Photographic Expressions

I’m losing count how many times Christmas has come this year, but I’m lovin’ it! 

I just recently received my 10×10 luscious, KISS coffeetable book.  I revamped Krista’s layout and sent it out to Cali/Utah to have it oh so lovingly assembled in this 100% leather bound album. Check out the packaging! Cute! Love the detail, so impressed with the quality and I’m proud to offer this album to all of my brides. Comes in your choice of seven colors and 3 sizes from 8×8 to 12×12. 

Go on and enjoy, you know you want to!

~C

Another chapter in our lives is closing. My husband and I have decided to pack it up in the mountains of Jasper and head for warmer climate. No, unfortunately we are not headed to Key West but rather to my old stomping grounds of Bolingbroke, aka B Town. At one point it was a metropolis of 400 but I do believe it has grown to 650, people that is, this is not counting cows or horses. Ok, I’ll spare you a trip to Google to find out where this beautiful and exotic locale is, just 10 minutes north of Macon aka Maconga. Yes, it seems that we have a lot of nicknames for this region, something I guess we resorted to out of boredom. Let’s not forget Fox City, aka Forsyth. 

Though I’m very excited about the selling the house process, house hunting (my fav show on HGTV) and change of scenery, I really really hated to paint my office. When Josh and I first bought the house the downstairs was framed out but that was it. It became a bit cold, storage area that we never used until one summer I somehow convinced my husband to go big and renovate!!! So now I’m sitting in my custom designed office that is so me! Until I had to paint over my inspirational quotes. Though I know the prospective buyers won’t appreciate a liberal feminist going crazy on the walls, I can’t imagine anyone disagreeing with Eleanor Roosevelt. 

So…though my office is back to gray, my quotes will forever live on in my hard drive and on this blog   : )

~C

Any given evening, I love nothing more than to curl up on the couch with my hubby, weighed down by big, sprawling blankets and veg out watching a movie. Yeah, that’s how high maintenance I am. We might have the large, interlocking, wedding ring quilt out or a few of our fleece blankets that Levi loves to claim as his own or even the more intricate Firefighter blanket. I learned a few years ago that I have a thing for blankets. Not just any blanket that you can buy at Walmart (though I’m sure mine did generate from) but all of my pieces have a memory, a bit of history attached to them. From the green, bear quilt that my dad gave me as a baby to the alma mater blankets from high school and college.

So it only made sense to bring a bit of my blanket love to personalize my wedding. Rather than signing a mat surrounding an engagement picture or a platter, I spent countless hours at the quilt shop in Blue Ridge working with ladies on the perfect fabric, the right pens and designs for our ‘wedding quilt.’ 

Well twenty one months later, I have a completed quilt. I cheated a bit and had Wendy with Four Seasons Quilt Shoppe quilt it for me because I’ll be the first to admit that though I can sew, I can’t even imagine starting on this project. I’m so excited with the outcome!! It was so great to go back and read all the well wishes and advice from our friends and family. In the bottom corner Wendy was able to incorporate a piece of my sash that I wore on my dress with my initials and both of my late grandmother’s initials embroidered. I absolutely love it, glad to have a finished product so that pieces weren’t laying around the house for years to come. 

So for those brides out there, don’t fear to venture out and really personalize your wedding. It will mean so much in the end. 

~C