agreed.

from Warm Olives' blog:

Delete my blog if I ever make this. I can't believe this is any one's favorite, or, best loved by anyone except the dog.

SOUTHWESTERN SOUP

1 bag of Birds Eye Frozen Corn
2 cans of chili
1 cup hot water
1/2 cup chopped green bell pepper

Combine all ingredients in saucepan. Cook over medium heat for 10-12 minutes. Makes 4-6 servings.

A real woman in my dream dress

This bride is wearing the dress that I lurve. The one that will be fabulously custom made for me, only different.

pretty shoes

I'd never wear those, but they're so pretty :). Maybe if they came in ivory and were closed toed. I'm afraid to wear open toed shoes with so many people around.... My toes don't need anymore torture.

tomorrow, tomorrow, I'll twirl tomorrow

Tomorrow I'm going to meet with a seamstress in Old Town Arvada (the town that I consider my personal version of hell) about making my twirly dress for me. I wish I could just order it from a shop, but um, my girls are too big. Are wedding dresses cut to juniors proportions? I thought WOMEN not GIRLS were supposed to be getting married. Oh well. I'm really just avoiding ordering up 4 sizes to get the bust fabric I need and then getting the whole dress taken in so that it will actually fit. I hope it's cost effective. Maybe I can bring her my own fabric and spend some time in DC/NYC shopping for fabric with my mom. She's also good at spotting colors. Maybe the seamstress can just be hired as a pattern maker and then I can still sew my own dress! THAT would be great, Though I'd rather not have to make the inner corset on my own and I do like me a form fitting/super shaping corset.

Anyone have any feedback on wearing a corset all day? I haven't done it since I was reenacting the year 1771 from 1994-1999. I was, um, a very different size then.

What about making my own dress? I don't know how to make a corset. That's the long and the short of it.

my younger cousin is beating us in wedding planning

He and his fiancee were engaged just after she graduated from college this past May. He estimates that they're about 90% done with the planning process for their May 2010 wedding, during her summer break from grad school. Crazy. All we have (still) is a date and a rabbi. We also have a probable location, but nothing signed yet, and have decided on what to do for dessert. They have a date, location, officiant, dress, and cake. They only thing my cousin and his future wife have left to do is pick a photographer and finalize their menu.

Fluffy Pink Bachelorette Veils

So in my re-found Martha Stewart craftiness of being a housefiancee, I've decided that sewing veils is fun. But really only the funky ones. Working with white and ivory tulle and ribbons just doesn't get my crafty juices going in the same way that lime green, electric blue, bright purple, and hot pink does. So, if you know of anyone looking for a short, fluffy veil: I'm your gal to make it for you! Seriously. I even made myself a little sales site: http://fluffy.bigcartel.com. Please, share it. Let people know that I'm a crafty maven and then support my crafty hobbies by buying a veil.

Oh, you want pictures? Well, here are some pictures of the one I made for Mrs. Lady Bear for her bachelorette party a week ago. Awesome, no?

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Sorry I had to blur her face, I don't want to post it without permission and I'm too lazy to ask right now.

too much travel and a 4th of July wedding

Ben has been traveling a lot lately. He went to Boston to visit his family and a physics lab at Harvard. Then he went to NJ/NY for a cousin's Bat Mitzvah, and finally spent the night in NJ after visiting his grand parents. He then made his way up to NH for a conference. When he returned to Boulder, he got back in the middle of a kickoff for a weekend of wedding partying with our friends "The Bears." They had a pig roast on Thursday followed by their bachelor/bachelorette parties. Friday had a screen porch lunch and later a dessert party at the observatory on campus. Saturday had a screen porch brunch and their wedding in the evening, followed by an after party at a favorite local bar. Sunday morning there was a hangover brunch at the screen porch again. Then Ben went hiking with the wedding party and some of their friends, I went and ran errands. When I got home, I spoke with Ben's mother on the phone (yes, I answered his phone for him since he left it at home), which set his next trip in motion. Now, he's en route back to NJ to say goodbye to his grandmother and hopefully be there for her funeral as well.

Congratulations, Bears! And poor Ben.