Finally married!!! Now back to the grindstone :)

So this weekend went great, not 100% what I pictured and agonized over but I wouldn't trade it for the world. I spent the two days prior to the big day with most of my family getting all the hoopla and froofery in order.

The whole thing was steampunk themed (or as close as we could get on a limited budget :)



















my bouquet





my belt









We had Devil's food cupcakes with the most delicious Pumpkin pie frosting, and red velvet cupcakes with cocoa frosting.

 my Gramms helping making cupcakes

 handmade cupcake stands made with copper plates and vintage glass

 these were my favorites, sooooo tasty and pretty :)

My sister painted our lovely cake toppers.
 working hard
  they turned out great.

My chitlins looked fantastic
 posing with our toppers
  practicing her leaf tossing
  investigating his ring bearing contraption (it lit up so we could see the rings at night )

As did the rest of the wedding party.

We had the reception first, and the wedding followed at midnight.

 our fancy bits table, since the wedding was outside at night I wanted to show off all the pretty things I made for it, like the lanterns the girls used instead of bouquets and my husbands awesome top hat

 said awesome top hat, with the games we had set out for people to play

 my bouquet, sadly you can't how sparkly it was :)

 the lanterns/baskets/ and such with more games

  my cousin sporting an awesome chocolate mustache
  one of many jars holding said awesome mustaches
  some pretty bits


My family was amazing, without them the wedding would never have happened let alone gone so well. So thanks to them!! I love you all.

Oh and I plan on making a wedding album out of the bits of pretty that would otherwise have no other use, including parts of my outfit.

Until then back to work on the book, so nose back to the grindstone for me.


and and few more wedding shots...

Exciting Times

Wanna know why my posts have been more sporadic of late than usual? It's not just the upcoming wedding and almost here baby (7 months along and it's a girl). It's also because of something I'm surprised I've been able to keep to myself (mostly) this long.

A couple of months ago, I was contacted via my Etsy shop about my interest in putting together a book of amigurumi patterns! I've kept it under my hat mostly because I didn't want to get my hopes up and announce it to everyone only to have it fall through for one reason or another. But the contracts have been signed and work has been underway for awhile now, so it's 100% official: in early 2011 I will have a book of my crochet patterns hitting book and crafts stores!! I'm so excited, though I'm under a tight deadline (hence the extra lack of posts). but I've been working hard for awhile now and thought I'd take a little break to show you some of the new patterns that will be in my book. I hope you like them.

This is only a few of the 20 something patterns that will be in the book, so you can see why I've been so busy :)

More new Patterns coming soon!! Sneak Peek

I know I said I show you my new goodies, but wedding prep and other work has kept me quite occupied these last few days. What I do have for you is a peek at my two newest creations and a redo of an old pattern.
Also I snagged a cute little desk at the salvation army for a dollar and gave it a face lift, which of course meant a much needed overhaul of my craft space.

Here's my very snuggly turtle, who makes a surprisingly good pillow.

And my favorite Halloween critter yet, my baby bat :)

And the redone Jellyfish Scarf. The scarf itself hasn't changed, but it's one of the first pattern's I've ever wrote and going back to it, it was rough. It'll be given a overhaul of more than just the photos like I was planning.

My new desk before:

And after:

I'll getting some cute knobs and probably refacing the drawers, but's the perfect size and totally worth the dollar.

And the new craft space

work still to be done

the plushies  I haven't managed to give away

Wedding Goodies at the Thrift Store

As you may know my wedding is just around the corner, at the stroke of midnight between October 30 and 31st. Recently, thanks to the generosity of my family, I purchased some goodies for decorating the scene. :)
Take a look.

Bits that will be turned into my bouquet

An awesome reversible game-board that will be cleaned up and used as our guest book

Pretty Shiny bits that reflect candlelight quit nicely (did I mention that the ceremony will be outside?)

The checker board will be spray painted a metallic coppery color and used to displayed our mustache chocolate pops

and at last some pretty table clutter :)

We got some more pretties just yesterday, but I haven't gotten pictures yet probably tomorrow.

Enjoy and keep your eyes out for my super special project that I'll be sharing with you all soon.

Mwauh 

End of summer

I'm mostly happy to see the summer go, with me being pregnant it's been to hot for me go outside and enjoy it most days. With that in mind I am wholeheartedly looking forward to the cooler days of early fall :) I have lists and list of to-do projects, number one being my upcoming wedding on October 31st. After that is a host of crochet projects and new patterns for my shop (and hopefully some freebies for all of you) and even some sewing projects for the kiddies and around the house. So stayed tuned all.


And happy Labor Day Weekend!