Wedding

Thanks for all the SweetiePie apron love! I forgot to tell you that the apron came from a pattern — Simplicity 3752. And for those of you who asked, the fabric is an Alexander Henry print called “Life is Sweet”.

It’s busy, busy here this week helping MyDadLovesMeBestSister prepare for a wedding shower this weekend. I’ve been making these little favor bags from Monica’s wonderful pattern. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again — that Monica is a genius.

This is the perfect pattern for quick gifts. (And btw, I’m seeing all over blogland that Monica has a beautiful quilt in the new issue of Quilts ‘n More. As soon as I can un-chain from my duties, I’ll be procuring a copy!) We’re putting a little Body Shop gift pack in each bag, along with a poofy shower scrubber. I hope the girls like them. Anyway, a big huge ol’ smoochie goes to Sharon for letting me know about this pattern — I love it!

Now, once again, I must request that you all join me in a moment of silence.

{Sigh}

My beloved Hester has had a massive stroke. Here she is all bundled up in preparation for her emergency trip to the hospital tomorrow.

I love my Hester. I’m flailing around without her and there’s a gaping hole in the dungeon — it’s so lonely down there now. I’m just holding my breath that this stroke hasn’t affected her brain. We’ve been so close, sharing many hours and late nights together. I thought our relationship was all one-sided, that she really didn’t care about me. But in her final selfless act, she waited until I finished all the monogramming for the favor bags before she slumped over. I still have several bags to put together but I can do that on my old machine. I don’t have a backup embroidery machine though, so her compassion makes me love her all the more. And, I suppose it could be worse — I saw a funny line at Kelly’s today: Things could be worse, we could be trying on bathing suits. Indeed.

Come back to me dear Hester (and please don’t bring that awful Big Bill back home with you!)

Have a wonderful weekend my sweet peeps — I have no blog reading time this weekend, so you all have my permission to take the weekend off LOL!

XOXO,
Anna

Continuing with the Star Trekkie comment from the previous post, I think the weekend did me in.  It felt like it was non-stop running and to punctuate how tired I was this morning, I got to work and realized I’d left my computer at home, so I had to come all the way home to get it.  That’s never happened before, so it was a little distressing!
This was the weekend plan:

Saturday:

• Drive 2 1/2 hours to Dayton, early Saturday morning.
• Drop TheFirstChild and SweetiePie off at their day long pre-marriage counseling session.
• Visit potential rehearsal dinner restaurants.
• Visit The Fabric Shack to pick up fabric for the quilt that we will be tying at SweetiePie’s wedding shower next weekend.
• Nice relaxing evening of dinner and games with the future in-laws.

Sunday:

• Nice relaxing morning with possible visit to church where TheFirstChild and SweetiePie will be married.
• Pack some of SweetiePie’s belongings to bring back home.
• Bridal shower for SweetiePie in the afternoon.
• Taste-testing at reception venue at dinner time.
• Home not later than 10 p.m.

Then….Dayton had a blizzard-thingy on Friday/Saturday.  They declared some sort of snow emergency level so we were advised to stay home for awhile.  It was touch-and-go whether they would cancel Sunday’s bridal shower.

So, this was the weekend reality:

Saturday:

• Run a few errands with SweetiePie in the morning while making frequent calls to check the snow situation.
• Visit MeMum for a few games of hand and foot.
• Visit MyDadLovesMeBestSister to finish up details for next week’s bridal shower.
• Decide not to go to Dayton today.  Return home at 5 p.m. and decide to clean bedroom level of house with SweetiePie.  That took 5 hours with dinner thrown in.  Feel sorry for SweetiePie — TheFirstChild is a slob.

Sunday:

• Drive 3 hours to Dayton.
• Check out one rehearsal venue on the way into town.
• Drop TheFirstChild off at future in-laws.
• Go to The Fabric Shack with SweetiePie to pick up fabric.  (Can I just have a little sympathy from you quilters — we blitzed in, got the job done, and blitzed out.  Do you know how hard it is to go there without browsing time?  So sad.)
• Very lovely bridal shower all afternoon.
• Leave unfashionably early to run and check out 2 more rehearsal venues.  One closed, one ruled out.
• Meet group at reception venue for taste-testing.
• Return to future in-laws at 7:30 p.m. and pack SweetiePie’s things.
• Make it home at midnight.

We crammed the weekend into one day and now I’m tired.  But it was all fun and mostly successful.  Except for that rehearsal dinner thing.  Woefully unprepared for that.  McDonald’s in formal wear is looking good.

The pictures are of an apron that I made for SweetiePie’s shower.  We make chocolate chip cookies together, so I gave her cookie sheets, spatula, parchment paper, and the mandatory just-right-size ice cream scoop that we use to scoop the cookie dough, along with the apron.  After the shower when SweetiePie showed the apron to TheFirstChild, I commented that it was for Naked Newlywed Cooking Sessions.  To which they both rolled their eyes and said “that’s disgusting.”  Which, I guess, is the appropriate thing to say to your mother.

And, just how was your weekend?

XOXO,
Anna