Wedding Photos

Today I am going to highlight some blogs/web pages that have some fun and creative ideas for weddings, and then add some ideas of my own :)

This blog has some great wedding photos... they seem light and breezy, with vibrant colors. If you are getting married in San Diego, keep them in mind!

Here is an Organic Chocolate Wedding Cake... pretty interesting, and a nice change of pace from the typical buttercream cake!

Here is an environmentally good way of registering for [recycled] dishes.... someone on Etsy takes old plates and adds to them to make them funky and elegant to use as your current dish set!

This is a SUPER cute idea for your wedding party, and/or special friends who come to your wedding and plan on partying hardcore! You could do a variation for each table at the reception too!

I've got an idea for themed weddings: drinks! Now, before you say, "there goes abby, thinking about drinking again!", here me out! You could have a Coffee Wedding, a Chai Wedding, a Coca Cola Wedding... do you have an obsession with Dunkin Donuts Coffee? Give each guest enough to brew a pot the next morning, along with a mug, or flavored cream! Some people collect Coca Cola memorabilia, and you could give each guess a small glass bottle of the pop, so they can enjoy the beverage, and keep a piece of the wedding. You could wrap tea bags and a honey stick with cloth or ribbon as favors. Each table could have a different roast, or flavor name, instead of just numbers... there are so many ideas!!!

Any more ideas? There are so many possibilities to the "Drink" themed weddings. And a great part is it depends on each couple, so its so personalized!

Dumpster diving night 2:

A couple nights later (see last post) we went out again and found some more gold! (not actual gold mind you...)

Findings:
MP3 player
T9 Graphing Calculator
2 containers of laundry soap
2 large (new) rubbermaid trashcans (which we desperately needed!)
new fabric
a CUTE brown couch with wooden carved legs,
5 Boxes un-opened animal crackers
and so much more I cant even remember it all!

Photo From:
Google image search: dumpster diving... its eerily familiar!

Gilmore Girls update:
Season 7, Episode 17 (5MORE TO GO!)
This episode will NOT load!!! I am getting desperate!
Lorelai and Christopher: split up (forever I hope!)
Rori and Logan: arguing, but they've done that before...
Lane: about to BURST with twins!
Luke: still in love with Lorelai, but may not know it.....

I promise to write about something else besides dumpsters and GG soon, but right now, its a major part of my life! :)

Dumpster Diving!!!

Tuesday night Ryan, Austin, Josh and I went dumpster diving around Kent. People's leases are up today so they are moving out so that new students can move in. As a result, students are throwing EVERYTHING out! Some of the things we got:

Beautiful IKEA bookshelf
Two vacuums (one working, one... not so much)
A reclining couch
A bar with leather accents
A FULL bottle of rasberry vodka
A barely burnt candle
Cleaning products (Fabreez, 409, Windex)
A fancy office chair
A aerobed.. no holes!
A nice arm chair
Rubermaid container on wheels as tall as me!
3 nice rugs
A brand new mop bucket
Couple lamps
A nice dresser

And maybe more... I cant remember it all... Its so amazing what we found, and a sad reminder of how wasteful so many people are! All of that stuff listed above would have ended up in a landfill for hundreds of years... and maybe it still will one day, but at least for a while we kept it all out.

Isle Runners and GG

New found lovely blog! Look at the colors of the flowers
and the beautiful cake. I think the isle decorations are my favorite!

(pictures from blog mentioned above)

Update on GG: I'm in season 6, episode 3.
Luke and Lorelia: Still together!
Rori: Still living in Pool House!
Dragonfly Inn: One kitchen fire.
I'm lovin' it!

Tonight Ryan, Jamie and I are traveling to Pittsburgh to help Jamie in moving her stuff from Kent back to PA. Despite the nasty Steelers, Pittsburgh is a pretty sweet town... GO BROWNS! hehe

GG!!!!

So this summer I was able to watch LOST in it's entirety, and I was HOOKED! I cant wait 'till the next season starts! So after I finished that, I thought, well, what's the next series I can watch in it's entirety?! And, probably because its so popular with Allison, Bekah, Tabitha, Shanna and Jamie, I picked The Gilmore Girls.

I've made it to season five, and I was ELATED when Lorelai and Luke finally got together... but now, he told her he needed time to think, and she is in bed crying, and stupid Taylor is selling ribbons, and oh my, its all just falling apart! This is what it's like now:

I think it will get better, but how?!?!

I love this show... but what should I watch when I finish all those seasons? ;)

e.e. cummings

Yesterday my sister Bekah reminded me of one of our favorite poems by e.e. cummings.
It's titled: I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart). I don't know why, but we can't read it without crying. In fact, I don't thing that either of us completely understand even what it means, but the second we discovered it, it meant something to us. Here it is in it's entirety:

i carry your heart with me(i carry it in
my heart) i am never without it(anywhere
i go you go, my dear and whatever is done
by only me is your doing, my darling)
i fear
not fate(for you are my fate, my sweet)i want
no world(for beautiful you are my world, my true)
and its you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you

here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which grows
higher than the soul can hope or the mind can hide)
and this is the wonder thats keeping the stars apart

i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart)

My favorite part is this: "(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which grows
higher than the soul can hope or the mind can hide)"
When that part is read aloud it is like music to the ears... it's such fluid poetry, and so descriptive and pleasing to the senses.

Greeting Cards

Last week I was able to make some greeting cards to give to Jamie for her birthday.

This is Jamie:

She works for the CCO and because of the nature of her job, she writes more notes/thank-yous than most of us :)

Here is a sampling of the cards:

I am thinking of making sets to sell on etsy.... we'll see.

Oh, Bridget also helped with the designs because she is just so crafty!!!!

This is "Bridge":

(Bridget will be moving into the house I live in next month and I am just SO excited!!!!!)