Here is where I sheepishly admit how behind I am at blogging “real life” events. My cousin and his girlfriend got engaged this past July, and the engagement party was Columbus Day Weekend. That’s right. In October. So any references to nicer weather and October are not a strange accident, but the work of a procrastinator (who is, currently, procrastinating as I need to vacuum the bedroom right now but am instead doing this… it’s amazing how much I can […]

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Bacon. Whiskey. Caramel. Marshmallows. Chocolate. Sound amazing? Now imagine them all put together into a gooey bark, an you have why I affectionately call “The Swanson” or “Swanson Bark.” (After the bacon and whiskey loving Ron Swanson, of course.) I discovered this recipe on Pinterest a few months back and was immediately intrigued. However there were a lot of steps to it that I wasn’t ready to get into but I decided the holidays was as good a time as […]

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On August 31, 2013, my sister got married. It was a wonderful day filled with love and joy, and since I’d like to make sure that I do it complete justice, I’m going to take the time to really write out this post as I remember the highlights of the day. We spent the entire week leading up to the wedding upstate at the bed and breakfast where it would be held. This was easy enough, since said bed and […]

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Today we headed out to do the fittings on the flower girls, and found that the dresses fit almost perfectly on one flower girl, but were a little bit big on the other two. I’m very glad I didn’t end up putting the zippers in beforehand, because they fit so much better at the end of the day today than they did when we started! I am happy to say, however, that we didn’t have to hem ANY of them! […]

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Well, the saga of the bow ties has been going on all summer long, which was not my intention. However, as easy as the bow ties were to put together, I wasn’t particularly into the project because of all the little finishing details that needed to happen when they were done. Plus, I needed NINE of them. And they were all the same, and boring. Second, with other projects and travelling, the project just fell by the wayside, so here […]

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A couple of weeks ago, it was arranged that I would accompany my aunt Pam to Maine to pick up my cousin Katherine from her musical festival. I looked forward to this for a while, being given the opportunity to see a new place, and I never – and I mean NEVER – turn down the chance to have Maine lobster. It’s just not done. And so the Bed and Breakfast was booked and the date was set. Wednesday morning […]

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We’ve been crafting away, getting ready for a wedding that is – count it! – thirty days away! We spent many hours yesterday tying and tagging these bags of sugar, and there’s more to do today, along with celebrating my mom’s birthday! There’s high excitement and high stress, and a lot going on in a month that is also busy in other ways. The next thirty days should be very interesting…

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Yesterday my sister and two cousins came over for a little sleepover so we could do hair trials for the wedding. With just over a month to go, it is now crunch time, and wedding duties and tasks are occuring practically dailt. Our cousin Kara is hair-style capable (unlike myself; I’m lucky I can work the hair dryer!) and she is going to be doing Lindsay’s hair. The above is what they came up with after a few tries at […]

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We are nearing the end of the flower girl dress project. I have one more dress to go, and then I have to wait until the flower girls are in town so I can fit the dresses, properly hem them and add the zippers! I’m excited – it’s wedding crunch time at the moment. It’s still about fifty days away, but that’s nothing, and all of these projects are going to run into each other soon enough if they’re not […]

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