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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Note: This comes from something I wrote for work for the 2005-2006 school year. It was part of a memoir/cookbook project I used to do. When my cousins and I get together, it is always a grand affiar. We see each other a lot, and every time we get together we pick up just where we left off the last time we saw each other. We love to make crazy home movies in which we create our own television shows […]

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Our last full day in Los Angeles (July 29, 2006) began when we headed on a complete tour of the Los Angeles area. We started off our day with a laugh, as we realized that Jordan and his friend Ian were wearing virtually matching outfits by accident – yellow shirts and greenish shorts. So we piled into the car and went to the Chinese Theater, and to see the Walk of Fame. We parked the car in a very sketchy […]

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Day three of our Los Angeles journey began with our first glimpse of the Hollywood sign. After a quick breakfast of – what else? – toast and peanut butter we headed out, intent on making it to Universal Studios. Jordan took us on a brief tour of Hollywood on the way to the studio, so in addition to the sign we got to see the Chinese Theater for the first time, the Kodak Theater (where they hold the Oscars) and […]

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Note: As with the Hawaii Travel Tales series, this a repost from my family blog. Realizing that this post had no pictures to accompany it because we were mostly on the plane and arrived late at night, I’m combining the first two posts. In the summer of 2006, my cousin Jordan travelled to Los Angeles to take some film classes at UCLA. Deciding this was the perfect opportunity to see the city, my cousins Emily, Kara (who are also Jordan’s […]

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