Packing up and Moving on.. to SHAW!

Well, Tom and I close on our new house in the Shaw neighborhood tomorrow morning at 9am. I really have to give it to our wonderful realtor, Leigh Maibes of Circa Properties. She is the best and made our first time home buying experience a breeze. Highly recommend you work with her if you're looking for a home in STL city.

The past couple weeks have been a whirl wind of activity preparing to move and packing things up. We're almost completely packed now..just a few bare necessities left out and whatever is in the fridge and freezer.

Tomorrow after closing we're headed right to Home Depot to pick up our paint and some other supplies we need to ready the new domicile. We're gonna be ripping up carpet and painting all afternoon tomorrow and then Friday we'll be putting in some new lighting and generally getting ready to move our stuff in. Saturday at 8am the movers come to Waterman to move us over to Flad and hopefully by the end of the weekend we should have everything over at the new house.

Next week we have to finish cleaning the apt. so we can check outta this dump and get on with our lives.

So while we're in the process, my Etsy shop will be closed. Well, it will still be open, but I won't ship until early next week when I get my studio re-set-up.

Wish us luck on our weekend venture- and feel free to stop by and see us as we work to make our new house a home. We'll be having an open house later in the fall, but if you want to see the work in progress come on by- call me if you need directions or the address...

1930s Glam Wedding in Door County Wisconsin etc.

This wedding should be just gorgeous and I'm so very proud of how things are turning out. The bride has been an absolute dream to work with and allowed me a lot of freedom which I think always makes for a better finished product.

The wedding will take place in mid-October in Door County, Wisconsin. I've never been, but I've heard it's lovely and will be a picturesque place for a fall wedding.

The pieces follow the theme of 1930s vintage glamour with a main color of truffle brown and accents in golds and pinks. All of the maids (6 of them) are fair complected and several have red hair, so to play off of that I used lots of shades of brown and gold feathers and velvet leaves in chocolate, a sunset-y pink, and a varigated gold. The bride's dress is ivory with light beading and her headpiece features an attached ivory birdcage veil (most proud of this). The maids' pieces will also have veils in a shiny gold lightweight knit. I've yet to attach those veils as the idea makes me a little nervous, but I am hoping for courage when the time comes. That's tomorrow...

And as a post script- after having surgery again last week I'll be glad to finally finish this set after procrastinating on it waiting for inspiration to strike.

(For another wedding I have scheduled- I'll have plenty of time again. The vintage rocker chic wedding for Taylor isn't until Nov. of 2010! Lucky me!!!)