Countdown

Here I am, four and a half days before I become a wife. I am more than totally cool with this idea (if not the word and its colonial and antifeminist connotations). I do, however, have anxiety in the following arenas:
1. Making two ipod playlists (classical for dinner, dance for after the jazz band packs it in).
2. Getting all of my homework done in the next 2.5 days so I can mail it before I take off.
3. Figuring out my hair situation.
3b. Getting a hair cut today to ensure I have nice bangs and shape framing my face.
4. My bridesmaids gifts have not yet arrived in the mail.
5. I absolutely MUST buy flats TODAY as there is no other time to make this happen.
6. I think I`m getting a cold.
So I sit at my computer, drinking echinacea tea and eating orange sections, reading holistic health research and pro-con lists about vaccinations, planning my afternoon of haircut and shoe shopping with Nadine, watching the wind blow everything out of proportion, and hope this icky, snotty, headachey, anxierrhoea disappears as days go by.

It's Official

I have an etsy shop. I have two items in this shop. You should come look at my shop:

http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=8055092&&ga_search_query=knit+poncho&ga_search_type=handmade&ga_page=&order=date_desc&includes[]=tags&includes[]=title

My stuff looks like this:
You know you want it....

New Projects

Having decided to have cupcakes in lieu of a wedding cake, finding a cake holder has been something of an impossibility; at least not in the size needed to hold about 50 cupcakes or so. Not being one to be thwarted, and having some of the most resourceful friends on the planet, I found various different instructions and methods to build one's own cupcake tier.

Begin with the correct materials. I chose to use glass and stemware, as it's more stable in my mind than "cake cardboard." Also, finding and purchasing cake cardboard was proving difficult and expensive. Amy and I found these plates and glasses at value village. Total cost: $20.
I built this a few times in the store with different glasses and different plates to try things out. Everyone in Value Village thought I was weird. Yes, Value Villagers thought *I* was weird.

I brought everything home and washed it up. Then I got down to business.
Jim had some good paints in primary colours. I made brown. I figured since brown is a wedding colour, and I like brown, and will probably use this tier again in the future, brown is a good choice. The first one turned out like a beautiful chocolate disc.

The others somehow turned out a bit... purply. But they all turned out the same colour. The bottom is somehow a bit more brown than the others. I think it has something to do with the frosting of the bottom glass and the relative clarity of the other four...

However, I still like them a lot.
And here it is. I haven't glued it together yet, but that's the basic idea. I was thinking of putting some leaves inside the glasses, or painting some orange/red leaves onto the plates...

In other exciting news:

Our RailEurope tickets came in the mail yesterday. We leave Venice at 8pm and arrive in Paris at 8am. We're sharing a car with four other people (which isn't ideal, but the price difference is quite significant; besides, I don't care much if other people watch me sleep. Gennie pointed out that the other compartment dwellers might shag or something, but that's surprisingly not bothersome).
We're less than one month away and I think we might actually be close to ready for it.