Monthly Archives: January 2008

All is not lost! I just realized that the price tag I had paired with my dream china is actually for the pattern to the left. The $465 Voiles by Puiforcat isn’t what I like at all. Now I just have to track down the real price for that china pattern. Keep your fingers crossed…

Has anyone used Felicite.com to manage their wedding registry? Supposedly, they let you combine your gift registries from different merchants into one online list. It’s all free, except for a 5% fee they take on cash gifts. Good idea? Bad experience? Where did you register?

My vision for the wedding invitations is pretty well sketched out now. I sent this “proof of concept” mock-up to Jordan and she gave it the go-ahead. It’s really rough, so now I’ll need to go back and work out the details for the final version. The text has to be written, fonts need adjusting,…

Rob and I were pretty active with the 2004 election. We walked precincts and got out the vote. I was chair of voter registration at one point and we painted the headquarter office one weekend…and the none of our candidates won and we got a little discouraged. So, I was nervous about volunteering tonight at…

Ugg…Job interviews are so stressful. Picking out what to wear just adds another nuisance to the whole process. Here is Katherine’s request: I’m a newly married graduate student finishing up my last semester before it’s time to get a big girl job. Being both newly married and a graduate student, clothing is not priority when…

I decided to make french onion soup last night in between laundromat trips. My grandmother loved this soup and I had it almost everyday during the last trip to Paris. Step one is to thinly slice four red onions and four leeks. Wearing swim goggles during this step looks totally ridiculous…but then so does getting…

I just mailed the lace sheath of my antique wedding dress down to Los Angeles for cleaning. Tracy was nice enough to take the satin lining out this weekend for me so it could be sent off. Dropping it off at the post office felt like sending a friend into surgery. I’m so nervous about…

Operation girlie weekend was supposed to launch on Friday night. But we got roped into watching Rambo with co-workers. The payback for last weekend’s country fried road trip to Weaverville started on Saturday morning instead! Two days to subject Rob to all my favorite girlie activities. First on the agenda: Gump’s! We took the subway…

When will it stop raining? I’m getting tired of bundling up like an eskimo. And since I haven’t been motivated to do my daily walk to the grocery store, we’ve been stuck eating bean tacos. Here’s what I learned this week: Designing my own wedding invitations is going better than I thought it would. The…

It is so stormy and cold this week! As a California girl used to mild winters, I’m struggling with how to look cute and stay warm. My latest trick has been to throw a turtleneck under a dress with opaque tights. Here is Carla’s request: I really enjoy reading your blog–you do everything with such…