Tea time delight

It began as what was meant to be a quick stop at our local home and garden center to pick up a light bulb. After I picked up said item, I took the scenic route to the tills, and low and behold, what did I cross, but a load of  hydrangea clad ceramics. I couldn’t just leave without one. That would be rude.  

Look at them go. Oh I stood there and admired them for what was probably way too long, and took several grainy pictures. They’re meant for aesthetic decorative reasons, but I knew the smallest jar could find a good home in our kitchen to store fiance’s tea. As much as I post about tea cups, I actually hate tea. I just like the cups. I guess I could be compared to one of those people who reads the book after they see the movie. That made more sense in my head. 
Also, I saw this potted hydrangea in the garden section and just woah – look at the size of the petals! Hopefully you’ll get an idea of the size by my hand. Attack of the monster hydrangea. If I didn’t unintentionally murder every plant that came into my care, I would have swiped one.

Putting a ring on it

My dad bought this book for fiance for his birthday earlier this year – Putting a Ring On It – What not to do when attempting to get married by Jarlath Regan. It’s pretty amazing, and self explanatory. Well worth the investment. 
I’m sure Jarlath won’t mind me sharing one of my favorites …

This tasty number can be found about 6 pages deep. A very suiting comic considering a similar situation happened between fiance and my dad a number of years ago {not proposing related though}. I have a sneaking suspicion said story will arise during the speeches on our wedding day. Dad, if you’re reading this, all I have to say is – remember there will be children present. 
Recently, fiance and I have been feeling the full effect of weddingitous. For the past five weekends, we have been non stop organizing appointments and meeting up with people {who were all lovely, for the record}, but I am exhausted. I was supposed to take yesterday off and slip into a delicate coma on my couch, smothered in cats, but that didn’t happen.

Here’s a picture of Juniper to break up my rant a bit. Here she’s ‘helping’ me with some of our most important wedding forms. 

I am fully aware that planning a wedding is quite the time-suck {especially if you don’t eat gold and have the luxury of hiring a wedding co-ordinator}, but this recent surge in wedding stuff is invading my downtime a little too much. Especially considering we still have 6 months to go! But the six month mark tends to be where everything kicks off. I suppose it would be worse if I hadn’t researched the shit out of everything to date. 
To add to the stress, I haven’t crafted in over a month, and that equals a not so happy Alex. All I see is a four day weekend ahead of me, and I have a happy feeling in my chest. I can’t wait to craft the hell out of the Easter weekend. </rant>

Happy birthday to Mies

Happy 126th birthday Ludwig. Thanks for being so awesome. 
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