So close and so far...

Ten more minutes. Just ten more minutes and I can pack up and go home with a clear conscience.

[staring wide-eyed at the clock]

Crafty like a fox

Not half bad for my first time making a hairpiece of this type. Or any type, for that matter. Imma feelin' pretty proud.

p.s. Please excuse the mess, it was the only room with sufficiently good lighting.

Happy Birthday to me!!!

Celebrated my birthday yesterday with wedding invitation assembling and lots of good food. Yum, filet mignon....

Photo Friday -- Random Swissness

I know it's not the greatest picture I've ever taken, but I happen to be rather fond of that tiny flower. Sandwiched between the pages of an old LonelyPlanet guidebook, I picked it walking from Interlaken to Wilderswil (that's in Switzerland, just so you know). Wilderswil is one of several of my most favorite places in the world; I have fond memories of church camp at the Credo and climbing around the Unspunnen ruins. This flower is from a trip I took alone when I was studying abroad.

Domesticity is getting closer...

Only 79 days until the wedding!

I merely need to help finish the invitations, find a place to live, find accessories and shoes for my bridesmaids, pack, go to Hong Kong...

Whew. Who knew that wedding planning would involve travelling to a different country and back?

Moving and Scrapbooking

Okay, so I'd taken it into my head several weeks back that in order to make my life easier when moving out of my current home into the new one that we still have not found (W and I will be apartment hunting this weekend), that it would be easier to move some sentimental things if I scrapbooked them first. That way, instead of transporting boxes of loose pieces of paper and photos, I could just transport a few scrapbooks. Clever, right?

Someone please remind me why I thought it was a good idea to embark upon this project while trying to plan a wedding??????!

Anyway, last week I ordered some new page protectors in order to finish one scrapbook I had already started and the order arrived yesterday. They're the wrong page protectors. Sigh. At first I thought that this was my own error since I'm fairly new to the scrapbooking thing and I'd been lazy and ordered online instead of going in to a craft store and making sure I was buying what I wanted, but I double-checked my order and it was not me but Target that got it wrong. My order says postbound and they sent me three ring binder. So my pages don't fit in the album. [frown]

Oh well, at least I can return them to the store and don't have to pay shipping.

Mall living

I've noticed that the perks of working in an office building located in the middle of a mall/shopping center are often accompanied by quite a few drawbacks (most commonly: soccer moms in outfits meant for trailerpark teens or a hard-core rap video). Today a young mother walked through the foodcourt as a ate lunch and I found myself thinking: that's not a shirt, that's a fancy border around someone's cleveage vaguely pretending to be a shirt.

On the bright side, I was able to get some necessary shopping done without having to make an extra trip outside my workday. Always a plus for someone like me who hates to shop for anything apart from shoes.