New Old Things

First things first. Apricot glazed pork tenderloin cooking in the oven and The Doors playing on the stereo. A very nice beginning to the weekend if you ask me. And yes, my weekends do begin on Sunday.

SO. Back to the business at hand. I am attempting the insane operation of hand making 80 - 100 invitations and Save The Dates for my wedding. I love making cards and layering paper and fabric, and I just couldn't fathom the idea of paying someone to do that for me. Since I'm not into letter pressing, and it just wouldn't be the same to print out all of my invites off of the computer, I'm going to hand make each and every one. And I've recently acquired this beautiful vintage Royal typewriter; which is going to make the magic happen.

I don't believe in naming my appliances or inanimate objects, but I do refer to such things as "he". That being said, isn't he a beauty?! Of course now I'm going to have to actually get started on the endeavor so as to show examples. But that's what the weekend is for!

And with that I leave you to it.

And so it begins...

Greetings friends! Thus begins a blog of which I am just as much a part of the audience as you are. Meaning.. I have no idea what I've just gotten myself into. So here's the deal. I am in the process of planning my very own wedding, my very own very much DIY wedding. Which all began with this...

And since I've been scouring the web for the past six months or so looking at some very nice blogs, wedding related and not (so many amazing things to look at, one gets distracted) I've decided to just go ahead and start my own.

My hope is that if anyone reads this, they will be inspired to have a more hands-on approach to their wedding, or every day life, or whatever. Of course I'll probably thrown in quite a bit of random goodies when I'm just not feeling very wedding-y.

And that's it. Here we go.