish I had some followers to

give me some feeback on their gluten free lifestyles...



New DIY soon :)

Hey everyone!!!

So I'm actually starting to pin point exactly

what I'm going for on my wedding day.

I know it's a whole year away, but since I want to

DIY alot of the decoration and accessories,

a year will barely be enough time. hehe.

So, we have a venue!!!

Union Hill Inn!!!



Click picture for Union Hills Website. Click
HERE for the blog that it was featured on!



Also, I picked out my colors!!!

I will be using royal blue and bright green!! Check out

my centerpiece picture below for the green

I plan on using. Here's a picture of the blue.

PS...I also want this as the flower girl dress.
{from giselleboutique} picture is a link.

Also, I've decided on chalkboard mason jars as escort cards

and as their favor to take home. DIY!! But no paper tag, just a nice

pretty piece of chalk.

My centerpieces! Which I will DIY nearly for free!!

I have manzanita in my front yard and the venue comes with

large mason jars for the base!! Also, I found an AMAZING wholesale

wedding website where I can get 200 rhinestones

for 8 bucks. When I do the tutorial I'll put the link up for you guys.

Instead of individual programs, I want to make

something like this for the outside of the

chapel. 

The program can sit on the drink table that will be outside the chapel!

The wedding is in June, so it may be hot and

we don't want anyone too thirsty :)  The venue also comes with

tons of drink dispensers like this.

Instead of having a guestbook, or in addition too, I

LOVEEE the idea of a thumbprint tree.

Especially since our centerpieces are trees...I sense a theme here...

also, another DIY. My mom is an amazing artist,

I'm sure a tree would be a piece of cake for her to draw.

Also, NO individual dinner menus. Those can get very pricy and are so

unneccesary.  And since my venue comes with a HUGE chalkboard that

looks very similar to this (did I mention I love my venue?!) I will be putting the menu

on this :) For all to see. Maybe on the guestbook table? Idk yet.

Okay, enough of the pictures.  Since I pretty much am on track

with where I should be in the planning process, I think

I need to start focusing on the little things.

Such as the engagement party (which my MIL is throwing),

the engagement photo shoot with our AMAZING photographer,

and creating decorations/photo props for the party and shoot.

I also am going to use an amazing idea to ask my

bridesmaids to be in the wedding :) 

Ring pop..to pop the question. AMAZING. I'm so excited to do this.

I'm using an amazing website, theknot.com, to help me with

inspiration, planning timeline, and vendors.

I need some followers, so spread the word people!!!

Have a great day, talk to you all soon!!



The Little Things

I think the little things are what matter in a wedding.  Here are a few little things

that I plan on doing myself or purchasing:

The custom hangers...from lilafrances

The Chair Signs...from braggingbags

The bird cage for cards...from Southbury Treasures

The Little Chalkboards...also from braggingbags

Other things I can't find pictures of..

Custom Bridesmaids gift bags, with fun stuff inside

DIY tissue paper pompoms

ruffled table runners

so many ideas..and only a little over a year until the day!!

I plan on using chalboard mason jars as their favor and as

their place cards. Two birds with one stone!!

I'm also going to DIY a fingerprint tree as part of the guest book.

I just LOVE that idea.

I want the letters of our soon-to-be same last name :)) wrapped in twine.

mason jars with tea lights hanging from the trees

TONS of banners

lots of signs.

It's all in the details people. And all along the way, I'll

be posting tutorials for everything I make.

So JOIN me on my road to the isle :)

oh...btw, every picture is a link the etsy store it came from :)

So excited!!

We're goin to the chapel...

next summer!!  Hopefully the begging of June, depending on

if the venue we want is available or not.

I live in a very small town and there aren't many choices...

especially since I have my heart set on an old barn :)

So this place...

Will hopefully be my venue!! I am just in love with it.

I have an appt on friday for a tour. I know it's more than a

year in advance, but it's a very popular place.

My head is already spinning with so many

ideas. It isn't even funny.

For the most part, I'm just trying to figure out colors and

the general theme I'm going with.

So far I love peacock feather colors. But

the main focus I want is burlap and mason jars.

And classic for me is sparkles. So it needs

to be done right for it to look like it goes together.

Here's some of my inspiration, hope you enjoy :)

Classy and rustic

Can totally DIY that whole centerpiece

colors. mostly just the blue.

colors again...

If I could just change the light blue to dark blue
it would be perfect. Everything I want
at my wedding.

This centerpiece to, can easily do it myself.

Engagement. Love it.

Lights!!

chalkboard!!

Mason jars, twine, and burlap. Yes please.

Obsesses with mini foods.

Thank you cards!!

Love the tissue paper balls
not so much the colors

All this pre-wedding planning has taken me away from my

school work...Uh oh...

Got to finish school if I want to be able

to live comfortably with my soon to be hubby ;)

So for today, that is all.

Thanks for reading!!



Update and some BIG news!

So I actually did have the flu.

I got sick that night and was down for about 3 days.

Apparently it's going around my town.

Yuck. Gross.

Along with being sick, it brought another

health problem to my attention.

It never seems to end.

Hopefully I will get everything taken care of before to long.

It's like my life doesn't want me to do p90x right now because the next day....

I GOT ENGAGED!!!

I'm so excited and such a happy girl.

I get to marry my best friend.

I couldn't ask for more.

So the next two days after that were celebrating and telling the family...

which unfortunately didn't leave much time to work out. Excuses, excuses, I know.

But I don't care right now.

Obviously I'm still continuing my healthy eating habits, with a new restricting of dairy food.

Apparently it's causing a severe reaction in my stomach

causing me to have acid reflux which in turn is making

my stomach bleed.

Fun right??

So as of right now I'm not eating dairy or wheat.  It's HARD.

But I will do it to feel better.

I am already having so much fun beginning to plan this wedding.

I'll probably blog about it all the time.

Hopefully more people will read so I can get

awesome suggestions from other amazing DIY bloggers.

Did I mention I'm having a DIY wedding??

SO EXCITED!!