Wedding bits!

Before I get to the wedding stuff,

I'M DONE MY THESIS!!!!!!!

This is also the reason why I didn't post last week, too busy celebrating!I'll post a link to the library listing when it goes up. Kinda excited about that.

On to the wedding bits.

My best friend is getting married next month! I'm super excited and happy for him! It also means I'm really an adult now, my friends are getting married. Weird.

Gift buying time! I got something small off their registry that I could add some more personal gifts too. I'm also sure that neither of them read this blog, let along know it exists, so I can put pictures up with no concern for spoiling the surprise! I lucked out with the tea pot on the registry, totally appropriate for me to give them, and it was on sale when I bought it. It's a really lovely cherry red, which seems to be their accent colour for a black and chrome kitchen. I decided to add a more personalized gift to the tea pot by adding these beautiful antique, French tea towels.

These lovely things from GoshnPoche on etsy are linen in a creamy colour with beautiful stripes on them. They may not make it the wedding. Just sayin'.

Now, for the more important aspect of the day, my outfit (ha)! I have a dress I want to wear, but doesn't quite fit. I bought a beautiful black and blue vintage dress from the Clothing show years ago, and it fit back then no problem. Sadly, my master's degree happened, as well as about 20 lbs of weight gain. I've lost some of it... enough that the dress almost fits again. If I can drop an inch or so off my chest (ha) by the first week of October, I'm good. I've been trying to exercise more and eat better anyway to counteract the master's degree. Fingers crossed.

Should that not work, I did just buy this!

Eshatki is a website I've been looking at for a while, but have been a little apprehensive about buying anything from. Lovely stuff, but a bit expensive for my unemployed self. However, many of the bloggers I follow have made purchases from eshatki, and can't stop raving about the products and customer service. When I was perusing them this past week and found this dress on clearance sale and still in my size, I figured this was a good time to try them out. Now, I just have to wait for it to arrive. The accessories and shoes I've picked for my other dress choice should still work with this one no problem. Should I lose the weight for the that dress, I will wear this for my convocation, which is two days before the wedding.

The only issue I now have, is which petticoat do I want to get to go with it! I know, I'm weirdly, really into fashion and vintage fashion right now. Too many vintage fashion blogs. I'm torn between two colours in the Domino Dollhouse range.

Black, more versatile but now sold out in my size...

or Peacock blue, really fun, fairly versatile with my current wardrobe, goes beautifully with the black dress and available in my size.

The pros are stacking up for Peacock. I met a girl at a bar recently who was wearing a Domino Dollhouse dress, and was able to stalk her and ask about their fit. She raved about them and confirmed that their measurements are true to size, unlike my Torrid problem from last year.

Decisions!!

A rainy weekend.

So. Close. So. Unbelievably. Close.

I'm proof reading my thesis, for hopefully the last time. I'm slightly concerned with the amount of spelling and repetition errors I've been finding. And that I've been finding them. I'm too cheap for an editor, so I'm just reading mine out loud. This works surprisingly well.

It's been a bit wet this past weekend, so I've been trying to fill the time with some cooking and home projects that have been on the back burner for a very, very long time.

First off was some pie! It's getting towards the end of the peach season around here, so I've been making peach pies to celebrate/mourn. Same old recipe, same awesome results. It was way to humid for me to be making pastry though, so the top became a patch work design since I couldn't get it off the counter if my life depended on it.

 THAT'S what real pastry is made of. LARD.

One of the two main things I took on while the rain came down was to replant most of the window garden into larger pots. Apparently I waited a little too long for some of them, I had to dig the Aloe out of the pot since it had virtually grown into it. The rosemary really like this idea, it's done well and deserved more space.

The second thing has been working on a few things to beautify our entrance way in the apartment. It's pretty ugly, and now that the gerbils have been moved, it's empty and ugly. I've been thinking of adding a basket or box to catch the junkmail, a print or poster to brighten it up a bit and a rack to hold extra keys and other important stuff. Since it was raining this Sunday, I decided to work on the rack and give it a coat of paint.

This is totally one of the racks from an old Ikea shoe rack that I found at the side of road on the walk home one day. Yep.

Tape that bitch.

First coat of the orange.

And ze gold. Hawt.

 

Let's see how this turns out. I have some hooks and clothespins to stick onto this thing when it's painted.