March 29th, 2012

What a long day...and not in a good way!  Andy's been away in London for two days so I've been on my own, which I've not enjoyed as much as you'd think!  I like a bit of time to myself sometimes but I hate being on my own in the evenings, cooking for one, makes me thankfully that I've got someone to cook for/with! 

Someone who, in 6 months from today, I'll be married to!  6 months!  That's really not time at all is it?  It's going to fly by I'm sure, only feels like two minutes since we booked it, I'm sure we'll be sat looking at the photos of the day before we know it!  We're all organised too, got my best friend and Maid of Honour coming to stay this weekend to do some dress shopping (for her!) and that's the last big thing to sort...I told you this wedding planning thing was easy!!

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March 8th, 2012

Good, good day!!  Apart from getting a decent pile of sewing done I FINALLY got our wedding invitations done!  Written, in envelopes, addressed, stamped...you name it, it's done!  Still a few evening invites to write (bit of a cock up with the printing so need some more, can only blame myself as the mistake was on the sample and I still approved it!) but apart from that they're done and I can't tell you how relieved I feel!

I didn't realise how bothered I was about the invites until a few weeks ago when I started having dreams that it's the day before the wedding and I still haven't sent them...clearly it was on my mind!

Just got to remember to post them!!!

February 24th, 2012

So today I discovered Pinterest...someone's going to have to explain it to me though!  My understanding is that it's basically an online pin board/mood board where you can upload pics of your favourite things and places and things that inspire you...which is great but I'm not entirely sure what happens after that?!  Do you "follow" or "like" a board so you can keep up to date with it?  Not a clue, but when I do get to grips with it one of my first pics will be this -

As someone with a fairly serious button fetish these are just a dream to me!  Really want to have a go at some of these (need to do something with the millions of buttons upstairs!) and don't tell Andy but I've still not ruled these out for the wedding, I just love them!

The biggest Well Done to whoever made them - they are fantastic!

February 16th, 2012

What a day!  Mum came down on the train this morning and, armed with the Sat Nav, we set about wedding dress shopping.  Tried a few more on but I'm absolutely certain I know which one I want, typically it's the first one I loved in the first shop!

As Andy will vouch for, things with me and my Mum never go smoothly, our lives are like one long comedy routine, only it's only funny for everyone else!  And today was no exception.  Having raced back to Manchester Piccadilly, almost killing us twice, my Mum missed her train home to the north east by the skin of her teeth.  She was quite happy to wait an hour for the next one but there's no way on this earth I was leaving my lovely Mum sitting in that station, alone, to then do her journey, so we jumped in the car and I drove her back as far as Scotch Corner...she isn't waiting around on my watch!

So my less than an hour return trip to drop her at the station turned into a 5 and a half hour one, the things you do for your Mum!!!

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February 15th, 2012

With Round 2 of wedding dress shopping starting tomorrow I thought I'd let you all know how Operation Bride & Groom (our plan to lose weight) is going.  This about sums it up:

We're just rubbish!  My excuse for Mars Bar ice creams?  I bought Healthy Choice garlic bread which has 50% less fat, therefore these are free calories because we would have eaten them in the bread anyway.  That is the mentality we're going at this with!!

I'm sure once the clocks change we'll be much better as we'll be more inclined to go out for walks on an evening rather than closing the curtains and eating...that's the hope anyway!!

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February 14th, 2012

Happy Valentine's Day everyone, hope you've all had wonderfully loved up days and have been suitably spoiled!

Very quite Valentine's for Andy and me, to his credit I do usually get a pressie, and always a bouquet delivered to my art room when I was studying away if Valentine's fell during the week, but in The Year of the Wedding we've been very sensible and not spent money on flowers that will die and chocolates that won't see tomorrow! 

So I spent this evening doing the most loved-up task I could think of, and set about writing batch 1 of the wedding invitations!!  (The pic isn't brilliant but I don't want anyone really seeing what they're getting yet!)

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February 11th, 2012

Such an exciting day today!!  A couple of weeks ago Andy and I went to a wedding fair and ended up booking an appointment with a Savile Row bespoke suit tailor.  Today we went to the appointment and we're going ahead with the order!

I honestly can't tell you how at  home I was there, at first the lovely man didn't know what I do for a living so he was talking to us about the importance of not only the pieces being handmade, but the detail too, how every button hole is cut and sewn by hand...he was wonderful!  Of course this won't be coming cheap but Andy is coming away from this with a beautiful, made-to-measure, handmade suit which will last a lifetime, and you can't put a price on that!

On a side-note, while we were there the man did ask what I do, and I told him.  I had one of my own bags with me (obviously) and he asked to look at it....ohhh the pressure!  I reluctantly handed it over - I put a hell of a lot of time into my work but Savile Row it isn't! - but I'm relieved and proud to say that he absolutely loved it, which was quite a pat on the back for me!

Very good day!!!

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January 29th, 2012

How on earth is it Sunday night already?!  I'm sure I was only just celebrating the fact it was Friday!!  Oh well!

Lovely weekend, finally got to see one of my bags in the press yesterday, and today it featured somewhere else, this time in http://www.themodernblog.com/ - see!

Again it's just crazy to see my "brand" next to names like Monsoon and Accessorize but it's certainly something I could get used to!!

In other news, 8 months to go until the wedding!!  Went over to the Wedding Fayre at Tatton Park today just to get a few ideas, we're actually so far along with the organising that the wedding fayres aren't that much help as we already have the venue, photographer, stationary, cake etc but it great to see things 'in the flesh' when so much of our research has been done based on photographs.

All in all a good weekend, here's looking forward to another productive week!

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January 15th, 2012

I think this pic pretty much sums up my weekend!

Lots of ideas and planning sorted this weekend, it all seems to be coming together quite nicely!

They say that planning a wedding is one of the most stressful things a person can do....I can only assume that those people are doing it wrong because I'm loving every single minute of it! I think it's the Monica-from-Friends in me, any excuse to start a new file!!

Back to work tomorrow - hope you've all had a fab weekend!

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My New Year Resolution

I am, officially, the worst blogger ever.  EVER!  I have every good intention of doing it but I just never do, and I don't know why!  So, to that end, I have come up with a solution...

2012 promises to be a pretty big year for me, I'll be continuing to grow my business and am currently expanding my product ranges, but more importantly (for me, anyway!) 2012 is the year I'll be getting married.  So in what will be such a big year for me I've decided to take up the challenge of documenting it by taking a photo every single day, as a record of my business, wedding preperations and the big day itself.

AND I'LL BLOG THE WHOLE LOT!! 

I admit to having quite a strong OCD streak in me, so I know that if I start with January 1st, 2012 and continue, I won't be able to sleep if I miss one, so I HAVE to do it!  Desperate times call for desperate measures, hopefully it'll work!

Wish me luck!

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