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Looking for map fabric to use as backing a piece of foam board for the seating chart sign. I'm torn between these two:
This one:
http://www.jandofabrics.com/proddetail.asp?prod=map00026
And this one:
http://www.jandofabrics.com/proddetail.asp?prod=map00042

I kinda like the medieval Maps because its..well.medieval maps. But the other one has a bit more color.
Oppinions?

In other News..I am so tempted to buy this fabric and make myself a little summer dress of some sort. My Overies are making me think this way...
http://cgi.ebay.com/Michael-Miller-Quilt-Pirates-Skulls-Sage-buy-the-yard_W0QQitemZ150297677394QQcmdZViewItem

I got home last night from the bridal shower of Dooooooom(tm).
Holy Crap....I got a LOT of gifts. O.o
I could only pack maybe 5 in my gigantor suitcase. Leelee and Ryan are going to drive the rest down when they come to the wedding. This is a good thing. It gives me time to go through the house and put a truck load of things into storage so we will have room for all our new stuff.
We ended up getting a TON of kitchen things..expensive kitchen things!
Max got a saugage stuffer and he is very happy...you can take that ANY way you like....Roy...Jen...Patrick...Stacy...Capt'n....everyone else on my friends list...
Anyways, I had a BLAST going home for the weekend. I got to play with my adorable and incredibly handsome nephew. He gets cuter and CUTER every time I see him! He likes to grunt like a bear and giggle a LOT. He doesn't cry when I hold him now and he loves to flirt with me with his little smiles... LOVE HIIIIIIIIIM!
I have a ton of photos of the shower thanks to Julie and hopefully I will be posting those AND the photos from my first Shower that Ty threw me as well in the next couple of days. So behind on all of that. OY!

So...the agenda for this week...because I KNOW you're all chomping at the bit for this.:
Buy Thank You Notes and start making those out
Start making Wedding cake topper (heehee..mini treasure chest)
Work on Wedding program
Bug the Hilton until I hear back from them. (Get to be relentless..I'm good at that)
Bug the officient until I get ceremonies to read though (She's good at getting back to me)
Work with Max on wedding licence stuffage
fax deposit info to Bucas
Buy storage boxes...a lot of them
Vaccume Apartment
Clean apartment too because it really is gross these days
Pet kitty

On a refreshingly different note...sketch commissions are almost done. YAY! I will hopefully be posting up what I have done by next week sometime. Sorry I've been dragging my heels on these. Life has been hectic. The GOOD part is I managed to get some down time/sketch time in while I was home for the shower.


The weather is cooling down..this means we can FINALLY TURN OFF THE FREAKIN FANS WE HAD RUNNING SINCE JUNE!!! SO excited about this! Its the little things that make me happy.

Kinda on a slight coffee high.
One of the SSRs went and got me a latte and I DOWNED that sucker in record time. Now I am awake...REALLY awake.
Last night was pretty cool overall. They did manage to let me free for a little while so I was able to snap some photos of the event which was fun. The only things that kinda sucked were a-Getting chained to the front desk and having to sit and do nothing for a LOOOOOONG while (hence the LJ post made while at a black tie event. Which only shows that I'm kinda trashy. O.o) and b- the complete lack of comunication and organizations for us VSRs/Volunteers. For example; I should have been moved to another area half way through the front desk shift but the coordinators completely forgot I was there. At least I was inside. One of our girls was stuck outside in the wind, sick as a dog, and wearing a tiny cocktail dress. They remembered her about 30 minutes before the end of the night. Unfortunately though that was the nature of the beast since they were EXTREMELY short handed this year for volunteers.
I am seriously considering talking to the events people about getting a volunteer coordinator for the event. Someone who strictly deals and communicates with the volunteers, fills them in on their jobs, and is the go to person for them. Its such a HUGE event that all the supervisors (Membership, Events, Accounting, etc...) are so busy trying to get everything going smooth on their end that they forget that the lower people on the totem pole haven't been in on the months of planning they have been. I'm also willing to take this job on. Hopefully it will be a positive response when I bring it up. I really think having a volunteer go to person will be a BIG help to keep the night running smoothly.
But our staff is smart and have have great poker faces. The guests had no clue about some of the chaos behind the scenes (credit card machines busting, Volunteers completely lost, misplaced...everything) I am really proud to be part of a staff that just knows how to handle crisis in a calm, quick, and controlled manner. They ran a beautiful event that everyone enjoyed, even us VSRs who were kinda clueless. We made our own fun and I had a blast chatting to some of the high mucky mucks, wandering about....oh and I got a lot of desert...that makes any night pretty awesome.

Working Down Town today. BTW, anyone who is in SD or is visiting SD in the next few months, DEFINITELY come see the exhibit in our Downtown location: Human/Nature: Artists Respond to a Changing Planet. I had an opportunity to check it out today. Its really beautiful and extremely facinating. We haven't been getting a lot of attendance for our Down Town locations lately so I'm really trying to get people to see this. I think its worth the ticket price, especially if you come during a free tour time.
Also..ages 25 and Under get into the museum for free...so..*hint hint young people and families*
Of course this exhibit has one room dedicated to sounds of the jungle/rainforest/wildlife...and its so relaxing I find myself completely zoning out. O.o

My bridal shower my mom and leelee are throwing for me is this Saturday. WOO! I'll be heading up to No. Cal on Thursday and staying the whole weekend (Coming home on Sunday). I'm so stoked! And I need to find something to wear that fits and doesn't look like a cat slept on it.

I really want to get started on putting together some steampunk stuff. I was inspired by these boots I bought myself:
http://www.cathyjeanshoes.com/9256.html
These boots...are teh sex. They're really fabulous and very comfy. I also found out they come in brown so I may need to order a brown pair in the future. So now I have one piece to build off of. I'm using the boots as a jumping point for costume ideas. I have a few. The thing I lack is time and energy. Well hopefully soon.
Oooh..I should put together an outfit for my shower that goes with those boots...*muses*

Photo dump to come soon hopefully.

Finally desided to post a few of these.
Ty aka rogue_78 took these great photos of me and Max about...holy crap was it really two years ago? Wow.O.o
Anyways, she did an amazing job on these and I took way too long to show them off. These are my favorites. Or most of my favorites. She took a ton and I LOVED a ton but I thought it best to only torture with a few. ;)

I think this one is my absolute favorite. I have it framed in our place.


( Engagement_Photo_Goodness )

Ugh..I am So ANTSY this morning.
I kinda want to be anywhere but work right now. No reason, just have other things I want/need to do.
Ah well, least I like the job and I'm getting paid.

Another busy weekend ahead of me. Trying to get LOTS of wedding stuff done and out of the way. And I'd like to attempt sewing if possible. Sleep would also be nice to get if possible. There are a LOT of things I'd like to do if possible!


Stuff to do. STUFF TO DO!
-Call Buccas
-Call Florist...again.
-Cake tasting...again...on Saturday...long story.
-Final payment due to photographer.
-Buy aquasafe for poor fishies
-change poor fishies tanks
-Buy labels for invites
-buy stamps for invites
-start addressing invites.O.o
-attempt to make doctors and destist appointments


I'm still doing the $5 sketch special for anyone who's interrested! It will just be simple non background character sketches. $1 extra for each additional character in the sketch.
Trying to get a little mad money saved for my honeymoon.:)

It would be kinda nice to blog about something exciting for a change *L*. Ah well, tis life and the way of the universe!

Thanks everyone for both the advice and for volunteering. I really appreciate it and it's taken a load off my mind.:)


Mark, Kettil, Jen (offering her sprogs), and Trish Thank you SO much for offering! I will be insanely grateful if you could help set up during cocktail hour. I'll talk to the hotel about when you guys can sneak in if you're still up to it!

I feel a LOT better. Most of the anxiety is gone now. :)

Okay, another thing for me to lust over.
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=13868575
My hair is long again...I desire hairsticks of this nature.
Esty...its a dangerous place.


Kinda dreading this Thursday since I have to venture over to JT to drop off costumes from the show that will not go away. Unfortunately two of these items went missing so I'll probably have to shell out money for them. Ugh. I'm kinda annoyed. But I'm thinking of it like pulling off a bandaid. As soon as its overwith I no longer have to deal with them ever again...and I will dance the dance of joy.

I bought a mountain bike from one of my co-workers. She is going to Europe for a few months and wanted to get rid of things she didn't use anymore. Its a GREAT high end bike that she gave me for a steal! Going biking with Max this Thursday after my JT appointment of doom. Yay Bike riding!!!


I REALLY want to get some sewing done. Thinking of slamming some garb together for the heck of it since I have some nice looking yellow fabric. Its screaming Medieval gown at me loudly. Capt'n's girlfriend Rebekka is in need of some garb for September war. I hopefully will be putting some stuff together for her this weekend. I need me's a project! I'm going a bit nutzoid without one.
Bought a cute vest pattern to make me a vest or two. Its a trend I always loved and now that vests are back in style I'm so making one or two...possibly in some form of tweed or what ever I happen to have around.
I found out my sexy fits-me-like-a-glove steampunk vest I made last halloween is now way too big for me. I am both happy and sad about this. That was a dang cute vest I made, damnit! But Hell, I lost me some inches!

Tonight Ty and I go for our next fitting for bridal stuffage. VERY excited to see how the dress looks so far! The seamstress made slevecaps for the dress and I'm really curious what they're going to look like. I really am not a fan of strapless on myself. I always looks top heavy. So hopefully the sleevecaps will solve that problem.

SO EXCITED!!!

Hopefully the invites will be done by next week *Crosses fingers* I'm so behind on sending them out. :/

Wedding shower on Saturday..Holy Cow! So Stoked to see mah Maiden Ladies! And others as well! AND we get yummy creole food at Creole Cafe. YAY CREOLE!!!
Still need to get my plane ticket for the shower my mom and Leelee are throwing for me in No Cal. Just requested the day off for that weekend.

Wow..still so much to do!

My two bosses desided to throw a wedding shower for me in September at the museum.

I feel special. :)

Well it was a productive weekend at least. Pretty productive for staying home the entire time.
Wedding stuff accomplished!
Booked Quartet - CHECK!
Got Invites to the printer - CHECK!
Emailed Video Guy back - CHECK!
Got Gigantoid box of favors in - CHECK!
Picked up Veil - CHECK!

So I am on track. I feel a little weight lifted off my shoulders. Not a huge ton but enough that I can breathe again. I still have a ton left to do but its all the little detail stuff that I ENJOY doing.

Also got started...and restarted...twice...the project of doom that Jen suckered me into for comiccon. *L* Eh, it'll be fun. And I
I'm looking forward to seeing the gals, Seth, and Sammy at comiccon this week. Granted, I'm not off work at all this week but at least I get Friday and Saturday free to mess around with everyone. And if any friend going to Comic Con ends up in La Jolla On Thurs or Sun and wants to come see the museum, say hi to the slightly frazled looking red head at the front desk!

Been devling even deeper into the realms of steampunk. Now I want/need to go to any local flea market, buy old watches, and take them apart for costuming purposes. I ended up sketching and inking out my design for the OMGINSANITY!!!1! steampunk costume I want to make. I got Max so excited than now he wants in and wants to help me with this. He also came up with a really cool Steampunk "frogman" idea that I need to put on paper. This will include building a diving bell helmet for him. And I need to work with Ty and get her ideas for her time traveler costume sketched out...and I need to plot with Colleen as well....this is getting insane. I've created a monster!!!
But at least I get to wear goggles so its all good.
Any excuse to wear goggles for me.
....hmm..maybe I should wear my steampunk goggles to ComicCon.

Speaking of Comic Con again..
Still debating if I want to wear my Eowyn costume one of the days I'm there. I worked so freakin' hard on that sucker, I really should show it off more. The only thing holding me back is feeling weird being the only person in my group in costume (Full wigged costume at that). And if I'm going to be comfy walking around in a wig and gown...of course I can always change when I get annoyed with it.
*L* Ah well, I'll figure it out when I get there.

Anyways, Looking REALLY forward to going home, and taking a very nice long lush bath and turning my brain off.
Its been a crazy busy Sunday today.

I'm feeling way too happy over finding my shoes for the wedding. I think I'm just happy I found a pair of heels that are so comfy to walk in and are cute too.
Oh, and my dress came in. So I'm going in for a fitting this weekend.
I'm a dorky bride.
Squee!