Melspeth, The Other Blog

Greetings, faithful readers  (well, reader, at least)...

This weekend is a wedding craft extravaganza.  We have several people coming over to do stuff, including sewing table runners, hem fabric, paint pots, do silk flower arrangements, paint table markers, construct pew markers, bead my veil, prepare the guest/scrapbook pages and stitch the ring pillow.  Oy! 

I am touched and humbled by the number of people who have agreed to help and I am grateful to each and every one of you.

Thank you.

*long satisfied sigh*

It is so good to be home.

We are finally in one place, almost all of our stuff is in that place and we are slowly getting unpacked a little every day. Our living room is livable and thanks to FlyLady, I am keeping on top of the clutter in the common areas. Even being down for a day with stomach flu didn't put much of a dent in the routines!

I cannot tell you how glad I am to be out of our old neighbourhood. Between the 'herbal essences' wafting about and the bullet found in the hallway the week before we moved, I was VERY glad to leave there for the last time on Saturday.

We have painted in the living room, started painting in the master bedroom and will be painting the kids' room soon (probably after the wedding). Just putting a few coats of paint on the walls makes such a difference to me between "rental house" and home. We have our china and crystal nestled in the buffet and have already had occasion to use it. Thanks, dangerbrat ... :)

Now Rick and I are in full-bore wedding mode. We've been painting the last of the invitations to go out and I've been embroidering the ring pillow that Geoffrey will carry, beading the edge of my veil and I still need to embroider a nice script K onto some matte satin for the ceremony - as soon as Rick finds me one and prints it out. Then there's the floral arrangements and pew markers, but those can be finished in an evening or two. The week before will be cookie decorating time, as we have opted to serve wedding cookies instead of cake. So, all you artsy types, let me know if you want to paint/decorate cookies!

I'll try to be better about keeping this thing updated...

I'm a little slow on the uptake this week...been so busy!

On Friday, January 4 at 4 pm, Rick asked me to marry him.  It was all very impromptu and sweet and touching and perfect.  You can read the whole story on Facebook (reply here if you can't read it for some reason).

I am overjoyed.  I'm still periodically crying happy tears about it and staring at my beautiful ring (who could blame me?)  *SQUEE*

I have been so busy having a life that I've forgotten to write about it!

My life is wonderful - a happy, rewarding, fulfilling relationship with my soulmate, two amazing children that delight me on a daily basis and a job that keeps a roof over our heads.

We're getting ready for Christmas, too.  The tree is up and decorated, the mantle looks amazing and half the presents are already wrapped.  I am more organized this year than in years past.  Of course, the piddly little amount of baking has already been devoured, so I am hoping to get some new stuff done in the next few days.  There are mincemeat tarts cooling as I type this and I've put in an order for ingredients to make butter tarts, nanaimo bars, banana bread and date squares.

In the midst of Christmas preparations, Rick and I are also beginning to plan our wedding.  Before you ask, we are NOT engaged.  Yet.  But with a date of July 12, 2008, we have to start getting our ducks in a row.  So, expect to hear a LOT more about that as we go along.

In the meantime, I wish you all a joyous Christmas and a new year filled with happiness.

Greetings!

Just wanted to tell you how blissfully happy I am :)  I'm in love and get to marry my soul mate in less than 2 years!!!