I know you missed me

Project make our house a home.( This is not our house just a little inspiration)

Married Life

Hello blog world. I don't know if you remember me, 

but I'm back with a few new additions

I am officially married and life has been so crazy for the past month and a half that I have not found any spare time to blog about everything going on in my life. So this is a post letting everyone know I am alive and that I will be updating the blog with all of our many projects. The house has been taking over my world. I had to just realize i can't do it all at once. This is going to have to be a project throughout the school year. It will be better that way because now I can really think about what I want to do in each room and put more time into decorating. So I promise we are alive and we will have posts very soon. It feels good to be back

My Dress Inspiration

This isn't my lace but this is the feel of what we will be using.

So this is what I was going for with my dress when I first started designing it. My plan has kind of evolved as I have kept planning. I was able to go down to Santa Fe with my mom and meet with Anne Lawrence of the Anne Lawrence Collection. She had the most amazing selection of Vintage Lace. We looked through things with here and had the hardest time finding something that would work with the layering I was wanting to do on my dress. Then Anne pulled out these 2 bed spreads from the 1920's. They were perfect! They were going to give us the length of trim we needed and they were gorgeous. So this week I took them into Penny the woman who is making my dress and we played with the lace over the base of my dress. I can't even express how excited I got. It's won't look like my original design plan but I love it!! The lace is more ornate than the lace we had thought we would use but it looks beautiful. I'm so excited for it to be done and get to try it on!! 

Matt Clayton

I am so excited for this Saturday morning because Mike and I are lucky enough to have Matt Clayton shooting our engagement pictures. I found his blog a couple years ago and loved his style. So now after a long wait we are finally going to take our pictures. We have been waiting for the weather to warm up and things to look great outside. So if anyone has some fun suggestions for outfits we would love it. Sometimes it's really hard to narrow it down. So please let us know. Then Mike and I are off to California for a week. I haven't been back since last year when we went down for our good friends Nick and Sydney's wedding. So this is a long awaited trip!!

A Recap of My BYU Experience

Super Senior Year

Senior Year

Junior Year

Sophomore Year

Freshman Year

I did it!! I took my last sewing final at BYU and I graduate on Friday. I can't believe that I am done with BYU. I am not going to lie I am a little sad that it is over but I am excited to keep learning about sewing. My plans for now are to keep working at Trendy Tots and to also be a part of this internship that I got called The Fashion Genome Project where I will be working on a program that is similar to Pandora for clothing. I am really excited about it . I am hoping to take more art classes and sewing classes in the fall at the Art Institute. So thank you to everyone for all their support through the years. 

I am happy to say I am a college graduate !!

My future husband is so great. Mike has been so wonderful through our whole engagement. He is so helpful and understanding with everything. I didn't get to see him much today and I missed him. He is so busy trying to do everything in his life so that he can spend more time with me. It's been a long time since I did a post about him so here is a little appreciation for my hunky fiance.

Wedding Season

I am under 3 months now until the big day. My wedding planners from Amorology were here this week and it was so wonderful to have them here. We got lots of planning done and had some great inspiration meetings. I am so excited for all the ideas and plans. I think it is going to be perfect. I still feel like there is not enough time to get everything done. I will keep everyone posted on all the plans and details. I apologize that I am the worst blogger right now. It seems like any free time I have I am doing wedding stuff. More to come soon.

Fashion Week

DKNY show
loved this skirt!


Betsey Johnson Show. The lights were so bright I couldn't get any good pictures
Displays at Bendels. I am determined to make one like this for the craft room with all the buttons and thread

So because i have the most wonderful uncle ever, who happens to have some of the most amazing connections, I was able to go to fashion week in NYC! It was incredible. I have never been to anything like it in my whole life. My pictures are terrible because they were taken on my phone and I still need to get the ones my cousins took on their cameras. The DKNY show was my favorite. It was so classy and clean. It really was beautiful. The Betsey Johnson show was a blast. The models were dancing and having a great time and then to top it off Betsey came out at the end in a onesie with a bejeweled heart on her butt and did a cartwheel. I loved it. We got some amazing shopping done for the wedding and went to some really great stores. I love New York. I keep telling Mike I will die happy if we could live there for just a little while. We got to go to Mood fabric and we found amazing stuff for wedding outfits. I was a fun trip with musicals shopping and fashion. Couldn't ask for a better time. So thanks mom and dad and thanks aunt holly and uncle jed. I appreciate it so much!